Tom Richardson (footballer)

Tom Richardson (1891 – after 1929) 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.

Richardson started his career with Worksop Town, spent a season at Retford Town, and eventually arrived at Sheffield United.

[1] 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.

[1] Richardson had initially worked in Manton Colliery and enlisted in the army during the First World War,[1] 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.