Thomas John Seymour Phillips (born 7 July 1951 in Shrewsbury) is a retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper for various English clubs and the Welsh national team.
Phillps started out with his home town club, Shrewsbury Town, for whom he made 51 appearances, before transferring to Aston Villa at the age of 18. After only a handful of matches for Villa, Phillips joined Chelsea in August 1970 for £25,000. He was to spend the majority of his career with the west London club as the long-term understudy to Peter Bonetti and only once, in 1974-75, was he to make over 30 appearances in a season for the club. He made a total of 149 appearances for Chelsea.
He left Chelsea in 1980 and had brief spells with Crewe Alexandra, Brighton & Hove Albion, Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace and Sea Bee in Hong Kong. John Toshack signed Philipps for Swansea City in the early Eighties, but never made the first team. He also won 4 caps for the Wales national team.
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