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Leeds United legends Allan Clarke and Paul Reaney caught here in the East Stand at Elland Road before kick off. The shot coming from the Football League Championship game against Middlesbrough at Elland Road on the 13th August, 2011.
Manager Don Revie signed Forward Allan Clarke on the 24th June, 1969 from Leicester City for 165,000 and broke the Leeds United and British transfer record in the bargain. Clarke made his debut for The Whites in a Charity Shield match against Manchester City at Elland Road on the 2nd August, 1969 which United won 2-1 in front of 39,835 fans. In his first season for Leeds Clarke scored an amazing 26 goals which earned him the nickname "Sniffer", he went on to be United's leading goalscorer in four of the seasons that he was with the club. Clarke will always be remembered by Leeds fans for one special goal that came in the Centenary FA Cup Final against Arsenal in 1972. It was Sniffer that scored the only goal of the game with a diving header handing Leeds United their first FA Cup Final success. While at Leeds Clarke scored 151 goals in all competitions and started 359 times for the men in White. While at the club Clarke also won 19 caps for England scoring 10 goals. In June 1978 Clarke was sold to Barnsley for 45,000 where he became the player manager and won promotion for the club in 1979 to the Third Division scoring 12 goals himself. Sniffer made a return to Leeds in 1980 as the manager taking over from Jimmy Adamson who resigned. Clarke spent two season's in charge at Elland Road, in his first season Clarke's United finished 9th but the following season United were relegated and Clarke was sacked. Paul Reaney started with Leeds United as a member of the groundstaff team in October 1961. Paul was born in Fulham but moved to Leeds when he was a baby and attended Cross Green High School in Inner City, Leeds 9. His debut for Leeds came less than a year later after he joined in the away game at Swansea on the 8th September, 1962 which United won 2-0. Reaney as a Right Back went on to make 39 appearances for Leeds in all competitions in that first season. He soon established himself at Elland Road and was part of the team that won promotion under Don Revie in 1964. Reaney soon settled in to Top Flight football missing just a handful of games in the first four seasons as United battled it out for honours at the top of the pack. He also acquired a new nickname "Speedy" on account of his ability to quickly run into attack and knock tantalising crosses in for the Forwards. An ever present in Don Revie's famous Leeds United side Reaney made 745 appearances for The Whites in all competitions giving him third place in United's all time appearance list behind Jack Charlton and Billy Bremner, he also scored nine goals. While at Leeds the player made three appearances for England and received many admiring accolades from the greats of the time including Northern Ireland International George Best who said of Paul that he was one of the best players he had ever played against. In 1978 Reaney joined neighbours Bradford City on a free transfer and completed his playing career in Australia with Newcastle KB United. Leeds United: Lonergan, Lees, Bromby, Kisnorbo, O'Dea, Clayton, Brown, Snodgrass, Howson, Gradel, McCormack. Subs: Nunez for Brown, Thompson for Snodgrass, Sam for McCormack. Thanks To: Rowley for this great pic. Submitted: 08/15/11 (Edited 08/15/11) Views: 65 Tags: Rate this image:
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