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Len Weare
Leonard Nicholas Weare (23 July 1934 – 21 September 2012) was a Welsh professional Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. He has the distinction of being one of a relatively small group of British footballers to play 500 English Football League matches for one club. Weare holds the record for the most football league appearances for Newport County A.F.C., Newport County with 525 from 1955 to his retirement as a player in 1970. In all competitions Weare made over 600 appearances for Newport County, his only club. Weare was selected for Wales international squads but never attained a full cap. Weare died on 21 September 2012. He was 78 years old. A minute's applause was held in his honour at Newport County's match versus Southport on 2012–13 Football Conference, 22 September 2012. He was entered into the Newport County List of Newport County A.F.C. players#Newport County Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame as part of the Centen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport, Wales
Newport ( cy, Casnewydd; ) is a city and Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. With a population of 145,700 at the 2011 census, Newport is the third-largest authority with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Wales, and seventh List of Welsh principal areas, most populous overall. Newport became a unitary authority in 1996 and forms part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area. Newport was the site of the last large-scale armed insurrection in Great Britain, the Newport Rising of 1839. Newport has been a port since medieval times when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman Britain, Roman town of Caerleon, immediately upstream and now part of the borough. Newport gained its first Municipal charter, charter in 1314. It grew significantly in the 19th century when its port became the focus of Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
