Len Phillips
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leonard Horace Phillips | ||
| Date of birth | 11 September 1922 | ||
| Place of birth | Shoreditch, England | ||
| Date of death | 9 December 2011 (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[1] (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
[edit]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. He appears in various books and comics, and is known as a Portsmouth legend!
Death
[edit]Phillips died in Portsmouth on 9 December 2011.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "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
[edit]- Len Phillips at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
- Len Phillips at Englandstats.com
- 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