Les Burns

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Les Burns
Personnel
Surname Leslie George Henry Burns
birthday June 22, 1944
place of birth Shepherds Bush ,  England
position Outrunner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Tooting & Mitcham
Carshalton Athletic
1967-1968 Charlton Athletic 8 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Leslie George Henry "Les" Burns (born June 22, 1944 in Shepherds Bush ) is a retired English football player .

Career

Burns came through Tooting & Mitcham and Carshalton Athletic in February 1967 as an amateur to the second division club Charlton Athletic and received a professional contract a month later. Carshalton received a donation of £ 250 for the commitment.

At Charlton Athletic Burns came in the rest of the season to seven missions, in which four wins and one draw, which secured the club on the penultimate day of the league. On the occasion of the decisive victory against relegation competitor Northampton Town , the performance of the two outside runners Burns and John Keirs was praised by the press as a "promise for the future", as both "passed a difficult test extremely well".

After Paul Went was committed to the 1967/68 season , Burns only played the role of supplementary player and he only played one more competitive game during the season. At the end of the season he was put on the transfer list.

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ Les Burns in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ^ A b Colin Cameron: The Valiant 500 . Colin Cameron, Sidcup 1991, ISBN 978-0-9517729-0-4 , pp. 41 .
  3. ↑ cf. Colin Cameron: Home & Away with Charlton Athletic 1920-2004 . Colin Cameron, Sidcup 2003, ISBN 978-0-9518125-2-5 , pp. 223 .
  4. ↑ BRIGHTER DAYS AHEAD FOR A YOUNG-LOOK CHARLTON . In: The People , May 7, 1967, p. 19.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ Note: The fact that Burns went to FC Dartford as claimed by Cameron and was in the final of the FA Trophy in 1974 with him can be attributed to a confusion of names. The Dartford player of the same name played for this club from 1961 to 1975, in an obituary from 2013 the date of birth of this player is 1943 in Canning Town . A follow-up station at Guildford City , which is mentioned in The English National Football Archive , among other things, can also be considered questionable, the player active there around 1970 was a "lanky" striker .
personal data
SURNAME Burns, Les
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burns, Leslie George Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Shepherds Bush