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Leo Smith Nominator: Mico Murphy Category: Sport Sunderland schoolboy Leo took to the pitch for the first time when he was 10, and apart from a five-year break when he was in the Navy during the Second World War, he has played ever since. For the past 30 years Leo, from Albert Street, Seaham, has been a reliable player in a five-a-side team from Dempsey’s sports bar, missing only a handful of games. The sprightly ex-bookie and publican says: "I knew I’d have to pack it in eventually but I wanted to call the shots rather than old age." |