Harry Leyland
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Harry Leyland was a Liverpool
-born footballer who made 36 Football League appearances for Everton
before transferring to Blackburn Rovers. He was outstanding in the 1959–60 FA Cup semi-final against Sheffield Wednesday that Rovers won 2-1, but disappointment followed in the final when already one down Rovers lost Dave Whelan with a broken leg and went on to lose 3-0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Leyland later played for Tranmere Rovers (playing 180 League games for them) and for the last 25 years of his life he was a very active in the running of New Brighton Rugby Union Football Club and in January 2009 a stand at their ground was named in his honour.
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
-born footballer who made 36 Football League appearances for Everton
Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
before transferring to Blackburn Rovers. He was outstanding in the 1959–60 FA Cup semi-final against Sheffield Wednesday that Rovers won 2-1, but disappointment followed in the final when already one down Rovers lost Dave Whelan with a broken leg and went on to lose 3-0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Leyland later played for Tranmere Rovers (playing 180 League games for them) and for the last 25 years of his life he was a very active in the running of New Brighton Rugby Union Football Club and in January 2009 a stand at their ground was named in his honour.