Fred Lessons: Cobblers Captain, Player-Manager and Southern League Champion
On this day in 1918, former Northampton Town captain and player-manager George Fredrick Lessons was killed in action in France while serving with the Northampton Regiment. Born in Heaton Norris, Cheshire, on 30 August 1883, Lessons played for Lawrence’s and Notts Jardine before joining Nottingham Forest in April 1904, where he made 34 appearances and […]