Len Phillips

For other people named Len Phillips, see Len Phillips (disambiguation).

Len Phillips
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-left
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
1951-1955 England 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonard Horace Phillips[1] (11 September 1922 – 9 December 2011) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward, notably for Portsmouth. He won three caps for the England national team.

Career

Phillips was born in Shoreditch, London. At club level, he played his entire professional career for Portsmouth,[2] 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.[3] 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.

Death

Phillips died in Portsmouth on 9 December 2011.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "England's Players - Page to Pym". England Football Online. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
  2. ^ "Birmingham City : 1946/47–2008/09". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
  3. ^ "Len Phillips - outstanding inside-forward". The News (Portsmouth). 23 March 2006. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
  4. ^ "Pompey Mourn Len Phillips". Portsmouth FC. 9 December 2011. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  5. ^ "Len Phillips - a tribute". Vital Football. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  • Len Phillips at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
  • Len Phillips at Englandstats.com Edit this at Wikidata