Michael David Stringfellow (born 27 January 1943 in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire) is an English retired footballer who played 14 seasons as a winger for Leicester City in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the uncle of fellow footballer

Ian Stringfellow Ian Robert Stringfellow (born 8 May 1969) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the nephew of former Mansfield Town and Leicester City winger Mike Stringfellow. Career Stringfellow began his career wi ...

. Stringfellow began his career at Mansfield Town whom he joined as a schoolboy in 1957. He was a star in Mansfield's youth team, and signed a professional contract in February 1960, shortly after his 17th birthday. He made his first-team debut six months later, playing as an outside-left in the game against Rochdale on 30 August 1960. Despite his young age, Stringfellow remained a regular in the Mansfield Town side, and scored 12 goals in 65 appearances for the Stags, before moving to Leicester City for £25,000 in January 1962 – the highest transfer fee ever paid for an 18-year-old at the time. By his second season at Filbert Street, Stringfellow was a regular in the Leicester side. He was a member of the Leicester side that lost against

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in the

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, and scored one of the goals when the Foxes won the League Cup the following season with a 4–3 aggregate win against

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. In 1968, Stringfellow's career was curtailed by a serious cartilage injury. Nevertheless, he remained on Leicester's books, mostly in a reserve role, until 1975 when he quit the professional game and finished his career with non-league Nuneaton Borough. In all competitions, Stringfellow played 377 games for Leicester and scored 98 goals.*(Subscription required) After his retirement from football, Stringfellow settled in Enderby,

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, where he worked as a newsagent.

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1943 births Living people English footballers Mansfield Town F.C. players Leicester City F.C. players Nuneaton Borough F.C. players People from Kirkby-in-Ashfield Footballers from Nottinghamshire Association football midfielders People from Enderby, Leicestershire Footballers from Leicestershire FA Cup Final players {{England-footy-midfielder-1940s-stub