YORK City legend Ernie Phillips has been nominated in a quest to find the Football League’s finest captain.
Phillips, who skippered the famous Happy Wanderers team that reached the 1955 FA Cup semifinals, has been put forward as City’s entry, along with players who wore the armband with distinction for the League’s other 71 clubs.
Ex-City midfielder Graeme Murty and former youth-team coach Neil Redfearn are the respective candidates for Reading and Barnsley.
A shortlist of five players is being put together based on an online poll. City fans can vote for Phillips, who made 183 outings for City between 1954 and 1958, by visiting
http://prostatecanceruk.org/getinvolved/ do-an-event/footballleague/ men-uniteds-greatest-captain before Tuesday.
The competition is also to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK with donations towards the charity taken via the website.
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