years clubs caps goals birth_place totalcaps position birth_date totalgoals article_title name
1967-1970 1970-1976 cardiff city barnsley 160 76 205 13 7 32 manchester , england 441 midfielder -lrb- retired -rrb- 5 october 1942 52 leslie lea
 leslie lea
leslie lea

leslie lea -lrb- born 5 october 1942 in manchester -rrb- is an english former professional footballer .
he played as a midfielder .
lea began his professional career with blackpool in 1960 , making his debut in the opening game of the 1960 -- 61 league campaign .
he scored his first goal for the club in their fourth league game , a 3 -- 1 defeat at tottenham on 31 august 1960 .
he made six other league appearances that term , the last one being on 1 october , meaning he sat out the remaining six months of the season .
he did n't feature at all in 1961 -- 62 , but the following season , 1962 -- 63 , he featured in half of the league campaign .
he also scored two goals , in consecutive games as the season drew to a close : firstly in a 3 -- 2 victory over arsenal at bloomfield road on 27 april 1963 , and then in a 3 -- 0 whitewash of manchester city at maine road on 4 may .
in 1963 -- 64 , lea made 30 league starts , scoring a solitary goal -lrb- in the final league game of the season -rrb- .
he continued to be a regular fixture in ron suart 's teams throughout 1964 -- 65 , making another 30 league appearances and scoring twice , both in victories : 4 -- 2 at home to blackburn rovers on 24 august 1964 , and 3 -- 1 in blackpool 's hosting of sunderland on 26 september .
he also scored in their league cup second round win against newcastle three days earlier .
lea 's goals during the 1965 -- 66 league season all came in victories once more : one in a 2 -- 1 scoreline against sheffield wednesday on 27 november 1965 ; both goals in a 2 -- 1 victory at leeds united on 26 march 1966 ; and one in a 3 -- 0 win at home over northampton in the penultimate game of the league season .
he scored in the league cup for the second consecutive season , again in the second round , but this time in a 5 -- 1 victory over manchester united , with ray charnley netting a hat-trick .
his goals could not save blackpool from relegation , however , and they dropped into division two at the end of the season , four months after ron suart was replaced as manager by stan mortensen .
lea 's final appearance for blackpool came eighteen games into the 1967 -- 68 league calendar , a 2 -- 0 defeat at home to norwich city .
stan mortensen , who had brought in alan skirton , sold him to cardiff city for # 20,000 .
he went on to make 76 league appearances for `` the bluebirds '' in three years , scoring seven goals .
he finished his playing career with barnsley .
in six years at oakwell , he made over 200 league appearances and scored 32 goals .
