Tom Richardson (footballer)
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 1891 | ||
Place of birth | Worksop, England | ||
Position(s) | Right back / left back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1908–1910 | Worksop Town | ||
1910–1911 | Retford Town | ||
1911–1916 | Sheffield United | 2 | (0) |
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 First 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]