Richmond: Joseph (Joe)

1922-1926 (Player Details)

Centre Forward

Born: Leasingthorpe, Nr Durham: 26-02-1897

Debut: Wolverhampton Wanderers (a): 09-12-1922

5’11” 11st 10lb (1925)

A Durham Schools representative player, he played for Sittingbourne before serving with the Royal Flying Corps as a flight-sergeant in World War War One, winning the French Medal Militaire. In March 1922 he signed for Shildon Athletic from where he joined Leeds in December 1922 when he was twenty-five. Although he was fairly inexperienced, Richmond led the Leeds 1923-24 promotion side side with panache and vigour, scoring fifteen goals in thirty-five League games. In the top flight he struggled to reproduce his form of the Second Division Championship winning season. He gave way to Jack Thom for a short while but both were were pushed aside as the new goalscoring sensation, Tom Jennings, forced his way into the team. He moved to Second Division Barnsley in February 1926 and found it more to his liking scoring five times in thirteen League games but in July that year he went to Norwich, where he made a successful transition to left-back before retiring in 1930. He made one hundred and twenty-four League appearances, scoring nine goals, mostly while he was in the forwards. After World War Two he coached Letchworth Town and then became a publican, running the Quebec Tavern and the Beaufort Arms in Norwich. He died in Norwich on 6th March 1953.