Len Green

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Len Green
Personal information
Full name Leonard Hope Green [1]
Date of birth (1936-10-02) 2 October 1936 (age 86) [1]
Place of birth Bishop Auckland, [1] England
Position(s) Right back
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Lingfield Lane
1955–1961 Darlington 50 (0)
Horden Colliery Welfare
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonard Hope Green (born 2 October 1936) is an English former footballer who made 50 appearances in the Football League playing as a right back for Darlington. [1] He also played non-league football for clubs including Lingfield Lane and Horden Colliery Welfare. [2]

He was a member of the Darlington team that drew with Chelsea, League champions only three seasons earlier, in the fourth round of the 1958–59 FA Cup, and won the replay 4–1 to progress to the last 16 of the competition for only the second time in the club's history. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Len Green". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  2. "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  3. Amos, Mike (29 January 2008). "The day Greener's Darlington made FA Cup clowns of Chelsea". The Northern Echo. Darlington. Retrieved 20 December 2017.