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	Ron Yeats : Centre Half (1961-1971) & Chief Scout (1986-present)
	Date of Birth: 15-11-1937
	Birthplace: Aberdeen
	Debut : 19th August 1961 v Bristol Rovers (A) Football League Division Two: won 2-0
	1st team games: 454
	1st team goals: 16
	Other clubs: Dundee United, Tranmere Rovers (player/manager then manager), Stalybridge Celtic, Barrow (player/manager)
	International caps while with Liverpool: 2 (Scotland)
	International goals while with Liverpool:
	Honours with Liverpool: First Division Championship 1963/64 & 1965/66, FA Cup 1965, Charity Shield 1964 (shared), 1965 (shared) & 1966

PROFILE

The man Bill Shankly signed and appointed captain to lead Liverpool out of the old Second Division in 1961-62 after the club had languished in the football wilderness for eight seasons.

An inspirational, 6ft 2ins centre half who went on to win Scotland recognition, he cost £30,000 from Dundee United two months after his compatriot Ian St John had moved south to Anfield.

On the day Yeats arrived Shankly told assembled pressmen: "I've just signed a colossus - come in and walk round him"! A former slaughterman in his native Aberdeen, Yeats proved the rock on which the opposition's attacking ambitions were wrecked and he was the first skipper in Liverpool history to lift the FA Cup after the Wembley conquest of Leeds in 1965.

His physique and reading of the game assured Yeats of dominance in the air and he was no slouch, either, on the ground. After League and Cup success he moved to Tranmere as player-assistant boss in 1971, later becoming manager, and eventually returned to Anfield as chief scout.