Fagan

George

23-01-1954

1953-1958

FB

Dundee

27-09-1934

Signed on 2nd November 1953 from Dundee St Joseph, as a 19 year old, standing 5ft 10ins and weighing 11st, Fagan was able to play on a fairly regular basis for the Reserves and "A" team, but he never made a senior appearance for the first team. He stayed with United until 1st May 1958, when he left for Halifax Town. There he scored three goals in sixty-seven League games before leaving three years later.

Fairclough

Courtney Huw/Chris

10-10-1991

1989-1995

CH

Nottingham

12-04-1964

He joined his hometown team, Nottingham Forest, as a Trainee, straight from school and signed professional forms with them in October 1981. He progressed through to the first team and gained seven England Under-Twenty-One caps as well as scoring once in one hundred and two League starts and five games from the bench, before moving to Tottenham Hotspur on 3rd July 1987 for £367,000. After being an ever-present in the 1987-88 season, he found his career badly affected by a succession of injuries and he had scored five goals in sixty League starts, when he was loaned to Leeds United on 23rd March 1987. He had played only three games for them when Leeds made the move permanent by signing him for £500,000 on 4th April 1989. In his six years at Leeds he was almost an ever-present as Leeds won the Second Division Championship in 1989-90, followed, two years later, by being First Division champions. He was never capped by England at the top level but was chosen for the England "B" side. He scored twenty-one goals in one hundred and eighty-seven starts and six from the bench, in League games. He moved to Bolton Wanderers on 4th July 1995 for £500,000 helping them win the First Division in his first season. After scoring eight League goals in ninety games, one as a substitute, he was given a free transfer to Notts County on 28th July 1998. He scored once and started sixteen games in the League, while at Meadow Lane. On 18th March 1999, he was loaned to York City until the end of the season, and started eleven League games. The Minstermen signed him on a free-transfer on 25th June 1999 and he went on to score one League goal in twenty-six League games, of which one was as a substitute, before retiring on 7th February 2001. (Leeds United Player Details)

Farrell

Craig Wayne/Craig

22-09-1999

1999-2002

CF

Middlesbrough

05-12-1982

At seven years old he was playing with Cleveland Juniors, but moved to Marton Boys when ten but also played with Middlesbrough and stayed with them until the age of fifteen, but always remained a supporter of his hometown. He was playing for the Cleveland County at the age of fifteen, when Leeds asked him to come for a trial. He played two games for the Under-Seventeen team and scored a hat-trick against Manchester City and two against Newcastle United. He was offered a four year professional contract. He then scored ten times in the club's remaining six fixtures in that season. He then signed the contract after having trials with several other clubs. Leeds had many future International stars and youth internationals on their books, which was good for him to play surrounded by them, but put him behind the likes of Bridges, Kewell and Huckerby, and Alan Smith, Lee Matthews, Tony Hackworth, Warren Feeney and Caleb Folan and others in the lower levels. While he shone in the Juniors and later in the Reserves, he could not make the first team as Leeds brought in the likes of Mark Viduka, Robbie Fowler and others to make his progress impossible. But at sixteen, soon after joining Leeds, he was representing England three times at Under-Sixteen level in the European Championships, and scored once against Slovakia, as England made it to the quarter-finals before being eliminated by the hosts, the Czech Republic. The 6ft, 12stone 11lb, striker went on loan to Carlisle United, from 5th October to 21st November 2002, and scored three goals in seven League starts, but also scored one in one start in the F.A. Cup and twice in one start and one from the bench in the Football League Trophy. This prompted Carlisle to sign him on 22nd November 2002 for a nominal fee. He stayed at Brunton Park for three seasons, scoring seventeen League goals in forty-eight starts and twenty-five more as a substitute, together with one goal in one start and two games from the bench in the F.A. Cup and none in eight starts and one from the bench in the Football League Trophy. He moved to Exeter City on 5th August 2005 on a free transfer and spent the 2005-06 season there, scoring eight League goals in twenty-six starts and twelve from the bench and started one F.A. Cup game without scoring. He next moved to Conference team, York City, on a free transfer on 1st August 2006 and spent three seasons there, scoring twenty-one League goals in seventy-five starts and nineteen from the bench and he also started two F.A. Cup ties and five in the F.A. Trophy, without scoring. He spent the final few months of his stay on loan, from 25th January 2009 to the end of the season, with fellow Blue Square Premiership side, Oxford United, and scored twice in fifteen League games of which eight were from the bench. In the following summer he signed with another Blue Square Premiership team, Rushden & Diamonds, in a deal which saw Michael Rankine go in the opposite direction in exchange, and where he spent the next two seasons, scoring twelve League goals in sixty eight appearances, of which thirty were from the bench. He also started two and was a substitute in another in the F.A. Cup but did not find the net. Another free transfer took him to AFC Telford United, also of the Blue Square Premiership, where he scored twice in seven starts and nine from the bench in the League, but one substitute game in the F.A. Cup was goalless. He was loaned to Hinckley United of the Conference North on 4th January 2012, and after scoring one in four games he left Telford by mutual consent on 31st January 2012, signing for Hinckley on the following day, he scored a further five goals in twelve League and two more in the F.A. Trophy appearances before leaving at the end of the season. On 9th June 2012 he signed for Blyth Spartans, there he scored seven goals in eighteen League games. He moved to Whitby Town of the same League but a hip injury caused his retirement in February 2015. He had scored twenty-nine goals in twenty-two league starts in the first two seasons he spent at Whitby and had added three more in two games in the following season.

Farrelly

Stephen/Steve

25-04-1990

1990-1990

Gk

Liverpool

27-03-1965

He is believed to be a trialist/loan player who played the final three games for the Reserves in late April/early May 1990. If he is that player he was 6ft 5ins tall and weighed over 15st and started his career with North-West Counties First Division side, Knowsley United, before joining Chester City, who were then in the Third Division. However, he failed to break into the first team and he returned to Knowsley United for a second spell before joining Northern Premier League side, Southport. He played thirty-four League games for them in the 1989-90 and 1990-91 season. His club honours saw him gain two Cheshire Senior Cup winners' medals in 1991 and 1992, winners' medals in the Conference League Cup and Staffordshire Senior Cup in 1994. He was a member of the prestigious Middlesex Wanderers on their 1993 tour of Germany and Holland, earned a semi-pro cap in 1995 and was named in the Conference Team of the Year for 1994-95 after he had joined Macclesfield Town in August 1994 where he played one hundred and sixty-nine League games, scoring one goal at Merthyr Tydfil with a long punt up the field on 18th December 1993. League Two side Rotherham United paid £20,000 to take him to Millmoor on 13th July 1995. He started just seven League games before moving to Northern Premier League, Barrow, on a free transfer on 9th January 1997 and stayed until 27th March 1997 without a game in the League, when he joined Division Three side, Scunthorpe United, as a non-contract player, until 31st May 1998 but did not make the first team. He returned to Barrow on 1st August 1998 but did not stay long as he joined Kingstonian of the Football Conference on 24th October 1998. In November 2000 he had an operation on a spinal abscess at the base of his neck. While there he started seventy League games and was a substitute in five, before moving to Farnborough of the Football Conference on 1st August 2001 and started seventeen League games before joining Woking of the Football Conference on 14th August 2002. He started eleven League games and came off the bench once. He played his final game for them on 28th December 2002 and retired at the end of the season.

Farren

Larry

25-04-2001

2000-2002

RB

Letterkenny, Donegal

19-07-1983

The Defender joined United from school and progressed through the Juniors and had a handful of games with the Reserves, but there was always plenty of competition. Farren, who was by now too old to play for the Academy, and needed to gain some first team experience. In October 2002 he was loaned to Unibond Premier club, Hyde United, for a month. He played seven League and one F.A. Cup tie before returning. However with Leeds needing to drastically cut their wages bill, he was released in May 2004. On Wednesday, 10 November, 2004 Paul Kee, newly installed as Omagh manager made Farren his first signing.In June 2005 the club had financial dificulties and became defeunct.

Faulkner

John Gilbert/John

02-09-1970

1970-1972

CH

Orpington

10-03-1948

Signed from Sutton United in March 1970, the 6ft 12st 3lb Central Defender played regularly with the Reserves after making his first team debut in April 1970. He only made two League appearances, mainly due to injuries and moved to Luton Town in March 1972 and in over five seasons at Kenilworth Road he scored six goals in two hundred and nine League starts.(Leeds United Player Details)

Fearnley

Harrison Lockhead/Harry

08-09-1945

1941-1949

Gk

Morley

27-05-1923

He was associated with Leeds from the age of fourteen but spent on year at Bradford Park Avenue as an amateur in 1941, but did not play for the Avenue's first team. At 5ft 9ins and barely 10st, he was small for a goalkeeper, but compensated by his agility. He made his Leeds debut in April 1945 and went on to make ten wartime appearances for Leeds but it was with the Leeds reserves that he spent most of his time. He made his peacetime debut in October 1946 and went on to make twenty-eight League and one F.A. Cup appearances before losing his place to Harold Searson. He joined Halifax Town on 20th January 1949, where he made three League appearances, before moving to Newport County in July 1949 and amassing one hundred and three League games. In July 1955 he joined Rochdale, making just three appearances before finishing his career with Selby Town.(Leeds United Player Details)

Feeney

Warren James/Warren

24-11-1998

1998-2001

IF

Belfast, Northern Ireland

17-01-1981

5ft 10ins 9st 13lb, Irish Schoolboy International who joined Leeds direct from school on a Traineeship and went on to become a Northern Ireland Youth International and was capped eight times as an Under-Twenty-one Year-Old and forty-six times at full level. A close friend of Harry Kewell, they were best man at each other's wedding, he soon became a regular with the Leeds Junior teams and then the Reserves, but with the vast array of young talent on the Leeds books at the time he could not force his way into the Leeds first team. He was loaned to Bournemouth for the final month of the 2000-01 season in March 2001. He scored four goals in three League starts and seven games from the bench. This prompted Bournemouth to take him from Leeds on a free transfer in June 2001. It was a bargain as he went on to score a further thirty-two League goals in eighty starts and eighteen games from the bench as well as one goal in three starts and two as a substitute in the Football League Trophy, but there were no goals in six starts and four from the bench in the F.A. Cup or one start and one from the bench in the League Cup. A fee of £45,000 took him to Stockport County on 9th July 2004. He repaid them with fifteen goals in thirty-one League starts and two goals in two F.A. Cup starts. They soon cashed in, selling him to Luton Town for £150,000 on 24th March 2005. He stayed with the Hatters for two years scoring eight goals in forty-five League starts and thirty-two substitute appearances with a further goal in one start and one from the bench in the F.A. Cup and two in four League Cup starts. He had been loaned to Cardiff City on 24th March 2007 until the end of the season, where he started four and had two more from the bench without scoring. The Bluebirds decided to take him on permanently on a three year contract. Surprisingly Cardiff loaned him to Swansea City for four months on 31st August 2007 and he scored five goals in seven League starts and three from the bench as well as scoring once in one start and one from the bench in the F.A. Cup. It was believed that the Swans had already been in negotiations to make the move permanent, but, on 15th December 2007, he was injured while playing for Swansea and that saw an end to any permanent move as he was out for more three months. He did play further games for Cardiff, but spent much of his time on loan. He made his return as a substitute in late March and had not been on the field for ten minutes when his season was ended by a further injury. He spent the 2008-09 season on loan to Dundee United, where he scored six goals in twenty-three League games, five of which were from the bench, and played one Scottish F.A. Cup game and made one start in the Scottish League Cup and one from the bench, both without scoring. After more injuries had seen him play only a couple of games as a late substitute in 2009-2010, he was loaned to Sheffield Wednesday, from 26th November 2009 to the end of the calendar year, but made just one substitute appearance, without scoring, in the League. His return to Cardiff for the second half of the season saw him make one start, in which he was substituted and a handful of games as a late substitute before his time at Cardiff City came to an end when he joined Oldham Athletic on a free transfer in August 2010, after he had failed to score in two starts and twelve games from the bench in the League and one game from the bench in the F.A. Cup and one start in the League Cup at Ninian Park. He did score once, in a substitute appearance in the F.A. Cup, but could not find the net in twenty-three League games, ten from the bench, while at Boundary Park. He then finished his Football League playing career at Plymouth Argyle after moving to them on a free-transfer in August 2011 on a one year contract. He scored five League goals in thirty-seven starts and twelve from the bench, and one goal in two starts and one from the bench in the F.A. Cup, after his contract was renewed for a second year, although he was injured for most of the second half of that season. He returned for the 2013-14 season and played in the pre-season friendlies, but ,on 20th July 2013, he joined Salisbury City as Player-Assistant Manager. He left the club at the end of the 2013–14 season, after playing fifteen League games of which seven were as a substitute. He left to become manager of Linfield in Northern Ireland in April 2014. He did not intend to make a comeback as a player but injuries forced him to re-register and had score once in eight League games, of which three were as a substitute, and one start in the Irish Cup and one from the bench in the Irish League Cup, when he left in October 2015 to become Assistant Manager at Newport County. He replaced John Sheridan as Manager, when the ex-Leeds schemer left to take over at Oldham Athletic in January 2016. Feeney left Newport in September 2016.

Fell

John William/Jackie

09-09-1925

1925-1927

OL

Quebec, Co. Durham

14-05-1902

14-01-1979

After starting with Tow Low Town, he joined Durham City in 1922 and made eight appearances without scoring, he then joined Crook Town. He joined Leeds on trial on 9th September 1925 and stayed until the end of the 1926-27 season when he joined Southend United. He scored once in thirteen League appearances for Leeds. (Leeds United Player Details)

Fella

Mark Anthony John/Mark

22-10-1985

1983-1986

IF

Leeds

24-11-1968

5ft 10ins 10st 5lb in 1985, he was a product of Corpus Christi School in Leeds. He represented the Leeds City Boys at Under Fourteen and Under Fifteen level and the West Yorkshire Boys at Under-Fifteen. He signed on schoolboy forms for Leeds in November 1983 and as an Apprentice in July 1985. He worked hard to become a Reserve team regular, but never made the first team. He was, however, the unused substitute when United beat Carlisle United at Brunton Park on 21st November 1985, but that was as close as he got to playing for the first team. With the emergence of David Batty and Gary Speed he had to take a back seat and later went to Malta before playing six games for Mossley. (Leeds United Player Details)

Felix

Gary

19-10-1974

1973-1979

IF

Manchester

31-10-1957

5ft 8ins 9st 9lb former Manchester schoolboy representative, he signed as an apprentice with Leeds from school, turning professional in November 1975. He worked hard to become a Reserve team regular, but never made the first team. He left for Manchester City, before moving to Chester City in January 1979 where he started eight League games.

Felton

Hendry (Ginger)

15-01-1955

1955-1955

CF

Nothing is known of this player who made just one appearance for the Reserves.

Fenton

31-08-1957

1957-1957

FB

Nothing is known of this player who made just one appearance for the Reserves.

Ferguson

Steven

14-02-2001

2000-2002

IF

Newry

25-02-1983

He joined the United Academy from school and played with the Juniors before playing once as a substitute for the reserves in his first season. He was not able to build on that and had only a couple of Reserve appearances to show before he was loaned to Hyde United for a month on 5th November 2002. He took part in five League games and One F.A. Cup tie, scoring in the Cup game. He was released by the club at the end of the 2002-03 season. He returned to Ireland and signed for Newry Town in August 2003. He had a long association with the club and was still there when the club changed its name to Newry City and stayed with them until he moved to Loughgall in 2012.

Fidler

Frank

09-02-1952

1951-1952

CF

Middleton (Manchester)

16-08-1924

21-11-2009

Fidler started his career with Manchester United Juniors before signing professional for them in August 1941. Although he played once for them in the War-time League, he never played a League game for his hometown team. He was released by them at the end of the war and joined Witton Albion. There he proved his goalscoring ability, becoming the club's second-highest goalscorer ever.. He moved to Wrexham in May 1950 and scored fifteen goals in thirty-six League appearances before being signed by Leeds United on 25th October 1951, and left for Bournemouth on 28th November 1952, having scored six goal in twenty-two League appearance. He scored thirty-two goals in sixty-one League appearances for the South Coast club. He then joined a succession of Non-League clubs, joined Yeovil Town in May 1954, playing his final game for the club on 2nd May 1957. His next move was to Weymouth and then, in August 1957 to Hereford United, finally to Bridgewater Town in June 1960 and he then retired.. (Leeds Ubied Player Details)

Fidler

Richard Michael/Richard

11-11-1995

1994-1998

CH

Sheffield

26-10-1976

He started his playing days at St. Wilfords School in Sheffield, playing for the Under Eleven team when he was only seven years old. He then joined the Young Owls and Sheffield Boys. He signed schoolboy terms on his fourteenth birthday, and represented the Sheffield Boys Under fifteens, where he played with Kevin Davies who later became a club legend at Bolton Wanderers FC. Fidler was spotted by Leeds United after playing in a youth cup final at Elland Road, and signed for the club on his fifteenth birthday. He continued his education and gained ten GSCEs and completed his A levels which stood him in good stead in later life. He represented South Yorkshire Boys at Under-Twenty-One level and played for the England Under-Twenty-Ones. He scored once in six starts for the Leeds Youth side in 1994-95 but only one in the following season of 1995-96, when he also made a substitute appearance for the Reserves. He left for Hull City on 8th December 1995, only to be dropped by the Tigers the following summer after making only one substitute appearance in the Football League. He moved to Stocksbridge Steelers in the Northern Counties East League after his released from professional football. He next played in Australia before returning to Yorkshire with Ossett Town in August 2003.

Figg

Bryan

28-04-1973

1972-1973

LB

Holmfirth

5ft 7ins and 9st 5lb, he was a Huddersfield and Yorkshire schoolboy representative, who became an apprentice with Leeds. He was once on the bench for the United Reserves but seems to have left soon afterwards.

Finlay

John

18-08-1951

1951-1952

OR

Glasgow

01-07-1925

He started with his local club Clyde, before moving south to New Brighton in March 1951. He had scored twice in fifteen League appearances before Leeds signed him just three months later. He made his Reserve team debut in the first game of the new season at Everton. He was given his first team debut a week later, in the third first team game of the season when he became the third player to appear at Outside Right, Harold Williams and Peter Harrison having already been tried. It proved to be his only game for Leeds, as the club failed to find a permanent pair of wingers. He could not find a regular spot in the Reseves and was loaned to Yeovil Town in 1952-53, before being transferred to Walsall on 10th August 1953, making eleven League appearances before moving to Cheltenham Town. (Leeds United Player Details)

Firm

Neil John/Neil

22-03-1975

1974-1982

CH

Bradford

23-01-1958

A towering 6ft 3ins and 13st 9ins he first signed as an apprentice from school in July 1974, before turning professional in January 1976. He became a Reserve team regular but while making his first team debut in February 1980 he could not force his way into the side and made twelve appearances, of which one was from the bench. He was loaned to Oldham Athletic in March 1982, where he started nine League games, before finally leaving for Peterborough United in August 1982, where he scored three goals in seventy-one League starts and one game from the bench, before retiring after prolonged injury in 1984. (Leeds United Player Details)

Firth

Joseph/Joe

09-04-1928

1927-1935

IF

Glasshoughton

27-03-1909

00-00-1983

Signed from Glasshoughton in July 1927 Firth gave United six season's of service, but was never able to establish himself as a regular with the first team for whom he scored twenty-five goals in seventy-two League appearances. He joined Southend United in June 1935 and scored twelve times in thirty-three games. He later scored once in six League games for York City and six in eighteen games for Rochdale in 1938. (Leeds United Player Details)

Fitzgerald

Peter Joseph/Peter

23-08-1960

1960-1961

CF/IF

Waterford

17-06-1937

Signed by Leeds from Sparta Rotterdam in August 1960, the 5ft 10ins 11st 7lb striker made his debut in the opening game of the 1960-61 season, but failed to maintain his position in the first team and made only eight League appearances. Although capped five times by Northern Ireland, including three while at Leeds, he spent much of his time at Elland Road in the Reserves before moving to Chester City in July 1961. There he scored twelve goals in eighty League games before returning to Ireland to finish his career with Waterford.(Leeds United Player Details)

Fletcher

David

01-11-1961

1961-1961

CF

He was nineteen years old and 5ft 11ins and 11stone when he joined Leeds as an amateur trialist from Bridlington Town on 18th October 1961.

Fletcher

James Rodney/Rod

15-05-1963

1962-1967

OL

Preston

23-09-1945

He joined Leeds in December 1962 from Colne and progressed through the Juniors to the Reserve team. After a spell with Madeley College he joined Crewe Alexandra in March 1967 and played one League game with them before moving to Lincoln City, where he scored twenty-nine goals in ninety League games, four of which were from the bench. He stayed in Lincolnshire for the rest of his career, joining Scunthorpe United, where he scored thirty goals in ninety-eight League games, including one from the bench, in June 1971 and staying there until he moved to Grimsby Town in November 1973. He scored once in twelve League games for the Mariners, including three from the bench, before retiring at the end of the 1973-74 season.

Flood

John Joe

08-09-1923

1923-1924

CF

Dublin

He and close friend Bob Fullam both joined Leeds from Shamrock Rovers in the close season of 1923. He stood 5ft 8ins tall and wighed 10st 6lb. He scored fairly regularly for the Reserves but was never called into the first team. Both he and Fullam returned to Shamrock Rovers at the end of the season and both went on to represent the Republic of Ireland, with Flood gaining five caps.

Flynn

Brian

17-09-1980

1977-1982

WH/IF

Port Talbot

12-10-1955

A Welsh Schoolboy International, he joined the Burnley Academy from school and then signed professional in October 1972. He soon made the first team at Turf Moor and went on to play twice for the Welsh Under-Twenty-Three side before getting the first of his sixty-six Welsh full-international caps. He had scored eight goals in one hundred and twenty appearances for Burnley, of which five were as a substitute, before moving to Elland Road in November 1977 and going on to score eleven goals in one hundred and fifty-four appearances, of which two were as a substitute. He played very few games for the Reserves, mostly when proving his fitness after injury. He had two games for Burnley when on a short term loan in March 1982 but he finally returned to Turf Moor in November 1982, scoring eleven goals in eighty appearances, four of which were as a substitute. Two years later he returned to Wales with Cardiff City in November 1984, making thirty-two starts for them before returning to Yorkshire with Doncaster Rovers in November 1985, making twenty-seven starts. In July 1986 he moved to Bury and started nineteen games before going across the Irish Sea to Limerick and then returned to Doncaster Rovers as a non-contract player in August 1987 and scored once in twenty-four games of which six were as a substitute. In February 1988 he again returned to Wales to join Wrexham and finished his playing career there in 1992 after scoring five goals in one hundred appearances, of which nine were from the bench.(Leeds United Player Details)

Flynn

Peter

07-11-1953

1953-1957

IF

Glasgow

11-10-1936

Signed from Petershill on 14th October 1953, when 17 and 5ft 9ins and 10st, Flynn showed good promise in the Reserves and Juniors and made one appearance for the first team in January 1954. At the end of his fourth season at Elland Road, he joined Bradford Park Avenue in June 1957. There he was able to establish himself in their first team and went on to score nine goals in one hundred and thirty League starts and also made one as a substitute, before retiring in the mid-sixties. (Leeds United Player Details)

Folan

Caleb Colman/Caleb

06-03-2000

1999-2003

CF

Leeds

26-10-1982

He joined United straight from school and became a trainee and soon progressed through the juniors to make his reserve team debut before the end of the 1999-2000 season as a seventy-eighth minute substitute. He signed professional forms in August 2001 but, with the competition that all Leeds players faced in a squad of over twenty full internationals, there was little chance of any juniors progressing to the first team, but Alan Smith did give players such as Feeney, Farrell, Folan and others the feeling that all was possible but not very likely. He was loaned out to gain first team experience going to Rushden & Diamonds on 5th October 2001 and starting one and being a substitute in five other League games and started one game in the F.A. Trophy, before returning on 5th November 2001, without scoring. Hull City on 29th November 2001 but made only one substitute appearance before returning exactly one month later. The 6ft 1ins 12stone 5lb striker left Leeds on 15th February 2003 on a free transfer to Second Division, Chesterfield, where he matured over four years scoring fifteen goals in fifty-seven starts and forty-five games from the bench in the League, three goals in three starts and one from the bench in the League Cup and one goal in two starts in the Football League Trophy, while one start and one game from the bench in the F.A. Cup could not produce a goal. In April 2006 he had undergone a cartilage operation to resolve a knee injury problem. On 26th January 2007, EPL side, Wigan Athletic, paid £500,000 to sign him on a three and a half year contract and he made further strides in his football education, as he scored twice in nine starts and six games from the bench in the EPL and made one start in the League Cup without scoring, before Championship League team, Hull City, signed him for £1 million on a three-year contract on 31st August 2007. He could not have expected the series of misfortunes that awaited him in his early days with the Tigers. In his debut he was taken to the Blackpool hospital in a neck brace, but fortunately there were no lasting effects, but a nagging ankle injury kept him out of action for ten games and it was late November when he returned to action. He then missed three more games after being sent off in the seventieth minute in a 2-0 home win over Burnley, but his eight goals helped the Tigers gain promotion to the EPL via the play-offs. His 2008-09 season, Hull's first in the EPL, started well when he replaced Marlon King after seventy minutes and scored in the eighty-first minute to get the winner in a 2-1 home win over Fulham. He was called up by the Republic of Ireland and represented the "B" team at Dalymount Park, Dublin on 09-10-2008 when he started in a 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest. He scored the opening goal in the twenty-fourth minute before being replaced by Shane Long at half-time. He made his full International debut four minutes into stoppage time in a 1-0 win over Cyprus in the World Cup Group H Qualifiers on 15th October 2008 when he replaced Kevin Doyle. He started and played a full game in a 2-3 defeat by Poland in a Friendly at Croke Park on 19th November 2008. After not playing in a couple of Qualifier games he took to the pitch in the sixty-ninth minute as a replacement for Andy Keogh in a 1-1 draw with Italy in the Group H Qualifiers at Stadio San Nicola in Bari giving him his third cap. After missing one game he was again given a full game in another Group H Qualifier on 6th June 2009 in a 1-1 away draw with Bulgaria at the Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia. He replaced Damien Duff at half time in a 0-3 home defeat by Australia, in a Friendly, on 12th August 2009 at Thomond Park, Limerick. His sixth cap came on 5th September 2009 in a 2-1 away win in a Group H Qualifier at the Antonius Papadopoulus Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus when he replaced Kevin Doyle after seventy-five minutes and his seventh and final cap, gained from three starts and four substitute appearances, came three days later, when he played a full game in a 1-0 home win over South Africa in a Friendly at Thomond Park, Limerick. However, for Hull, he was unable to add to his opening game goal as he struggled to gain a place in the team and only played one full game in the whole season. He did make another start, at Liverpool but got sent off before the hour mark and missed three game due to suspension, that apart, he did miss ten games from late November to mid January because of a knee injury as Hull hung on to their EPL status by one point.He started the 2009-2010 season positively, and started the first four games, and played a full game in the first two, but he was soon out of favour once more and on 17th September 2009, Folan was loaned for three months to Championship side, Middlesbrough. He made his debut as a thirty-second minute replacement for Jeremie Aliadiere but could not stop West Bromwich Albion inflicting a 5–0 defeat on them at the Riverside. It was to be his only presence on the pitch, for, nine days later, two days after he had sat unused on the bench as Boro drew 2-2 at Coventry City, he suffered a torn hamstring in training and did not make the squad again in his allotted time. He was brought back into the Hull City team for the vital match against fellow strugglers Portsmouth, at Fratton Park on 20th March 2010 for the thirty-first game of a thirty-eight match season and he opened the scoring in the twenty-seventh minute, but Pompey equalised ten minutes later. He gave the Tigers the lead again after seventy-three minutes and it seemed like they were going to gain a marvellous victory, but the home side staged a fine rally to take the points with two goals in the final two minutes. This time Hull were five points from safety at the end of the season and were relegated to the Championship League.He remained out of favour in the 2010-11 season making only two appearances, a full game in a 1-1 draw at Leicester City on 16th October 2010 and a half-time replacement for Rowan Vine in a 1-1 draw with Barnsley at Oakwell a fortnight later. He was finally able to move on whwn he joined the Colorado Rapids in the MLS in USA. He had had a trial with the Rapids during the 2011 preseason and appeared in three games scoring the Match-winner in a match against LA Galaxy. While at Hull he had scored eleven goals in twenty-nine starts and twenty-six games from the bench and also score once in in three substitute appearances in the play-offs, He also started three and was a substitute in two more in the F.A. Cup ans also started o game in the League Cup, but scored in neither competition. At Colorado he scored six goals in sixteen starts and ten from the bench and alsstarted twice in the play offs. Folan left them by mutual consent on 3rd February 2012. He returned to England and on 29th February 2012 and signed with Birmingham City until the end of the season. He picked up an injury in training and once more he was sidelined for a prolonged period and had still not recovered before the end of the season and he left St Andrew's, at the expiry of his contract, without ever pulling on a shirt. In early December 2012 after recovering from his injury he joined T-Team in the Malaysian Super League on a one year contract. Things started well in the pre-season as Folan scored in the teams first pre-season game against another Malaysia Super League outfit and there was a second in his home debut against close rivals Terengganu FA. But neither he nor the team could produce the goals once the League games started and after ten games he still had to open his account. It was agreed on 27th March 2013 that he could leave by mutual consent. He returned to England and after a while he trained with Bradford City and, on 28th September 2013, he signed a three month contract with them. He made six substitute appearances before leaving due to lack of interest on 26th December 2013. Folan turned down an offer to play for Canadian team, FC Edmonton in the North American Soccer League in March 2014. He decided instead to try his luck in Asia and signed for Kanbawza FC in the Myanmar National League and scored thirteen goals in seventeen League appearances in the 2015 season.

Ford

Mark Stuart/Mark

16-09-1992

1992-1997

RH

Pontefract

10-10-1975

As a youngster he represented York and North Yorkshire boys, joining United’s professional ranks in March 1993 after attending Tadcaster Grammar School and coming through the Leeds Juniors. He was captain of United’s successful FA Youth Cup winning team, who was also rewarded with England Youth Caps and two England Under-21 caps. Handed a debut in the last game of the 1993-94 season, he failed to make the first team in the next season and it looked as though he was on the way out of Elland Road. The hard-tackling Ford looked like a player in the David Batty mould when he broke back into the side during the 1995-96 season on a more regular basis. Ford made a solid contribution to United’s run to the Coca Cola Cup Final, earning a place in the starting line-up against Aston Villa at Wembley. However the bookings piled up and suspensions kept him out of the team at the end of the season. He was restricted to only fifteen starts in 1996-97 and was sold to Burnley for £250,000 in June 1997. He had started twenty-seven League games and been a substitute on two more occasions, without scoring. After making his debut at Watford on 9th August 1997, he had a successful first season with Burnley but broke an ankle in the opening day of the 1998-99 League season at home to Bristol Rovers on 8th August 1998 and, after being out for three months, he struggled to regain his place. He played his final game at Turf Moor against Manchester City on 9th March 1999. He stayed at Turf Moor for two years, making forty-three League starts and five more from the bench in scoring one goal, but after a change of Manager in May 1999 he was given a free transfer to Belgian club KFC Lommelse Sportkring. He made sixteen appearances before being released by them in July 2000. Torquay United quickly took him on a Bosman move and Ford turned down offers from Darlington, Hull City and Rotherham United in favour of the Devon team. A popular player with the fans he was appointed temporary club captain. He scored three goals in twenty-eight League games, before he was sold to Darlington on 19th February 2001 for £15,000. There he scored nine League goals in fifty-five starts and two games from the bench. He left them on 28th August 2003 after having a short spell on loan with Non-League Leigh RMI, where he played thirteen games, one being as a substitute. He was snapped up by Harrogate Town, on a free transfer, scoring on debut. He later had a spell on a part-time basis with Tadcaster Albion from September 2006. Ford became a train driver with Northern Rail. (Leeds United Player Details)

Forrest

James/Jim

02-12-1950

1950-1951

CF

Dalkeith

14-11-1929

00-00-1994

He was signed from Musselburgh Athletic on 27th November 1950 and he worked his way through the Elland Road ranks making the Reserve team but could not force his way into the first team. He left for Accrington Stanley in November 1951, scoring twice in five League games before returning to Scotland where he played with the Edinburgh City Police.

Forrest

John Robert/Bob

01-01-1953

1952-1957

IF

Rossington

13-05-1931

03-05-2005

He was signed from Retford Town in December 1952 and soon showed his ability in the Reserve team, making his first team debut in April 1953. He went on to play more than one hundred and twenty games for Leeds and scored thirty-seven goals. Slightly built at 10st 5lb, he nevertheless more than pulled his weight but often played second fiddle to Nightingale, Charles and Brook in the strikers' role. After excellent service he moved to Notts County on 6th February 1959, for £5,000 plus full-back John Kilford. There he became captain and also adapted to the Wing Half role and scored thirty-seven goals in one hundred and seventeen League appearances in just over three seasons. He then joined Non-League Weymouth in July 1962, where he lived for the rest of his life, but had a spell as Player/Manager of Dorchester Town. (Leeds United Player Details)

Forrester

Jamie Mark/Jamie

02-11-1992

1992-1995

IF

Bradford

01-11-1974

He started with Blackpool Rangers, then Poulton Le Fylde where he teamed up with Kevin Sharp and the pair went to the F.A. National School of Excellence before spending some time as teenagers in France. Leeds United paid a fee of £120,000 to French club Auxerre to take the England youth and schoolboy international to Elland Road on 8th October 1992. A spectacular overhead kick rifled the ball into the Manchester United net in the 1993 F.A. Youth Cup Final Second Leg in front of a crowd of 31,037 fans at Elland Road and earmarked the razor-sharp striker Jamie Forrester as a star of the future. Unfortunately, the diminutive front man, who was also in the England side that won the Under-Eighteen European Championship the same year, could not establish himself in the Premiership and spent time on loan at Southend United, in September 1994, starting three League games and coming off the bench in two more, without scoring. He was also loaned to Grimsby Town, from March to May in 1995, scoring once in seven League starts and two more from the bench, before making the move to Blundell Park permanent on 17th October 1995, on a free transfer. His only senior goals for Leeds both came in a 3-1 F.A. Cup win over Crewe Alexandra in January 1994. and his League appearances were limited to seven starts and two games from the bench. After scoring six times in twenty-seven starts and fourteen substitute appearances in the League for the Mariners, he was on the move again, joining Scunthorpe United on 21st March 1997. Thirty-seven goals in a hundred and one League appearances, with two being as a substitute, but on 2nd June 1999 Forrester moved to Holland, signing for FC Utrecht. He only made one substitute appearance there, before returning to England to join Walsall on 30th December 1999 on loan until 12th March 2000, but he failed to score in five games, three of which were off the bench. He was taken on loan by Northampton Town on 21st March 2000 and struck six League goals from ten games, one of which was as a substitute. He clearly made a good impression and on 27th June 2000 Northampton Town paid £150,000 to secure his signature. He enjoyed arguably his best form with the Cobblers and added thirty-nine goals in another one hundred and eleven League games, of which eleven were as a substitute, to the previous details when on loan, before moving to Hull City on 22nd January 2003. However, a surfeit of strikers at the KC Stadium meant that Jamie, after being a member of the Hull City squad that won promotion to League One in 2003/04, was one of five strikers at the club. He was unable to hold down a regular place in the starting line-up, but was included in the squad for every single game of the season. He appeared in a total of thirty-two League games, fifteen of which were from the bench, and scored seven goals. He left for Bristol Rovers on 1st July 2004, on a free transfer. He scored his first goal for Rovers, from the penalty spot, in the home game against Bury on 10th August 2004. He managed nine goals in twenty-three starts and twenty-nine substitute appearances in the League. While he had been a regular contributor in 2004-05 he was used predominantly from the bench in 2005-06 and was loaned to Lincoln City from 23rd March 2006 until the end of the season. Once again he impressed while on loan, scoring five goals in nine League appearances. He joined Lincoln on 1st July 2006 on a free transfer. His good form continued the following seasons and he was able to add to his good form while on loan with thirty League goals in eighty-one games, including five from the bench. It was thought that Lincoln had agreed a one year extension to his contract in May 2008 but this was not accepted and Forrester decided to join League Two rivals Notts County to the dismay of the Lincoln faithful on 11th June 2008. He scored eight League goals in thirty games, three as a substitute. Forrester was released by County after the end of the 2008-2009 season. On the 6th August 2009, Forrester signed for Non-League side Lincoln United. He left the club when they trimmed their budget in December 2009, but came out of retirement to play with Lincoln Moorlands Railway until the end of the 2009-10 season. Since October 2007 he has been delivering specialist professional football coaching to children of all ages at the Jamie Forrester Soccer Academy in Lincolnshire with centres at Lincoln and Grimsby. He is a radio pundit for the BBC and also presents a TV Football show, but still manages to fit in coaching children on the weekend and he runs an energy-reducing consultants business on a part-time basis.(Leeds United Player Details)

Foster

G.R.

06-05-1950

1950-1950

IR

He his debut for the Reserves on the final day of the 1949-50 season, but that was his only appearance.

Foster

09-10-1920

1920-1921

IR

Rotherham

29-10-77

Thought to have been with Leeds Malvern in 1919-20. He made just four appearances for the Leeds United Reserves.

Foster

Martin

11-01-1996

1995-1998

IF

Signed as Trainee by Leeds United Reserves on leaving school in 1994, and scored once in nineteen League starts for the Youth team in the 1994-95 season. He was part of the highly successful Junior team that finished runners-up in the Northern Intermediate League, in which he scored four goals in twenty-six starts and one game from the bench. He also started four and was a substitute in five for the Reserves in that Season. In 1996-97 he scored in his only League appearance for the Youth team and started ten and was a substitute in seven for the Reserves. He was loaned to Blackpool from 5th to 13th December 1997 and made one League appearance for their first team. He was released by Leeds on 31st May 1997. He joined Greenock Morton on 1st August 1998 on a free transfer and started fourteen and came off the bench in five more Scottish League games in the 1998-99 season. He was loaned to Doncaster Rovers from 25th March until the end of the season in which he started four League games for them, before he signed for them on 1st August 1999 on a free transfer. He scored once in twenty-one starts and six games from the bench in the League in 1999-2000 and had started twice in the 2000-01 season when he lost his place and was loaned to Ilkeston from 21st September to 12th October 2000, making four appearances, and then Forest Green, before joining them on a free transfer on 26th January 2001. He had a long stay with them for three and a half years, totalling one hundred and thirty-three starts and one from the bench and scoring five League goals, before returning to Yorkshire with Halifax Town on a free transfer on 3rd July 2001. He stayed at the Shay for three years and started eighty-nine League games and six more as a substitute and scored seven goals. He had been loaned to Oxford United from 31st January to the end of the season on 7th May 2007 and started fifteen League games for them. He finished his League career with Rushden and Diamonds starting twenty times for them from 1st June 2007 to 31st May 2008. He dropped down into the Conference North to play for Tamworth, signing an eighteen month contract in January 2008 and played sixty games for them. In June 2009 he signed for Conference North new boys Eastwood Town. He had featured in twenty games when he again returned to Yorkshire, this time with Harrogate Town on 10th December 2009, and played forty-nine times for them before moving to Sheffield FC for the 2011-12 season. He rejoined Matlock Town at the start of 2012-13 season and became the club's joint manager in 2014-15. He left Matlock on 24th January 2015 to join Mickleover SFC before retiring on 1st July 2015. He later played with Hull United in the 2015-16 season.

Fowler

Alan

21-09-1931

1927-1934

CF

Rothwell

20-11-1911

10-07-1944

He was signed from Whitehall Printers in November 1927 and loaned back to them until he signed professional in the 1929-30 season. He also had a loan spell with Brodsworth Main Colliery. He worked his way through the Elland Road ranks making his first team debut in February 1933 and went on to score eight goals in fifteen League appearances before moving to Swindon Town on 8th May 1934. He scored sixty-seven goals in one hundred and seventy-three League games for the Wiltshire club. He joined the Dorsetshire Regiment and was killed in action in Normandy in July 1944. (Leeds United Player Details)

Fozzard

Gary

02-04-1979

1978-1980

WH

He joined Leeds in May 1978 and scored on debut with the Reserves, but failed to progress further.

Francis

Clifford Thomas/Cliff

25-09-1935

1935-1938

IL

Methyr Tydfil

28-12-1915

00-00-1961

The 5ft 7ins, 10st 7lbs Inside left, joined Leeds from Aberman Athletic in August 1935. He made just one appearance for Leeds, when Eric Stephenson was on International duty, however he made spasmodic appearances over the the three seasons he was at Leeds before moving to Swindon Town at the end of the 1937-38 season. He gave good service to the Wiltshire club, scoring sixteen goals in forty-four peacetime League appearances before retiring after the 1945-46 season.(Leeds United Player Details)

Francis

Gerald/Gerry

06-04-1957

1957-1961

OR

Johannesburg

06-12-1933

He joined United on trial as an amateur in the latter part of the 1956-57 season. He signed professional forms in July 1957 and quickly progressed to the first team making his debut in November 1957. It was a turbulent time for Leeds and in his four years at Leeds he served under four Managers, There was plenty of competition for the wing berths and he eventually gave way to Billy Bremner and after nine goals in forty-six League games he left for York City in October 1961. He scored four goals in sixteen League appearances before going into Non-League. (Leeds United Player Details)

Franklin

Darryl

08-03-1988

1988-1988

WH

01-03-1971

Caerphilly

The Welsh youngster, who represented Rhymney Valley Under fourteens, was signed by Leeds as an Apprentice. He was a substitute on his Reserve team debut and played with the Juniors in 1988-89, mostly as a substitute, but was not signed on professional forms.

Freestone

Christopher Mark/Chris

28-10-1993

1993-1993

IR

Nottingham

04-09-1971

After starting with Arnold Town, a Nottinghamshire team that played in the Northern Counties (East) League in August 1993, Leeds were one of several clubs to give him a trial and he made just one appearance for the Reserve team. He also had trials with the two Nottingham clubs and Chesterfield and after scoring fifty-four goals for Arnold Town he was signed for a small fee of £15,000 by Middlesbrough on 2nd December 1994. He went on to score once in nine League appearances, of which seven were as a substitute. While he averaged almost a goal a game for the Middlesbrough Reserve team the 5'11" 11 stone 7lb striker could not force his way into the Middlesbrough first team and he was twice loaned out, for a month in March 1997 to Carlisle United, where he scored twice in three starts and two games from the bench, and in December 1997 to Northampton Town, where he scored twice in one start and one game from the bench. The latter were sufficiently impressed to sign him for £75,000 on 24th December 1997. He went on to score twelve more goals in forty-three starts and fifteen League games from the bench after signing permanently for the Cobblers. He moved from Northampton Town to Hartlepool United on 25th March 1999 for £75,000 and scored seven League goals in twenty-five starts and thirteen more from the bench before moving to Shrewsbury Town on 3rd July 2000 on a free transfer. Towards the end of his stay with the monkey-hangers, in February 2000, he was loaned to Cheltenham Town and scored twice in five starts. He stayed at Shrewsbury until 15th November 2001, but failed to score in twenty-seven League appearances of which eight were as a substitute. After joining Forest Green on a free transfer, he could not break into the first team and only featured in one substitute League appearance before his contract ran out on 1st July 2003. He had had a loan spells with Dundalk in Ireland, Rugby United, King's Lynn and Leek Town in 2002 and played for several non-League clubs, including Ilkeston Town 2003-04, Gresley Rovers 2004-05, Long Eaton United, on loan in 2005, Arnold Town 2005-07, and Hucknall Town in 2013. He was appointed joint manager of Arnold Town with Martin Carruthers early in the 2009–10 season until they both left the club in June 2012. He was later appointed Assistant Manager of Basford United in 2014.

Freshwater

01-04-1961

1961-1961

Gk

Not much is known about this player other than he made one appearance as a goalkeeper in April 1961.

Frew

James Harty/Jimmy

28-08-1920

1920-1924

LB

Kinghorn

21-05-1892

27-04-1967

A Military International, having played against England on 27th May 1916, he had previously represented the Rest of the North-Eastern League against the champions, Darlington in 1913, when he was a Newcastle City player, he spent much of the First World War, when available, playing for Heart of Midlothian from April 1916 to January 1919. He joined Leeds from Hearts on 13th June 1920 and stayed until the end of the 1923-24 season when he joined Bradford City. (Leeds United Player Details)

Frost

Desmond/Des

09-04-1949

1949-1951

IF

Congleton

03-08-1926

00-00-1993

He joined Leeds from Congleton Town on 7th April 1949, as a 5ft 10 1/2ins 12st 22yo, and scored twice in ten League appearances, before leaving for Halifax Town on 3rd January 1951. He went on to score fifty-five goals in one hundred and seventeen League games at the Shay, before leaving for Rochdale in November 1953. There he scored six goals in sixteen League games before moving to Crewe Alexandra in September 1954, scoring twelve times in forty-two League games before retiring in June 1956. (Leeds United Player Details)

Fry

Norman

20-03-1982

1982-1982

OL

Not much is known about him other than he played at Junior level and once at Outside Left for the reserves in the 1981-82 season

Fullam

Robert/Bob

15-09-1923

1923-1924

IL

Ringsend, Dublin

00-00-1897

00-00-1974

He and close friend John Joe Flood both joined Leeds from Shamrock Rovers in the close season of 1923. He stood 5ft 10ins tall and weighed 12st 3lb. He scored twice in seven appearances with the first team. Both he and Fullam returned to Shamrock Rovers at the end of the season and both went on to represent the Republic of Ireland, with Fullam gaining two caps. (Leeds United Player Details)

Fullerton

George

04-04-1958

1958-1959

Gk

Ballymena

14-06-1939

Joined Leeds on a one month trial from Glentoran as an eighteen-year-old on 25th March 1958. He signed part-time on 12th May 1958 to complete his apprenticeship, signing as a full-time professional on 10th November 1958. He played in the Reserves but left the club in February 1959 and joined Distillery. He returned to England in July 1960 to sign with Barrow, where he made twelve League appearances. He also was on the books of Accrington Stanley and Scunthorpe United but did not make the first teams and he also played with Bangor in Northern Ireland.

Fulton

David

15-12-1956

1956-1960

FB

Glasgow

Joined Leeds from Ashfield in the 1956-57 season and played fairly regularly for the Reserve team. He left the club in the close season of 1960.

Furness

William Isaac/Billy

06-02-1929

1928-1937

IL

New Washington

08-06-1909

29-08-1980

Furness joined Leeds from Unsworth Colliery in August 1928 and made his first team debut in November 1929 after serving his apprenticeshipo with the Reserves. He went on to score sixty-five goals in over two hundred and fifty games and he represented his country in May 1933. He left for Norwich City in June 1937 where he scored twenty-three League goals in ninety-six peace-time games before retiring in 1946. (Leeds United Player Details)