Tom Richardson (1891 – after 1929) was an English

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who played as a full back and spent the majority of his career at

Worksop Town Worksop Town Football Club is an English football club based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. As of the 2021–22 season the team plays in the . They are nicknamed ''The Tigers'' and play their home games at Sandy Lane in Worksop. History First clu ...

. He did have a three-year spell in the

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with

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but managed only a handful of appearances in that time. He was born in

Worksop Worksop ( ) is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from the nor ...

Career

Richardson started his career with

, spent a season at Retford Town, and eventually arrived at

. 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

and a handful more during wartime football. Richardson had initially worked in Manton Colliery and enlisted in the army during the

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, 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Richardson, Tom 1891 births Footballers from Worksop English men's footballers English Football League players Men's association football defenders Worksop Town F.C. players Retford Town F.C. players Sheffield United F.C. players Year of death missing