Lenny Glover

Lenny Glover
Personal information
Full name Leonard Glover
Date of birth (1944-01-31) 31 January 1944 (age 80)
Place of birth Kennington, London, England
Position(s) Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1968 Charlton Athletic 177 (20)
1968–1976 Leicester City 252 (38)
1976–1978 Kettering Town
1976–1978 → Tampa Bay Rowdies (loan) 32 (1)
1979 Shepshed Charterhouse
1994 Harlow Town
Managerial career
1977 Tampa Bay Rowdies (caretaker)
1994 Harlow Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonard Glover[1] (born 31 January 1944)[2] is a retired footballer who played as a winger for Charlton Athletic[3] and Leicester City.[4] Considered one of the greatest players to don a Leicester City shirt and once described as the "best uncapped winger in the world",[5] the acerbic and quick-witted Cockney is often referred to in Frank Worthington's seminal "One Hump or Two": for example, when locally born defender Alan Woollett's dog died manager Jimmy Bloomfield tried to get his players to show respectful sympathy towards the defender — a feat Glover was singularly unable to do.[6] While at Leicester he helped them win the 1971 FA Charity Shield.[7] Later, he had a spell at Kettering Town,[8] and a spell as joint manager of Harlow Town with Bobby Kellard, and since the 2006 World Cup a hard hitting blog.[9]

Glover was the captain of the Tampa Bay Rowdies during the 1977 NASL season. He served as the Rowdies' caretaker manager for one game in June 1977 after Eddie Firmani abruptly resigned, and before John Boyle was hired on to finish the season.[10]

  1. ^ "Len Glover Web site". Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
  2. ^ Career Details
  3. ^ Transferred from Charlton, November 1967 p210 of Barry Hugman (1988). Complete Players' Records. London: Q.A.P. ISBN 1-85291-585-4.
  4. ^ A history of Leicester City Football Club Folliard,R: Hornchurch, Ian Henry, 1980 ISBN 0-86025-700-2
  5. ^ Lenny GLover - Profile
  6. ^ The Frank Worthington Story Cooper,S/Wells,N: Leicester, ACL & Polar, 1994 ISBN 1-899538-00-3
  7. ^ footballsite.co.uk https://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1971-72Charity%20Shield.htm. Retrieved 23 March 2020. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ "Kettering Town/Tampa Bay Rowdies". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
  9. ^ View Blog Archived 8 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Henderson, Jim (5 June 1977). "For Shaken Rowdies, The Show Must Go On". Tampa Tribune. p. 1D. Retrieved 21 March 2018.