Leicester City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Leicester, East Midlands of England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system.
Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland. The club's limited overs team is called the Leicestershire Foxes. Founded in 1879, the club had minor county status until 1894, when it was promoted to first-class status pending its entry into the County Championship in 1895. Since then, Leicestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.
Brian Christopher Deane is an English football coach and former player. His most recent managerial position was as the manager of the Norwegian side Sarpsborg 08.
Samuel Cowan was an English football player and manager. A relative latecomer to the sport, Cowan did not play football until he was 17 and was 22 by the time he turned professional. He made his league debut for Doncaster Rovers in 1923, and signed for First Division Manchester City the following season.
David James Nugent is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Ashley Renaldo Chambers is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or a striker for Coalville Town.
Stuart Pearson Campbell is a football coach and former professional player.
David Halliday was a Scottish football player and manager. He achieved numerous distinctions and high rankings as a prolific goal-scoring forward with six senior clubs; St Mirren, Dundee, Sunderland, Arsenal, Manchester City and Clapton Orient. He bookended his senior career playing at then non-league Queen of the South and Yeovil and Petters United. Halliday's three goals in the FA Cup proper for Yeovil give him a career total of 368 senior goals. From being player-manager at Yeovil, he went on to win trophies managing Aberdeen and Leicester City.
Arthur Clarence Hillier Chandler was a professional footballer in the 1920s and 1930s. He is most famous at Leicester City, where he is the club's all-time record goal scorer, with 273 goals, who also played for Queens Park Rangers and Notts County.
Peter Hodge was a Scottish football manager who managed Raith Rovers, Stoke City, Manchester City and spent most of his career with Leicester City. He gained promotion while in charge of all four clubs.
John Duncan, nicknamed "Tokey", was a Scottish football player and manager, who is most notable for his time at Leicester City.
Septimus Atterbury was an English footballer who made 88 appearances in the Football League for Loughborough, Barnsley, Leicester Fosse and Plymouth Argyle, and 410 in the Southern League for Swindon Town and Plymouth Argyle. He was a full back.
Albert Ernest "Dick" Pudan (1881–1957) was an English professional footballer, who played as a full-back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During his career he made most appearances for Bristol Rovers, but also featured for West Ham United, Newcastle United and Leicester Fosse. He also managed Huddersfield Town between 1910 and 1912.
George Haywood was an English professional footballer who played as a centre forward. He made 60 appearances and scored 23 goals in the Football League, playing for Birmingham, Chesterfield and Southport.
Thomas Edward Robinson was an English professional footballer who scored 37 goals in 121 appearances in the Football League playing mainly as an inside left for Birmingham, Blackpool, Chesterfield, Lincoln City, Northampton Town, Gillingham and Walsall.
Adam Hudson Black was a Scottish footballer who played for Leicester City in the Football League in the 1920s and 1930s.
James Alfred Metcalf was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half. He was born in Whitburn, County Durham, and as an adolescent he played local football with Sunderland Schoolboys and Sunderland Royal Rovers. He later played for Southwick, where he won several local amateur trophies. Metcalf was signed by Football League Second Division club South Shields in April 1920 and went on to play seven seasons with the Horsley Hill club, making 185 appearances and scoring twice. In June 1927 he joined Second Division rivals Preston North End on a free transfer. During a single season with the Lancashire club, he played in 16 league matches.
John H. Murphy (1872−1924) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward and right half for Notts County and Doncaster Rovers in the Football League at the turn of the 20th century. In the 1896–97 season, he was joint top scorer in the Football League Second Division with 22 goals.
John Victor Beby was an English footballer who made 157 appearances in the Football League playing as a goalkeeper for Gillingham, Leicester City, Bristol Rovers, Darlington and Exeter City in the 1920s and 1930s. After his playing career ended, he took up coaching. As well as coaching amateur clubs in England, he was manager of Greek club AEK for three years.
The 1928–29 season was the 28th season of competitive football played by Cardiff City F.C. and the team's eighth consecutive year in the First Division of the Football League. Having finished in sixth place the previous year, the team had a significantly worse season after being plagued by injuries to several first team players. Despite conceding the fewest goals in the league, they were relegated from the First Division after finishing bottom.
