Steven Butler

Steve Butler was a tall striker who had a good career in army football, earning selection for the Combined Services representative side, and playing in four Army Cup-winning REME teams in five years. He was a member of the Maidstone United side which won promotion to the Football League in a season in which he and a colleague were joint-top-scorers in the Conference, and he won three Non-League caps. He went on to record the highest individual tally in Maidstone’s three seasons at the higher level. His scoring rate at Watford was a disappointment – particularly at home, where he scored only once – but he amassed impressive totals with both Maidstone and Cambridge United in the lower divisions, and hit an extraordinary eight in two League games, 48 hours apart, at Easter 1994. His last League appearance was as a substitute in a 1999/2000 play-off final at Wembley, where he scored an extra-time equalizer which led the way for Gillingham to win promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in its history.

West Herts / Watford Career