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LEGEND LESLIE’S STATUE IS FITTING TRIBUTE

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The LeaguePaper Team
9 October 2022

LEAGUE ONE
By Tom Blackett

A STATUE of pioneering black footballer Jack Leslie has been unveiled outside Plymouth Argyle’s Home Park ground.
Leslie scored 137 times for Argyle in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925 he was selected for the England squad, and his family said he was later denied his place due to the colour of his skin. When Leslie moved to Plymouth from east London in 1921, he was the only black professional footballer in the country. He went on to play 400 times for the team and became club captain.
His career has come more into the spotlight of late and the 12ft (3....

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