Les Hall

Les Hall

Les was on the books of Luton Town for 13 years, making 79 League appearances, but never signed a full-time professional contract, preferring to play part-time whilst retaining a job in his native St Albans.

Starting out with St Albans City, where he continued to train throughout his career, Les turned out for Luton during the war years but was overlooked on resumption of peace-time football until called up to replace the injured Horace Gager in a cup-tie at Plymouth in 1948.

Such was his display at centre-half that Gager was unable to regain his place and was eventually transferred. Les was eventually replaced by Syd Owen but continued to give sterling service to the reserve side as well as bringing on the young players in the ‘A’ team.

Les continued to retain a keen interest in the Hatters until his sad passing in 2010.