ON YOUR BIKE LES

Les Ferdinand was fortunate enough to be in the Southall side to play Halesowen Town in the FA Vase Final at wembley in 1984. His manager Gordon Bartlett gave the players the old favourite of some of you may never have the opportunity to play here again so enjoy the occasion! Les was 18 and sure enough he did have the opportunity to play more times than once at the home of football.

He moved to local Hayes FC and then was spotted by League club QPR, from there it was  Newcastle Utd, Spurs, The Hammers, Bolton and of course during these years England. Les started his career at Southall at 17 and now he is going to add another milestone to his successful and varied career by getting on his bike next year and cycling from London to Amsterdam on behalf of Prostate Cancer UK.

Hayes gained £30,000 at first from his transfer and then netted another £600,000 when he moved to Tyneside for £6m. There is a Hospitality Suite named after Les at the Hayes home ground Church Road.

Even after joining QPR and initially only getting into the Reserves, Les was holding onto his home decorator's job and had to beg for time off to play in some away games. Now having scored 149 Premier League goals he is 8th in the all time list and a director at QPR.

Les has known Prostate Cancer in his family and one in eight men get it. In the UK black community it is more like 1 in 4.
http://prostatecanceruk.org/get-involved/football-to-amsterdam-2017

Read the link to see who else is joining in this big ride. The Non League paper is also signing up to Men United.