Radebe

Lucas Valeriu Ntuba/Lucas

07-09-1994

1994-2004

CH/LH

Soweto, South Africa

12-04-1969

Radebe was born in the Diepkloof section of Soweto, near Johannesburg and started his football career as a goalkeeper, representing Bophuthatswana in the Homeland Games in 1990. He was playing for ICL Birds in the Bopsol League when his side had a crisis in central defence and he moved from between the sticks. He did well, kept his position in the team and was signed by Kaiser Chiefs in April 1989. He was a member of the Chiefs’ 1992 double-winning side, and was runner-up in the South African Player of the Year awards the following year. He gained his first International cap for South Africa on 7th July 1992 and had already accumualted twelve International caps when he arrived at Elland Road with countryman Phil Masinga in August 1994. Radebe had scored five goals in one hundred and thirteen games for Kaiser Chiefs. Radebe was only included in the deal to keep Masinga happy; but it turned out he became the more valuable investment. He was extremely versatile, playing in midfield, all the defensive positions and even in goal when needed. His Leeds goalkeeping exploits emerged the week after the Wembley League Cup Final, in which Leeds were easily beaten by Aston Villa. Leeds were trailing 1-0 at half-time at home to Middlesbrough. Goalkeeper John Lukic did not reappear after the break because he had taken a bang on the head, so with no keeper on the bench, Howard Wilkinson turned to Radebe, who kept a clean sheet. A few weeks later he came off the bench after keeper Mark Beeney had been sent off in the sixteenth minute at Old Trafford and he kept the EPL Champions, Manchester United at bay until extremely late in the game when Roy Keane scored the only goal of the game. Leeds coach Howard Wilkinson had previously recognised Radebe's excellent physical attributes and quickly moved him from midfield to centre half. Radebe struggled early on in his English career, partly due to injuries, partly because he did not see eye-to-eye with the manager. When Wilkinson was fired, George Graham took over the reins and gave the South African star a chance to blossom. It was the opportunity Radebe had been waiting for. "The Chief", as Leeds fans dubbed him, quickly established himself as a player to be reckoned with. He showed an excellent understanding of the game, strong tackling, fine man-to-man marking, and had a calming influence on his teammates. Graham appointed Radebe captain for the 1998-99 season. At the time Leeds had several non-British internationals on their books and Radebe was one. Graham was always reluctant to release them to play for their countries. These players would travel long distances to represent their countries and were also required to attend extensive training camps as well as participate in tournaments and qualifying games. This took a toll on the players resulting in tiredness from constant travel and the inevitable injuries in the games and training. However, Radebe remained in constant demand by his club and country whenever he was fit and often played through the pain barrier. He had long been the rock of the South African and Leeds defence and captain of both teams. Graham left Elland Road in October 1998, to be replaced by David O'Leary. The new manager's first request to the club's board was to secure the services of Radebe for the rest of his career. O'Leary had served as Graham's assistant, and and understood just how much the South African captain brought to the Yorkshire club. "Lucas should be set in stone and never allowed to leave", O'Leary said. The Chief signed a four-year contract, and went on to prove himself a major success. In 1998/99 Leeds finished fourth in the EPL, and so qualified for the UEFA Cup. The following season they finished third in England and qualified for the higher profile, more lucrative ECL. Surprising many, Leeds made it through to the Semi-Finals. Radebe picked up a knee injury in 2000, and subsequent knee and ankle injuries kept him sidelined for the better part of two years. Under O'Leary, Leeds and the South African F.A. had come to an agreement to restrict his International appearances and this reflected in his subsequent career. He played, when fit, in important International competitions, such as the African Nations, World Cup etc but not in Friendlies unless necessary for preparation for major events. He finished with two goals and seventy-one caps for South Africa and did not find the net in two hundred League appearances for Leeds, of which twenty came from the bench.(Leeds United Player Details)

Radford

Ron/Ronald

15-11-1961

1961-1962

LH

South Elmsall

12-07-1943

Started as an Amateur with Sheffield Wednesday, before joining Leeds in October 1961. He made more than a dozen appearances for the Reserves, but could not break into the first-team. He left Leeds at the end of the 191-62 season and slipped into Non-League with Cheltenham Town. He returned to the Football Leaguejoining Newport County in July 1969. He started sixty-three games and came on as a substitute three times, scoring seven goals, before moving to Hereford United as Player/Manager in July 1971 scoring six goals in sixty-one starts before retiring at the end of the 1972-73 season.

Ramage

J.

00-11-1947

1947-1947

Gk?

Nothing is known about this player other than his debut was is only game for the Leeds Reserves.

Ramos

Tabare Ricciardi/Tab

06-12-1989

1989-1990

OR/IR

Montevideo, Uraguay

21-09-1966

His family emigrated from Uraguay to USA before he reached his teens. He became a US citizen in 1982 and played Junior football with North Carolina State Wolfpack from 1984 to 1987. He started his American Soccer League career with New Jersey Eagles in 1988 scoring twice in eight appearances. He joined Miami Sharks the following year and started three games for them without scoring. He had already started his USA International career and was looking to impress in the 1990 World Cup in Italy. He was loaned to Spanish Second Tier side Figueres for the 1990-91 season, scoring five goals in thirty-eight starts, but prior to that he had two games for the Leeds Reserve side and created a good impression. He signed for the Figueres club for the 1991-92 season and scored four goals in thirty-four appearances before signing for Real Betis at the start of the next season, but there he could manage but one goal in thirty-two appearances over three seasons, before being loaned to UANL Tigres in Mexico for the 1995-96 season. He scored twice in thirty-five appearances for them. He joined MetroStars, who were later to become the New York Red Bulls, in 1996 and he stayed there until 2002 when he retired after scoring eight goals in one hundred and twenty-one League games of which eight were as a substitute. In his international career, in which he played his final game in 2000, he scored eight goals in eighty-one appearances. He later became a coach.

Ramsey

Michael/Mick

18-09-1976

1976-1976

Gk

A seventeen year-old Leeds amateur, Ramsey stepped into the breech caused by injury to David Stewart in the early part of the 1976-77 season, when he filled the gap in the Reserve team on four occasions.

Ray

Mark

11-05-1997

1996-1999

IL/LB

Jersey, Channel Isles

01-01-1980

Signed as a Trainee by Leeds in 1996, he started twice for the juniors at left-back in 1996-97 and came on as a substitute for Andy Wright at Outside-Left for the Reserves in the final game of that season. After being releaseed by Leeds, he returned to Jersey, playing with St. Saviour and St Paul's, and representing Jersey in the Island games up to 2001 before being recalled to play in the midfield in March 2009 for the 2009 Island Games in Aland.

Rayner

17-04-1984

1984-1984

LH

Nothing is known about this player other than his debut was is only game for the Leeds Reserves.

Reaney

Paul

06-09-1961

1961-1978

RB

Fulham

22-10-1944

Another product of Middleton Parkside and the Leeds Junior System, he signed professional with Leeds in October 1961, when he was initially a centre-half, but it was not long before he was converted to his more famous right-back role. He soon progressed through the Juniors and Reserves, making his first team debut in September 1962 and for all but one of the next fifteen years he was the first choice and a regular at right back sharing in all the team successes of those years. The one missing season was, when at the height of his powers, with three England caps waiting to be added to and an F.A. Cup Final looking likely, he broke his leg in April 1970. He scored nine goals in seven hundred and thirty-seven starts and twelve from the bench in all competitions, which puts him at number three on the all-time appearances list. He left Leeds in June 1978 to join Bradford City where he started thirty-seven and came off the bench once in League games. (Leeds United Player Details)

Reed

George

12-09-1925

1924-1931

LH

Altofts

07-02-1904

29-11-1958

He joined Leeds from Altofts WRC on 11th March 1924 Altofts WRC as a trialist and was signed by them on 13th October 1924. He broke into the first team in April 1926 and went on to have a long and distinguished career at Elland Road, scoring three goals in over one hundred and fifty first team appearances. He stayed until May 1931 before joining Plymouth Argyle on a free transfer. At Home Park he scored once in forty-six League games, before playing twice for Cystal Palace in 1934 and once for Clapton Orient in 1935 before becoming player/manager with King's Lynn in the 1936-37 season and staying for two years. After the War he returned to Home Park as Assistant Trainer and remained a member of the backroom staff until his death in November 1958. (Leeds United Player Details)

Reid

David

27-11-1976

1976-1979

RW/IF

Glasgow

Glasgow and Scotland schoolboy representative, signed for Leeds in 1975 and worked his way through the Juniors up into the Reserves. However, he never made it to the first team. In July 1979 he moved to Hibernian.

Rennie

David

22-01-1986

1986-1989

LH

Edinburgh

29-08-1964

Starting with Edina Hibs, he was the winner of twenty Scottish Youth Caps, playing in Scotland’s UEFA Youth Championship winning side of 1982. He joined Leicester City from school and turned professional in May 1982, but was largely confined to the Reserves. He scored once in twenty-one League and two League Cup appearances for the Foxes, until making his £50,000 move to Leeds in January 1986. Rennie played in the heart of the defence or as a ball-winning midfielder and even turned out at full-back for Leeds. He was a member of the Leeds side that reached the Second Division play-offs and the FA Cup Semi-Finals in 1986-87. After giving Leeds good and solid service, scoring five goals in ninety-five League starts and six more as a substitute he joined Bristol City on 31st July 1989 for £175,000. Again he was a solid and reliable performer and made one hundred and one League starts as well as three as substitute, notching eight goals. On 20th February 1992 he moved to Birmingham City for £120,000 and scored four times in thirty-five League games, including three as substitute. Blues’ boss Terry Cooper swapped him for Coventry City winger David Smith, valued at £100,000, on 11th March 1993. Rennie went on to skipper the Sky Blues in the EPL with his usual steady determination, amassing another eighty-two League appearances, including two as substitute and scoring three goals. He did return to St Andrew’s in February 1996, on a month’s trial, but failed to make the team. On 5th August 1996 he joined Northampton Town and was an almost ever-present as he made forty-five starts and had three games from the bench in scoring three goals in the League, before moving to Third Division Peterborough United on 1st December 1997 on a free-transfer. He gave steady service before being released by the club on 13th May 1999. He made twenty-seven League appearances while with Posh. Boston United took him on, on 1st August 1999 and he scored five goals in forty-three League starts. He joined Non-League Burton Albion for £2,000 on 18th September 2000. He retired on 31st May 2002. (Leeds United Player Details)

Renshaw

P.

03-03-1921

1921-1921

Gk

Nothing is known about this player other than his debut was is only game for the Leeds Reserves.

Revie

Donald George/Don

17-09-1960

1958-1961

WH/IF

Middlesbrough

10-07-1927

26-05-1989

A Legend both as a player and Manager, Revie started with Leicester City, turning professional in August 1944, as soon as he turned seventeen. At Filbert Street he scored twenty-five goals in ninety-six League games. He teamed up with Raich Carter at Hull City in November 1949, scoring twelve goals in seventy-six League games before moving to Manchester City in October 1951. There he became an integral part of the "Revie Plan" initiated by Les McDowell, whereby the Hungarian system with the withdrawn centre-forward, made famous by Nandor Hidegkuti, was adopted to great success culminating in the club winning the 1955-56 F.A. Cup. After scoring thirty-seven goals in one hundred and sixty-two League games Revie moved to Sunderland in November 1956 where he scored fifteen goals in sixty-four League games. With six England caps and an F.A. Cup winners' medal his only reward for fourteen years in football, Revie moved to Leeds in December 1958 and scored eleven goals in seventy-six League games before going on to manage Leeds and England.(Leeds United Player Details)

Reynard

Duncan

11-05-1977

1976-1979

D

Harrogate

Signed as an apprentice in August 1976 after joining United from school in Gosport and playing in the Youth team as an amateur. He signed professional in November 1977, became a regular with the Reserves for a couple of seasons but never progressed further.

Reynolds

John

22-08-1953

1953-1954

CF/D

A Welsh Schoolboy International, he joined Leeds in 1952-53 and soon made a reputation as a goalscoring centre-forward with the Leeds Junior team. He was thought to have made several appearances in defensive roles with the Reserves, but his career was soon brought to an end by a series of serious injuries. He later became the Leeds groundsman, a position he held for many years.

Reynolds

P.

28-08-1920

1920-1921

OL

From Cudworth his debut was is only game for the Leeds Reserves.

Reynolds

Walter/Wally

06-04-1931

1931-1931

OR

Eccleshall

24-11-1906

00-00-1944

He started with Hathersage and joined the Wednesday in 1929. He moved to Leeds in November 1930, without playing for the Sheffield team's first team. He did not make the Leeds first team either and left for Clapton Orient in August 1931, where he played just two League games beforemoving to Burnley in 1932, where he scored three times in nineteen League games. He then served Newport County from 1933-4 to 1934-35, scoring four times in fifty-nine League games, Then Accrington Stanley from 1935-36 to 1937-38, scoring twenty-eight times in one hundred and twenty-five League games. There were three games with York City in 1938-39 and his final club was Rochdale where he scored five goals in twenty-four League games before WW2 brought his career to an end.

Rhodes

A.

28-08-1950

1949-1951

RB

He joined Leeds as a professional, being a product of Leeds Nursery. He had come through first the Stormcocks and then the Northern Intermediate League sides. He only played just the one game for the Reserves, before leaving on a free transfer in 1951

Rhodes

Stanley/Stan

01-01-1949

1948-1951

IF

Sheffield

19-04-1929

He joined Leeds in May 1948. Although he stayed for three seasons, he made little impact other than a few games for the Reserves. He left Leeds on a free transfer to Worksop in May1951 and joined Sheffield United in November 1951, where he made one League appearance.

Ribeiro

Bruno Miguel Fernandes.Bruno

17-08-1998

1997-1999

IL

Setubal, Portugal

22-08-1975

Ribeiro started his career with his local club Vitoria Setubal, wher he joined the club as an eleven year old and worked his way through each step of the club's junior teams until he sat unused on the bench for the first team in the game at home to Farense on 29th May 1994. He made his debut as a sixty-sixth minute substitute for Paulo Gomes in a 0-3 defeat at Gil Vincente on 29th September 1994, making his starting debut in a 1-1 home draw with Farense on 23rd October 1994 and he scored his first goal in the seventy-fifth minute of the home win over Uniao Madeira on 28th May 1995 to give his side a 2-0 lead in a game they eventually won 4-1. He ended the 1994-95 season with one goal from nine starts and two more from the bench and had sat unused in seven others. He had begun to build up quite a reputation and by the end of the 1996-97 season had scored three goals in thirty-two starts, nine more from the bench and had sat unused on another eight occasions. He had also gained representative honours, making five appearances for Portugal at the Under-Twenty-One level. He was spotted by the Leeds management team of George Graham and David O’Leary when the pair went to assess the capabilities of Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink, when he was in action for his team Boavista against Vitoria Setubal. Ribeiro’s skills shown in the game impressed them greatly and Ribeiro was signed for £500,000 by Leeds manager George Graham on 18th July 1997. He had also been attracting the attention of Monaco and Benfica, but could not resist the challenge of making his mark in England, where the crowds were bigger and the game much quicker than in his native Portugal. He and Hasselbaink were brought instantly into the Leeds team and both debuted in the 1-1 draw with Arsenal at Elland Road on the opening day of the 1997-98 season. A compact and versatile player, with an eye for goal and a crisp shot he scored several spectacular goals in his first season, but also had a tendancy to have a short fuse, which caused him to see red more than once from the referee. He became a key component of the rebuilding exercise that Graham had been brought in to do at Leeds, running the midfield and sometimes looking like a latterday Johnny Giles. Unfortunately he was injured at the start of the 1998-99 season, and he never really regained his place in the midfield under new manager David O’Leary. He was eventually transferred to Sheffield United on 25th October 1999 for £500,000. He had scored four goals in thirty-five starts and seven games from the bench in the League, one in four starts in the F.A. Cup, one in three starts and one from the bench in the League Cupand none in one start and one from the bench in Europe. At Bramall Lane injuries and disputes with management prevented him from cementing a spot in the Blades line-up on a regular basis and after just one goal in twenty-five League appearances, thirteen as a substitute, he left Bramall Lane on loan to Portuguese club Uniao Leiria, where he made five starts and four appearances from the bench and sat unused on nine other occasions without scoring. He subsequently returned to Portugal, moving to SC Beira-Mar in 2001 and spent the 2001-02 season with them, scoring once in making sixteen starts, nine appearances from the bench and being an unused substitute on another three occasions. In 2002-03 he moved on to play for Santa Clara, scoring twice in twenty-three games, of which seven were as a substitute, and sitting unused on the bench on five more occasions before rejoining Vitória Setubal, where he had started his professional career, in 2003. He played regularly for his hometown team and captained them. He picked up some silverware along the way, with a Portuguese Cup Winners’ medal in 2005 and a runners-up medal in 2006. He twice won runners-up medals in the Portuguese Super Cup in 2005 and again in 2006, together with a Carlsberg Cup winners’ medal in 2008. He remained with Vitoria Setubal until the end of the 2009-10 season, but had a short spell on loan to Segunda Liga side, Grupo Desportivo de Chaves from mid-September to the beginning of November 2009, in which time he started four League and two Cup games without scoring, but returned to Vitoria to complete the season at which time he retired as a player at the age of thirty-four. In the League he scored five goals in one hundred and eleven starts, twenty-five more as a substitute and thirty times he was also an unused substitute in his second spell at Vitoria Setubal. He never played at full international level. He became a coach, after gaining his certificates, and was appointed coach to the Vitoria Setubal under-seventeen team in late 2010 and when Manuel Fernandes was sacked by the club as Chief Coach/Manager in early March 2011, Ribeiro was appointed as his replacement. He did not last a year and was sacked after a run of bad results which saw the club in deep relegation troubles. He was appointed Manager of the newly-promoted to Segunda Liga side SC Farense on 2nd June 2012 but when it looked as if he was failing to gain promotion to the top flight he was sacked on 15th January 2013. He joined Maura AC in March 2014 on his appointment he said that he had been to Scotland to take to complete his level III UEFA and had completed the IV in Portugal and then had been to Chelsea to learn from Jose Mourinho and that he was looking forward to the challenge that Moura AC in Serie H presented. He stayed with Moura AC until 14th November 2014 when he took over at Serie G side Clube Desportivo Pinhalnovense. In January 2015 he returned to Setubal to replace Domingos Paciencia. He succeeded in saving them from relegation but only won three of seventeen games in the 2014–15 season and decided to leave the club as his contract had ended. He became head coach with Bulgarian Parva Liga champions Ludogorets Razgrad in June 2015. The club lost the first three games of his tenure, seeing them eliminated from the UEFA Champions League and the 2015 Bulgarian Supercup. He was sacked after less than two months. He returned to Portugal and in February 2016 he joined LigaPro side Academico de Viseu on a contract until the end of the 2016–17 season. However, after failing to win any of his first five games, he resigned from the club on 10th March 2016. He was appointed manager of Port Vale of English League One, on a three-year contract, in June 2016. He started well, winning the first six home games but by Christmas they had slumped to seventeenth on the ladder. Ribeiro resigned on Boxing Day. (Leeds United Player Details)

Rich

Arthur

22-08-1956

1953-1957

CH/WH

He joined Leeds from Sunderland Juniors in the close season of 1953. He became part of the successful United Junior team of that time and progressed through the Juniors, "A" team and the Reserves where he was a semi-regular until he left to join Bradford Park Avenue at the end of the 1956-57 season, but failed to progress further.

Richardson

Frazer

31-08-1999

1999-2009

RB

Rotherham

29-10-82

Richardson emerged through the Leeds United Academy ranks and started with the Under-Seventeen squad in 1999-2000 and went on to become an established England Youth and Under-Twenty international. A right back with an added ability to play right wing or midfield, he was the long-term understudy for Republic of Ireland international Gary Kelly and English international Danny Mills. It was a waiting game and it was not until after Gary Kelly retired that he had a chance to make the right back berth his own. Even then, as luck would have it, he suffered a long term injury, which precluded him from making the berth his own. At times, such as in the League play-off at Preston North End, he successfully played right-midfield, and in that game he managed to scored a vital goal. He made his Leeds debut as a sixty-sixth minute substitute for Gary Kelly against Hapoel Tel-Aviv in Florence during the 2002-03 UEFA Cup campaign. He was loaned to Stoke City to gain experience and made six starts and one substitute appearance for them in January 2003. He returned to the Potters again on loan in November 2000 and added another six starts and also scored a goal. He made his full debut for United against Arsenal on 4th January 2004 in a 1-4 home defeat in the F.A. Cup, at right full-back, his favoured position. Subsequently, however, Richardson covered a variety of roles for United. He scored his first ever Leeds goal on his third League start for the club. It turned out to be the winner against Derby County in Leeds' first game of the 2004-05 campaign and, due to the game having an early 12-15pm kick off on Sky Sports, it was actually the first ever goal in the newly rebranded "Coca-Cola Football League Championship". He found he was popular with the fans but Gary Kelly still barred the way in his favourite spot and the Manager chose more suitable players in his alternate positions. Prior to the 2005-06 campaign, Leeds received two bids from Sunderland for him, but both were immediately rejected by Leeds' chairman, Ken Bates. Several months later, Richardson signed a new contract with Leeds, securing his future to the club until August 2008. That season, 2005-06, Richardson played infrequently, mostly on the right of midfield. Richardson scored in the Play-Off Semi-Final away leg win against Preston North End for Leeds in May 2006, playing in an unusual attacking wide right position, though he reverted to a more familiar role for the Play-Off final defeat at the Millenium Stadium, against Watford, a few weeks later. In the 2006-07 season, Richardson hardly featured under Blackwell in the Leeds team at all, due to injuries. Under new manager Dennis Wise, Richardson played more regularly in the Leeds starting lineup, replacing the injured Gary Kelly at right back. On Kelly’s retirement, Richardson was given the number two shirt and finally became the club's first choice right back. Despite rumours of a transfer to Wolverhampton Wanderers or Burnley, he stayed with the club and went on to start all the club's matches in the 2007-08 campaign, until injury ruled him out on 2nd February 2008. He scored a wonder goal at Elland Road on 5th January 2008, when he opened the scoring two minutes before half-time in a 3-0 home win over Northampton Town. He had become the club's current longest serving player, being the only player to have remained at the club from the time David O’Leary was in charge. Under new Leeds manager Gary McAllister, Richardson also played in the left-back position, playing a few games there as a replacement for on-loan Leicester defender Alan Sheehan. After a poor performance in this position against Cheltenham, at Elland Road on 11th March 2008, he was booed off the pitch by the Leeds fans and lost his place in the team. He returned in his usual right-back position as a replacement for the injured Darren Kenton in their important away clash with promotion rivals, Doncaster Rovers, on 1st April 2008. He gave a good account of himself as Leeds triumphed 1-0. He had now accumulated over one hundred League appearances and he was appointed Leeds Captain in August 2008 by Manager Gary McAllister and remained club captain, despite injury, under new manager Simon Grayson. He made his final appearance for Leeds as a substitute against Northampton Town on 2nd May 2009, when he replaced Ben Parker after sixty-seven minutes. On 16th June 2009, after Leeds had signed Jason Crowe from Northampton Town, it was announced that the club would not be renewing his contract and that he could leave when it expired on 30th June 2009. He had scored three League goals in one hundred and forty-nine games, of which twenty-seven had been from the bench. He scored once in five play-off final starts and once in eleven starts in the League Cup, but failed to score in five F.A. Cup starts, one game from the bench in European competitions and two Johnstone’s Paint Trophy games. He had been the longest-serving Leeds player for several seasons and the last player on the club's books to have suffered relegation from the EPL in 2004. He joined Charlton Athletic on a free transfer, on a two year contract, on 9th July 2009. He soon established himself as a permanent fixture at right back in the Charlton first eleven, making his debut on the opening day of the season, 8th August 2008, in a 3-2 home win over Wycombe Wanderers. His first goal came on 20th March 2009. It proved to be his only goal for the Addicks, as he made thirty-eight League appearances, of which one was from the bench and also played in two play-off semi-finals, which saw Charlton eliminated by Swindon Town on penalties. He was selected in the PFA Division One team of the Year. On 6th July 2010, Southampton signed him for £450,000 on a three year contract. However he did not have a happy start to his career with the Saints as in a pre-season training camp on 17th July in Switzerland he sustained a dislocated shoulder which delayed his Southampton debut until 30th October 2010. He maintained his hold on the right back spot until late January 2011 but regained it in early April. He retained his spot in the 2011-12 season as the Saints were for a long period at the top of the Championship. In the new year, however, his game declined defensively and he was replaced in March and April 2011. For the second season in succession Southampton were promoted as runners-up. Entry to the EPL saw Richardson slip down the pecking order with the signing of Nathaniel Clyne. He was not able to oust Clyne and when his contract expired at the end of the 2012-13 season and he became a free agent. While with the Saints he started forty-nine League games and came off the bench eleven times, and also started five times in the F.A. Cup and three times in the League Cup. He joined Middlesbrough on a free transfer on 2nd August 2013 but his one year contract was not completed before the deadline and his debut was not until 10th August when he started against his old club Charlton Athletic at the Valley in a 1-0 win. He was a regular and took his appearances to eleven League starts before falling out of favour. This saw him join Ipswich Town on loan for the rest of the season and make three League starts and four more from the bench, but Ipswich did not seek to sign him on a permanent basis and once more on the expiration of his contract with Middlesbrough he became a free agent. On 27th June 2014 Richardson signed a two year contract with his hometown club, Rotherham United. He started thirty-two and was eight times a substitute in the League, started once in the F.A. Cup and started once and was also a substitute once in the League Cup, without scoring in his two season stay. He joined Doncaster Rovers in August 2016 starting three League games and coming off the bench once in League games, and starting once in the F.A. Cup and being a substitute once in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy, but did not score in any before he retired in December 2016. (Leeds United Player Details)

Richardson

Neil

18-08-1987

1987-1987

RH

Nothing is known of this player, apart from the fact that he had previously been an apprentice at Doncaster Rovers, and appears to have played once for the Reserves in August 1987.

Richmond

Joseph/Joe

30-12-1922

1922-1926

IR

Leasingthorne

01-04-1897

06-03-1953

A former schoolboy International, he joined Leeds from Shildon on 7th December 1922. He stayed four seasons before leaving for Barnsley on 2nd February 1926. (Leeds United Player Details)

Riley

Valentine/Val

01-01-1925

1924-1928

IF

Hebburn

01-01-1904

00-00-1966

Riley joined United from Wood Skinners in his native Hebburn on 14th November 1924. Never a first team regular he was content to play just one F.A. Cup tie for the first team, but made valuable contributions to the Leeds Reserves before returning to the North East with Annfield Plain at the end of the 1926-27 season.(Leeds United Player Details)

Riley

08-09-1945

1945-1946

OL

Nothing is known of this player who appears to have played once for the Reserves in September 1945.

Ripley

Stanley Keith/Keith

17-09-1952

1952-1958

WH/IF

Normanton

29-03-1935

05-11-2012

Signed as a professional for Leeds soon after turning seventeen in April 1952, he progressed through the Juniors and Yorkshire League teams to the Resrves, before making his first team debut in September 1954. A versatile player he started as a centre half but soon moved to wing half and could easily adapt to the inside forward role when needed. He gained his first chance after the departure of Captain Tom Burden in September 1954 and vied with Archie Gibson for the #4 shirt, or filled in at inside forward as the need arose. He scored fifteen goals in sixty-seven League games before his search for first-team football took him to Norwich City on 8th August 1958. Although he scored six goals in just twelve games at Carrow Road, he returned North to Mansfield just three months later. He did not stay long with the Stags either, scoring five times in thirty-one League games before joining Peterborough United in July 1960. He played eighty-two League games and scored twelve times for the Posh before moving to Doncaster Rovers in August 1962. It was there he finished his League career scoring seven goals in one hundred and seventy-two League games and making another five appearances from the bench. (Leeds United Player Details)

Ritchie

T?

19-10-1954

1954-1955

Gk

Nothing is known of the player and no certainty is placed on his existing.

Ritchie

Andrew Timothy/Andy

29-08-1984

1983-1987

CF

Manchester

28-11-1960

He started his career with Manchester United after being capped by England at Schoolboy and Youth levels, After serving his Apprenticeship he signed professional forms in December 1977 and went on to gain one cap at the Under-Twenty-One level.He soon made the first team at Old Trafford and afterscoring thirteengoals in twenty-six League starts and seven more from the bench, Brighton & Hove Albion paid a club recorf £500,000 for him in Octobber 1980. After scoring twenty-three goals in eighty-nine League games, of which seven had been as a substitute, he was transferred to Leeds in a straight exchange for Terry Connor in March 1983. Though sometimes injured and other times in conflict over his contract, he was generally in the first team and scored forty goals in one hundred and thirty-six League games of which nine were as a substitute before moving to Oldham in August 1987. He scored eighty-two goals in one hundred and eighty-seven League starts and thirty games from the bench. before signing for Scarborogh in Augusr 1995. There he scored seventeen goals in fifty-nine League starts and nine games from the bench, before returning to finish his career at Oldham Athletic in February 1997 and added two goals in twenty-five League appearances of which eleven were as a substitute.(Leeds United Player Details)

Roberts

Harry

21-02-1925

1925-1930

RB

Crofton

27-06-1904

18-05-1968

He came from Castleford Town on 10th February 1925 and gave long and distinguished service to the club, making his debut for the first team in March 1926 he scored twice in eighty-four appearances for the first team before leaving to give more long and distinguished service to Plymouth Argyle from 14th November 1930.(Leeds United Player Details)

Roberts

Peter Lorenga/Peter

14-09-1946

1946-1948

IR

Sherburn

16-07-1925

He joined Leeds as an amateur from Newcastle United in September 1946. While never making the first team, he was a regular in the Reserves in his first season, but played more intermittently in the second, before joining New Brighton on a free transfer in May 1948. He made three League appearanaces for them and later played with Headington United.

Roberts

21-10-1922

1922-1922

IR

Nothing is known about this player other than his debut was is only game for the Leeds Reserves.

Robertson

David Alexander/David

09-04-1998

1998-2001

LB

Aberdeen

17-10-1968

Robertson began his career with Deeside Boys Club before joining local club Aberdeen on 1st August 1986. After first picking up a Scottish League Runners-up medal from a 2-3 defeat by Rangers at Hampden Park before a crowd of 72,122 on 23rd October 1988 he went on to win a Scottish League Cup winners medal when Rangers were beaten 2-1 at Hampden Park, after extra time before a crowd of 61,190 on 22nd October 1989 and a Scottish Cup winners medal after Celtic had been beaten 9-8 on penalties after the teams had been locked at 0-0 after extra time at Hampden Park on 12th May 1990 with 60,493 watching, and in his time at Pittodrie he scored twice in one hundred and thirty five League games and once in fourteen Scottish League Cup ties but none in three games in the Scottish Cup and six games in European competitions, before he moved to Rangers for £970,000 on 2nd July 1991. With Rangers, he helped the club to a record nine championship titles in a row, featuring in six of them, from 1991-92 to 1996-97 and also picked up three Scottish Cup Winners’, in 1991-92, 1992-93 and 1995-96, and three Scottish League Cup Winners’ medals, in 1992-93, 1993-94 and 1996-97. After being capped at most Junior International levels, he was honoured with seven Under-Twenty-one, a “B” and three full caps for Scotland. While at Ibrox he played one hundred and eighty-three League games, including one as a substitute, scoring fifteen goals together with a further three goals in twenty-six starts in Scottish Cup games and one goal in nineteen Scottish League Cup matches, including one as a substitute, as well as eighteen games in European competitions, without scoring, before joining Leeds United on 13th May 1997 for £500,000. Bought by George Graham to replace the injury prone Tony Dorigo, he found it difficult to settle in the EPL but was just adapting when he damaged a cartilage in training. Recurring injury problems and the emergence of Ian Harte, particularly as the club had also bought Danny Granville as cover due to Robertson’s inactivity, curtailed his spell in England having only played thirty-one times in four years at Elland Road, this comprised twenty-six in the league of which two were as a substitute, one start in the F.A. Cup and four starts in the League Cup, before he was released on 31st May 2001. Reportedly suffering from suspect knees when he joined Leeds, he aggravated an already bad knee injury against Leicester City in February 1998 and never played again. He had a trial with Barnsley in 2000-01. He retired from football in 2001 but was back playing in May 2002 when he was appointed player/coach of Scottish Football League club Montrose. He only played seven League games, without scoring and three Cup and other games, where he netted once. From March 2003 he worked together Kenny Black at Elgin City where Robertson's position as Manager became untenable following the resignation of Black, after a failed take-over bid, and he left in December 2005. On 28th May 2006 Robertson was appointed co-manager of Montrose in partnership with Eddie Wolecki, who resigned just four months later, leaving Robertson in sole charge, but Robertson also resigned in January 2007. He took up a position of Director of Boy's coaching at Sereno Soccer Club in Phoenix, Arizona, and from there became Head Coach of Phoenix F.C. in the USL League in 2013. (Leeds United Player Details)

Robson

Cuthbert/Cud

26-03-1924

1924-1926

OR

High Wheatley

19-10-1900

00-10-1972

He was an Amateur International trialist in 1922-23 and Leeds tried unsuccessfully to sign him in January 1923. He had a trial with the club in April 1924 and it was then that he made his reserve team debut. He finally signed for Leeds from Cockfield on 10th July 1924. He stayed for two seasons, scoring four goals in eighteen appearances for the first team before leaving for Southend United in May 1926. (Leeds United Player Details)

Robson

William/Bill

24-12-1921

1921-1924

IR

Shildon

19-10-1900

Joined Leeds from Cockfield as a trialist before signing for them on 27th December 1921. Apart from ten appearances with the first team in three seasons, he was mainly a Reserve or Midweek player, both he and Walter Coates representing the latter, before leaving for Mansfield Town on 8th October 1924. He later played with Frickley Colliery, and Gainsborough Trinity before returning to the North-East with Ashington on 1st July 1926.(Leeds United Player Details)

Robinson

David/Dave

20-11-1926

1926-1928

FB

Longtown

04-07-1900

00-00-1986

He joined Leeds in May 1926 after playing with a succession of clubs the final of which had been Solway Star and Workington. United were well represented at Full-Back and there were few chances for him to force his way into the first team, but he did play five times before leaving for Southend United in May 1928. He went on to make three-hundred and twenty League appearances for the Shrimpers before retiring to an extemely long association on the club's staff. (Leeds United Player Details)

Robinson

Paul William/Paul

11-05-1997

1995-2003

Gk

Beverley

15-10-1979

He was on York City's books until he had a trial for the Leeds Under-Fourteen team and switched clubs. He joined Leeds as a trainee in 1995 and started once in September 1995 for the Juniors. He became the regular Junior's goalkeeper in December 1996 and he started fourteen games in the Northern Intermediate League and seven in the F.A. Youth Cup as the team, which contained many future Internationals, won both. He turned professional in May 1997 and made his reserve team debut in the final game of the 1996-97 season. In December 1998 he made his first team debut against an extremely potent Chelsea, but proved equal to the tak and kept a clean sheet. He gained England honours with the Under-Twenty-One team, going on to accumulate fourteen caps, but he had to be patient as Martyn was the accepted deputy goalkeeper for England. It was not until he sustained a groin injury at home to Charlton Athletic on 14th October 2000, and Robinson came on as a substitute that Robinson got the chance to play fifteen further League games before Martyn returned on 31st January 2001 and Robinson had to watch on for the rest of the 2000-01 season and the whole of 2001-02. Martyn played for England in the 2002 World Cup and wanted a break to recover, while Leeds were on a pre-season trip to Australia and the Far East. New manager Terry Venables was impressed by Robinso's form and chose him for the whole of the 2001-02 season. Martyn persevered as his deputy but left in the close season to join Everton and Robinson went on to play all but two of the games as Leeds were relegated and Robinson left for Tottenham Hotspurs at a knockdown price of £1.5million. He had scored his first goal, with a header in a League Cup game with Swindon Town in September 2003 and had started ninety-three and twice come on as a substitute in League games for Leeds and made four appearances for the full England team. He was an instant hit at White Hart Lane and soon became England's recognised goalkeeper and went on to gain forty-one caps. He scored his first League goal and his second of his career as his ninety-five yard free-kick bounced into the net at White Hart Lane on 17th March 2007against Watford. He started one hundred and thirty-seven League games for Tottenham before he joined Blackburn Rovers for £3.5million on 25th July 2008. He started one hundred and eighty-nine games at Ewood Park before joining Burnley on a free transfer on 26th January 2016 on a contract until the end of the season. The contract was duly extended for another season. He made his debut for Burnley on 26th November 2016. It was his first Premier League appearance since 2012. He had made three appearances for them as the 2016-17 drew to a close.(Leeds United Player Details)

Robinson

Ronald/Ronnie

25-11-1985

1985-1987

FB

Sunderland

22-10-1966

A Sunderland and Wearside Schools representative, he played for Vaux Breweries sponsored South Hetton starting in August 1983 and, after the team changed its name to Sporting Club Vaux at the end of the season, he stayed with them until the end of October before going to Ipswich Town as an apprentice but never made the first team at Portman Road. Billy Bremner brought him to Leeds on a free-transfer from the East Anglian team on 25th November 1985, and he made twenty-seven League appearances, but he had no future at Leeds when Micky Adams and Bobby McDonald were signed by Bremner. On 25th February 1987 he joined Third Division Doncaster Rovers for £5,000 and switched to a central defensive position. He played regularly at Belle Vue, making seventy-six League starts and two more from the bench, and scoring five goals in his time there. On 22nd March 1989 he, and Doncaster starlet Paul Raven, joined Second Division West Bromwich Albion in a £200,000 package deal, with Robinson thought to have been valued at £80,000, but he only made one start at the Hawthorns. He then moved to Rotherham United on 18th August 1989 for £40,000, where again he found himself a regular. He scored twice in eighty-six League starts while at Millmoor. He joined Third Division Peterborough United on 10th December 1991 on a free transfer. He went on loan with them them until the end of February when he was finally signed on a permanent basis and he cemented his place in the team. He played forty-seven League games, including three from the bench. He was sold to Exeter City on 24th July 1993 for £25,000. Loaned to Huddersfield Town in January 1994, he made two League appearances before returning south and he managed one goal in thirty-seven League starts and two games from the bench. He signed on trial with Scarborough on 4th August 1995 but was released after one game and went into Non-League football with Spennymoor United.(Leeds United Player Details)

Rocastle

David Carlyle/David

17-08-1992

1992-1993

RH

Lewisham

02-05-1967

31-03-2001

Rocastle’s rise to the top was rapid, joining the Gunners from Roger Manwoods School in London as an apprentice in August 1983, turning professional on New Year’s Eve the following year. The Arsenal faithful immediately took the talented but tough young man, affectionately known as “Rocky”, to their hearts. Away from the pitch, David was easily one of the most popular people at the club. Personable, modest, bubbly and cheerful, he was a man who made time for everyone, and never had a bad word to say about anyone. Rocastle's talent was evident from an early age and from his initial outings in the first team at Arsenal, it was clear that he had the makings of future international. Indeed “Rocky” was named Barclay's Young Eagle of the Year and was a permanent fixture in the England team which was building towards the 1990 World Cup in Italy. Rocastle won two League championship medals with Arsenal. The first came in 1989, when he played in almost every game. Arsenal's success was sealed when they beat Liverpool 2-0 in the final game of the season at Anfield, snatching the title from the hosts on goal difference. But Arsenal were unable to compete in the 1989-90 European Cup because the ban imposed on English clubs in European competition after the 1985 Heysel tragedy still had one year to run. Arsenal finished fourth in the 1989-90 league season and missed out on a return to Europe because only the runners-up were entitled to a UEFA Cup place. In 1990-91, a knee injury restricted Rocastle to just eighteen League appearances for Arsenal but he still played his part in Arsenal winning the League championship, as they lost only one League game all season. The following season he only missed three out of forty-two League games. He also won a League Cup Winners’ medal in 1987 followed by a runner-up medal the following season. His skilful forays down the right earned him fourteen caps both at full international, where he never played on a losing side, and also at Under-Twenty-one level, plus two more for England “B”. In July 1992, the Arsenal squad returned for pre-season training, and Manager George Graham told Rocastle that Leeds United had made an offer that the Board had reluctantly decided to accept. They believed that his knee condition was worsening and would increasingly restrict his mobility and pace, and Graham observed that he had come back from the summer break still struggling with his weight, as he had been the previous season. In his time at Highbury Rocastle scored twenty-four goals in two hundred and eighteen League appearances, fourteen of which were as a substitute. In fairness to Graham and Arsenal, they did make Howard Wilkinson aware of Rocky’s condition, but he passed the medical to Wilkinson’s satisfaction. With Arsenal already having strengthened their midfield, Leeds seemed the perfect oppurtunity to rebuild his career as the eventual successor to Gordon Strachan but it proven an unproductive time with United as Rocastle started only seventeen League games and scored twice and had eight substitute appearances. His sixteen month stay at Elland Road must rank as one of the most curious in the club’s recent history. In July 1992 the elegant England midfield man became Leeds’ most expensive signing when he left his first club Arsenal, for £2 million to join the new Champions. But he could not even get on the bench at the start of the season and that seemed to set the tone for a miserable spell with the club when he did not see eye to eye with Manager Howard Wilkinson. Immensely popular with the Leeds fans, they could not understand his absence from first team duty. He did feature in the European Cup, but did not start a League game until November when he sparkled in a 3-0 win against his old club. He left for Manchester City in December 1993, with David White going in the opposite direction in a deal the two clubs estimated at £2 million. His spell at Maine Road did not solve Rocastle’s problems and when City snapped up the Swindon Town winger Nicky Summerbee, Rocastle's days at the club looked to be numbered. For City he scored twice in twenty-one League games and appeared twice in the FA Cup. By the time “Rocky” arrived at Chelsea from Man City in August 1994 for £1.25 million, his knee problem was common knowledge in the game. However, Chelsea manager Glenn Hoddle took the view that sixty minutes of Rocastle was worth ninety minutes of many other players. Hence he started regularly, but was substituted in two-thirds of the thirty-six games he played that first season. His experience proved invaluable throughout a European Cup-Winners’ Cup run which ended at the Semi-Final stage. Chelsea lost 1-0 to the eventual winners, Real Zaragoza. His performance in midfield on a memorable night when a 1-0 deficit against FC Bruges was overturned to send Chelsea through to the final-four, was probably his finest hour for them, even though he was inevitably substituted with thirty minutes to go. Sadly, the toll of the injury grew worse and despite spending a further three seasons on the club's payroll until his contract expired in June 1998, he played just one more game for Chelsea, against Blackburn Rovers, in October 1995. His full record at Stamford Bridge was no goals in twenty-nine league appearances, including two as a substitute. In 1996-97 after a summer trial at Hertha BSC Berlin, Rocastle was loaned out to to First Division Norwich City at the start of 1997 and this saw Rocky once again at his creative best, pulling the strings in the middle of the park, albeit against a lower standard of opposition in an eleven game stay. But, despite a successful two-month stint at Carrow Road, a permanent deal was never on the cards and he once again returned to the capital before joining Hull City in Division Three on loan. Rocky found the net on his debut and made eleven League appearances for the Tigers before again returning to Stamford Bridge, seemingly content to see out the remainder of his lucrative contract in the Chelsea Reserves. On completing his contract with Chelsea in 1998, Rocastle joined Premier One side Sabah in Malaysia. Living on the island of Borneo with his young family, David was the ideal foreign signing. He fitted the style of a true ambassador, down-to-earth, a team player, but nevertheless, as far as the Sabah fans were concerned, a world-famous player from the Premiership. Joining mid-season in 1998, Rocastle helped Sabah reach the 1998 Malaysian FA Cup Final, losing to Johor by a single dubious goal, and also the semi-finals of the Malaysian League Cup. The 1999 season saw Sabah finish a satisfying fourth in Premier One, reaching the semi-finals of the Malaysian FA Cup and the Final of the 1999 President Cup, which proved to be David’s last competitive match. He returned to the UK at the end of the 1999 Malaysian playing season, and announced his retirement. In February 2001, Rocastle announced that he was suffering from non-Hodgkins’ lymphoma, an aggressive form of cancer which attacks the immune system. He underwent a course of chemotherapy for the illness and was hopeful of a recovery. But he died in Slough on 31st March 2001, aged thirty-three. (Leeds United Player Details)

Rodgerson

Ralph

28-03-1921

1921-1923

FB

Sunderland

30-12-1892

Joined Leeds from Huddersfield Town on 21st March 1921, leaving for Dundee on 3rd January 1923. (Leeds United Player Details)

Rodwell

James/Jim

06-05-1996

1996-1996

IF/LH

Lincoln

20-11-1970

A trialist, who played twice for the reserves at the end of the 1995-96 season. He started as a trainee with his hometown team, but after they were relegated from the Football League in 1987 his traineeship was transferred to Darlington. After just one appeance for Darlington he went to Malaysia in 1989 and stayed for a year scoring fifty-six goals in twenty-two games. He joined Hednesford Town in 1990 and scored thirty-nine goals in twelve games.1991 saw him at Bedworth United where he scored four goals in fifty-four games. He then scored eight goals in twelve games with Nuneaton Borough in 1991-92. He moved to Halesowen in August 1992 and stayed with them until 31st May 1996, scoring twice in forty-seven games. After the trials with Sheffield United and Leeds, he joined Rushden and Diamonds on that date for £40,000 and went on to score three goals in seventy-two League appearances of which four were from the bench. He was loaned to Dagenham and Redbridge from 17th January 2002, starting one game before returning on 14th February 2002. The following day he joined Boston United on a free transfer. He scored twice in eighteen starts and one game as a substitute before he signed for Farnborough town on 1st August 2002. He scored one goal in eighteen starts and one game from the bench and moved to Aldershot Town on a free transfer on 7th August 2003. He did not find the net in eleven starts and two games from the bench when he was released on 12th November 2003. Tamworth took him on a free transfer on 13th December 2003 and he started six games for them without scoring. He joined Havant and Waterlooville in 2004 but returned to Boston United on 26th February 2004, but never played a game for either club.

Roebottom

01-10-1921

1921-1921

RB

A trialist, his debut was is only game for the Leeds Reserves.

Roebuck

Wayne

11-11-1982

1982-1983

CF/IF

Rotherham

5ft 7ins 9st 10lb when seventeen, he joined United from school in July 1982. He had attended Rawmarsh Comprehensive and represented Rotherham Schools and South Yorkshire Schools. He quickly established himself as a goalscoring forward with the Juniors and also played with the Reserves, but never progressed to the first team.

Roper

Harry

06-04-1931

1929-1935

IF/WH

Romiley

13-04-1910

16-04-1983

He joined United from New Mills on 18th February 1930, after playing with the Midweek League team. He was 5ft 10 ins and 11st 4lb, but he found it hard to establish himself as a first team regular, sometimes due to injuries particularly in the latter years of his Leeds career and he finished with three goals from eighteen League appearances. He left for Cardiff City in May 1935, where he netted twice in thirty-one League games before leaving for Stockport County in 1937, but he never made their first team. (Leeds United Player Details)

Rose

Darrel

16-10-1984

1982-1984

Gk

Holmfirth, Near Huddersfield

31-05-1968

5'9" 11st 11lb in 1984, He was educated at Honley High School and represented Huddersfield Boys in th Under-Thirteen, Fourteen and Fifteen levels, and also West Yorkshire Schoolboys and Yorkshire Schoolboys at Under-Fifteen level. He had trials with Barnsley, Huddersfield Town, Manchester United and West Bromwich Albion before joining Leeds on schoolboy forms in November 1982. He signed Apprentice forms in July 1984, having already made his Junior debut in December 1983. He became the regular Junior goalkeeper and made his Reserves debut at Oldham Athletic in October 1984. He did not progress to the first team

Ross

Robert Alexander/Bobby

19-08-1950

1950-1954

FB

Wishaw

25-05-1927

00-03-1992

Joined Leeds in August 1950 from Workington. A dependable full-back he was understudy to Jimmy Dunn and Grenville Hair and consequently played only five first team games in his five season stay at Leeds, but was a regular in the Reserve side in that time. He left for Stockport County in June 1954, where he played in nine League games before retiring at the end of the season.(Leeds United Player Details)

Rossi

15-10-1921

1921-1921

OR

A trialist, his debut was is only game for the Leeds Reserves.

Rowe

04-12-1976

1975-1978

CF

Leeds

A local product, he was very fast and skilful. He represented Leeds City Boys and it was from there that he advanced to the Leeds Northern Intermediate League side, before making the Reserve team, but unfortunately he never made the first team.

Rudd

John Joseph/Jimmy

26-02-1949

1949-1949

OL

Dublin

25-10-1919

13-12-1985

After starting with Terenure Athletic in his native Dublin, Rudd joined Manchester City in January 1938 but did not make his debut until after WW2. He played twice for them before leaving for York City in March 1947, where he scored twenty-three goals in eighty-three League games before joining Leeds on 10th February 1949. He did not stay long, scoring once in eighteen games before moving to Rotherham United on 14th October 1949. He scored eleven goals in seventy-five League games at Millmoor, until in October 1951, he again moved this time to Scunthorpe United where he scored four times in thirty two League games in two years. He joined his final club, Workington in September 1952 and retired after scoring once in seventeen League games at the end of the 1952-53 season.(Leeds United Player Details)

Rush

Ian

14-08-1997

1996-1997

CF

St Asaph, Wales

20-10-1961

A Liverpool legend, where his prolific scoring was the cornerstone of Liverpool's success in his two stays there. After joining Chester on 26th September 1979 he scored fourteen League goals in thirty-three starts and one game from the bench and added three more in five starts in the F.A. Cup. This awoke interest in him by Bob Paisley. He bought him for £300,000 and although Rush had actually made his international debut, in May 1980, just before he officially became a Liverpool player, he was used sporadically during his first season at the club as Liverpool had a policy of bringing in young talent and playing them in the reserves to learn 'the Liverpool way'. Rush was treated no differently and had to serve his apprenticeship as a squad member rather than being thrown into the first team. This learning period was hard and not at all 'Rush-like', as the goals didn't flow, almost leading to the eager youngster leaving Anfield in the search of regular first-team football. But after a talk with the very shrewd Paisley, who told him to "be more selfish in front of goal", Rush decided to stay and fight for a place. Rush's first goal for the club took time to arrive, but it eventually came on the 30th September 1981 during an Eurpean Cup First Round Second Leg tie at Anfield against Oulun Palloseura. Liverpool had already won the Away Leg 1-0, and the Second Leg proved to be a formality as they trounced the Finnish team 7-0, Rush scoring in the sixty-seventh minute after coming on three minutes earlier for David Johnson. He ended the season as the club's top scorer, netting thirty times in just forty-nine appearances in all competitions. Seventeen of these goals came in the League as he helped the Reds reclaim the League Championship from holders Aston Villa. He was voted PFA ‘Young Player of the Year’ in 1983 after inspiring Liverpool to glory in the League championship and League Cup. He scored twenty-four League goals as the Reds finished eleven points clear of runners-up Watford and were virtually uncontested in the title chase in the later part of the season. The League Cup was added through a 2-1 win over bitter rivals Manchester United after extra time at Wembley. He was voted PFA Player of the Year in 1984 as Liverpool retained both the League and the League Cup and won the European Cup to complete a unique treble that season. It was no surprise that Rush also added the Football Writers’ ‘Footballer of the Year’ to the PFA award he had already claimed. He won Europe's Golden Shoe for scoring forty-seven goals, more than anybody else on the continent, in sixty-five games, as Liverpool finished three points clear of closest rivals Southampton in the League, beat ‘derby’ rivals Everton 1-0 in the replayed final of the League Cup, after a 0-0 draw in the first ever all-Merseyside final, and won their fourth European Cup by defeating AS Roma 4-2 on penalties, following a 1-1 draw after extra time. The 1984-85 season was Liverpool's first trophyless season in ten years, although they did reach their fifth European Cup final against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels in Belgium. This final was to end in disaster as, before the match kicked off, rioting football hooligans caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing thirty-nine Juventus supporters. The game was surprisingly required to be played in spite of this terrible tragedy. The game, with both teams not totally committed or fully caring about the result, ended in a 1-0 win for Juventus. Liverpool were beaten to the title by neighbours Everton, who were crowned champions with four matches to spare. The 1985-86 campaign was much better for the Reds and Rush. He scored twice as Liverpool beat Southampton 2-0 in the FA Cup Semi-Final at White Hart Lane, booking a place at Wembley to face neighbours Everton in the first all-Merseyside FA Cup Final. The Reds had just pipped their city rivals to the League title by beating Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, so the already monumental final was doubly important for both sides. If the Reds won, it would make them the fifth team to have won the double. If Everton won, not only would they stop their arch rivals from completing the double but also win the major trophy that their football had, in many eyes, deserved. The Blues scored first through Gary Lineker and held the lead until half-time as Liverpool struggled to find their usual rhythm. But after the half-time team-talk by the now player/manager, Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool looked a different side in the second half. With Rush leading the line brilliantly, they drew level in the fifty-seventh minute with a typical opportunist's goal from Rush. Six minutes later, Molby was at the heart of another attack and drilled a perfect cross for Craig Johnston to score. Liverpool were now 2-1 up, but the game was in the balance until the eighty-fourth minute, when Rush clinched the victory, after an exquisite through ball from Whelan into the path of Rush who, from the angle of the six-yard area, thumped the ball past Mimms in the Everton goal. Liverpool held on to win 3-1 and completed the first League-FA Cup double in the club's history. Rush added the Man of the Match award to his winner's medal. Not only was Rush becoming one of Liverpool's all-time greats, but after making his International debut for Wales in a 0-1 loss to Scotland at Hampden Park on 21st May 1980 he had also made himself indispensible as the main striker fror his country. After scoring his first goal in a 3-0 win over Northern Ireland at Wrexham on 27th May 1982 he went on to score in each of the next four games and by the time he had made his move to Italy he had scored fourteen times in thirty-two games in the Red shirt of Wales. Rush had decided early in the 1986-87 season that he would be leaving Anfield, and on 1st July 1986, he was transferred for £3 million to the Italian giants, Juventus, but with a clause allowing him to play the 1986-87 season for Liverpool. While he had been runner-up for the top marksman in the First Division with thirty goals, Liverpool had failed to win a trophy, finishing second to cross Stanley Park rivals, Everton, in the League and had been beaten 2-1 in the Final of the League Cup by Arsenal. The move was seen by many as a deal to help the healing process after Heysel and to re-open friendly links between the clubs. However it was viewed, it was a new challenge for Rush, who would have the task of unlocking the much tighter defences in the Serie A. Unfortunately, his time at Juventus was less than successful, as he scored only seven times in twenty-nine games. "The Ghost" only spent one season with Juventus, but returned a better all-round player. He struggled to find a way through the deep-lying Italian defences and, unlike fellow Welsh football legend John Charles, did not settle easily into the Italian way of life. He would also spend the rest of his life kicking himself for delivering the unforgettable quote that he found Italy “just like a foreign country.” While in Turin he had continued as the main Welsh spearhead at international level scoring twice in six games in that time which was finalised as he scored the only goal of the game as Wales defeated Italy in Brecia on 4th June 1988 and he had been captain of Wales in that game and the previous one against Malta. Nevertheless, despite his relative drought while in Italy, the goals started flowing again on his return to Liverpool and Rush enjoyed a further eight years of headline making. He returned to Anfield, rejoining Liverpool for £2.7 million on 18th August 1988, a record signing for an English club at the time, which remained unbroken for three years. Although the Liverpool team of 1987-88 had played some outstanding football, such was Rush's stature with the Liverpool fans, they were pleased to see him return to the club. Rush had serious competition for the striking berth alongside Peter Beardsley and John Aldridge, who came to Anfield as a replacement for Rush. It was deemed that the pair were too similar in style to be able to play together. Aldridge started the season in front of Rush and consistently scored goals, thus keeping the Welshman on the bench. As the season progressed, Rush came into some form. Rush had again scored twice against Everton in a thrilling 3-2 win in the 1989 FA Cup final. He came off the bench to replace Aldridge, who had opened the scoring for Liverpool in the fourth minute of the game. The sides were locked at 1-1 after ninety minutes, but Rush put the Reds ahead in the fourth minute of extra time. Everton midfielder, Leeds-born, Stuart McCall then scored his, and the Toffees', second equaliser, but Rush came up with the goods once more with an incisive finish in the one hundred and third minute to win the Cup for Liverpool.The 1989/90 season saw Rush win another League title, his fifth and last, as Liverpool finished nine points clear of Aston Villa, with Rush scoring eighteen times in thirty-six games. However, another bid for the League-FA Cup double failed as the Reds suffered a shock FA Cup semi-final defeat to Crystal Palace, even though Rush had given the Reds a fourteenth-minute lead.In 1992, he picked up a third FA Cup Winners' medal, scoring Liverpool's second goal, in the sixty-seventh minute, in the 2-0 win against Sunderland at Wembley. In the League, injuries restricted him to just eighteen League games and three goals that season. However, his third goal came in a crucial 2-0 home win over Manchester United on 26th April 1992, which denied their arch-rivals the championship, the title going instead to Leeds United. The greatest goalscorer in Liverpool's history, Ian Rush broke Roger Hunt's record by scoring his two hundred and eighty-seventh goal against Manchester United on 18th October 1992 and it is hard to see anyone catching up with him in the future. Souness made him captain in the 1993-94 season and he became mentor to Robbie Fowler. Rush picked up his fifth League Cup winners medal in 1995, when two goals from Steve McManaman ended Bolton Wanderers’ dreams of a shock result, Liverpool running out 2-1 winners. His long association with the Reds ended with a substitute appearance in the 1996 FA Cup final against Manchester United. In a hugely disappointing game lost 0-1, but he had earlier that season on 6th January 1996 scored his forty-second goal in the FA Cup, breaking one more record. For the record his time at Liverpool had been littered with trophies and medals. In his two spells at Anfield in four hundred and seventy-one League games, including twenty-two from the bench, he scored two hundred and twenty-nine goals. In the FA Cup he scored forty-four goals in sixty-five games, eight being as a substitute. In the League Cup he scored forty-eight times in seventy seven appearances. In European Competition he scored nineteen times in thirty five starts and another two from the bench. In other games such as the Charity Shield, Super Cups and recognised competitions he played a further fifteen games scoring ten times. In a large house on the Wirrall, a trophy cabinet groans under the weight of its glittering contents. They tell the story of a player who broke all goal-scoring records in the FA Cup, matched Geoff Hurst’s record in the League Cup, won five Championship medals, in 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1987-88 and 1989-90, three FA Cup Winners’ medals in 1985-86, 1988-89 and 1989-90, five League Cup Winners’ medals in 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84 and 1994-95, two European Cup Winners’ medals in 1980-81 and 1983-84 and a Golden Boot. After representing Wales as a schoolboy and twice at Under-Twenty-one level, a measure of his ability is his scoring prowess for Wales. A record twenty-eight goals in seventy-three appearances, none more memorable than his truly heroic winner against the mighty West Germany in a 1991 European Championship Qualifying match at Cardiff. After such an illustrious career he was given a free transfer by Liverpool and allowed to negotiate his own terms with Leeds United, who he joined on 20th May 1996. There were high expectations of the almost thirty-five year-old from the Leeds fans. Unfortunately they were to be sadly disappointed as was Rush. Howard Wilkinson, who had signed him, was quickly given the sack after Leeds got off to a dismal start. His successor, George Graham, in turning round Leeds fortunes employed tactics totally unsuited to Rush’s game and his form suffered accordingly and soon he found himself playing in midfield rather than in his striking role. Rush spent a season with the Leeds but scored just three times in thirty-six Premiership games of which two had been as a substitute but there were no goals from him in two starts and two from the bench in the F.A. Cup and two starts in the League Cup, and was given a free transfer at the end of the 1996-97 season as Graham showed he did not figure in his plans by allotting him and other players, Tomas Brolin, Tony Yeboah and Tony Dorigo, non-essential to Graham’s plans for Leeds shirt numbers in the high thirties and left them to train with the juniors. It was a sad and disappointing end to his Leeds Career. One Thursday night, Rush turned out for United’s reserves in a game against Halifax Town at The Shay. The following day after a phone call from Kenny Dalglish, a transfer to Newcastle United materialised, much to his surprise. “I hoped for a break and here it is,” he said after bailing out of Elland Road with haste. “This is a great chance to show I can still look sharp and score goals in the Premiership.” Newcastle did not see that side of him either. Unsurprisingly, he joined Newcastle United on a one-year contract but lost his place in the side after Christmas, when Alan Shearer returned from a long-term injury. He failed to score in ten League games, four of which were as a substitute, however, Rush did score an important goal in a 1-0 win over Everton in the Third Round of the FA Cup, his forty-third in the competition, a Twentieth Century record. He had a loan spell with Sheffield United later in the season, not scoring in four League games, before leaving St James's Park in the summer of 1998 to sign, amid much fanfare, for Wrexham. The thirty-seven-year-old Rush failed to score in seventeen Division Two games, of which five were from the bench, for the North Wales club, and was moved into midfield towards the end of the season. He made a brief playing comeback with Sydney Olympic in Australia, scoring once in two appearances, before finally retiring, aged thirty-eight, in 2000. After working as a part-time striker's coach for Liverpool under Gerard Houllier in 2003, he was appointed manager of his first professional club, Chester City, by this time in League Two, in August 2004. Chester had made a dreadful start to their first season back in the Football League but Rush and assistant manager, former Leeds captain, Mark Aizlewood enjoyed a good start to their time at the helm. After losing 3-1 at Boston United in their first game in charge, they strung together a two month unbeaten run and led the club to the FA Cup Third Round. Rush seemed to be answering his critics, who doubted whether his tactical and coaching abilities could match his striking history. But after Rush loyally ruled himself out of the running for the vacant Welsh manager's job on 1st November 2004, things never seemed to go as well. Several heavy defeats were inflicted and Rush was criticised for the physical and long-ball tactics his managerial team opted to use. Despite pressure from the Chester chairman, Rush refused to resign after a humiliating 5-0 loss to neighbours Shrewsbury Town in February 2005. But when Vaughan sacked Aizlewood in April, Rush resigned on principle with Chester safe from relegation. Rush was interviewed for the Peterborough United manager's job shortly after this, but lost out to his predecessor as Chester manager and former Liverpool team-mate Mark Wright. In 2005, at the age of forty-three, Ian Rush considered coming out of retirement to play for TNS, after the Welsh side were drawn against Liverpool for their opening round ECL qualifying match, but later decided against this. From November 2005, Ian Rush became involved in media work within the game, including a stint as an analyst with ESPN. He also appeared as a pundit and reporter for Sky Sports. Rush was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 2006 due to his achievements in the game. On 7th September 2007 it was announced that Rush had been appointed Elite Performance Director for the Welsh Football Trust, a part-time role in which he will help develop the next generation of players for Wales' national teams. Rush released his autobiography on 21st August 2008. On 26th April 2010, Rush returned to work with Liverpool FC, becoming the Club's new Soccer Schools Ambassador working with the Club's commercial team to help develop and support partnerships with other global sponsors and brands.(Leeds United Player Details)

Rush

Steve

21-02-1984

1984-1984

CF

Brother of Ian Rush. He had a short trial period, making a couple of appearances and one substitute appearance, but did not make the first team nor carry on with the Reserves.

Russell

David Page/Dave

17-01-1925

1925-1926

Gk

Crossgates, Fife

13-11-1895

15-08-1972

A Scottish Junior International, who started with Kilsyth Rangers, he was signed from Doncaster Rovers on 1st January 1925. He only remained until August 1926 before he joined Watford, after making just nine first team appearances for United. (Leeds United Player Details)

Russell

Mark

06-04-1983

1983-1985

IF

Manchester

21-02-1967

He had trials with Arsenal, Bolton Wanderers and Manchester United and had represented Bolton Schools. He was 5ft 8ins and 10st 7lb, when he came to Leeds as a schoolboy trialist and he scored on debut for the Juniors, at home to Chesterfield on 22nd January 1983. He signed Apprentice forms in July 1983 and went on to complete most of the Juniors games and progressed to the Reserves later in the season, making a couple of appearances and continued to play in the 1984-85 season, but did not make the first team.

Rutherford

Robert Alan/Bob

27-09-1969

1968-1970

IF

Carlisle

28-07-1953

An England Schoolboy International, who signed as an apprentice on his fifteenth birthday. He had already made many reserve team appearances before he signed professional forms on his seventeenth birthday on 28th July 1970. He never made the first team and moved to Workington in November 1972 where he started one and came off the bench once in League games.

Ryden

Hugh Johnston/Hugh

18-02-1961

1960-1962

IF

Dumbarton

07-04-1943

Joined Leeds as a 17 year-old on 28th October 1960 from Yoker Athletic. While he never made the first team he was quite prominent in the Juniors, "A" team and the Reserves, but he left in June 1962 to join Bristol Rovers. Although he scored four times in eight League games at Eastville, he was not able to get a regular first team place and in July 1963 he moved to Stockport County, where he scored nine goals in thirty-eight League games before leaving for Chester City in June 1964. He scored forty-four goals in one hundred and forty starts and one game from the bench in the League and stayed until November 1967 when he joined Halifax Town. While at the Shay he scored six goals in fifty-four starts and one game from the bench in the League before returning to Edgeley Park to finish his career with Stockport County in December 1969. There he scored fifteen goals in one hundred and twelve starts and eleven more from the bench in League games until 1972.

Ryder

Derek Francis/Derek

29-04-1964

1964-1966

FB

Leeds

18-02-1947

5ft 9ins 10st 8lb, he started with Leeds feeder club, Pudsey Juniors, and signed professional for United in February 1964. He soon estalished himself as a Reserve team regular, but never made the first team. He left for Cardiff City in June 1966 and made four League appearances before joining Rochdale in July 1968. He became a regular with the Lancastrian club scoring once in one hundred and sixty-eight League starts. He remained there for four seasons before moving to Southport in July 1972 and scored twice in eighty starts and two games from the bench in League games.