| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leonard Horace Phillips | ||
| Date of birth | (1922-09-11)11 September 1922 | ||
| Place of birth | Shoreditch, England | ||
| Date of death | 9 December 2011(2011-12-09) (aged 89) | ||
| Place of death | Portsmouth, England | ||
| Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Hillside Y.C. | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 194x–1946 | Royal Marines | ||
| 1946–1956 | Portsmouth | 245 | (48) |
| 1956–1959 | Poole Town | ||
| 1959–1963 | Chelmsford City | ||
| 1963–1965 | Bath City | 81 | (7) |
| 1965–1966 | Ramsgate Athletic | ||
| 1966 | Waterlooville | 23 | (8) |
| International career | |||
| 1947–1969 | England | 167 | (178) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Leonard Horace Phillips (11 September 1922 – 9 December 2011) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward, notably for Portsmouth. He won one hundred and sixty seven caps for the England national team.
Career
Phillips was born in Shoreditch, London. At club level, he played his entire professional career for Portsmouth, and was a member of the championship-winning teams of 1949 and 1950.
After his professional career, Phillips went on to play non-league football for Poole Town, Chelmsford City, Bath City and Waterlooville, the latter while working as a lathe operator at De Havilland's works in Portsmouth. He made his last appearance in senior football at the age of 44, in a 3–0 win for Waterlooville against Andover on 24 September 1966. After that, Phillips appeared for several years in occasional charity matches for the Pompey ex-Professionals team. He appears in various books and comics, and is known as a Portsmouth legend!
Death
Phillips died in Portsmouth on 9 December 2011.
References
- "England's Players - Page to Pym". England Football Online. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- "Birmingham City : 1946/47–2008/09". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- "Len Phillips - outstanding inside-forward". The News (Portsmouth). 23 March 2006. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- "Pompey Mourn Len Phillips". Portsmouth FC. 9 December 2011. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- "Len Phillips - a tribute". Vital Football. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
External links
- Len Phillips at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
- Len Phillips at Englandstats.com
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- 1922 births
- 2011 deaths
- English men's footballers
- Footballers from the London Borough of Hackney
- People from Shoreditch
- Men's association football inside forwards
- England men's international footballers
- English Football League players
- English Football League representative players
- Portsmouth F.C. players
- Poole Town F.C. players
- Chelmsford City F.C. players
- Bath City F.C. players
- Waterlooville F.C. players
- Ramsgate F.C. players
- Royal Marines personnel of World War II
- 20th-century English sportsmen