Leonard Hope Green (born 2 October 1936) is an English former
footballer
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who made 50 appearances in
the Football League
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playing as a
right back
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Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...
for
Darlington.
He also played
non-league football for clubs including Lingfield Lane and
Horden Colliery Welfare.
He was a member of the Darlington team that drew with
Chelsea
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, League champions only three seasons earlier, in the fourth round of the
1958–59 FA Cup
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, 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.
References
1936 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bishop Auckland
Footballers from County Durham
English footballers
Association football defenders
Darlington F.C. players
Darlington Town F.C. players
English Football League players
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