(A where are they now especially for 'Burnden', who has generously been helping me with some research information and asked if by chance, I knew where Len was.)
I must admit to being very lucky on tracking Len down - well at least I think it is 'our' Len anyway.
I am very much dependant on there being something being posted on the internet to stand any chance at all of finding anyone. It is for this reason alone that the chances of finding any news about any ex Wanderer gets very much harder the further back they ended their career. As Len hung up his boots 20 odd years ago I really did not think I stood a chance of finding him.
But I'm pleased to say I was wrong - My first stroke of luck was that a Jo Cantello (obviously some relative of Len's) wrote to a fairly obscure football site (in October 2002) saying that Len had been working as the UK sports consultant for a Canadian company called Fieldturf, who make artificial football pitches for a lot of the premiership sides' training facilities.
Born in Manchester on 11th September 1951 the classy midfielder became Wanderers record signing when moving from West Brom in the summer of 1979 for ??350,000.
A mixture of illness and injury restricted Cantello from making the same impact that he had made previously at the Hawthornes and after just over 80 games he left to join Burnley on a free in July 1982.
Leonard made his Bolton debt against Villa at home in the 1st Division on the 18th August, 1979, but had to wait over a year and in a lower division before he scored his first goal for us, against Oldham, away.
Good luck with the plastic grass Len - reminds me of the old joke - What is the difference between grass and Astroturf?
All together now -
I don't know, I've never smoked Astroturf!!!
With thanks to the Manny Road site for the background details -
(A where are they now especially for 'Burnden', who has generously been helping me with some research information and asked if by chance, I knew where Len was.)
I must admit to being very lucky on tracking Len down - well at least I think it is 'our' Len anyway.
I am very much dependant on there being something being posted on the internet to stand any chance at all of finding anyone. It is for this reason alone that the chances of finding any news about any ex Wanderer gets very much harder the further back they ended their career. As Len hung up his boots 20 odd years ago I really did not think I stood a chance of finding him.
But I'm pleased to say I was wrong - My first stroke of luck was that a Jo Cantello (obviously some relative of Len's) wrote to a fairly obscure football site (in October 2002) saying that Len had been working as the UK sports consultant for a Canadian company called Fieldturf, who make artificial football pitches for a lot of the premiership sides' training facilities.
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/where29.htm
My second stroke of luck was that company's web page had a 'search' facility - so I typed in Len Cantello and this popped out -
Len Cantello
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Now whilst that does not guarantee that he is the same person - or that the web is upto date - there is a good chance that it is and it is!!
Maybe someone can phone him up and ask him!
http://www.fieldturf.com/search/index.cfm?...=len%20cantello
Len Cantello
Born in Manchester on 11th September 1951 the classy midfielder became Wanderers record signing when moving from West Brom in the summer of 1979 for ??350,000.
A mixture of illness and injury restricted Cantello from making the same impact that he had made previously at the Hawthornes and after just over 80 games he left to join Burnley on a free in July 1982.
Leonard made his Bolton debt against Villa at home in the 1st Division on the 18th August, 1979, but had to wait over a year and in a lower division before he scored his first goal for us, against Oldham, away.
Good luck with the plastic grass Len - reminds me of the old joke - What is the difference between grass and Astroturf?
All together now -
I don't know, I've never smoked Astroturf!!!
With thanks to the Manny Road site for the background details -
http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s474/st80524.htm