Roy Ellam
Roy Ellam ( born January 13, 1943 in Hemsworth ) is a former English footballer. The central defender was active at the beginning of the 1960s, long for the fourth division Bradford City. He rose to the follower club Huddersfield Town on to the top flight checkout, before he moved in 1972 to the top club Leeds United. There, however, he did not touch the foot and winning the English Championship 1974, he was wearing only insignificantly at.
Sports career
In the adolescent age Ellam first played forthe in the region Leeds active club Robin Hood Athletic. He tried his luck as a striker for auditions for Leeds United before he retrained on the defense position. Ellam turned down an offer from Queens Park Rangers and instead went in August 1959 close third division club Bradford City. When the " Bantams " were just relegated to the Viertklassigkeit, he signed in May 1961 where his first professional contract. After very first appearances, it developed from the 1962/ 63 for regular players. By the turn of the year 1965/66, he remained a fixture in the defense network of the team, but the resurgence always failed in the third class Third Division and often ranked even on the rear seats of the fourth league. After 149 league games and twelve gates, he finally moved in January 1966 to the second division and local rivals Huddersfield Town. In Huddersfield Ellam formed with Trevor Cherry an effective duo. The greatest success was in season 1969/70 winning the second division championship and the associated rise in the highest English league. Just before Huddersfield Town had to play in the season 1971/72 as Table again the passage in second class, Cherry had to leave the club in the direction of the runner- Leeds United. Ellam followed him in August 1972 after he had played a total of 206 league matches for Huddersfield Town. The transfer fee for Leeds was 35,000 pounds.
Ellams debut for Leeds on the opening day of the 1972/73 season turned into a disaster. After addition Cooper, among others, Allan Clarke and Norman Hunter had failed due to injury or locks up Ellam fit to the extremely weak team performance, which ended with a 0-4 defeat against Chelsea. Coach Don Revie Ellam planned as a replacement for the outdated annual Jack Charlton build, but then were, the good performances of Charlton and the emerging Gordon McQueen made sure that Ellam quickly found again on the " siding". With only four league inserts in the championship season of 1973/74 he also did not qualify for the official receipt of the same coin. In July 1974 he returned briefly to Huddersfield - now only active in the third division - back before he moved in April 1975 in the North American to the NASL Philadelphia Atoms and the following year to the Washington Diplomats. In between and after his NASL adventure he acted in unterklassigen English football for the AFC Mossley, who played in the Northern Premier League. In total he graduated in Mossley from his debut against Boston United on 18 August 1975 and last appearance on December 1, 1976 to be Macclesfield Town 83 games in which two goals get him. At the end of the 1970s, he subsequently worked as a player-coach for Gainsborough Trinity.