Manager Profile: Leslie Knighton

Full Name: Leslie Knighton

Born: Tuesday, 15th March 1887
Place of Birth: Church Gresley, England
Died: Sunday, 10th May 1959

Managerial Record

Manager from: May, 1933
Manager until: April, 1939

	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Win %	Goals / Game
League	248	84	62	102	382	420	33.87%	1.54
F.A. Cup	21	8	7	6	31	22	38.1%	1.48
Total	269	92	69	108	413	442	34.2%	1.54

Players In

Date	Name	Amount
Jun 1933	Tommy Priestley	£2,000
Jun 1933	Billy Mitchell	unknown
Jun 1933	Johnny Jackson	unknown
Sep 1933	Bob Gregg	unknown
Dec 1933	Jimmy Argue	Free
Mar 1934	Jock Hutcheson	unknown
Jul 1934	Alec Cheyne	unknown
Oct 1934	Dick Spence	£5,000
Oct 1934	Bill Barraclough	unknown
Nov 1934	Albert Tennant	unknown
Dec 1934	Joe Bambrick	unknown
Mar 1935	Harry Burgess	unknown
Feb 1936	Peter Buchanan	unknown
Feb 1936	Jack Sherborne	unknown
May 1936	Dickie Foss	unknown
Aug 1936	Sam Weaver	£6,000
Feb 1937	Alex White	unknown
Mar 1937	Doug Smale	unknown
May 1937	Sid Bidewell	unknown
May 1937	Ned Barkas	unknown
Sep 1937	Ernest Reid	unknown
Mar 1938	Jack Smith	unknown
Mar 1938	Joe Payne	£5,000
Jul 1938	Alf Hanson	unknown
Nov 1938	Bob Salmond	unknown
Jan 1939	David Alexander	unknown

Players Out

Date	Name
May 1933	Sid Bishop
Jun 1933	George Pearson
May 1934	Johnnie Rankin
May 1934	Jackie Crawford
Jun 1934	Peter O'Dowd
Jun 1934	Sam Dudley
Jun 1934	Tommy Priestley
Jul 1934	Stanley Prout
Nov 1934	Hughie Gallacher
Jan 1936	Willie Russell
May 1936	Leslie Odell
Jun 1936	Alec Cheyne
Jun 1936	Stan Macintosh
Dec 1936	Bob MacAulay
Jun 1937	Eric Oakton
Jun 1937	Jock Hutcheson
Jun 1937	James Copeland
Jun 1937	Jack Horton
Dec 1937	Bill Barraclough
Mar 1938	Joe Bambrick
Jun 1938	Bob Gregg
Dec 1938	Wilf Chitty

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