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Les
Medley |
Tottenham
Hotspur FC
6 appearances,
1 goal
P 6 W 2 D
4 L 0 F 13: A 9
67% successful
1950-51
captain: none
minutes played: 540 |
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Timeline |
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Lesley Dennis Medley |
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Birth |
3 September 1920 in Lower
Edmonton, Middlesex [registered in
Edmonton, September 1920].
To James and Alice Clara (née Bourne)
Attended Silver Street Junior School, Latymer School in
Edmonton. |
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According to 1939 Register, Leslie, a professional footballer, is living
with his parents at 17 Northern Avenue in Edmonton |
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Marriage |
to Thelma D.,
one daughter, Carol, one son, Stephen. |
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According to Passenger Lists, Leslie D. Medley was one of numerous
professional footballers (The FA Tourists of Canada) leaving the port of
Liverpool on 9 May 1950, bound for Montréal, Québec, on board the Empress
of Scotland. They returned to Liverpool on 30 June, on board the Empress
of Canada. His address is stated as 13 Arbour Street in Enfield.
He returned from Québec again on 27 June 1952 on the Empress of Canada.
Still living at 13 Arbour Street.
Then Lesley and his wife, Thelma,
left the port of Southampton, bound for New York on 15 January 1958, on
the Cunard White Star, the Queen Elizabeth. Their address was stated as
being at 17 Northern Avenue in Edmonton. |
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According to 1968 Canadian Voters Lists, Leslie, self-employed, and
his mother, retired Alice, were living at 10 Guildwood Walk in London,
Ontario. |
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Death |
22 February 2001 at
Mount Hope Nursing Home, London, Ontario, Canada,
aged 80 years 172 days.
Buried in Woodland cemetery,
Hamilton, Ontario |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Played schoolboy football with his Edmonton school, also representing
Edmonton, London, Middlesex and England schools, signed as an amateur with
his local club Tottenham Hotspur FC on 9 September 1936. He was playing
for the Spurs' nursery side, Northfleet United FC, before he turned
professional on 20 February 1939. The war saw Medley
serve with the RAF made several wartime appearances, particularly making
sixty appearances for Spurs, he also played twice each for Millwall FC and
Clapton Orient FC, and once each for West Ham United FC and Aldershot.
On the resumption of League Football, Medley
played ten league matches with Tottenham Hotspur in the 1946-47,
before quitting England for Canada in October 1946. He assisted Toronto
Greenbacks FC and Ulster United FC, but returned to Spurs in February
1948, they still held his registration and he went on
to play in another 154 league matches
until May 1953. |
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Club honours |
Kent League Cup winners 1937-38; Kent
League Champions 1938-39; Football
League Division Two winners 1949-50; Football League
Champions 1950-51; |
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Individual honours |
Football League
(one appearance) |
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Height/Weight |
5'
7", 11st.
3lbs [1951]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of three who
became the 699th
players (701)
to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left |
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First match |
No. 260,
15 November 1950, England 4
Wales
2,
a British Championship match at Roker Park,
Association Road, Sunderland, aged
30 years
73 days. |
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Last match |
No. 268, 28 November 1951,
England 2 Austria 2, a friendly match at The Empire Stadium, Wembley,
London, aged
31 years 86 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1950-51, 1951-52; |
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Team honours |
British Championship shared 1951-52; |
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Individual honours |
England Schoolboy (one appearance, 1935) |
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Distinctions |
Played for the Rest of the UK team against Wales in
December 1951. |
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Beyond England |
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Having already emigrated to Canada in 1946,
because his wife was homesick, only to return to London eighteen months
later. They again emigrated to Canada in May 1953, where they remained
until they ended up in South Africa in 1958, where Medley was player-coach
at Randfontein FC in Johannesburg until 1961, when they moved to Horsham, Sussex, but,
after his wife's death in 1962, returned to Canada, where he ran a fish
and chip shop in London, Ontario, for 15 years. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.171./MEHSTG archive |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Apps |
comp. apps |
minutes |
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goals ave.min |
 |
captain |
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6 |
6 |
3 |
540 |
1 |
540
min |
two |
none |
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minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors. |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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6 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
13 |
9 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
2.167 |
1.5 |
66.7 |
+2 |
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all in a white shirt |
Venue Record
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Venue |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
|
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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Home |
5 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
12 |
8 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
2.40 |
1.60 |
70.0 |
+2 |
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Away |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
Competition Record
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Competition |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
|
British Championship |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
7 |
3 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
2.333 |
1.00 |
83.3 |
+2 |
| Friendly |
3 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
Tournament Record
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British Championship Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC 1950-51 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
+2 |
0 |
0 |
4.00 |
2.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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BC 1951-52 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
+2 |
0 |
1 |
1.50 |
0.50 |
75.0 |
+1 |
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BC
All |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
7 |
3 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
2.333 |
1.00 |
83.3 |
+2 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
7 |
3 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
2.333 |
1.00 |
83.3 |
+2 |
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3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
7 |
3 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
2.333 |
1.00 |
83.3 |
+2 |
Match History
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Club:
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. -
six full appearances
(540 min) 1ᵍ |
manager: Walter
Winterbottom -
six full appearances (540 min) 1ᵍx
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