Former player manager at Tranmere Rovers Ron Yeats dies – Birkenhead News

Legendary former Liverpool captain and participant supervisor at Tranmere Rovers, Ron Yeats, has died on the age of 86.

Ron spent three years with Tranmere as player-manager between 1971 and 1974, main the membership to a well-known win over Arsenal at Highbury within the 1973 League Cup, one of many biggest ends in the membership’s historical past. 

Tranmere Rovers Chairman Mark Palios mentioned, “Ron was the man who gave me my begin and signed me as an expert. He was additionally instrumental within the profession of so many extra – Ronnie Moore, Bobby Tynan, Dickie Johnson, Steve Coppell, simply to call just a few.

“He was a motivational supervisor and nonetheless an amazing participant, as he confirmed at Highbury in 1973.

“A real colossus, as Invoice Shankly referred to as him. One of many good guys in soccer. He’ll be sorely missed, and my ideas are along with his household.”

Former Tranmere participant and supervisor, John Aldridge, mentioned, “Awakened at present to the unhappy information of certainly one of Liverpool soccer membership’s all-time greats as a participant and a captain, Ron Yeats.

“What a person. I’m honoured to have met him on many events.”

Yeats was voted twenty ninth within the official Liverpool web site ballot ‘100 Gamers Who Shook The Kop’, and was made an ‘Honorary Scouser’ by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 2009.

In January 2024, it was introduced that Yeats was residing with Alzheimer’s illness. He died from issues of the illness on 6 September 2024, on the age of 86.

Picture: Ron Yeats/Tranmere Rovers

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