Born in Darlington, County Durham, he spent the majority of his career in and around the Yorkshire area with spells at Leeds City, Bradford City, Doncaster Rovers and Sheffield United where he played over 100 games, winning the First Division championship in 1898 and gaining an FA Cup winners medal having scored in the 1899 final.
Almond started his career playing in his local area and soon came to prominence whilst at Darlington, leading him to be signed by Sheffield United.
However a loss of form led to him losing his first team place and he was overlooked when United reached the FA Cup final again in 1901.
[1] Disappointed to be frozen out of the team Almond quit the club and professional football to take over a pub in Gainford near his home town of Darlington.
[2] Almond was the son of a wealthy Yorkshire brewer and was reported to have inherited between £6,000 and £12,000 when his father died in 1897 - a huge sum of money for the time.