Lomas: Albert (Bert)

1948-1949 (Player Details)

Goalkeeper

Born: Tyldesley: 14-10-1924

Debut: v West Bromwich Albion (h): 02-10-1948

Height&Weight: Unknown

Lomas came from Bolton Wanderers (amateur) junior football in September 1948 and was plunged straight in to the struggling Leeds first team. It was his only game for Leeds as although Jim Twomey, who was thirty-four by then, did not play again for United, Harry Fearnley took his chance until Harold Searson was signed in January 1949 and soon was the established Leeds goalkeeper. Both Lomas and Fearnley moved on. Fearnley in January and Lomas in June of 1949. He was released to Mossley, where he played forty-eight games and excelled as part of a very successful FA Cup run by the club in the 1949-50 campaign in which they battled through the qualifying rounds before being beaten in a replay in the Second Round proper. He had other chances at League football joining Rochdale in May 1950, where he made nine appearances, and Chesterfield in July 1951, where he played twenty-nine times. He also had a spell with Non-League Wigan Athletic.