Question: Facts:   - clubs: liverpool rovers clevedon town arsenal mansfield town bristol rovers weymouth forest green    - caps: 0 0 37 168    - position: full back/midfielder    - managerclubs: clevedon town    - years: 1965 1968 -- 1976 1976 -- 1977 1977 -- 1980 1982 -- -- 1983 1966 1966 -- 1967 1967 -- 1968    - height: 5 9    - totalcaps: 205      - birth date: 3 may 1948    - fullname: thomas stanton    - name: tom stanton    - totalgoals: 8    - birth place: glasgow , scotland    - manageryears: 1982 -- 1983    - goals: 0 0 1 7   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of tom stanton -lrb- footballer -rrb- .
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thomas stanton -lrb- born 3 may 1948 in glasgow -rrb- is a former professional footballer who played as a full back and a midfielder in the football league between 1967 and 1976 .stanton started out playing junior football for liverpool before turning professional in 1965 .after a year with their senior squad without playing a league match he moved to arsenal in september 1966 , with whom he again failed to play in a league game .he eventually made his league debut after joining mansfield town in 1967 , and went on to play 37 times for them before joining bristol rovers in june 1968 .in eight seasons with bristol rovers he made 168 league appearances , eleven of those as a substitute , and scored seven times , before dropping down into non-league football in 1976 when he joined weymouth .in 1977 he joined forest green rovers as a player-coach , and in 1980 returned to bristol rovers as reserve team coach .another stint as a player-coach followed in 1982 , this time with clevedon town , and he was later appointed their manager .he returned for a third spell with bristol rovers in 1983 , where he spent a year coaching their schoolboy teams .following his retirement from football , stanton started up an antiques business in the clifton area of bristol .