Lionel "Len" Richley (2 July 1924 – after 1970) was an English

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who made 72 appearances in

the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...

playing as a

wing half A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Hartlepools United Hartlepool United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. They were founded in 1908 as Hartl ...

in the 1950s. He went on to manage

non-league Non-League football describes association football, football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country. Usually, it describes leagues which are not fully professional. The term is primarily used for football in England, where it is s ...

clubs

Holbeach United Holbeach United Football Club is a football club based in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Carters Park. History The club was established in 1929 and joined the King's Lynn League, before playin ...

and

King's Lynn King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the county of Norfolk, England. It is located north of London, north-east of Peterborough, ...

and league clubs

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...

and

Darlington Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town. In the 19th century, Darlington under ...

Managerial statistics

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References

1924 births Year of death missing Footballers from Gateshead English men's footballers Men's association football wing halves Tonbridge Angels F.C. players Crystal Palace F.C. players Hartlepool United F.C. players Holbeach United F.C. players English Football League players English football managers Holbeach United F.C. managers King's Lynn F.C. managers Rochdale A.F.C. managers Darlington F.C. managers English Football League managers {{England-footy-manager-stub