
Satchwell scored four goals in a 5-3 home win over Wrexham on Christmas Day 1959 – the last time City played a league game on the 25 December. The following day in the return at the Racecourse Ground Ken scored another two goals in a 3-1 win to notch a Christmas double for the Bantams.
Ken, a raw 19-year old centre-forward, had only become a regular first-team player two months previously and had scored only four goals in total before the Wrexham game. A precocious youngster, Erdington-born Ken started his career as an amateur with Aston Villa, playing regularly and scoring prolifically for the Villa youth team. In 1956 he played alongside Ron Atkinson as Villa beat City 4-0 in the FA Youth Cup.
When the time came for professional contracts Villa were reluctant and Ken started playing for works side SU Carburettors and scored over 100 goals in the Birmingham Works League. With the top clubs scouts circling Ken signed amateur forms with City and Wolves. When the Football League pointed out that he could only sign for one club he plumped for City.
He was an amateur when he made his debut on the left wing at Oldham in a Division Four game in August 1958. He played 15 games in City’s promotion-winning team that season and scored one goal, a 90th minute headed winner in a top of the table clash with Millwall in October.
The following season Ken became a regular, playing alongside journeyman striker Ray Straw as City came close to a second successive promotion. Straw netted 20 goals and Ken 15, in 28 games, earning the nickname of Satch the Snatch. After Jimmy Hill took over in November 1961 Ken was in the cold and although Derby and Barnsley wanted to sign him he didn’t want to move from Birmingham and joined Nuneaton Borough, who offered to pay his benefit.
Ken scored prolifically for Borough and helped them to the Southern League Championship in his first season. His feats attracted league scouts again and Walsall paid £1200 for his signature in January 1965. In three seasons he scored eight goals in 63 games, playing on the right wing before a slipped disc forced him to retire, although he did play briefly for Wellington Town and Stourbridge.
He went to work at British Leyland as a machine tool operator, moving later to Land Rover at Solihull.
Hat tricks (1)
1959-60
25 December 1959 v Wrexham H (4 goals)























































































































































































