Tom Richardson (footballer)

Tom Richardson
Personal information
Date of birth	1891
Place of birth	Worksop, England
Position(s)	Right back / left back
Senior career*
Years	Team
1908–1910	Worksop Town
1910–1911	Retford Town
1911–1916	Sheffield United
1919–1929	Worksop Town
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tom Richardson (1891 – after 1929) was an English footballer who played as a full back and spent the majority of his career at Worksop Town. He did have a three-year spell in the Football League with Sheffield United but managed only a handful of appearances in that time. He was born in Worksop.

Career

Richardson started his career with Worksop Town, spent a season at Retford Town, and eventually arrived at Sheffield United.^[1] He failed to succeed at what was then one of the top sides in the country and made only a couple of appearances in the Football League and a handful more during wartime football.^[1]

Richardson had initially worked in Manton Colliery and enlisted in the army during the Second World War,^[1] he returned to Worksop Town on his discharge where he spend ten years as a mainstay of the side, captaining it for much of that time.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Denis Clarebrough & Andrew Kirkham (2008). Sheffield United Who's Who. Hallamshire Press. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-874718-69-7.

[blades_whos_who-1] Denis Clarebrough & Andrew Kirkham (2008). Sheffield United Who's Who. Hallamshire Press. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-874718-69-7.

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