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Ron Yeats
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'''Ron Yeats''' (born
Aberdeen,
Scotland,
November 15 1937) was the captain of the first great
Liverpool F.C. Liverpool team of the
1960s.
Yeats, a stockily-built central defender, was bought by manager
Bill Shankly in
1961 from
Dundee United F.C. Dundee United and was installed as captain as Liverpool gained promotion from the Second Division after eight seasons away from football's top flight.
When Yeats was signed, Shankly was so impressed and proud of the physical presence of his new player that he told waiting
journalists to ''"come in and walk around him"''. Yeats lived up to the reputation his huge frame gave him, playing at the heart of Liverpool's defence for a
decade and winning the club's first major honours in nearly 20 years.
Liverpool won the
Football League First Division League championship in
1964 and then picked up their first-ever
FA Cup a year later, beating
Leeds United F.C. Leeds United 2-1 in the final at
Wembley Stadium Wembley. Yeats was gleeful as his lifted the trophy, though he suffered disappointment at the same time as Liverpool lost in the
European Cup semi-final to
Internazionale Milano F.C. Inter Milan.
Yeats skippered Liverpool to another League title in
1966 and during this period also won two caps for
Scotland_national_football_team Scotland. Then the success of Liverpool dried up, and he was one of the high-profile victims of a massive cull of players which Shankly ruthlessly undertook in
1970 in an effort to rebuild the side for a new decade. After 454 games, Yeats left for
Tranmere Rovers F.C. Tranmere Rovers in
1971 and eventually became their manager.
In
1986, Yeats returned to
Anfield as the club's chief scout, responsible for delegating duties to the club's talent spotters. He remains in that role to this day.
Statistics
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Tranmere Rovers
|1973-74
|36||2||?||?||?||?||0||0||0||0||36||2
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|1972-73
|42||1||?||?||?||?||0||0||0||0||42||1
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|1971-72
|18||3||?||?||?||?||0||0||0||0||18||3
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|rowspan="10" valign=top|
Liverpool FC
|1970-71
|12||1||2||0||0||0||2||0||0||0||16||1
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|1969-70
|37||3||6||0||2||0||3||0||0||0||48||3
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|1968-69
|39||2||4||0||3||0||2||0||0||0||48||2
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|1967-68
|38||2||9||0||2||0||6||1||0||0||55||3
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|1966-67
|40||2||4||0||-||-||5||0||1||0||50||2
|-
|1965-66
|42||2||1||0||-||-||9||0||1||0||53||3
|-
|1964-65
|35||0||8||0||-||-||9||1||1||0||53||1
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|1963-64
|36||1||5||0||-||-||0||0||0||0||41||1
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|1962-63
|38||0||6||0||-||-||0||0||0||0||44||0
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|1961-62
|41||0||5||0||-||-||0||0||0||0||46||0
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Scottish Football League Scott League
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Scottish Cup Scott Cup
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Scottish League Cup League Cup
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Dundee United
|1960-61
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|1959-60
|33||1||2||0||5||0||0||0||0||0||40||1
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|1958-59
|19||0||4||0||3||0||0||0||0||0||26||0
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|1957-58
|15||0||2||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||17||0
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! align=left style="background:beige"|Total
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! align=left style="background:beige"| 550
! align=left style="background:beige"| 19
! align=left style="background:beige"| 59
! align=left style="background:beige"| 0
! align=left style="background:beige"| 21
! align=left style="background:beige"| 0
! align=left style="background:beige"| 36
! align=left style="background:beige"| 2
! align=left style="background:beige"| 3
! align=left style="background:beige"| 1
! align=left style="background:beige"| 669
! align=left style="background:beige"| 22
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Honours
* 1961/62
Football League Second Division (Level 2) with
Liverpool FC
* 1963/64
Football League First Division League Championship (Level 1) with
Liverpool FC
* 1964/65
Charity Shield (Shared) with
Liverpool FC
* 1964/65
FA Cup with
Liverpool FC
* 1965/66
Charity Shield (Shared) with
Liverpool FC
* 1965/66
Football League First Division League Championship (Level 1) with
Liverpool FC
* 1966/67
Charity Shield with
Liverpool FC
Category:1937 births Yeats, Ron
Category:Living people Yeats, Ron
Category:Scottish footballers Yeats, Ron
Category:Dundee United F.C. footballers Yeats, Ron
Category:Liverpool F.C. players Yeats, Ron
Category:Tranmere Rovers F.C. players Yeats, Ron
Category:Scottish football managers Yeats, Ron
Category:Tranmere Rovers F.C. managers Yeats, Ron
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