Benjamin Haigh "Benny" Green (February 23, 1883 – April 26, 1917) was an English

England

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 professional football

Football (soccer)

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er who played as an inside-forward

Striker

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. He made nearly 200 appearances for Small Heath

Birmingham City F.C.

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 (renamed Birmingham in 1905) in all competitions. He scored the first goal at Birmingham's new ground, St Andrew's

St Andrews (stadium)

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, on December 29, 1906, three days after the official opening, for which he was rewarded with a piano. After leaving Birmingham he played for a number of clubs before being killed in action in the First World War.http://www.cwgc.org

Green was born in Penistone

Penistone

Penistone is a small town market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England, with a population of 10,101 at the 2001 census. It lies west of the town of Barnsley and north east of Glossop, in the foothills of the Pennines...

, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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