Talk:Teddy Leighton

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You need to change the page title from John Leighton to Teddy Leighton.

Nottingham High School website (nottinghamhigh.co.uk): in a long article on Tinsley Lindley, 'The friends...would doubtless have appeared together in the High School First Team...in the 1879-1880 and 1880-1881 seasons...They played together for many years at Nottingham Forest...How fitting, therefore, that Ted Leighton, as the last surviving member of that group of Old Nottinghamians... should stand sadly at his friend's graveside in 1940.' Reply from Nottingham High School: 'A member of the current [2008] High School staff, Mr JFW Knifton, has written a history of football at the school, and in the chapter about the players, there is a lengthy article about JE Leighton in which he states that he was always called Teddy at school.' These are modern sources, of course, therefore not to be taken as gospel. But the Daily News and Glasgow Herald 30 March 1885 and Liverpool Mercury 25 Jan 1886 all list him as E. Leighton (Notts Forest), not J. Leighton. And The Story Of Association Football (by famous journalist Jimmy Catton 1926) calls him 'J.E. Leighton, "Teddy".

Cris Freddi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.3.81 (talk) 01:36, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]