Sabella

Alejandro Javier/Alex

27-09-1980

1980-1981

IF

Buenos Aires, Argentina

05-11-1954

A product of the River Plate club who went on to play at international level and later managed Argentina in the World Cup Finals in Brazil in 2014. Sheffield United brought him to England in August 1978 and he stayed there for two year, building up a fine reputation for skilfull play, while scoring eight goals in seventy-six starts. Jimmy Adamson brought him to Elland Road in June 1980, but after a poor start to the season Allan Clarke took over and to give Leeds a chance of avoiding relegation he put the emphasis on defence and consequently there was no room in his plans for skills of the little Argentinian and he scored just two goals in twenty-two starts and one game from the bench when his name disappeared from the teamsheet as February started and defensive minded Byron Stevenson took over the number ten shirt and he went to the Reserves. He returned to Argentina at the end of that season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Sagar

08-09-1945

1945-1946

CH

Nothing is known of this player who appears to have played several games at Centre Half for the Reserves in the early part of the 1945-46 season.

Salmon

03-11-1973

1973-1973

OL

Nothing is known of this player who appears to have played just one game for the reserves.

Salmon

Michael Bernard/Mike

31-08-1982

1982-1982

Gk

Leyland

14-07-1964

6ft 2 ins 12st 12lb. He was loaned from Blackburn Rovers for the first three games of the season when United needed back-up goalkeepers. He had joined the club, as an apprentice, straight from school, and had signed professional forms at Ewood Park in October 1981. After his loan to Leeds, he then was loaned to Chester City in October 1982 and made sixteen starts with their first team. He did make one League start with Rovers before moving to Stockport County in August 1983. He started one hundred and eighteen League games for the Edgely Park club before moving to Bolton Wanderers in July 1986. He did not stay long at Burnden Park making twenty-six starts before joining Wrexham in March 1987 for £18,000. He made one hundred League starts at the Racecourse Ground before moving to Charlton Athletic in July 1989, for £100,000. He gave the Addicks good service making one hundred and forty-eight starts before leaving for Ipswich Town on 14th July 1999. He had made one start for Oxford United while on loan to them in in December 1998. He did not make the first team at Portman Road.

Samways

Mark

30-11-1988

1988-1988

Gk

Doncaster

11-11-1968

Samways joined the Doncaster Rovers Youth scheme from school and signed professional forms in August 1987. He had already played eleven games in the first team when he was loaned to Leeds United in late November 1988 when they had a minor goalkeeper crisis. He played twice for the Reserve team before returning to Rovers without making the Leeds first team. He went on to start one hundred and twenty-one League starts for Rovers, before departing to nearby Scunthorpe in September 1992, after a short loan period, where he started one hundred and eighty League games. He moved to York City in July 1997, again after a short loan period, where he started twenty-nine League games. His contract with York ran out on 31st May 1998 and he joined Darlington on a free transfer in August 1998 and started thirty-four League appearances, one of which was as a substitute before he was released on 21st July 2000. He then went into Non-League with Matlock Town and Frickley Colliery where he played his last game in 2002-03.

Santos

Nuno Luis Costa/Nuno

23-09-1998

1998-1999

Gk

Setubal, Portugal

20-04-1973

28-09-1997

Santos started with Caldes in his native Portugal and after playing Junior football with them he graduated to the Under-nineteen team before turning professional at the start of the 1991-92 season. He then joined his home town team of Vitoria Setubal at the start of the 1992-93 season and spent that season there before being loaned to Clube Operario Desportivo for the following season of 1993-94 to gain experience which stood him in good stead when he returned to Vitoria, where he stayed until the end of the 1997-98 season, making forty-one starts and coming off the bench on one occasion. Although he spoke little English, he came to Elland Road on a three month trial period to try to earn a contract as he was available on a free transfer under the Bosman ruling after his contract with Vitoria Setubal had expired. He was fortunate that his fellow Portuguese and ex-teammate Bruno Ribeiro was there to speak to and help as interpreter but unfortunate that he had competition from the incumbent Nigel Martyn and his deputy Mark Beeney and the fast rising Youth keeper Paul Robinson. After Mark Beeney was laid low by injury early in the season, it was the England Youth keeper who initially found himself on the bench in case of injury to Nigel Martyn. Santos was a typical 'foreign' keeper, who was very agile and provided the photographers with plenty of spectacular photographs as he went through his paces in training and with the Reserves. While Robinson was given his chance between the posts when Martyn was injured and could not play in the home fixture against Chelsea in late October 1998, it was Santos who was on the bench watching the future England keeper keep his first clean sheet for United. While Santos was given playing time in the Reserves so that United could assess his capabilities, Robinson continued as Martyn's deputy against Bradford City, in a home game in the League Cup, and at Derby County with Santos available from the bench but unused, on each occasion. However, Nigel Martyn recovered from injury for the UEFA Cup game at home to Roma and it was Robinson as his deputy until the end of the season, with just one more appearance for Robinson again with Santos as his unused deputy, in the home fixture with West Ham United, after Martyn had been injured at Old Trafford in the previous game. Santos did come through his trial period and obtained a contract until the end of the season but never made the bench again and played out the rest of the season as the occasional Reserves' goalkeeper as Robinson was given more playing time in the Reserves, with Santos watching from the bench. He faced the same dilemma as David Harvey, David Seaman, Henry Smith, Mark Beeney and later Danny Milosevic; that of a good goalkeeper destined to wait in the shadows as consistent, competent and mostly multi-International first choices were permanent fixtures in goal for United. His game did improve while he was with Leeds, learning to catch under pressure rather than punch but at the end of the season he returned to Portugal and joined Benfica. He stayed with the Lisbon club from 1999-2000 until the end of the 2002-03 season but found himself loaned out to Spanish club Badajoz and Portuguese club Santa Clara during the 2000-01 season and another Portuguese club Beira Mar in 2001-02, where he started twenty-four games and sat unused on the bench in another eight. He started seven games and won a Portuguese Division League medal with Santa Clara during his first stint with the team in 2000-01. A lack of first team games at Benfica saw him on his travels once more at the start of the 2003-04 season, when he returned to his hometown club for the following season, making thirteen starts and being unused on the bench for another twelve. He rejoined Santa Clara for the start of the 2004-05 season remaining there for three seasons, starting sixty-eight games, coming off the bench once and remaining unused on nine occasions until he left, in 2007, for Rochester Rhinos in the U.S.A. He only started two games for them before moving to Toronto FC in 2008 and then returning, without having started a first-team game, to Portugal at the start of the 2008-09 season with Gondomar SC. There he made nineteen starts and sat unused on the bench for a further eleven. He moved to FC Arouca at the start of the 2009-10 season, making nine starts but leaving at the end of that season. His travels next took him to Cyprus, where he joined Ethnikos Assias FC. Now aged forty-one he is listed by some statisticians as a member of the squad but has not added to the ten starts he made in the 2011-12 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Saunders

John Thomas/John

04-09-1971

1971-1972

CH

Newport

02-10-1950

A Welsh Schoolboy International, he started as an apprentice with Birmingham City, before signing for Newport County in August 1969. He made twenty-seven League appearances for them, of which one was as a substitute, before signing for Leeds in July 1971. He played several games at Centre Half and in defence for the Reserves but never played with the first team and moved to Walsall in October 1972, where he scored twice in ninety-nine League appearances, which included five from the bench.

Savage

Reginald/Reg

02-12-1933

1931-1939

Gk

Eccles

05-07-1912

28-09-1997

He joined Leeds from Stalybridge Celtic in February 1931. He was not getting enough game time in the Reserves and was loaned back to Stalybridge in November 1932 He returned to Leeds and forced his way into the first team in September 1934 and had two spells as the Leeds first team goalkeeper, with Albert McInroy taking over for most of the 1935-36 season and the first half of the following season, before Savage won back his first team spot. He played a total of eighty-four games for Leeds before losing his place to Irish International Jim Twomey and, on 7th July 1939 he joined Scottish club, Queen of the South. He had not been there long when WW2 came and he was posted to Blackpool, with whom he guested and won medals in one of the finest teams of the war years. (Leeds United Player Details)

Savill

Peter

04-12-1976

1976-1978

WH

Rawtenstall

11-04-1959

Lancashire born, he was a regular member of the Lancashire and England Schoolboy teams. Signed in the face of stiff opposition, he signed as an apprentice in July 1975, before turning professional in April 1977. While he shone in the Juniors and played regularly in Reserve team football, he never made the first team. I would like to thank Mr H. Berry for forwarding the details of the date of birth and defining the place of birth as Rawtenstall (rather than Bacup) and the following more detailed information "Savill who attended Blackthorn School, Bacup was not quite sixteen when he played for Bacup Borough in the 1975 Lancashire Junior Cup final, having made his first team when only fifteen and a half. He had played with the English schoolboys the previous season and gained caps against Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, West Germany, France and the Netherlands. His potential attracted the clubs in the Football League and Don Revie drove down personally to sign him as an apprentice for Leeds United. Although he spent seven years at the club he did not break into the first team and when released was only offered terms by Wimbledon. He decided instead to go and play in Australia, where he had toured with the England schoolboys. He accepted an offer from Launceston Juventus and played for them for ten seasons, twice being voted the best player in Tasmania. After retiring he coached Northern Rangers, South Hobart and Devonport City."

Scaife

George

26-03-1937

1936-1939

FB

Bradford

23-12-1914

00-00-1990

Joined Leeds as an amateur in August 1936, turning professional in May 1937. He became a regular with the Leeds Reserves before making his first team debut in March 1939. He had made nine League appearances before WW2 caused League fixtures to cease. He played twice for Leeds in the Wartime games but after joining the armed forces. A serious accident, while on duty in Scotland in July 1944, saw his football career come to an end. (Leeds United Player Details)

Scales

John Robert/John

28-03-1984

1984-1986

IR

Harrogate

04-07-1966

5ft 11ins 12st 2lb in 1984, he attended Rossett High School in Harrogate and represented North Yorkshire Schoolboys at Under-Nineteen level. He signed Apprentice forms in February 1984. He established himself in the United Juniors and then the Reserve team as an Inside Right but did not progress further and after then playing at right back, he went on to sign professional forms with Bristol Rovers in July 1985. At Eastville he became a central defender, scoring twice in seventy-two League games, of which four were as a substitute. In July 1987 he moved to Wimbledon and became the pillar of their defence and scored eleven goals in two hundred and forty League games of which five were as a substitute, before moving to Liverpool on 2nd September 1994 for £3.5 million. At Anfield he scored twice in sixty-five League starts and while there he collected three England caps in eight days, the first being on 3rd June 1995 in a 1-0 win over Japan at Wembley five days later he came on to replace Gary Pallister, ten minutes from time in a 3-3 draw with Sweden at Elland Road and three days later his final cap came in a 1-3 defeat by Brazil at Wembley. While at Wimbledon he had scored in a 4-2 win over Northern Ireland at Hillsborough on 10th May 1994 for England "B" and added another cap at that level while at Liverpool in a 2-0 win over the Republic of Ireland at Anfield on 13th December 1994. Liverpool agreed terms with both Leeds and Tottenham for his sale for £2.6 million and on 11th December 1996 he joined the White Hart Lane club after it appeared that he would rejoin his first club, but he changed his mind at the last minute. His time at Spurs was blighted by injury and after nineteen League starts and three more from the bench he moved, on a free transfer, to Ipswich Town in July 2000, where he made just two starts before retiring at the end of the 2000-01 season.

Schofield

David

09-09-1961

1961-1961

OR

Leeds

Eighteen year old, who played Rugby at school and one of several Juniors that were given a chance in the Reserve team, but little is known of his progress.

Scholes

Stephen/Stevie

23-11-1984

1982-1986

RB

Leeds

15-12-1967

5ft 6 1/2ins and 10st 7lb in 1984, he was educated at St Michael's College and represented Leeds City Boys at Under eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen and the West Riding Boys at Under-fifteen and nineteen levels. He played at full-back and in midfield but preferred the latter role. He joined Leeds on Schoolboy forms in March 1982 and became an apprentice in July 1984 and soon after was called up to join the England Under-Seventeen squad. He progressed through the Juniors into the Reserves, but did not sign professional forms.

Scott

John Alfred/Jack

10-08-1950

1950-1956

Gk

Maryport

18-07-1928

Scott joined Leeds in May 1950, from Workington and was understudy to Harold Searson before displacing him as first choice keeper in November 1950. He became United's recognised first choice for several seasons, but his career was punctuated by injuries, often caused by his own bravery but always fought back to regain his number one spot until the emergence of Royden Wood in the 1954-55 season, when he went on a long unbroken run as the Leeds keeper. A fine club servant Scott was awarded a benefit but returned to Workington at the end of the 1955-56 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Seaman

David Andrew/David

19-09-1979

1979-1982

Gk

Rotherham

19-09-1963

He was well over six foot tall when he joined United as an apprentice in 1980 and in his Central League debut, at home to Preston North End, he gave an outstanding performance to keep a clean sheet and made two appearances with the Reserves that season, but with Henry Smith the regular choice he had to bide his time in the Juniors. The following season he made twenty-one appearances for the Reserves as John Lukic was ever-present in the first team. With the return of David Harvey and with John Lukic the clear number one choice, Seaman was allowed to go to Peterborough United in August 1982 for £4,000. He was able to establish himself as first choice at London Road and made ninety-one League appearances before Birmingham paid £100,000 for him on 5th October 1984. He had two seasons with the Blues before leaving St Andrews, and he joined Queens Park Rangers on 7th August 1986 for £225,000, after making seventy-five League appearances for them. While at Loftus Road he made his first international appearances for England and after four years and one hundred and forty-one starts with Rangers he was sold to Arsenal for £1,300,000 on 18th May 1990. Ironically, his signing triggered the sale to Leeds of his former superior, John Lukic, for £1m. It was at Highbury that he gained many honours at club level, as Arsenal were Champions of England in 1990-91, 1997-98 and 2001-02 and runners-up in 1998-99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03 while they were F.A. Cup winners in 1992-93, 1997-98, 2001-02, 2002-03 and runners-up in 2000-01. They won the League Cup in 1992-93 and the Charity Shield in 1991, 1998, 1999 and 2002 and in 1993 they were runners-up. In European competitions they won the UEFA Cup-winners' Cup in 1993-94 and were runners-up in the following year, were runners up in the UEFA Cup in 1999-2000 and were runners-up in the UEFA Super Cup in 1993-94. On a personal level he was awarded the MBE in 1997. At International level he made ten appearances for England Under-Twenty-Ones, was capped six times for England "B" and seventy-five times at full international level. He left Arsenal on a free transfer to Manchester City on 4th June 2003 after four hundred and six League apperances in the thirteen years he was at Highbury. He started nineteen League games for them before being forced to retire at the age of forty due to recurring shoulder injury in January 2004.

Searson

Harold Vincent/Harry (Polly)

11-11-1950

1949-1952

Gk

Mansfield

03-06-1924

05-01-2013

He started with Bilsthorpe Colliery and was on the books of Sheffield Wednesday from August 1946. He moved to his home town team, Mansfield Town, in June 1947 where he established himself as the first team keeper, making forty-two League appearances before joining Leeds on 13th January 1949. He was twenty-four years old and stood 6ft 1ins and weighed 12st 7lb, when he went straight into the Leeds first team, playing a major role in their re-emergence in the 1949-50 season and was ever-present until displaced by Jack Scott in November 1950. He had to play second fiddle to Scott and left for York City on 27th November 1952, after over one hundred United appearances. At Bootham Crescent he made sixty-two League appearances before leaving for Non-League football with Corby Town in June 1954.(Leeds United Player Details)

Seggie

Kevin

1979-1980

Gk

Bury St Edmunds

Joined Leeds as an apprentice in May 1979 and had the good fortune to be on the bench on two occasions for the first team in European competition before signing professonal in October 1979. regarded as a great prospect after fine displays in the Juniors and Reserves, he had the misfortune to be understudy to John Lukic and Henry Smith and never made the first team.

Sellars

Geoffrey

29-04-1950

1950-1950

OR

Cheadle Hulme

20-05-1930

Joined Leeds from Altrincham on completion of his National Service on 01-05-1950 as a 19yo, who stood 5ft 9ins and weighed 11st. He only made one appearance with Leeds, in the Reserves, before leaving for Aston Villa in August 1950, where he made two League appearances before leaving.

Sellars

Scott

26-10-1982

1982-1986

IL

Sheffield

27-11-1965

5ft 8ins 9st at seventeen, he joined Leeds from school on 21st July 1982, after attending Hinde House Comprehensive School. He soon became a Junior of outstanding ability and became a regular with the Reserves and had been included in the first team squad by Christmas 1982 and went on to make his debut in May 1983. He signed professional forms in July 1983 and scored twelve goals in seventy-two starts and four games from the bench, before he was one of the many bright young players sold by Billy Bremner as he replaced the young stars with more experienced players. He joined Blackburn Rovers in July 1986 and went on to score thirty-five goals in two hundred and two League games, of which eight were as a substitute, before he was bought back for £ 800,000 by United in July 1992. He had also played three times for the England Under-Twenty-One team in 1987-88 and while Howard Wilkinson had bought him as cover for his left midfield, the continued excellence of Gary Speed meant that he was restricted to just six starts and one game from the bench, before he was sold to Newcaste United for £700,000 in March 1993. He scored five goals in fifty-six starts and five games from the bench, but had lost his first team spot to David Ginola and Bolton Wanderers paid £750,000 for him in December 1995. He scored nineteen goals and played one hundred and twenty-three games in the League for the Trotters, including six as a substitute. He left to join Huddersfield Town on 22nd June 1999 on a free-transfer. He made forty-nine League appearances, of which nineteen were as substitute, scoring just once. He left Town in April 2001 and went to Danish side Aarhus GF on a free-transfer, where he scored once in twenty appearances before returning to the Football League with Mansfield Town on 22nd March 2002 to help them in their successful promotion push. He scored three times in the League from seventeen starts and three more off the bench, while at Field Mill until injury caused his retirement and a new career as a coach.(Leeds United Player Details)

Senior

F.

19-04-1946

1946-1946

OR

Unknown

Unknown

Nothing is known about this player other than he made less than half-a-dozen appearances for the Reserve team towards the end of the1945-46 season

Shackleton

Alan

05-09-1959

1958-1959

CF

Padiham

03-02-1934

26-04-2009

A local product, he passed through the Burnley Junior system and turned professional in May 1954 and went on to score eighteen goals in thirty-one League games at Turf Moor before joining Leeds on 29th October 1958. He was 24, 5ft 11ins and 11 1/2st and carried on his fine scoring rate with sixteen goals in thirty League games before he was sold to Everton on 10th September 1959. In his time he was United's first choice striker but played one fixture in the Reserves to prove his fitness for the pending transfer. He scored ten goals in twenty-six League games at Goodison Park, where he stayed until April 1960. He then went into Non-League football for a short spell with Nelson, from where he joined Oldham Athletic in August 1961. There he scored seven goals in ten League games leaving in May 1962 and then joined several former Leeds colleagues at Tonbridge.(Leeds United Player Details)

Shail

Mark Edward David/Mark

09-05-1991

1991-1991

RH/CH

Sandviken, Sweden

15-10-1966

An English International at the Semi-Professional level, he started his career with Worcester City and in his first season of 1985-86 he won "Player of the year" and "Young player of the year" this was folloed by a clean sweep of "Player of the Year" Clubman of the year" and Young player of the year" in 1986-87. He joined Yeovil Town before the start of 1988-89 season and he went on to score 8 League goals in one hundred and fifty-seven starts and two more from the bench. Bristol City paid £45,000 to take him to Ashton Gate on 25th March 1993. There he scored four goals in one hundred and seventeen starts and twelve more from the bench before joining Kidderminster Harriers on a free transfer on 16th June 2000. He scored once in forty appearances for the Harriers before leaving on a free transfer on 19th January 2002 to rejoin Worcester City. He played for the balance of the 2001-02 season and a further five seasons before retiring in June 2007.

Sharkey

Tony

26-03-1981

1981-1983

FB

Saltburn, Cleveland

5ft 10ins and 10st 6lb. He was educated at Hustler School, Middlesbrough, and he joined Leeds on 21st June 1981. He played with the Juniors before making his Reserve team debut and playing three games in 1981-82. He missed the first two months of the 1982-83 season due to injury but then managed to make more than ten appearances, but was released by the club at the end of that season, not having progressed to the first team.

Sharp

Kevin Philip/Kevin

08-09-1992

1992-1995

LB

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

19-09-1974

Although born in Canada, he was only eighteen months old when his family returned to England where his father, Frank, once had trials with Tranmere Rovers when playing for Flint Town. Young Sharp was pigeon-toed as a youngster and later had to wear special shoes to correct a problem with the development of his knees, but it did not prevent him from shining as a young footballer. He started with Poulton Le Fylde in the Blackpool League, before joining Blackpool Town. He then went to the FA National School of Excellence at Lilleshall for a couple of years. Together with Jamie Forrester he joined Auxerre in France and the pair cost Leeds £120,000 in September 1992 when Howard Wilkinson spotted their potential. He became a member of the Leeds F. A. Youth Cup winning team and blond-bomber Sharp proved an effective left-sided player in either midfield or defence, acting as cover for Tony Dorigo in the latter role. An England Under-Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen year-old International, he gained eight caps at the latter level and was in the strong England team of 1992-93, which won the European Championship that season and contained five Leeds players and the likes of Paul Scholes, Robbie Fowler, Sol Campbell, Gary Neville and Nicky Butt who all went on to reach the highest pinnacles of the game, together with several others who had long careers in the Football League. Sharp looked to have a promising future at Elland Road, but slipped down the pecking order, with the emergence of Ian Harte and after eleven starts and six games from the bench in the League, on 30th November 1995 he moved to Wigan Athletic for £50,000 with a clause giving United a further £25,000 after the then twenty-one year-old had made twenty appearances and a further £25,000 after forty games. In addition Leeds would receive twenty-five per cent of any profit Wigan made if they sold him. It was a Wigan club record fee at the time. He soon became a crowd favourite at Springfield Park, he was not always in agreement with the Wigan Management team. After a contract disagreement with Manager Ray Mathias, he spent most of the 1998-99 season on a week to week contract but, with the advent of John Benson, he signed a new three year contract, but the 1999-2000 season saw his season dogged by injury and suspension. He was twice red-carded and gained the unwanted title of the last player to be dismissed at the Old Wembley Stadium, when he was dismissed with four minutes remaining of normal time with the score at 1-1, in the Second Division Play-off Final against Gillingham, which Wigan lost 2-3, after extra-time. In the 2001-02 season Sharp made only two League and two Cup appearances, all before his final game at Wrexham in the LDV Vans Trophy on 16th October 2001 and on 25th October 2001 his contract was cancelled by mutual consent. Leeds did get the extra £50,000 but no more as after scoring ten goals in one hundred and sixty-two League starts and twenty-two more as a substitute, together with no goals in seven starts and three games from the bench in the F.A. Cup, one goal in seven starts and two games as a substitute in the League Cupand one goal in seventeen starts and oneas a substitute in other games such as the Football League Trophy and Play-off games, he went to Wrexham on 1st November 2001 on a no-contract free-transfer, having picked up a Third Division Championship medal in his first full season of 1996-97 and an Auto Windscreens Shield winners' medal in 1998-99. He made twelve League starts with Wrexham as well as three from the bench as the Welsh side were relegated from Division Two. He moved to Huddersfield Town on 10th August 2002, again on a free-transfer, and while playing thirty-nine games, including one as a substitute, together with one start in each of the F.A. Cup, League Cup and the Football League Trophy, Town suffered the same fate as Wrexham. On 18th June 2003 he moved to Scunthorpe United on a free-transfer, where he was a regular in his first season but hardly played in the second season as Scunthorpe gained promotion and he moved to Shrewsbury Town on a free transfer on 2nd July 2005. He had scored twice and made forty-one League starts and five games from the bench, together with six games in the F.A. Cup, one being from the bench, two starts in the League Cup and four starts in the Football League Trophy, in his two year stay with the Irons. On arrival at Shrewsbury he was appointed club captain, however, in early 2006, loss of form resulted in the Shrewsbury fans turning against him, and the Manager was forced to drop him from the team at the end of February 2006. He was released at the end of the season after scoring once, a penaty, in thirty League games, three of which were as a substitute, together one start and one game from the bench in the League Cup. He played in pre-season games with Guiseley and joined them on a short term basis, but he joined Scottish First Division side Hamilton Academical, on an amateur basis in November 2006. He made his debut against Livingston in a 1-1 home draw on 2nd December 2006. He was released by the club at the end of January 2007 due to the return of other experienced players in his position, having played only eight games. He then joined Northwich Victoria in August 2007, where he became player-coach alongside Neil Redfearn. He played seven games before being released in December 2007. He obtained his UEFA B license and coached the Under fourteens at the Wigan Athletic School of Excellence until he was appointed assistant coach to Simon Weaver at Harrogate Town on 9th June 2009. He presently works for First E11even Sports Management as a Football Consultant, having joined them in March 2011. (Leeds United Player Details)

Sharpe

Lee Stuart/Lee

12-02-1997

1996-1999

OL/LB

Halesowen

27-05-1971

Sharpe started with local side Stourbridge Falcons and he signed schoolboy forms with Birmingham City at the age of fifteen. A trial for Fourth Division Torquay United, at sixteen, saw him join the Plainmoor club on a two year apprenticeship and sign professional forms for them on his seventeenth birthday. He made his debut as a sixteen year old, coming on with twenty-five minutes to go as the substitute left winger on 3rd October 1987 at Exeter City in a 1-0 away win. After scoring three goals in nine League starts and five games from the bench, he was still only seventeen, when he was signed by Alex Ferguson for Manchester United on 10th June 1988 for £185,000. It was a record fee for a trainee at that time. He soon broke into the first team, making his debut in the First Division in a 2-0 win over West Ham at Old Trafford on 24th September 1988. He initially played out of position at left back before getting the left wing spot in the 1990-91 season. He was called up into the England Under-Twenty-One side, making his debut in a 0-1 defeat by Greece at Patras on 7th February 1989, when still only seventeen. He was capped eight times at that level. He played a key part in United's success in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup in 1990-91 and scored a hat-trick against Arsenal at Highbury in the 1990 League Cup. United won that game 6–2 and Sharpe cited the game as one of the best memories in his footballing career. Having established himself as a left winger, Sharpe earned a call up to the England squad, although he was unable to oust John Barnes as first choice left winger. But he did make his England debut as a half-time substitute for Tony Adams in a Group Seven UEFA European Championship 1-1 home draw with the Republic of Ireland at Wembley on 27th March 1991. Sharpe would have been a regular first team player were it not for injury and Ryan Giggs, who also played on Sharpe's preferred left-wing position. However, he would still manage to win a lot of medals and these started with the 1991 Cup Winners' Cup, the 1992 League Cup, and he also gained his only England "B" cap on 28th April 1992 against C.I.S. (Russia) at the Torpedo Stadium, Moscow, when he started but gave way to Matthew Le Tissier at half-time. He gained eight full caps for England. He may have involuntarily vacated the international scene, but he still accumulated more honours as United went from strength to strength and he picked up three Premiership Champions medals in four years and also added an F.A. Cup winners medal in 1994. He was famous for doing an Elvis impersonation at the corner flag when he scored a goal and for getting lots of fan mail from female admirers. Unfortunately, he had been out of the game for long periods of time through injury and illness. He suffered from viral meningitis, and when his fitness recovered, the form of Ryan Giggs meant he had to play out of position at left back or on the right wing, competing for a place with Andrei Kanchelsis. Illness sidelined him for much of the 1996 season and the emergence of David Beckham and Paul Scholes left little place for him in the Old Trafford first team. In total he played two hundred and sixty-three games, including fifty-two as a substitute, for the Red Devils during eight years there, scoring thirty-six goals. Despite his injury history, Leeds signed him for £4.5 million on 12th August 1996, making him their record signing. Misfortune seemed to befall him at every turn. First, the manager who signed him, Howard Wilkinson, was sacked early into the first season. He was replaced by George Graham, who made no bones that he did not want players with flair, but rather those with a defensive attitude. Therefore Sharpe faced an uphill battle to establish himself. When it seemed that he was winning Graham over, he snapped his cruciate ligament and was out for the best part of a year. When he returned, David O’Leary was in charge. A poor performance against Roma was all the excuse he needed to tell Sharpe " you’re not getting up and down the wing like you used to”. Again his time at United was beset by further injuries. He made twenty-six Premiership appearances in 1996-97, scoring five goals, but a pre-season knee injury ruled him out for the entire 1997-98 season and he was unable to regain his place in the team on recovery. He had scored five goals in twenty-eight League starts and two games from the bench, while at Elland Road. In December 1998, he was loaned to Italian Serie-A strugglers Sampdoria, but soon fell out of favour and on 23rd March 1999, after just three appearances, he returned to Elland Road. He immediately signed on loan for Bradford City and scored twice in the League, in six starts and three games from the bench, as he helped in securing the club's promotion to the Premiership after seventy-seven years outside the top division. He joined Bradford in a £250,000 deal on 15th June 1999 and helped preserve the club's Premiership status in 1999-2000. In 2000-01, Sharpe lost his place in the Bradford team and on 1st February 2001 he went on loan to Division One Portsmouth for the rest of the season, making seventeen appearances, without scoring, for the Fratton Park team. He returned to Bradford for the 2001-02 season but when his contract expired at the end of the season he was given a free transfer. At Valley Parade, after signing permanently, he scored twice in forty-seven League games, including seventeen from the bench. After an unproductive trial with Grimsby Town, he had a brief spell at Exeter City, who he joined on 12th August 2002, on a free transfer and scored once in four starts. This was followed by a move to Grindavik in Iceland, where he featured in just seven games. In September 2003 he announced his retirement from first class football at the age of thirty-two, due to a back problem. He then went on to become a reality TV star and media personality. During 2003-04, Sharpe made a brief return to football in the Kidderminster Sunday League before signing for Northern Counties East Premier League side Garforth Town the following summer. There he scored six goals in twenty-one appearances.(Leeds United Player Details)

Shaw

John

06-12-1969

1969-1974

Gk

Stirling

04-02-1954

He played rugby as a schoolboy and also represented Scotland at Basketball, but he signed professional forms for United in September 1971 after being an apprentice for two years. He had already played several times for the reserves before signing professional and he went on to play twice for the first team in European games, but never in the League. He moved to Bristol City in May 1974 and played two hundred and ninety-five League games for them before moving to Exeter City in July 1985. There he added a further one hundred and nine League starts in three years before moving into Non-League football with Gloucester City. (Leeds United Player Details)

Sheavalls

James

07-12-1957

1957-1958

OR

Signed in September 1957 after service with the Juniors. He played twice fir the Reserves in 1957-58. He left on a fee transfer on 1st May 1958. He went on to play with Holbeach United in 1959-60 and later Peterborough United, Barnsley and Durban United.

Shelton

Michael

28-09-1957

1956-1958

WH

Normanton

Joined the Juniors before turning professional on 20th October 1956. He progressed to the Reserves but left the club on 1st May 1958.

Shepherd

19-03-1955

1955-1955

Gk

Nothing is known about Shepherd other than he played less than half-a-dozen games for the Leeds United Reserves at the end of the 1954-55 season

Shepherd

Paul David/Paul

30-08-1994

1994-1999

RH/CH

Leeds

17-11-1977

Shepherd joined Leeds as a trainee professional and signed professional forms on 15th September 1995. He featured regularly in the Youth team with the occasional Reserve game, his debut coming as an eighty-seventh minute substitute and November 1995 he was called into the England Under-Eighteen team. He gain nine caps and scored two goals. It was a surprise when George Graham called him up for the first team on 26th October 1996 at Arsenal for his first and only game for United at senior level. He became a regular in central defence for the Reserve team and he gained England Youth honours and was part of the 1997 England World Youth Under-Twenty Championship squad in Group F in Malaysia, along with his Leeds teammate Mark Jackson. He scored once in gaining three caps. However, the competition for places at Elland Road was intense and he was loaned to Ayr United for a month in March 1998, where he scored once in six League appearances. In February 1999 he was loaned to Tranmere Rovers for a month but only made one substitute appearance. He left Leeds on 1st October 1999 and joined Ayr United where he had been previously on loan. He scored once in twenty-one League appearances, of which one was from the bench before having a three month summer spell in Iceland with Keflavik IF in the English close season of 2000. He joined Scunthorpe United on 29th September 2000 on a free transfer. He only managed one substitute appearance with the Irons before joining Luton Town on 22nd March 2001, again on a free-transfer after also having trials with Crewe Alexandra and Wimbledon. There were just seven League appearances for Shepherd at Kenilworth Road before he was on the move again, joining Oldham Athletic on a free on 1st October 2001. He did not make the first team at the Latics and was loaned out to Scarborough on 14th December 2001, scoring twice in ten League appearances before returning to Oldham on 12th March 2002. He dropped into Non-league football when Conference club Scarborough came back for him for the new season, getting him on a free-transfer on 1st July 2002. He was a regular with Boro scoring six times in thirty-five League games, one of which was as a substitute. He had a trial with Yeovil Town, but, after a first half trial for the Yeovil Reserves at Dorchester Town on 24th July 2003, he was not taken on. He did, however, join a further Conference club, Leigh RMI, once more on a free, on 7th August 2003. Again he was a regular making twenty-five starts and four games from the bench and scoring once in the League before being released on 4th May 2004. He then joined Harrogate Town on a part time basis in August 2004 before moving to Stalybridge Celtic on 3rd February 2005. He made his debut two days later at Ashton United in the Vanarama Conference North in a 3-2 win. He scored his first goal in his twelfth game in a 1-2 home defeat by Kettering Town on 12th April 2005 and added a second in a 2-0 home win over Hucknall Town thirteen days later before playing his sixteenth and final game on 30th April 2005 in a 3-2 away win at Redditch United. He retired in May 2005.(Leeds United Player Details)

Sheridan

Darren Stephen/Darren

21-08-1985

1984-1985

IF

Stretford, Manchester

08-12-1967

Younger brother of John Sheridan, he was an apprentice at Elland Road and though he progressed through the Juniors to play a handful of games for the Reserves he left football after being released by Leeds in December 1985. A left-footed midfielder, Sheridan did eventually start playing in the Sunday League at local amateur level in Manchester. He was tempted back to semi-professional football in 1989 by Unibond League side Winsford United. He spent four years with Winsford before, at 26, he was spotted in action by a Barnsley scout and joined the Oakwell club on 12th August 1993. He went on to score five goals in one hundred and seventy-one League games at Oakwell, of which twenty-two were as a substitute. Promotion to the Premiership in 1997 allowed Sheridan to follow in his brother’s footsteps and be part of the footballing elite and make his comeback complete. He moved to Barrow on 2nd July 1999, where he scored four goals in fifty-three League starts and eight games as a substitute before leaving to join his brother at Oldham Athletic on 12th July 2001. He scored three goals in ninety-one League games, of which seventeen were as a substitute before leaving to go north of the border to join Clyde on 1st July 2004, scoring twice in twenty-nine League starts and one game from the bench. He stayed in Scotland when he moved to St Johnstone on 31st May 2005 making forty-two League starts and seven more from the bench, without scoring, before returning South to rejoin Barrow on 1st July 2007. He added another forty-one League appearances, which included two from the bench, before leaving by mutual consent on 11th February 2012. He played for a month with a former club, Radcliffe Borough in the Northern Premier League Division One North, before joining Droylsden in the Conferance North, making six starts before retiring at the end of the 2011-12 season.

Sheridan

John Joseph/John

06-12-1980

1982-1989

IF

Manchester

01-10-1964

Although born in Manchester he was qualified to play for the Republic of Ireland and played for them at Youth, twice at Under-Twenty-One , twice at Under-Twenty-Three, at "B" level, and thirty-four caps for the full Republic International team. He started with Manchester City, but was rejected after playing for their Juniors and signed for Leeds in March 1982. He progressed through the Juniors and Reserves and made his first team debut in November 1982 but in October 1983 he broke his leg in a game at Barnsley, which saw him miss the rest of that season. He became the centre-piece of the Leeds team until Howard Wilkinson decided that he did not fit into his plans and sold him to Nottingham Forest, for £650,000 in July 1989 after he had scored forty seven goals in two hundred and thirty appearances, of which just five were as a substitute. He did not figure in Brian Clough's plans either and four months later, having never pulled on a Forest first-team shirt, in a League game, he was sold to Sheffield Wednesday for £500,000 in November 1989. At Hillsborough he soon commanded the same adulation as he had received at Elland Road and went on to score twenty-five goals in one hundred and ninety-seven appearances, of which just ten were as a substitute. He was loaned to Birmingham City for one start and one game from the bench in February 1996 before joining Bolton Wanderers in November 1996 for £180,000. After helping the Trotters to promotion he spent time with Doncaster Rovers in Non-League before returning to League football with Oldham Athletic and commencing his managerial career.(Leeds United Player Details)

Sherman

David

27-04-2000

1999-2001

FB

Wegberg, West Germany

06-05-1983

England Under Nineteen International in the same team as Simon Johnson, but after progressing to the Leeds reserves on a couple of occasions he was released and also played for Leicester City, Newport County and Barry Town, before quitting and then worked in a clothes shop.

Sherwin

Harold/Harry

19-09-1921

1921-1925

HB

Walsall

4th Q 1893

08-01-1953

A First World War Guest with Leeds City, he joined United from Sunderland on 10th May 1921 and left for Barnsley on 24th March 1925. (Leeds United Player Details)

Shields

Robert John/Bobby

04-11-1972

1972-1974

FB

Glasgow

Played for Glasgow boys and was a prospect for the Scottish Schoolboy team, but chose to leave his school, St Luke's, and take up an apprenticeship with Leeds on 11th January 1972. He was 5ft 7 1/2ins and 10st 3lb, when he signed professional forms on 1st October 1973. He progressed through the Juniors to the Reserves, but never made the first team and left football.

Shields

Robert /Robbie

03-12-2003

2000-2005

IF

Dublin

01-05-1984

He was a prolific goalscorer with Cherry Orchard during his schoolboy days and his exploits earned him an invitation to join Leeds United. He went through his trainee period and soon played with the Juniors at Under-Seventeen level and later with the Under-Nineteens, However his progress to the reserves was only as an unused substitute and his debut was from the bench and not in the starting team.The club was going through a successful period and there was acute challenges for all positions at every level. Even after the club's financial meltdown positions in the reserves were at a premium and by 2004 as his five year contract was almost at an end he had not seen much action at that level. In February 2004 he was loaned to Shelbourne for three months. At the end of that time he was released by Leeds and remained at Shelbourne for another season before he moved to Kildare County in the summer of 2005, where he saw out the rest of the Irish season, scoring five goals in twenty-one appearances, before joining Shamrock Rovers in December 2005. He stayed with Shamrock Rovers for the first six months of the season before rejoining his first club, Cherry Orchard, in August 2006. He played with them until December 2008, but left to play a couple of months with Bray Wanderers in February 2009, but returned without having played a game for them in April 2009. He did not stay long at Cherry Orchard, just to the end of the season in June 2009. He joined Crumlin United in August 2009. He had a couple of seasons with them before emigrating to Australia in 2011. He had two seasons with Dulwich Hill in Sydney before moving down the coast to Wollongong United. In his two seasons there he won the George Naylor Medal, for the best player in the Illawarra League in both seasons and in 2014 he topped the scorers with twenty-seven goals. He moved to Marconi Stallions in the higher NSW League and scored twice in nine appearances in the 2014-15 season.

Short

John David/John

21-01-1939

1937-1948

IF/WH

Gateshead

25-01-1921

00-06-1986

Short joined Leeds from their feeder club Leeds UYMI near the end of the 1936-37 season and had established himself in the lower teams and finally the Reserves. Originally a striker or inside forward he went back to his native north east where he worked for a munitions factory througout the WW2. He played for Leeds whenever he could make it, particularly the fixtures with clubs in the north east when he joined Leeds at the ground or in the fixtures at Elland Road, if he could get a lift from the visiting team. He scored thirty-six goals in fifty-nine games in that way. A valuable member of the Leeds team he made his League debut in the first game of the peacetime, in August 1946, and went on to score nineteen goals in sixty-three games before joining Millwall for £4,000 in November 1948 and had a long career, mostly as a wing-half scoring nineteen goals in two hundred and forty-five League games before retiring in November 1955 and joined the Lions' coaching staff. (Leeds United Player Details)

Shorte

Grenville

11-05-1988

1987-1989

CH

Leeds

14-10-1970

Played for Leeds City Boys at Under-fourteen and fifteen and took on an apprenticeship with Leeds in 1987. He showed promise in both the Juniors and occasionally in the Reserves but was not signed on professional forms by Leeds.

Shutt

Carl Steven/Carl

28-03-1989

1989-1993

IR

Sheffield

10-10-1961

Shutt started with Spalding United in 1981. In May 1985 Howard Wilkinson took him to Sheffield Wednesday on a free transfer. He scored sixteen goals in forty League appearances at Hillsborough, four of which were as a substitute. He moved to Bristol City for £55,000 in October 1987 and carried on his good scoring record with ten goals from forty-six League games of which seven had been as a substitute. Howard Wilkinson exchanged him for Bob Taylor and £50,000 in March 1989 and again he proved to be a reliable source of goals with seventeen from forty-six League starts and thirty-three from the bench, as he was often used as a late impact player and he scored several memorable such goals, the most important of which came at the Camp Nou when he got the winner in a replayed European Cup tie against Stuttgart. He had a one game loan spell with Malmo in August 1990. He left Leeds for Birmingham City for £50,000 on on 23rd August 1993 but could only score four goals in eighteen starts and eight from the bench as he struggled for form. He was loaned to Manchester City on 31st December 1993, starting five League games and one game from the bench without scoring before returning to St Andrew's on 31st May 1994. Bradford City signed him for £75,000 on 11th August 1994 and he found his form once more scoring sixteen goals in sixty starts and twenty-nine games from the bench. He left Valley Parade to join Darlington on 27th March 1997. At the Feethams he scored nine goals in twenty-eight starts and twenty-five League games from the bench, until he signed for Kettering Town on 24th September1999. At Kettering he scored five goals in forty-two starts and twenty-seven games from the bench and was still playing occasionally at forty after being appointed player-manager in 2001. He left in 2003 and became Bradford Park Avenue's player manager in March 2004 before leaving in 2005. He managed to score once in thirteen games after playing in emergencies. (Leeds United Player Details)

Sibbald

Robert Louis/Bobby

14-09-1964

1963-1969

FB

Hebburn

25-01-1948

Standing 5ft 7ins tall and weighing 10st 2lb, he was a Durham schoolboy representative wing half, who signed as an apprentice on 17th April 1963, and was converted to a full back in the Leeds Juniors before signing professional in January 1965. He appeared regularly in the Reserves and made his first team debut in February 1967, as a substitute, and made his full debut in May 1967 but it was to be his final game at that level. He left Leeds in February 1969 and joined York City. He scored seven goals in seventy-nine League appearances, of which five were as a substitute. In July 1971 he moved to Southport where he became a regular for over five seasons, scoring thirteen goals in two hundred and forty League starts. (Leeds United Player Details)

Sim

Gordon

24-02-1962

1961-1962

FB

A full-back, originally with Shettleston, was signed from Aberdeen on 10th February 1962, as a twenty-one year old trialist. In 1959-60 he made seven starts for Aberdeen and fourteen starts in 1960-6. He was 5' 9" and 11 stone. He returned back north to Morton in July 1962 on a free transfer following extensive injury problems. He was capped by Scotland at Under-Twenty-Three. He later went to South Africawhere he joined Highlands Park. It is thought he may have joined Montrose after Morton.

Simmonds

James/Jim

29-12-1956

1956-1959

HM/IF

Leeds

A local Junior he joined United from Leeds Catholics on 20th October 1956. He played several games for Leeds Reserves in his first season as an Inside Forward, but failed to progress and left at the end of the 1958-59 season.

Simmonds

Robert Lyndon/Lyndon

19-05-1983

1983-1987

CF/OR

Pontypool

11-11-1966

5ft 4 1/2 ins 9st 12lb in 1984, he attended Blackwood Comprehensive School and represented Ebbw Vale Schoolboys at Under-Sixteen and Under-Nineteen levels, Gwent County Schoolboys, at the same levels, and South Wales Schoolboys at Under-Fifteen. He was on the books of Cardiff City as a schoolboy and had a one month trial with Arsenal before joining United in 1983. His first game for the Leeds Reserves was as a trial and he signed as an apprentice soon after and turned professional on 13th November 1984. He was soon on the goal trail with both the Juniors and Reserves and added two Welsh Youth International caps against Scotland in 1983-84, to his eleven Welsh Schoolboys caps and eventually took his total at that level to five. He made his first team debut, as a substitute, on 6th April 1985 and in his starting debut against Portsmouth on 2nd November 1985, he scored twice. Unfortunately he suffered several injuries that stopped him reaching his full potential and he was loaned to Swansea City in October 1986, where he scored once in seven League starts and one game from the bench. At Leeds, he scored three goals in six League starts and three games as a substitute, before joining Eddie Gray at Rochdale in March 1987, where he scored twenty-two goals in sixty-five starts, before being forced to retire at the age of twenty-one. (Leeds United Player Details)

Simpson

06-11-1920

1920-1921

CH/LH

From the Manchester district he made his debut at Centre-Half, as a one-off appearance. It is thought that he may have returned to play Right-Half on 02-04-1921, but it is by no means certain. It is possible that one or both are Frank Simpson, who went on to join Crewe Alexandra and scored once in ten appearances in the 1921-22 season.

Sinclair

Ronald McDonald/Ronnie

01-04-1986

1986-1989

Gk

Stirling

19-11-1964

A Scottish Schoolboy and Scottish Youth International, he joined the Nottingham Forest Academy straight from school and signed professional forms for them in October 1982. He never played a League game for them but, after being loaned to Wrexham in March 1984, where he started eleven League games, he went on loan to Leeds United in March 1986. There he played in the Reserves and, like in previous loans to Derby County and Sheffield United, he did not make the first team. He did however impress Leeds enough to see them pay £10,000 in June 1986 to take him on permanently. He was basically the understudy to Mervyn Day and he played only eight games for the first team in a three season stay, but featured on a regular basis in the Reserves. He was twice loaned to Halifax Town, for four games in March 1987 and for ten games in December 1988 before he left to join Bristol City in September 1989. There he became their regular keeper and made forty-four League appearances in their promotion from Division Three, before Keith Welch took over in the 1991-92 season. He was loaned to Walsall in September 1991, where he started ten games before being sold to Stoke City for £25,000 in November 1991. He stayed five years at Stoke and was always in contention for the first team keepers' spot making eighty appearances of which two were from the bench. After helping Stoke to win promotion from the Second Division in the 1992-93 season, he went on loan to Bradford City, but never played a game for them as he was called back to Stoke for first team duties. He was released by the Potters at the end of the 1995-96 season and joined Chester City in August 1996 and stayed there until June 1998 after making eighty appearances for the Potters, of which two were from the bench. He started seventy-three League games for Chester. He later had loan spells with Cardiff City and Stoke City without playing any League games and he finished his playing career in Non-League with Leek Town and Witton Albion. (Leeds United Player Details)

Singh

Harpal

01-02-1999

1998-2005

OL

Bradford

15-09-1981

Singh was discovered by the Leeds scouts, playing as a ten-year-old in Pudsey and he had a four week trial at their Ferndale Centre of Excellence. At fourteen he joined the Youth Academy and was playing in the Under-Nineteen side by the age of seventeen, top-scoring for them in the 2000-01 season. Leeds reserve coach, Roy Aitken, rated the young Singh very highly."He is a potential matchwinner who can beat the defence. He is capable of scoring goals and creating goals," were the coach's words. Singh was also highly thought of by George Graham but had to be content with staying in the Junior and Reserve teams as he was always well behind Harry Kewell and Jason Wilcox in any Leeds line-up. The nearest he came to first team football was when he was an unused substitute at Southampton and at home to West Ham United, midway through the 2001-02 season and then in the home leg of the UEFA Cup-tie against Hapoel Tel-Aviv in October 2002. He signed professional forms with United in September 1998 and to get first-team experience he spent time on loan with Bury in September 2001 and made eleven League starts and one substitute appearance and scored twice for the Second Division team. He had spent three months at Gigg Lane and apart from gaining valuable experience on a competitive level on a regular basis his displays gave him confidence and he also status with the Bury fans. He followed this up with three League games for Bristol City in March 2002. Initially loaned for a month, there had been hopes of him staying until the end of the season, but he failed to settle in Bristol and returned to Leeds. The following season he went on loan to his hometown team of Bradford City in August 2002 but injurires kept his appearances to just three games in the League. He did not have the best of luck with injuries and in 2003 he dislocated his shoulder, while at Bury. He had returned to Gigg Lane for the start of the 2003-04 season and started in twenty League games as well as having eight games as a substitute from which he scored twice. As Leeds descended into turmoil with an exodus of star names leaving the club, and Managers changing rapidly, Singh could only manage a game against Farsley Celtic for the Reserves in the 2004-05 pre-season and did not figure in Manager Blackwell’s plans. After being loaned out for a month to Stockport County, in February 2005, he was ultimately given a free-transfer and he made five League starts and one from the bench and scored one goal before the end of that season. The Stockport Manager, Chris Turner, left at Christmas and Jim Gannon took over as Singh scored one goal in nineteen League starts and also came from the bench on five more occasions and made three starts in the F.A. Cup, one in the League Cup and in in the Football League Trophy, in the 2005-06 season before he was released by the club. He received an offer from Sean Connor, then manager of Sligo Rovers, who were in the middle of their first season back in the top flight. At first unsure, he was finally convinced by the Belfast-born boss to sign during the July transfer window after spending a spell on trial at the Showgrounds. He scored three times in his early games, two of very high quality coming at Longford Town. There were a lot of young players and they blended in well with the more experienced players who had played in England as well, such as Darren Mansaram, Chris Turner and Liam Burns. The small squad put in a very good finish that year, achieving fifth position and also progressing to the semi-final of the FAI Cup. In January 2007 he joined up with former team mates Burns and Turner when Sean Connor took over the reigns at Bohemians. However, he spent the majority of his time there on the sidelines with his problems starting as early as the pre-season when he tore his groin muscle which required an operation. Eight of his nine League games were as a substitute, but he scored in his only start in the Cup. He was put on the transfer list on 16th January 2008. A month after the season ended, despite finishing third in the league, Connor left Bohemians. Pat Fenlon took charge and Singh struggled to gain a first-team place as Fenlon brought his own players in. Now recovered from injuries he found himself constantly on the bench. Although he was a member of the squad, he missed out on a league medal by a single game as the club fid the double. When his contract ran out in December 2008, he decided to leave the Gypsies and return to England after a two-and-a-half-year stay in the Republic. He had made up his mind to revert to English football when his former Manager Sean Connor, asked him to join him at newly promoted Dundalk in January 2009. He quickly signed a six month contract, but he failed to score after starting eleven games and coming on as a substitute in another. He had started the first ten games but suspension and sickness saw him miss the final two. He married in July and was hopeful of resigning. However, he was released by Dundalk at the end of his contract. He was without a club from July 2009 until he moved to Unibond League side, Guiseley, in September 2009. He turned out for the Lions as a trialist in a 2-0 win over Bamber Bridge on 25th July 2009. After obtaining International clearance he made his debut as he started in a 4-0 win at Burscough, in which he played seventy-five minutes before being replaced by Steve Burton. He scored once in the F. A. Trophy and made two starts and twice came off the bench in Unibond League games. In all games he started three times, came on as a substitute eight times and sat unused on the bench eleven times in the 2009-10 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Sissons

Albert Edward/Albert

16-01-1926

1925-1928

OR

Kiveton Park, Sheffield

05-07-1903

04-10-1975

Standing 5ft 11ins tall and weighing 11st, he started with Kiveton Park Colliey, had a trial with Arsenal, before joining Doncaster Rovers in 1923. He scored twice in eighty League appearances before Leeds signed him on 28th October 1925. He scored once in thirty League games for Leeds, but most of his three years' stay was spent in the Reserves, leaving for Southport in July 1928. There he scored three goals in thirty League games in his one year stay and another year at Northampton Town saw him score four in nineteen League games before finishing his career with Worksop Town. (Leeds United Player Details)

Skene

John Alexander

10-11-1951

1951-1951

RH

S. Africa

He joined United on trial from Ackermans (Capetown) in October 1951. He was 22years old and stood 6'1". He did not make the grade and was given a free transfer at the end of the season, having only played his debut game.

Skilling

Robert/Bobby

11-05-1977

1976-1978

RB

Manchester

He joined United after a successful schoolboy career with Manchester Schoolboys, known for his speed, he progressed through the United Juniors and made the Reserve team, but never progressed to the first team.

Slack

F.

04-12-1948

1948-1948

OR

Not much known known other than he made only his debut appearance as an Outside Right for Leeds Reserves.

Sloan

J.

21-08-1948

1948-1948

OR/OL

Not much known other than he made his debut appearance as an Outside Left for Leeds Reserves and played several games at Outside Right, scoring once against Blackburn Rovers on 9th October 1948.

Sludden

John

07-05-1983

1983-1983

IL

Trialist from Celtic who came with John McGoldrick, probably at the behest of Jimmy Lumsden, and he made his debut appearance as an Inside Left for Leeds Reserves and never played again.

Smalley

Paul Thomas/Paul

12-12-1990

1990-1991

RB

Nottingham

17-11-1966

The England Youth International joined his hometown team, Notts County as an Apprentice straight from school and signed professional forms in November 1984. He went on to start one hundred and twelve League games for them and also had another six as a substitute, without scoring. He join Scunthorpe United in September 1988, where he scored once in eighty-four League starts and two from the bench. He left the Irons in October 1990 on loan to Blackpool, where he started six League games, but was released at the end of his contract. He joined United in early December 1990 as a non-contract player. He was given his chance in the reserves and he played seven of the eight games the team played to 20th February 1991. He joined Doncaster Rovers, also as a non-contract player, in early March 1991 and made fourteen League appearances for them before his contract ran out at the end of the season. He then became a coach and by 2006 Paul moved to a Director of Football role in the USA, before returning to the English Football Association as a Regional Coach. Paul then landed the role of Head of Player and Coach Development before moving on as Academy Director and Head of Youth at Portsmouth Football Club in the English Premier League. he firstly in the USA and then with Portsmouth and then in Australia accepted a role in New Zealand as Technical Director for the Federation. Paul then moved to Australia with a role with the Football Federation in Victoria and a Technical Director position at a National State League Club. After a successful period with the club establishing a youth development model and finishing 4th with the first team and 2nd with the Under 23s, Paul then moved to Queensland and took up duties with the Northern Fury FC. Paul is currently consulting in a coaching and technical role with a New Zealand based Club and with a variety of other national organisations.

Smelt

Alfred/Alf

28-08-1920

1920-1921

RB

Rotherham

00-00-1888

Joined Leeds from Mexborough on 20th July 1920, leaving for Wombwell at the end of the 1920-21 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Smith

16-04-1921

1921-1921

Gk

Not much known other than he made only his debut appearance as a Goalkeeper for Leeds Reserves.

Smith

07-05-1921

1921-1921

CF

Not much known known other than he made only his debut appearance as a Centre-Forward for Leeds Reserves.

Smith

28-08-1954

1954-1955

Gk

Not much known known other than he made only his debut appearance as a Goalkeeper for Leeds Reserves in an 8-1 defeat by Preston North End at Deepdale.

Smith

Alan

20-08-1960

1960-1961

IR

Sacriston

Was Twenty-years-old and 5ft 11ins and 12stone, when he was signed by Leeds from Ashington Welfare on 11th August 1960. He scored a couple of goals in his Reserve team outings but never made the first team and was released at the end of the 1960-61 season.

Smith

Alan

30-12-1997

1997-2004

CF

Rothwell

28-10-1980

After playing in the Junior Ranks at Elland Road, he became a trainee in the 1997-98 intake and then signed professional forms on 1st February 1998. After having already represented England six times as an Under-Eighteen-Year-Old, one of their games, in Israel, had been cancelled, and he was called onto the Leeds bench at Anfield on 14th November1998. He replaced Clyde Wijnhard in the eighty-ninth minute and a few minutes later, with his first touch, he scored, which inspired Leeds to a famous victory. Despitre the imprssive array of strikers available during his time at the club he was able to feature on a regular basis, even though he had sometimes to play in midfield. He was part of a succession of fine Leeds teams that were always contenders for the EPL championship, home and European cups, but after the Leeds financial melt down, he was one of the many that the club could no longer afford, and he left for Manchester United on 27th May 2004 for £7 million. He had scored thirty-eight goals in one hundred and forty-eight League starts and another twenty-four from the bench, he had also scored four goals in eleven starts and four from the bench in the F.A. Cup, had four starts and two games from the bench without scoring in the League Cup, while in European games he had excelled with fourteen goals in twenty-eight starts and seven from the bench. He was soon hit by injuries at Old Trafford and scored seven goals in forty-three League starts and eighteen more from the bench in the EPL, together without scoring in two starts and six games from the bench in the F.A. Cup, one goal in four starts and two from the bench in the League Cup and netted four times in twelve starts and six games from the bench in European games. Newcastle United paid £6 million for him on 3rd August 2007, but once more, even though at one point being captain, he found himself on the outer, mainly in midfield as he did not find the net in sixty-eight starts and sixteen from the bench in the League and five starts in the F.A. Cup and four starts and one games from the bench in the League Cup. He was loaned to MK Dons on 29th January 2112 and he scored once in fourteen League starts and two more from the bench, but also scored one in one start and one from the bench in the League One Play-offs. At the end of his Loan term he joined MK Dons on 10th July 2012 on a free transfer and played for two further seasons scoring once in twenty-three starts and twenty-eight League games from the bench, and started five and was a substitute on three occasions in the F.A. Cup, two starts and one from the bench in the League Cup and three starts in the Football League Trophy, wihout scoring, before his contract was not renewed on 20th May 2014. He signed with Notts County as player-coach on the same day. He had started fifty-two League games and been a substitute on fifteen other occasions, started two and come off the bench in one F.A. Cup games, started two League Cup ties, and played six Football League Trophy games, two being from the bench but had not scored in any to late in March 2017. He was caretaker-manager for one game in January 2017. He gained five caps for England as an Under-Twenty-one, one at "B" level and nineteen as a full international.(Leeds United Player Details)

Smith

Arthur G.

01-04-1922

1922-1922

Gk

Shildon

A trialist goalkeeper from Shildon who made his debut and added two more games before the end of the 1921-22 season for Leeds Reserves, before signing for United in the following close season. He went on to make a handful of appearances in the following season of 1922-23.

Smith

A.

20-12-1947

1947-1947

OR

Not much known known other than he made his debut appearance and two fixtues later he made his final game, both as an Outside Right for Leeds Reserves.

Smith

Joseph Barry/Barry

27-08-1952

1951-1956

CF

South Kirby

15-03-1934

Joined Leeds on 8th October 1951 from Farsley Celtic as a 5ft 9ins, seventeen year old. He advanced through the Juniors and "A" team and then the Reserves before scoring when making his first team debut in September 1952, after Leeds had problem finding a reliable striker. He was only eighteen when he was given that chance, but after Ken Hastie had also been given a chance, he made his second appearance, which proved to be his last. He was called up for National Service and stationed away from Leeds and his progress suffered. He left Leeds in May 1955 to play with Bradford Park Avenue. There he had a good strike rate scoring thirty-eight goals in sixty-four League games. He stayed for two years, joining Wrexham in June 1957, where he kept up his strike rate with ten goals in eighteen League games in one season before moving to Stockport County in July 1958. At Edgeley Park he scored four times in seventeen League games in two years before going to Oldham Athletic in August 1960, where he made just one appearance before going into Non-League football with Headington United. (Leeds United Player Details)

Smith

Colin

07-02-1970

1967-1971

FB

Bishop Auckland

30-11-1951

5ft 7ins and 10st 4lb he joined Leeds straight from school and signed professional in November 1969. He played several Reserve games but never made the first team and returned to the North East and played with Shildon. He did play as a non-contract player with Darlington from August 1984 but only started two League games before returning to Shildon.

Smith

John Eric/Eric

10-12-1960

1960-1964

WH

Glasgow

29-07-1934

12-06-1991

Smith began with St Andrew’s Juveniles and Pollok in 1951, then Glasgow Benburb, before joining Celtic on 2nd April 1953. Capped twice by Scotland he had gained a wealth of experience at Parkhead, scoring twelve goals in ninety-seven Scottish League games, before leaving for Leeds on 12th May 1960. However, all that counted for nothing as he broke his leg in his second game for Leeds in August 1960. It was after Christmas before he made his third appearance, but soon established himself as a first team regular. But, as Leeds acquired more players and started bringing through their crop of talented Juniors the ageing Smith found it hard to maintain that place. He scored three goals in sixty-five League games, before a double fracture of his leg brought his Leeds career to a halt. On 18th July 1964 he returned to Scotland as he signed for Greenock Morton. There he score three goals in thirty-five Scottish League games before joining their coaching staff.(Leeds United Player Details)

Smith

F.

24-11-1945

1945-1946

LB

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

Smith

Graham Leslie/Graham

29-02-1964

1964-1966

FB/CH

Pudsey

20-06-1946

He started with the Leeds feeder club Pudsey Juniors and signed professional in February 1964, when he was 5ft 9 1/2ins and 10st 6lb. He made his way through the Juniors and into the reserves, where he was a regular in the 1965-66 season. He did not, however, make the first team and joined Rochdale in June 1966, where he did find his feet, scoring three goals in three hundred and seventeen League appearances, of which one was as a substitute. He moved to Stockport County in July 1974 and there scored twice in one hundred and forty-seven starts and four games from the bench in the League in over four seasons.

Smith

Henry George/Henry

11-11-1978

1978-1981

Gk

Lanark

10-03-56

Signed by Jimmy Adamson from Yorkshire League side Winterton Rangers in October 1978, he soon became a regular member of the Reserve team and was on the bench for the first team in their UEFA Cup tie in Rumania against Craiova, but never played a game in the first team. He went on to leave Leeds for Heart of Midlothian in 1981, where he played four hundred and seventy-six Scottish League games, making his debut on 8th August 1981 and playing his final game on 20th September 1995. He also played forty-five Scottish Cup ties, fifty-five Scottish League Cup games and twenty-two European games for a total of five hundred and ninety-eight games for Hearts. He moved to Ayr United and made forty-four Scottish League appearances in a two season stay before joining Glenafton Athletic, but returning to play three further games for Ayr in the 1997-98 season. He later returned to Glenafton Athletic for two seasons, before joining Gretna in 2000-01 and then played twenty-six times for Clydebank in 2001-02 and finally had one game for Berwick Rangers in 2002-03. He won three caps for Scotland between 1988 and 1992 against Saudi Arabia, Northern Ireland and Canada, and was part of the Scotland squad at Euro 92.

Smith

J.

01-11-1947

1947-1948

FB

Saltburn

Initially a triallist he played ten games for the Reserves in the 1947-48 season.

Smith

Leonard/Len

02-09-1922

1922-1926

LH

Worcester

00-00-1903

Joined Leeds late April 1922 from Redditch. While never a first team regular he was always a dependable deputy for any half back position and played thirty three times for the first team in the League. He was also a dependable and regular performer for the Reserve team for four seasons before leaving for Bristol Rovers in June 1926. (Leeds United Player Details)

Smith

Nigel Peter/Nigel

02-12-1986

1986-1989

OR

Leeds

21-12-1969

Started with Leeds as a Youth Trainee in July 1986, turning professional in July 1988. He progressed through the Juniors and into the Reserves but left for Burnley in July 1989 and Started six League games and came off the bench in six more. He moved to Bury in August 1991, where he scored three goals in thirty-four League appearances of which four were as a substitute and one year later he was on his way to Shrewsbury Town, where he started two League games.

Smithard

Matthew

06-01-1993

1992-1996

OR

Leeds

13-06-1976

He joined Leeds from school as a Trainee and progressed through the Leeds Juniors and became one of the leading players in his midfield role, but while many of the team added England honours he was not one of them, but he was part of the fine team that famously beat Manchester United at home and away in the play-off final, to win the 1992-93 F.A. Youth Cup. He scored some vital goals and it was he that opened the scoring in the home leg with the team from over the Pennines. He signed professional forms for United in August 1995 but was released at the end of the 1995-96 season, without having played for the first team. Bradford City signed him on a free transfer in August 1996 but he only played once, when he was a thirty-first minute substitute for Lee Duxbury in a 0-0 home draw with Southend United on 5th October 1996. He left for Farsley Celtic at the end of that season. He spent the rest of his career in Non-League football spending 1997-1999 with Farsley Celtic, 1999-2002 with Ossett Town, 2002-2004, back at Farsley Celtic and 2004-2006 at Guiseley, before retiring.

Snodin

Glynn

26-04-1988

1987-1993

LB/OL

Thryburgh, near Rotherham

14-02-1960

Like his brother Ian, he joined Doncaster Rovers, as a teenager becoming an Apprentice before signing professionally in October 1977. He scored sixty-one goals in three hundred and nine League games, of which twenty-one were as a substitute. He moved to Sheffield Wednesday in June 1985 for £135,000, where he scored once in fifty-nine League appearances which included eight as a substitute before moving to Leeds in July 1987 for £150,000. He played regularly in his first two seasons, but as Howard Wilkinson bolstered his playing force for its assault on the First Division title he fell from favour. He scored once in eight starts for Oldham Athletic in August 1991 and started three games for Rotherham in February1992 as he was loaned out to get game time. He scored ten goals in eighty-three starts and eleven games from the bench, before he left Leeds on a free transfer to join Heart of Midlothian on 13th March 1992. He scored three goals and started twenty Scottish League games and also made fourteen appearances as a substitute, before moving on a free transfer to Barnsley in July 1993. He started eighteen League games and was a substitute on seven other occasions before retiring in June 1995. He then went into coaching and had a long career in that facet of the game. (Leeds United Player Details)

Snodin

Ian

03-12-1985

1985-1987

RH

Thryburgh, near Rotherham

15-08-1963

Like his brother Glynn, he joined Doncaster Rovers, in August 1980 as a teenager and was capped for England Youth on 23rd February 1982. He ran the midfield for a few seasons and was made club captain at only nineteen, by Billy Bremner, when Rovers were hit by an injury crisis. He won four Under-Twenty-One caps in the 1984-85 season. He soon caught the interest of the Leeds Manager Eddie Gray and was transferred to the club in the summer of 1985 for £200,000. While at Belle Vue he had scored twenty-five goals and made one hundred and eighty-one starts in League games and another seven as substitute. He had been transferred to Leeds by Billy Bremner and when Bremner took over at Elland Road his first job was to relieve Peter Lorimer of the Leeds captaincy and give it to Snodin. It wasn’t long before Division One’s bigger clubs approached Leeds for Snodin's services. Everton and Liverpool both initially offered £650,000 and this was followed by matching bids of £750,000 and finally both offered £840,000 in early 1987, and this time cash-strapped Leeds accepted. He had scored six goals in fifty-one League starts at Elland Road. Snodin chose Everton as his next team, even though he had agreed terms with Liverpool, and moved there on 6th January 1987. He added impetus to Everton’s midfield and just qualified to win a First Division Championship medal in 1986-87. He gained his first England "B" cap on 14th October 1987. Bought as a tough-tackling midfielder, the England Under-Twenty-One player he also showed his versatility and it proved to be a key factor in the title run-in but it also prevented him establishing himself as a first-team regular before making a positional switch to the defence. An injury to skipper Kevin Ratcliffe, saw him impress in the 1988-89 season, firstly at centre-half, and then at right-back. His transformation from midfielder to defender was accomplished with such speed and in such style that he was called up into the full England squad for a friendly international at the Olympic Stadium in Athens against Greece on 8th February 1989. Unfortunately, Snodin was forced to withdraw because of injury and his problems were compounded a matter of only a few weeks later when he was carried off during a game against Sheffield Wednesday with a serious hamstring problem, which ruled him out for much of the next three-and-a-half years. He did receive a second England "B" cap on 27th March 1990. However, injuries had continued to blight his career and he never received the honours he deserved. Despite lengthy periods of rest and several operations, Snodin struggled to regain his fitness and spent the whole of the 1991-92 season on the sidelines. He went on loan to Sunderland in October 1994. There he played six League games, without scoring before moving to Oldham Athletic, where he was sent-off on his debut in January 1995. He had started one hundred and forty-two League games for Everton and made another six appearances from the bench while scoring three goals. He also scored twice in twenty-six starts in the F.A. Cup and twice in the League Cup in twenty-three games, of which four were from the bench. At Boundary Park he made fifty-five League starts and another two from the bench without scoring. He later played at Scarborough in the 1997-98 season, playing thirty-five times in the League, of which two were from the bench, without scoring. He then returned to Doncaster Rovers in 1998 to manage the club where he started his career, making thirteen appearances in the Conference League, without scoring. He managed the club for eighteen months and then moved in to radio and television commentary and newspaper columnist and after-dinner speaker. (Leeds United Player Details)

Snow

George Edward Gardiner/George

31-01-1931

1931-1931

IL

Newcastle

09-02-1910

00-00-1977

He was signed from Walker Park in January 1931. While he created a good impression with the Reserves he never made the first team and left for Rochdale before the 1932-33 season. he scored twelve times in forty-one League games in thar season and then moved to Wrexham for the start of the 1933-34 season and he went on to score forty-five goals in two hundred and ten League games for the Welsh team before the start of WW2.

Snowball

29-10-1955

1955-1955

Gk

Nothing is known of the Goalkeeper who played just his debut and as Leeds won 6-0, it could not have been better, but one doubts that he would hardly have been tested.

Sorloth

Goran

22-11-1989

1989-1989

IR

Kristiansund, Norway

16-07-1962

He started with South Shieldsis football career with Rissa in 1979 before joining Strondheim in 1981. He joined Rosenborg in 1985 and there he won two championship medals and one Cup-winners medal and had scored thirty goals in eighty-three games before he went on trial with Borussia Moenchengladbach. He did not make a big impression and he failed to score in any of the five games that he played in the time he was there. He went to Leeds on trial in late November 1989. He had been a part-timer with Rosenborg and his trials in Germany and England was a big challenge for him against full-time professionals. However, by then he had already started to accumulate Norwegian caps and had twenty-six to his name and had recently played a full game for them in a 1-1 draw with Scotland at Hampden Park in front of a 63,987 crowd in the Group Five World Cup qualifier on 15th November 1989. He had chosen Leeds ahead of Queens Park Rangers but the twenty-seven year old did not make the Leeds first team but earned rave reviews when he scored once and set up two more in his Reserve team debut in a 5-3 win over a strong Liverpool team at Elland Road. He also score United's only goal in his second match, but, despite of this, Howard Wilkinson chose not to sign the 5' 10" striker after his fortnight trial. He returned to Rosenborg and maintained his fine scoring record, with forty-four in ninety-one League games in four seasons in which he picked up another three Championships and two Cups. He again left Norway and spent the 1993-94 season in Turkey with Bursaspor, scoring four goals in twenty-four League games. He returned to Norway and finished his career with Viking scoring seven goals from thirty-five appearances in the seasons of 1994 and 1995. He scored fifteen goals at International level and was capped fifty-five times.

Sowerby

Vincent

25-10-1958

1958-1959

FB

Newcastle

He started his football career with South Shields before joining Leeds in summer 1958. He left Leeds in the summer of 1959 after just two appearances for the Reserves.

Speak

George

29-11-1924

1923-1925

LB

Clitheroe

07-11-1890

10-03-1953

Joined Leeds on 11th July 1923 from Preston North End. He left Leeds at the end of the 1924-25 season, when he retired at the age of thirty-five. (Leeds United Player Details)

Speed

Gary Andrew/Gary

11-11-1986

1986-1996

OL/IL

Deeside

08-09-1969

27-11-2011

Joined Leeds from school in April 1986 and went into their Youth Training Scheme before signing professional in June 1988. He soon passed through the Juniors and Reserves before making his first team debut in May 1989. He gained Welsh Youth, Under-Twenty-One and eighty-five full at international level. He gave magnificent service to the club, sharing in their Second Division and First Division Championship teams in which he was always a regular. He scored thirty-nine goals in two hundred and thirty-one starts and seventeen games as a substitute in the League before moving to Everton for £3.5million. Things did not work out at Goodison, despite being made captain and after scoring fifteen goals in fifty-eight League starts he was sold to Newcastle United for £5.5m on 6th February 1998. He maintained his high level of performance and was for many years the leading appearance maker in the EPL. He had scored twenty-nine League goals in two hundred and six starts and seven from the bench when he was allowed to go to Bolton Wanderers for £750,000 on 21st July 2004 at the age of thirty-four. A model of consistency, he became the first player to reach five hundred appearances in the EPL and he carried on playing until he was thirty-eight and after he had scored fourteen League goals in one hundred and fifteen starts and six games from the bench for the Trotters, he joined Sheffield United where he scored six goals in thirty-seven League appearances. He honoured his contract with them, which ended in June 2010 before commencing his coaching career and becoming the Welsh International Manager.(Leeds United Player Details)

Spelman

Isaac/Taffy

01-05-1933

1933-1933

WH

Newcastle

09-03-1914

Spelman joined Leeds as an eighteen year-old trialist from Usworth Colliery on 13th March 1933, signing three days later. He did not make the first team but played with the Reserves before leaving for Southend United before the 1935-36 season He stood 5ft 8ins and weighed 11st. he scored three goals in forty-three League games in two seasons at Roots Hall. before being sold to Tottenham Hotspur where he scored twice in twenty-eight League games in two seasons before WW2 intervened. He made twenty-five League appearances for Hartlepools United in the 1946-47 season.

Sprake

Gareth/Gary

06-09-1961

1962-1973

Gk

Winchwen, Swansea

03-04-1945

A Welsh Schoolboy international he joined Leeds as a Junior in June 1960 and turned professional in May 1962. A member of the fine Leeds Junior team that produced so many players of international standard, he was the first to be given his first team debut, at sixteen years of age, under harrowing circumstances, involving a charter flight to Southampton, air sickness, and the game being held up pending his arrival, after Tommy Younger had been forced to withdraw at short notice and Sprake was still in Yorkshire. It no doubt steeled him for the many vital games in which he "saved the day" for Leeds. Unfortunately, he is now remembered, mostly by persons who never saw him play, for a few momentary lapses, when there is no doubt in the minds of those who saw his performances, year in and year out, that he, as much as anyone, was the reason so many trophies came the team's way. It should also be remembered that when he was sold to Birmingham in October 1973 it was for a world record fee at the time for a goalkeeper. His full record at Leeds was five hundred and six starts and two substitute appearances in all competitions. He also started sixteen League games for Birmingham City. He was capped thirty-seven times at full International level by Wales.(Leeds United Player Details)

Spridgeon

Frederick Arthur/Fred

09-09-1953

1952-1956

LB

Swansea

13-07-1935

Signed from Swansea Juniors in August 1952, he progressed through the Leeds Juniors and on through the "A" team and Reserves, but never played in the first team apart from in Friendlies. He left Leeds in July 1956 and joined Crewe Alexandra, where he made just seven League appearances in one season, before returning to Wales with Barry Town.

Sproston

Bert

02-09-1933

1933-1938

RB

Elsworth

22-06-1914

27-01-2000

After trials with Huddersfield Town, Leeds signed this cultured full-back from Sandbach Ramblers in 1933. After a year in the Reserves he made his first team debut in December 1934 and soon became the finest right back in England, winning his first cap in October 1936. He scored once in one hundred and forty games before he was sold for a huge fee, £9,500, the second largest ever at that time, to Tottenham Hotspur on 15th June 1938. He did not settle in London and returned North to join Manchester City, in early November 1938. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stacey

Alexander/Alex

02-01-1928

1927-1933

RH

London

03-06-1904

00-09-1993

Started his career with Grove House Lads Club, Northwich Victoria and New Mills. He had trials with Leeds in their Midweek League side on 12th October 1927 and was signed the following day. He proved a strong understudy for the brilliant England Captain Willis Edwards, whenever he was international duty or injured. He made just over fifty League appearances in that role over a six year period, but finally left for Sheffield United on 22nd November 1933, scoring three times in sixty-four League games for the Bramall Lane club before finishing his career at Kidderminster Harriers. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stacey

J.

05-03-1966

1966-1966

Gk

Not much is known about this player who onlly made his debut appearance for the Reserves.

Stanley

Patrick Joseph/Paddy

19-04-1957

1955-1958

RB

Dublin

09-03-1938

Joined United as a Junior from Dublin and signed professional forms in March 1955. A strongly built full-back standing just short of 6ft and weighing 12st 6lbs, he progressed through the Juniors and while he was a regular with the Reserves he never played a first team game. He left on 1st May 1958 to join Halifax Town where he found first team football, scoring once in one hundred and nineteen League games in four years.

Stanojkovic

Vujadin

04-02-1993

1993-1993

RB

Kumanovo, Yugoslavia

10-09-1963

A trialist that played just twice for the Reserves. He started his career with his hometown team in 1985-86 scoring three goals in eighteen games. He then moved to FK Vardar and scored seven goals in ninety-six games in a three year stay. By this time he had started his international career with Yugoslavia and between 1988 and 1992 he score once in twenty-one appearances. He moved to FK Partizan in 1989 and there spent the next four years and scored nine goals in one hundred and ten games. After trials with Leeds and other clubs, 1993 saw him move to Swedish side Degerfors IF and he scored five goals in sixty-nine games before leaving in 1996. While there he played on the International stage with Macedonia and gain seven caps in two years. He finished his career with Swedish club Trelleborgs FF where he scored once in thirty-four games.

Stansfield

30-10-1920

1920-1920

LB

Horsforth

Little is known of him. He only played in his debut game. He may have been a trialist and possibly James W. (Jimmy) Stansfield who was with Liverpool in 1919 and then played twice for Bury in 1920-21.

Stansfield

17-04-1922

1922-1922

IR

Little is known of him. He scored in his debut game, which remained his only game for the Leeds Reserves.

Stephen

Raymond/Ray

14-11-1990

1990-1990

IR

Aberdeen

09-12-1962

He was with French club Nancy, when he trialled for United in two consecutive Reserve team games in early November 1990. He had started his career with Deeside Boys Club and was signed by Dundee after scoring ninety-eight goals in one season and his first games with Dundee were in the Scottish League Division One in 1980-81, scoring eight goals in nineteen starts and four games from the bench. He went on to play almost seven seasons at Dens Park, all in the top flight and totalled forty-seven goals in one hundred and fifty-six Scottish League starts and twenty-five from the bench. Arsene Wenger took him to French Club Nancy in October 1986 and, although the club were relegated at the end of his first season and Wenger left, he stayed for four more seasons scoring fifty-four goals in one hundred and fifty French League games. He returned to Scotland in 1991 and played one game for Kilmarnock on 1st February 1992 and though he started the game he was substituted by Shaun McSkimming. On 6th June1992 he joined Highland League team Cove Rangers, from Nancy, and he scored six goals on debut on 5th September 1992, as his new club beat Nairn County 11-0 in the First Round of the Qualifying Cup. In November 1995, a couple of weeks after signing a two year extension of his contract, he walked out on the club after not having spoken to the manager since the club's defeat by Huntley on 16th September 1995 in the Highland Cup final. He had started a newsagent's business when he joined the club from Nancy. He gained one Scottish Under-Twenty-One Cap when he started in the 1-2 away defeat by Belgium in the European Championships on 14th December 1982.

Stephens

Alfred/Alf

14-09-1938

1936-1939

IF

Cramlington

13-06-1919

00-00-1993

He and his brother joined Leeds on 7th September 1938 from Cramlington Black Watch and their life and careers followed similar paths. Signed as amateurs, they both turned professional and with the advent of WW2 they both joined the RAF and were both taken prisoners of war and saw very little football activity until they were repatriated. Neither played for Leeds in peacetime and both left for Swindon Town before the first season of football organised by the Football League. Alf made his Leeds debut in April 1940 and scored five goals in six games. He joined Swindon Town in August 1946 and there he scored twice in sixteen League games in the 1946-47 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stephens

John William/Bill

14-09-1938

1938-1943

CF

Cramlington

13-06-1919

00-00-1974

He and his brother joined Leeds on 7th September 1938 from Cramlington Black Watch and their life and careers followed similar paths. Signed as amateurs, they both turned professional and with the advent of WW2 they both joined the RAF and were both taken prisoners of war and saw very little football activity until they were repatriated. Neither played for Leeds in peacetime and both left for Swindon Town before the first season of football organised by the Football League. Bill made his Leeds debut in March 1940 and scored twice in sixteen games and joined Swindon Town in July 1946 and scored twenty-six goals in forty-seven League games bedore joining West Ham United in December 1947, where he scored six goals in twenty-two League games in the 1947-48 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stephenson

Joseph Eric/Eric

19-01-1935

1933-1944

IF

Bexleyheath

04-09-1914

08-09-1944

Joined Leeds as an amateur from Harrogate in January 1933 and turned professional in September 1934. Became a regular and outstanding player after making his first team debut in March 1935, going on to become an English International and seemed to have the world at his feet when WW2 brought an end to organised fotball for the duration. He had played over one hundred peace-time games for Leeds and had made over thirty in the first season of the War fixtures. After becoming an officer in 1942 he became a Chindit in Burma, where he gave his life for his country, when he was killed in action in September 1944. (Leeds United Player Details)

Sterland

Melvyn/Mel

20-02-1990

1990-1993

RB

Sheffield

01-10-1961

After playing his Junior football with Middlewood Rovers he joined the Sheffield Wednesday Youth Scheme before turning professional with them on his eighteenth birthday in October 1979. He went on to score thirty-seven goals in two hundred and seventy-nine games, of which eight were from the bench. In that time he also had made seven appearances for the England Under-Twenty-Ones one for the England "B" and had represented the Football League. He became unsettled at Hillsborough and Graeme Souness saw him as part of his strong side at Ibrox and signed him on a four year contract for £800,000 in March 1989. He went straight into the Rangers first team and finished the season having scored three times in seven starts and two games from the bench in the League, which was sufficient to earn him a championship medal. He also started four times in the Scottish Cup, which included starting in the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden Park on 20th May 1989. It turned out to be his final appearance for Rangers and he was replaced by Davie Cooper, after fifty-seven minutes, and Rangers were beaten 0-1 by Celtic and so Sterland finished with a loser's medal. Graeme Souness intended to bring in Trevor Steven as his replacement in the new season and he joined his former boss Howard Wilkinson at Leeds for £600,000. In his first season of 1989-90, Leeds won the Second Division Championship, with Sterland almost an ever-present and in their first season in the top flight he was an ever-present as Leeds finished fourth. On 1st February 1992 in the 3-0 home win over Notts County, he picked up an ankle injury, but played on with the aid of cortisone injections, before finally succumbing and missing the final ten games as Leeds won the championship. He had several operations but eventually after a couple of failed attempts to make a first team comeback he had to retire at the end of the 1993-94 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stevens

18-09-1957

1957-1957

LB

Nothing is known of this player other than he played one game at Left-back for the Reserves.

Stevenson

William Byron/Byron

28-04-1973

1973-1982

FB/LH

Llanelli

07-09-1956

06-09-2007

A Welsh Youth International, he joined Leeds straight from school and turned professional on 7th September 1973. He made his first team debut in April 1975 and was always in waiting to replace one of United's aging stars. He gained three Welsh Under-Twenty-One caps and eventually fifteen full Welsh Caps. He left Leeds for Birmingham City in exchange for Frank Worthington in March 1982 after scoring five goals in one hundred and ten appearances in all competitions of which eight were as a substitute. He scored three goals in seventy-four League games, of which five were from thebench.before moving to Bristol Rovers in July 1985. Due to injuries he retired at the end of the 1985-86 season having scored three goals in thirty League starts and one game from the bench at Eastville. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stevenson

Ernest/Ernie

17-03-1951

1951-1952

IF

Rotherham

28-12-1923

15-10-1970

A "Buckley Boy", Stevenson was recruited by Wolverhampton Wanderers in December 1940 from their Nursey team of Wath Wanderers and made his first team debut for them at the age of seventeen in the War-Time League in 1941-42. After WW2 he remained at Molineux, making eight League appearances before leaving for Cardiff City in October 1948, where he scored fifteen goals in fifty League appearances. He left for Southampton in February 1950 and had scored eight goals in twenty-four League appearances before he was given in part-exchange for Frank Dudley on 1st February 1951. He went straight into the first team and had scored four goals in thirteen League games by the end of the season. He lost his first team spot after scoring once in three games in the following season and was released to Non-League Wisbech Town in July 1952. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stewart

Alfred

25-11-1920

1920-1921

HB

00-00-1901

He was a Nineteen-years-old and stood 6ft and weighed 11st 7lb when he joined United, after first being a trialist, on 16th December 1920 from Grimesthorpe Old Boys in Sheffield. He had made his debut, at Centre-Half, as a trialist on 25th November 1920. He quickly cemented his place in the Reserve team, playing Right-Half as Ernie Hart returned to Centre-Half, making about twenty appearances before the end of the season. Despite this, he left at the end of the season and he later played with Mexborough and by 1923-24 he had joined Castleford Town.

Stewart

David Steel/David

03-11-1973

1973-1978

Gk

Glasgow

11-03-1947

After starting with Kilsyth Rangers, he joined Ayr United and became their regular keeper playing well over one hundred and fifty League games and gaining seven Scottish Under-Twenty-three caps before Don Revie bought him to replace the newly departed Gary Sprake in October 1973 and he quickly established himself as a reliable deputy for David Harvey and a Reserve team regular. When Harvey was injured in a car accident in early February 1975, he became the Leeds first choice and excelled in the European Cup run. Unfortunately for Stewart, on his recovery, Harvey barred his way to the Leeds team and a full Scottish Cap. It was not until September 1977 that he won his only Scottish Cap and though he did displace Harvey for a short time, he had to be happy with life in the Leeds Reserves and made just seventy-four appearances in all competitions while at Elland Road. He finally moved to West Bromwich Albion in November 1978 but, there too, he had to play second fiddle to Tony Godden and did not get one League game in the year and a half he was there. He left for Swansea City in February 1980, where he started fifty-seven League games before leaving for Hong Kong in May 1982.(Leeds United Player Details)

Stewart

Edward McDonald/Edward

22-08-1959

1959-1960

LH

Dundee

Joined Leeds as a trialist from Arbroath on 15th August 1959. He formerly played for Dundee Osborne, Dundee United, Norwich C (on loan, while on National Service but returning to Dundee United, after Military Service, Arbroath. He subsequently joined St. Johnstone.

Stewart

Frank Reginald/Reg

22-01-1921

1921-1921

IR

Grenoside

00-00-1898

Older brother of Alf Stewart, he made two consecutive appearances for the Leeds United Reserves as an amateur at Inside-Right, prior to one at Inside-Left two games later, before moving to Mexborough on 11th March 1921.

Stewart

James Gordon/Gordon

29-03-1952

1951-1953

IF

Durban, South Africa

07-08-1927

00-12-1980

Joined Leeds in October 1951 from Parkhill in Durban, after Leeds gave trials to Stewart and another South African, John Skene, who was not taken on. He quickly made the first team, making his debut in January 1952 but after scoring twice in seven League games in his first season. He did play several times for the Reserves in that time, but he could only add two first-team appearances more the following season and returned to South Africa at the end of that season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stewart

W.

12-03-1921

1921-1921

IL

Possibly a brother of Alf Stewart, he made only his debut appearance for Leeds Reserves.

Stiens

Craig

03-12-2002

2000-2004

OR

Swansea

31-07-1984

Capped by Wales at Under-Sixteen, Stiens joined Leeds as a trainee in 2000, turning professional in August 2002. By that time he had been capped by Wales at Under-Eighteen where he had gained two caps after once coming on for James Collins in the sixty-third minute of a 0-1 loss to Slovakia on 17th October 2000 and then starting in a 2-1 win over Latvia two days later and playing until replaced by Anthony Fowler in the seventy-fourth minute. He went on to represent the Welsh Under-Nineteen side, making his debut on 7th August 2001 in a 4-1 win over the Faroe Islands at the Vetch Field, Swansea and two days later he scored his first Welsh Under-Nineteen goal as the home side again won against the same opposition by eight goals to two at Haverfordwest. He gained two more caps on 26th August 2001 in a 6-1 win in Estonia in which he scored the third Welsh goal in the seventy-fifth minute before being replaced by Peter Davies in the eighty-second minute. The second cap in quick succession came two days later in a 0-1 defeat by Poland and he played eighty-one minutes before being replaced by Lewis Summers. He added two further caps when he played a full game in the 0-4 loss to Northern Ireland on 18th November 2002 and two days later he again started in a 2-0 win in Andorra and played seventy-three minutes before being replaced by Ramon Castille. At Leeds he progressed through the Juniors but never got much exposure in the Reserves due to the clubs excess of quality players as they sought European and EPL success. In December 2002 he was loaned to Swansea Town for the rest of the season. While there he managed three substitute appearances for the first team. He returned to Leeds in May 2003 and remained for another eight months before signing for Welsh side Merthyr Tydfil, then of the Southern Premier League, in January 2004. He remained at Merthyr until May 2009, when the club was in financial troubles before he left for fellow Welsh League side Neath. He scored fourteen goals, in twenty-five starts and six games from the bench, before returning to Merthyr Tydfil the following season.

Stiles

John Charles/John

25-04-1984

1984-1989

RH/OR

Manchester

06-05-1964

Son of Nobby Stiles, Nephew of Johnny Giles, he started as an amateur with Shamrock Rovers in 1981-82 but after he had suffereed a succession of injuries which restricted him to a handful of appearances, he joined Johnny Giles' Vancouver Whitecaps and there met Peter Lorimer, who recommended him to Leeds, where he was given a trial with the Reserves. He soon became a regular with the Reserves and progressed to the first team, making his debut in March 1985. He scored twice in forty-nine League starts and sixteen games from the bench, before he moved to Doncaster Rovers in August 1989. There he scored twice in eighty-nine League appearance, of which one was as a substitute. He went on loan to Rochdale, where he started twice and came off the bench twice in March 1992 before playing in Ireland and in non-League football with Gainsborough Trinity. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stoker

Gareth

25-04-1990

1988-1991

IL

Bishop Auckland

22-02-1973

He joined the Leeds Training scheme in 1988 and first played for the Juniors late in the 1989-90 season and also had one appearance as a substitute for the Reserves. He was released by Leeds in July 1991 and went on trial to Ipswich Town but was released by them one month later. He was signed by Hull City in September 1991 and he went on to make their first team scoring twice in thirty League games, six of which were as a substitute before he was released in May at the end of the 1992-93 season. It is thought that he returned to the Bishop Auckland area and played there until he signed for Hereford United in March 1995. He scored six goals in fifty-eight League games for the Bulls, three of which were from the bench. This aroused the interest of Cardiff City who paid £80,000 for him on 29th January 1997. He made a good start to his time in Wales scoring twice in his first dozen games but then ran into injury problems as cruciate ligament damage in March 1998 saw him miss months and he then struggled for form. He had scored for goals in thirty-six League games of which eight were from the bench when he left Cardiff on 19th February 1999, when he joined Rochdale on a free transfer. He was loaned to Scarborough on 9th September 1999, where he scored four goals in seventeen League starts. When he joined Scarborough on a permant basis on 24th December 1999 he had scored once in twelve League appearances, one being as a substitute, with Rochdale. He at last found a team in which he featured on a regular basis and scored twice in one hundred and eight starts and another fifteen from the bench in the League, before moving to Forest Green Rangers on 4th June 2003, where he made twenty-three League starts before his contract finished one year later. On 4th July 2004 he signed with Leigh RMI and scored five times in twenty-three League starts before joining Wakefield as their Player/Assistant Manager in 2006 and two years later he joined Ossett Town as Assistant Manager in May 2008 and retired from playing.

Storrie

James/Jim

24-08-1963

1962-1967

CF/IF

Kirkintilloch

31-03-1940

11-11-2014

Starting with Kelvinside Thistle and then Kilsyth Rangers before joining Airdrieonians and with forty-eight League goals in eighty-nine Scottish League Division One games in his three and a half year stay he arrived at Leeds aged twenty-two and a reputation for finding the net. In a team thay included John Charles, Bobby Collins and many rising stars he was one of the forwards that enhanced his reputation as Leeds almost gained promotion but in the following season, when promotion was achieved, he was sidelined for long periods with injury. When fit he always seemed to find the net and figured amongst the leading goalscorers, but as Peter Lorimer and other bright young stars emerged he found himself no longer first choice in the 1966-67 season and on 25th February 1967 he left Leeds for Aberdeen, but, after three goals in twelve Scottish League games, he came back to England in December 1967 to join Rotherham United. He soon found his goalscoring touch scoring nineteen goals in seventy starts and one game from the bench in the League. He then moved to Portsmouth in December 1969 and netted twelve goals in forty-three League starts and in a loan spell with Aldershot, in March 1972, he scored once in five League games. He moved back north of the border in October 1972 to become player/coach with St Mirren. He scored three times in nine League games, of which two were as a substitute, and three in six League Cup ties, for the Saints before he was on his travels again, moving south as Player-Manager of Southern League Havant & Waterlooville. He later Managed St Johnstone.(Leeds United Player Details)

Strachan

Gordon David/Gordon

15-05-1989

1989-1995

OR

Edinburgh

09-02-1957

A Scottish Schoolboy and Youth International he seemed a certainty to join Hibernian after leaving school but, as Eddie Turnbull had reservations, Dundee stepped in and took him on, in October 1971. He was a star from the beginning winning awards in the two years that he was in the Dundee reserves as a teenager and after his first team debut soon became a regular and scored thirteen goals in fifty-six starts and thirteen as a substitute in the Scottish League, and gained one Scotland Under-Twenty-One cap, before being sold to Aberdeen for £50,000 in November 1977. He became a part of the all-conquering Aberdeen side that won many trophies in Scotland and in Europe, scoring fifty-five goals in one hundred and seventy-five starts and eight games from the bench in the Scottish League and had started his collection of Scottish caps that would eventually reach fifty. Manchester United paid £600,000 for his services in August 1984 and again he was part of teams that won English and European competitions as he scored thirty-three goals in one hundred and sixty League games, five of which were as a substitute. He fell out of favour at Old Trafford and Howard Wilkinson saw him as the kingpin needed to take his team from oblivion to the top team in the land. He signed Strachan from Manchester United for £300,000 in March 1989. Leeds won promotion, as champions, from the Second Division in 1989-90 and two years later in the 1991-92 season they took the English First Division Championship. He went on to score thirty-seven goals in one hundred and eighty-eight starts and nine games from the bench in the League, before he was transferred to Coventry City, in March 1995, where he was to be groomed for a management role. He he started thirteen and was a substitute in another thirteen League games before he hung up his boots. He later managed Southampton, Celtic, Middlesbrough and Scotland.(Leeds United Player Details)

Strandli

Frank

04-02-1993

1993-1994

CF

Kristiansand, Norway

16-05-1972

He signed for IK Start in 1989 when still not quite seventeen, but had soon made his mark with nine goals in twenty League games in the 1989 season. 1990 was not so productive with no goals in seventeen games and 1991 saw him net four in twenty-two games, but it was the 1992 season in which he scored sixteen goals in twenty-two League games that prompted Howard Wilkinson's interest. He had by then scored once in ten games for the Norwegian Under-Eighteen side and he had also first played for the Norwegian Under-Twenty-one side, initially when still not yet eighteen and had scored twelve goals in twenty-six appearances. He had also been capped for the full Norwegian team on six occasions before joining Leeds. Leeds had wanted him to come to England in October 1992 but he had to complete his National Service with the Norwegian Army and the move was delayed because of difficulties in getting a work permit. He did get half a game in a friendly against AC Milan in December, a month after collecting his sixth Norwegian cap against China. However, it all turned sour at Leeds and, suffering from homesickness, he failed to start a Premiership game in 1993-94 and in November 1994 was transferred to SK Brann for £100,000, after spending six months on loan with the Norwegian club. Even though he had languished in the Leeds Reserves he was still picked for the National squad and had scored his first international goal in his seventh international on 15th January 1994 when he opened the scoring just on half time against the USA at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium at Tempe Arizona, but Norway could not prevent being beaten 1-2 by full-time. Four days later he was on the bench against Costa Rica but was not used, but on 20th April 1994 there was a full game in a 0-0 draw with Portugal at the Ulleval Stadion in another friendly. It had all started so well. Just eleven minutes after coming on for Rod Wallace he had opened the scoring against Middlesbrough in his debut but it was to prove a false start for the big Norwegian striker. He had arrived at Elland Road just days earlier in a £350,000 transfer from IK Start, where he had scored thirty-six goals in ninety games, but he struggled to adapt to the pace of the English game and his career at both domestic and international level dipped. It had all looked so promising for a player who had first trained with Leeds in 1991 and been a fully paid up member of the Leeds United Supporters Club. However his Leeds record showed two goals in five League starts and nine games from the bench. He scored three goals in four starts after joining the Bergen club permanently in the 1994 season and he remained there until the end of the 1995 season. He scored fourteen goals in forty-two games for SK Brann before moving to Lillestrom SK in late 1995. There he found the net regularly and amassed fifteen goals in just thirty-seven starts and one game from the bench in the 1996 and 1997 seasons. His form was still good enough to warrant inclusion in the Norwegian team and he scored his second international goal when he got the fourth goal in the fifty-ninth minute of a 5-0 win over Azerbaijan in a World Cup qualifier at the Ulleval Stadion on 2nd June 1996. He added two more caps in the same competition to bring his tally to eleven with two more starts in a 3-0 win at the same venue over Hungary on 9th October 1996 in which he made way for Egil Ostenstad with seven minutes left on the clock, and the a 1-0 win over Switzerland at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern on 10th November 1996. He then moved to Greek club, Panathinaikos, where he scored eighteen goals in sixty appearances from 1997 to 1999. His International career was on the up as Norway went on to top Group Three of the World Cup and Strandli played in all eight games, and on 30th April 1997 he played seventy-two minutes before being replaced by Jostein Flo at the Ulleval Stadion in a 1-1 draw with Finland and on 30th May at the same venue the same player replaced him for the final minute as Norway beat Brazil 4-2 in a friendly. He prought his caps to fifteen with two full games in a 1-1 draw with Hungary at the Ferenc Puskas Stadium, Budapest on 8th June 1997 in another World Cup qualifier and a 1-0 win at the Laugardalsvollurin, Reykjavik, on 20th July 1997. Three more World Cup qualifiers brought it to eighteen as he replaced Erik Mykland for the last twenty minutes of a 4-0 win over Finland at the Olympiastadion, Helsinki, on 20th August 1997, then played the first half of a 1-0 win over Azerbaijan at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadion, Baku, before being replaced by Gunnar Halle on 6th September 1997 and four days later he was a seventy-second minute substitute for Miniu Jakobsen at the Ulleval Stadion as Switzerland were beaten 5-0. Although he added three more caps in the lead up to the World Cup Finals in France in 1998 he did not make the final twenty-two players named in the final squad. He was a substitute for Stig Inge Bjornebye for the last seven minutes in a 0-0 draw with Colombia at the Ulleval Stadion on 8th October 1997, he then scored his third international goal, when he opened the scoring in the thirteenth minute of a 3-3 draw with France on 25th February 1998, when he was replaced by Egil Ostenstad for the final four minutes and the there was a full game on 22nd April at Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, in a 2-0 win over Denmark. His final three caps came in a 1-3 loss to Latvia at Ulleval Stadion in a European qualifier on 6th September 1998 and two friendlies, the first a 1-0 win over Israel at the Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, on 20th January 1999, when he was replaced just before the final whistle by Jostein Flo and two days later at the Umm Al-Fahm Municipal Stadion, Tel Aviv, where he was replaced by the same player at the start of the second half in a 3-3 draw with Estonia. He then returned to Scandinavia to play with Danish club Aalborg Boldspilklub and in two years scored twenty-four goals in fifty-three matches, including nine in seventeen appearances in the 1998-99 season when the club won the championship, before retiring in September 2002, due to a groin injury for which he received $1m in insurance compensation. He coached in Southern Norway in 2003 but quit in early 2005 and then became coach of his first club FK Start. He attempted to resume his playing career as a central defender with FC Lund, a team who occupied Norway’s seventh division, but failed to do so.(Leeds United Player Details)

Straw

Ian

17-09-1985

1985-1985

RB/RH

Sheffield

27-05-1967

A trialist from Sheffield, he is believed to be the former Southampton Apprentice, who later joined Grimsby Town in August 1986 and started seven League games and was a substitute in three others before being released at the end of the 1986-87 season when he joined Burton Albion. He appears to have been unsuccessful in his trial at Leeds but played three consecutive games for the Reserves.

Street

Jack

17-02-1951

1950-1951

IR

Liverpool

30-05-1928

Joined Leeds on 14th February 1951 from Bootle, when he was 22, stood 5'11", and weighed 12st 3lb. Prior to that he had played for Liverpool, and also Southport, where he scored once in seven appearances, moving Tranmere Rovers, all as an Amateur. He then turned professional upon joining Reading, but he soon joined Bootle before he had a trial at Leeds on 14th February 1951.He only played one game, probably his trial, for the reserves on 17th February 1951. He later played for Barrow, for whom he signed in July 1953. He did play 30 games and netted five times before retiring at the end of the season

Stuart

Brian

04-04-1970

1968-1971

WH

Kimberworth

Joined Leeds on 20th July 1920 from Dundee. He left Leeds and returned back over the border to sign with Dundee Hibernian after just one season, making twenty-five appearances for them from a maximum thirty-eight in the 1921-22 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Stuart

Brian

04-04-1970

1968-1971

WH

Kimberworth

5ft 5ins 11st, he joined Leeds straight from school, where he had represented Rotherham Schools and played several games for the Yorkshire Schoolboys. He signed professional terms on his seventeenth birthday and made the Reserves, but never the first team and was released in 1971.

Stuart

George

28-08-1920

1920-1921

LH

East Wemyss

04-07-1895

00-00-1989

Joined Leeds on 20th July 1920 from Dundee. He left Leeds and returned back over the border to sign with Dundee Hibernian after just one season, making twenty-five appearances for them from a maximum thirty-eight in the 1921-22 season. (Leeds United Player Details)

Sturman

Sean

07-05-1977

1976-1978

M/D

Port Talbot

A good all-round sportsman, who played Soccer, Cricket and Rugby Union as a schoolboy before deciding on Soccer as a career. He progressed through the Leeds Juniors to the Reserve team, but never made the first team.

Sumner

Justin Thomas, Justin

03-10-1988

1987-1989

FB

Harrogate

19-10-1970

After representing Harrogate schools he joined United as an Apprentice in 1987. He progressed through the Leeds Juniors to the Reserve team, but did not sign professional forms at Leeds. He did however sign for Doncaster Rovers in August 1989, after a short period with Rowntree Mackintosh, and started two League games for them in the 1989-90 season.

Sutherland

Harry Ross/Harry

03-09-1938

1938-1947

CF

Salford

30-07-1915

Sutherland joined Leeds from Sedgley Park before the start of the 1938-39 season and quickly made a reputation as a goal-scoring centre-forward for the Leeds Reserves and made his first team debut in February 1939. He scored once in three League appearances. With the start of WW2 he scored three goals in five games. He had lost his best years to WW2 and could not make the first team when football recommenced and he joined Exeter City in May 1947. There he scored three times in fourteen appearances in the 1947-48 season and in July 1948 he left for Bournemouth but did not play any League games for them. (Leeds United Player Details)

Swales

S.

31-12-1920

1932-1933

OL

Little is known of him. He only played a couple of games for the reserves.

Swan

John/Jack

09-12-1922

1922-1921

IL

Easington

10-07-1892

00-01-1990

Joined Leeds on 17th November 1920 from Huddersfield Town. He left Leeds to sign with Watford on 7th September 1925, after making more than one hundred first team appearances and almost fifty goals. (Leeds United Player Details)

Swan

Peter Harold/Peter

31-08-1983

1984-1989

CF/CH

Leeds

28-09-1966

6ft 2 ins 12st 9lb in 1984, he was a pupil of Middleton Park School and Parkside High School, and represented Leeds City boys from under-ten to under-fifteen and Yorkshire at Under-Fifteen and Under-Nineteen levels and played for Yorkshire Amateurs. He signed schoolboy forms with Leeds on 28th September 1980. He was then an Apprentice from July 1982 for two years after which, he signed professional forms for Leeds in August 1984. After progressing through the Juniors and Reserves he made his first team debut as a substitute in a Full-Members Cup loss to Manchester City on 14th October 1985, which was followed by his starting debut in a League game on 1st January 1986, in a 3-1 home win over Oldham Athletic. He was played in the central striker or defender role but successive Managers in Billy Bremner and Howard Wilkinson could not find him a regular spot in their starting eleven and he left for Hull City for £200,000 on 23rd March 1989, after scoring eleven goals in forty-three League starts and six more from the bench. He score twenty-four goals for the Tigers and started seventy-six League games, together with another four from the benchin his two year stay. He joined Port Vale for £300,000 in August 1991. At Vale Park he scored five goals from one hundred and five starts in League games and played a further six games from the bench. His next move was to Plymouth Argyle for £300,000 in July 1994. On 4th August 1995 he moved to Burnley for £200,000. While at Home Park he had scored twice in twenty-seven League games, of which three were as a substitute. In his first spell at Turf Moor he scored seven goals in forty-seven League starts and two more from the bench. He then to Bury on 8th August 1997 for £50,000. He scored six times from thirty-seven League games, eleven of which were as a substitute. He was back at Turf Moor for the next season signing on a free transfer on 28th August 1998 and in his second spell at Turf Moor he stayed for almost two seasons, but only made eleven starts and eight substitute appearances in the League and hardly featured in the first team in the second season. He then signed for York City on 14th March 2000, becoming captain, but only managed only eleven games before he was forced to quit football after sustaining serious knee cartilage damage. (Leeds United Player Details)

Swinburne

Trevor

21-08-1985

1985-1986

Gk

Houghton-le-Spring

20-06-1953

Born at East Rainton, halfway between Durham and Sunderland, his father and brother both played for Newcastle United, but he became an Apprentice at Sunderland, straight from School in 1968. He was part of the Sunderland Youth team that won the Youth Cup in 1968-69 and the following season, which saw them go out to Leeds in the Fourth Round. He turned professional in June 1970, but could not displace Jim Montgomery and after making his debut at Leyton Orient on the Monday before the 1973 Cup Final he only managed ten League starts before moving to Carlisle United in May 1977 in search of regular League football. He started two hundred and forty-eight League games at Brunton Park before moving to Brentford in August 1983. He never really settled in London and after Forty-five League starts was happy to join Leeds in June 1985, as his wife was Harrogate born. Mervyn Day was in good form for the first team and Swinburne managed only two starts and spent much of his time in te Reserves, before being loaned to Doncaster Rovers in late September 1985 and made four starts before returning a month later. He moved to Lincoln City in February 1986 and started thirty-four games. He retired in May 1987.(Leeds United Player Details)

Sweeney

Walter

07-09-1968

1964-1969

FB

Glasgow

A Scottish schoolboy international, he joined Leeds from school as an apprentice on 23rd May 1964 and signed professional forms. 5ft 7ins and 9st 9 1/2 lb, he progressed through the Juniors and became fairly regular with the Reserves. He left Leeds on 1st March 1969 to join Morton, where he made three League appearances.

Sykes

R.

22-08-1953

1953-1954

HB

Nothing is known about the player other than he played a handful of games in the Reserves and "A" team in the 1953-54 season.