Len Green Explained

Len Green
Fullname:Leonard Hope Green
Birth Date:2 October 1936
Birth Place:Bishop Auckland, England
Position:Right back
Clubs1:Lingfield Lane
Years2:1955–1961
Caps2:50
Goals2:0
Clubs3:Horden Colliery Welfare

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. He also played non-league football for clubs including Lingfield Lane and Horden Colliery Welfare.[1]

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.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10 . Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database . Neil Brown . 5 July 2015.
  2. News: The day Greener's Darlington made FA Cup clowns of Chelsea . Mike . Amos . The Northern Echo . Darlington . 29 January 2008 . 20 December 2017.