Tom Richardson (footballer)

Tom Richardson

Personal information
Full name	Tom Richardson
Date of birth	1891
Place of birth	Worksop, England
Height
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, correct as of 11:17, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Tom Richardson (born 1891, date of death unknown) 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. 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.

Richardson had initially worked in Manton Colliery and enlisted in the army during the Second World War, 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.