Len Phillips

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| name = Len Phillips

| image =

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| full_name = Leonard Horace Phillips

| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|9|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Shoreditch, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|12|09|1922|9|11|df=y}}

| death_place = Portsmouth, England

| height =

| position = Inside-left

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Hillside Y.C.

| years1 = 1941–1946

| clubs1 = Royal Marines

| caps1 = xxx

| goals1 = xxx

| years2 = 1946–1956

| clubs2 = Portsmouth

| caps2 = 245

| goals2 = 48

| years3 = 1956–1959

| clubs3 = Poole Town

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| goals3 =

| years4 = 1959–1963

| clubs4 = Chelmsford City

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| goals4 =

| years5 = 1963–1965

| clubs5 = Bath City

| caps5 = 81

| goals5 = 7

| years6 = 1965–1966

| clubs6 = Ramsgate Athletic

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| years7 = 1966

| clubs7 = Waterlooville

| caps7 = 23

| goals7 = 8

| nationalyears1 = 1951-1955

| nationalteam1 = England

| nationalcaps1 = 3

| nationalgoals1 = 0

}}

Leonard Horace Phillips{{cite web |url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/teamplyrs/Plyr_P.html |title=England's Players - Page to Pym |publisher=England Football Online |accessdate=10 October 2009}} (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 and scored 97 goals.

Career

Phillips was born in Shoreditch, London. At club level, he played his entire professional career for Portsmouth,{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/birmingham/birmingham.html |title=Birmingham City : 1946/47–2008/09 |work=UK A–Z Transfers |publisher=Neil Brown |accessdate=10 October 2009}} 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.{{cite news |url=http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/famousplayers/Len-Phillips--outstanding-insideforward.1396805.jp |title=Len Phillips - outstanding inside-forward |newspaper=The News (Portsmouth) |date=23 March 2006 |accessdate=10 October 2009 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080519035146/http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/famousplayers/Len-Phillips--outstanding-insideforward.1396805.jp |archivedate=19 May 2008}} 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.{{cite web|title=Pompey Mourn Len Phillips |url=http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/Pompey-Mourn-Len-Phillips-2892.aspx |publisher=Portsmouth FC |accessdate=10 December 2011 |date=9 December 2011 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406130045/http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/Pompey-Mourn-Len-Phillips-2892.aspx |archivedate= 6 April 2012 }}{{cite web|title=Len Phillips - a tribute|url=http://www.portsmouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=265167|publisher=Vital Football|accessdate=10 December 2011|date=9 December 2011}}