Steve Peplow

Steve Peplow
Personal information
Full name Stephen Thomas Peplow
Date of birth (1949-01-08)8 January 1949
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Date of death 29 December 2021(2021-12-29) (aged 72)
Position Right winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1969–1970 Liverpool 2 (0)
1970–1973 Swindon Town 40 (11)
1973 Nottingham Forest 3 (0)
1973–1974Mansfield Town (loan) 4 (3)
1973–1981 Tranmere Rovers 248 (44)
1976 Chicago Sting (loan) 20 (4)
Total 317 (62)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stephen Thomas Peplow (8 January 1949 – 29 December 2021) was an English footballer who played as a winger. He made 248 league appearances for Tranmere Rovers between 1973 and 1981.

Peplow married Mary in Birkenhead in 1995. His best-man was Scottish former professional footballer Barrie Mitchell, who provided him with a commissioned tape of the first ever Match of the Day to be televised in colour, on which Peplow appeared making his debut for Liverpool.

He died after a long illness on 29 December 2021, at the age of 72.