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	Len Shackleton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leonard Francis Shackleton, born on 3 May 1922 in Bradford, was a great British footballer of the post-World War II period.
		He was forced into retirement in September, 1957, by an ankle injury, and became a journalist.
		Shackleton was famous both on and off the field for his sense of humour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Len_Shackleton (334 words)

	BBC SPORT \| SUNDERLAND \| Sunderland legend Shackleton dies
		Shackleton was taken ill on Monday night and died in hospital near his home in Grange-over-Sands around noon on Tuesday.
		Shackleton scored 101 times in 348 appearances in all competitions for Sunderland and is still the post-war record goalscorer at the club, more than 40 years after retiring through injury.
		Len played in the inside-forward position during his initial years at Roker Park, then as a outside right.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sunderland/1045295.stm (171 words)

	Main
		Len Shackleton, the Clown Prince of Soccer, could produce trickery which would have earned him millions if he was playing today.
		Shackleton was known as the "Wizard of Dribble" – he could beat an opponent once and then go back and do it again for fun.
		Shackleton actually began his career as a 16-year-old apprentice with Arsenal, joining them in 1938 from Carlton School in Bradford before leaving Highbury to join Park Avenue.
	www.bpafc.com /legends.php (1393 words)

	Football \| Len Shackleton
		Len Shackleton, who has died aged 78, called his autobiography, not inappropriately, Clown Prince Of Soccer.
		Shackleton, a perennial maverick and an enormously gifted inside-forward, won a mere five caps for England, and was eternally "agin the government".
		Shackleton took a malign delight in giving Ford what appeared to be perfect passes, which, in fact, had such a fiendish bias on them that the ball was impossible to control; back-spun chips which defied mastery.
	football.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4097754-103,00.html (926 words)

	football-books.com - The Len Shackleton Story: Clown Prince of Soccer? by Colin Malam
		LEN SHACKLETON never won a thing in his 17-year career - not a League Championship medal, not an FA Cup medal, not even a medal for topping the old Second Division.
		His legion of admirers regard that as an insult to the outstanding ability of this unusual footballer, but many will have to take their word for it because little or no film exists of the great man in action.
		Yet, half a century after he stopped playing, Shackleton remains a legend, particularly in Bradford, Newcastle and Sunderland where fans preserve precious memories of his magical ball control and outrageous showmanship.
	www.football-books.com /lenshackleton.html (162 words)

	A Love Supreme - The Independent Sunderland Football Club Fanzine
		Shackleton saw them as a managerial partnership long before Clough and Taylor and it was he, doing the rounds of the clubs, who heard that Hartlepool was looking for a new manager.
		Len was always first to the ball, but never ran, when kicked he never cried or retaliated.
		Len was both a crowd pleaser and a footballer's footballer, he was the most talented footballer ever to play for Sunderland.
	www.a-love-supreme.com /archive/archive092.htm (5150 words)

	Football news, live scores, fixtures and results from 4thegame.com
		Tributes are flooding in for north-east football legend Len Shackleton.
		"Len was a player of unique ability - a football wizard who won the hearts of not only Sunderland fans but of fans across the country.
		Len's memory will live on at the club and through the thoughts and memories of our supporters.
	www.4thegame.com /news/story/71844 (402 words)

	BBC SPORT \| FOOTBALL \| Len Shackleton: Clown Prince
		Len Shackleton was one of football's great entertainers.
		As well as illuminating the field with dazzling displays of skill, Len Shackleton gained the deserved reputation as 'the clown prince of football'.
		Len Shackleton's unconventional approach to the beautiful game may not have been to everyone's taste but, to countless thousands who saw him weave his magic in those austere post-war days, his memory will live every bit as large as today's cossetted superstars.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/football/newsid_1045000/1045604.stm (634 words)

	Shackleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Several regulars had withdrawn from the England side, forcing the selectors to choose a brilliant side of ball-players.
		Shackleton was the star and scored a beautiful chipped goal.
		Shackleton played 384 league games and scored 126 goals.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /alan.myers/shackleton.htm (195 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| UniBond League: Park Avenue to honour Shackleton with memorial
		BRADFORD Park Avenue are planning to erect a memorial in their new clubhouse to mark the life and career of Len Shackleton, their most famous player, who died last week aged 78.
		Bradford-born Shackleton played for the then Football League club between 1940 and 1946, scoring 171 goals, which is still the club record, before being transferred to Newcastle for £13,000 - a huge sum at the time.
		Shackleton retired to Grange-over-Sands and always used to travel to nearby Kendal when Park Avenue were the visitors, as they were on Saturday.
	telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2000/12/04/sfnuni05.xml (613 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport
		I am grateful that because of it he was made aware of how much I admired him both as a player and a man. Too often the sporting heroes of our youth pass by without knowing the effect they had on a life.
		I only watched Len Shackleton four or five times, but I can see him clearly against the hazy background of a thousand forgotten games and players.
		When modern techniques of close control are debated as if something new I remember Shackleton, more than 50 years ago, taking the ball from any angle, at any speed, and taming it in an instant.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2000/12/03/sfnpar04.xml (1378 words)

	Len Shackleton's 1st Game For SAFC - RTG Message Boards
		By now Shackleton is in the Barnsley goal area, Cunningham comes on the Shackleton scene, but the ex Newcastle forward lifts the ball over his head, races round his opponent, gathers, controls and in a flash Kelly is beaten.
		Shackleton made a new Sunderland and in my view demonstrated that the £20,050 buy was a football bargain.
		Len Shackleton had started as he meant to go on and would go on to amass 101 goals in 348 Sunderland appearances.
	www.readytogo.net /smb/showthread.php?t=145727 (721 words)

	TheFA.com - Archive
		Shackleton became one of the major stars of post-war football in England, first with Newcastle United and then rivals Sunderland, where he truly made his name.
		After being rejected by Arsenal as a teenager, Shackleton began his career in earnest with home-town club Bradford Park Avenue before joining Newcastle in a £13,000 deal in October 1946.
		In nearly a decade at Roker, Shackleton saw major honours elude him, and his genius was not reflected in his international career: he won only five England caps, scoring one memorable goal - a cheeky chip - in a 3-1 win against West Germany at Wembley.
	www.thefa.com /England/SeniorTeam/Archive/?pf=p&i=1488&searchname=Shackleton&ap=p (362 words)

	Roy Bentley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bentley served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and afterwards briefly played for both Bristol City and Bristol Rovers before signing for Newcastle United in 1946.
		He was with the club for less than two years, but formed a key part of one of the most impressive forward lines of the era, alongside Jackie Milburn, Len Shackleton and Charlie Wayman.
		He reached an FA Cup semi-final with the club in the 1946-47 season, but they were beaten 4-0 by eventual winners Charlton Athletic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Bentley (734 words)

	Classic Encounters - Boston United vs All Star XI
		For Len Shackleton, dubbed the "Clown Prince of Soccer", it would be his last game.
		Although past his prime, he was still able to treat the large crowd to many of the tricks that had made his reputation as one of football's great entertainers.
		Shackleton seemed to play half of his football with his heel and gave the Boston half-backs a worrying time.
	www.bufc.drfox.org.uk /C300459.html (679 words)

	Toonarama - Season 46/47 - Newcastle united 1946/47 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		They signed Len Shackleton for a record £13,000 fee and spent that much again on bolstering the squad further.
		Len Shackleton [24] arrived from Bradford for a British transfer record of £13,000.
		Shackleton was equally adamant claiming that the club had "not fulfilled it's promises" of a "satisfactory house".
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mickzoe/seasons/1940s/season46-47.html (4397 words)

	Obituaries November 2000
		Star of Sunderland and England, Len Shackleton died yesterday, 28 November, at the age of 78.
		Len was born down the road from me in Bradford in 1923 and his career was interrupted by the 2nd World War.
		As a Leeds United fan, my first memories of Len are the clips of his career shown when Leeds faced Sunderland in the 1972 FA Cup Final.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /bob.dunning/obit7.htm (514 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Len, Fiction Books, Women's Shoes, Non-Fiction Books items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		LEN cryptik souls crew cd european columbia 1999 1 trac
		LEN steal my sunshine cd uk columbia 1999 3 track album
		FUNERAL IN BERLIN BY LEN DEIGHTON HB 1975
	search.ebay.co.uk /Len_W0QQfcdZ2QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1 (489 words)

	Football \| Missing out by missing nothing
		So it was with a moment's pause I heard that Len Shackleton had died.
		Tricksy, clever, moody: Len Shackleton was a must-pick.
		His book is sub-titled A Personal, Retrospective Anthology by Len Shackleton ('From a game with a business in it, to a business with a game in it!').
	football.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4099798-3057,00.html (641 words)

	Football \| What ever happened to Len Shackleton's old club?
		During their 62-year stay in the league, they graced the First Division, reached three FA Cup quarter-finals, and held the registration of one of British football's great players: Len Shackleton.
		Shackleton, who was vice president of the club before his death in November 2000, scored a record 171 goals in six years at the club from 1940-46.
		Although the club's fortunes dipped in the 50s, BPA were clearly planning for brighter future when the club's new floodlights were officially opened by the Czechoslovakia World Cup side on 3 October 1961.
	football.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4227967-103,00.html (760 words)

	Sunderland AFC Blog
		It was typical of Shackleton that he should write a shocking book and ask Bill Murray to write an introduction to it soon after the Sunderland manager had given him a dressing-down.
		According to those lucky enough to have seen Leonard Francis Shackleton play football he was described as genius that was magical with the ball.
		Len Shackleton is probably the most talked about play along side Raich Carter that people talk about today despite having never witnessed either of them play.
	sunderlandafc.blogspot.com /2005_05_01_sunderlandafc_archive.html (14934 words)

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		That brilliant maverick inside-forward Len Shackleton, alias the Clown Prince of Soccer, looked up wearily from the ground where he lay.
		I knew Walter pretty well for many years and always found him greatly likeable, a charming, intelligent man. But as the first-ever full time manager of the England team, and one who amazingly lasted 16 years, he was scarcely ideal.
		And it was Len Shackleton who put the cat among the pigeons in his Clown Prince autobiography, with a one-page chapter headed, The Average Director's Knowledge Of Football.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20030104000807200.htm&date=tss2601/&prd=tss& (1032 words)

	Baby Name Guesser - the first name Len - analysis of first names, popular boy and girl names, male names, female names
		When naming your baby Len, it's important to consider the gender of the name itself.
		When people look at the name Len, they might ask the question, "is Len a man or a woman?", or "what is the gender of the name Len?" Some names are more gender neutral than others, and some names are more strongly associated with either males or females.
		To find out more about Len, Baby Name Guesser uses up-to-date data from across the Internet on how the name Len is actually used.
	www.gpeters.com /names/baby-names.php?name=Len (470 words)

	Facts About Shackleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The pilots were detained in Brazil following the September 29, 2006 mid-air collision between a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 and an Embraer Legacy 600 jet.
		Len Shackleton, born on 3 May, 1922 in Bradford, was a great British footballer F.C. www.amysflowershop.com
		Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance expedition to Antarctica, preparation..
	www.outpostsofantarctica.info /info/Facts-About-Shackleton (368 words)

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		On Antarctica is a very private book yet a very open revelation of a man who lived his dream for a while.
		Len Airey yearns to following in the wake of early Antarctic explorers.
		And when he stood on South Georgia, the final resting place for Shackleton, he makes the commentary, "I recalled what Shackleton had said when he received the news that Scott had died attempting to be the first man to reach the South Pole.
	www.onantarctica.com (357 words)

	Trevor Ford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He made 128 appearances for Villa between January 1947 and October 1950 scoring 61 goals.
		At Sunderland, he failed to gel on the pitch with team-mate, and former record-breaking signing Len Shackleton - although his goal-scoring record was still impressive.
		He was involved in an illegal-payments scandal which saw the club suffer heavy financial penalties; Ford was temporarily suspended from the game.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trevor_Ford (305 words)

	Virtual Football Programme Museum Index
		A 1-0 away win at Tottenham in their previous game had given cause for optimism that the team, to quote the programme editorial, was
		Further mention was made of the revered Len Shackleton, the editor saying:
		Since eclipsed by his managerial achievements, Clough's phenomenal goalscoring record, albeit mostly in Division 2 football, is often forgotten but it bears repeating: 267 goals in 296 competitive club matches.
	members.aol.com /fprogs/sund01.htm (567 words)

	Newcastle United at yourfootball
		Milburn was a local boy, and would remain loyal to Newcastle for eleven years, becoming the club's aggregate top scorer with 178 goals and a hero still revered on Tyneside.
		Also joining the club in 1946, for a new second division record thirteen thousand pounds, was Bradford Park Avenue inside forward Len Shackleton.
		This was achieved without the aid of Len Shackleton who had been sold for a new transfer record of twenty thousand and fifty pounds to local rivals Sunderland, who finished third from bottom.
	www.angelfire.com /d20/yourfootball/newcastle.htm (2352 words)

	Reviews Page
		It was bad enough being a showman - prompting the comment that he wouldn't play for England because they played at Wembley Stadium not the London Palladium.
		Printed and illustrated to the highest standards, the contents comprise various interviews and accounts of episodes in Shackleton's remarkable career and his later days in the media....
		Leonard Francis Shackleton was as unpredictable off the pitch as he was on it.
	www.lenshackleton.com /Reviews.html (884 words)

	TheFA.com - Clown Prince hushed
		Then John Robinson pulled the aristocrats level with a quarter of an hour to go and the tie went into extra-time.
		Len Shackleton (pictured), the "Clown Prince of Soccer" who had signed for Sunderland for a British record fee of £20,500, misplaced a pass just before the halfway point of the extra period and Yeovil's Ray Wright pushed the loose ball through for Eric Bryant to run on and score the winner.
		The Somerset Cup heroes were crushed 8-0 by Manchester United at Maine Road in the next round but their place in Cup folklore was already assured.
	www.thefa.com /TheFACup/TheFACup/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2006/01/FACup_FourthRoundhistory.htm?WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublisheddefault.htmdefault.htmdefault.htm (329 words)

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