Hon. President

 

"Hot-shot" Lorimer holds the all-time goal-scoring record for Leeds with 238 goals. Making his debut at less than 16 years old, and playing his final game at the age of 39, he'd have probably managed to beat the all-time appearances record as well if he'd stayed at Elland Road all that time - but he spent 5 years away from Elland Road in his 30s, enjoying varying degrees of success with Toronto Blizzard and as player-coach with Vancouver Whitecaps in Canada, as well as a brief stopover at York City.

Lorimer's rocket shots left many a goalie quivering, but he was also an excellent crosser of the ball, and many of the goals scored by Allan Clarke and Mick Jones were set up from Lorimer's well-placed crosses. In his second spell at Leeds, he played more of a midfield role, but still had the skill to outwit many of the 2nd division defences that Leeds found themselves facing in the 1980s.

After a brief spell with Whitby and in Israel with Hapoel Haifa, he finally hung up his boots and retired to run the Lorimer’s Bar - a pub close to the ground which is, naturally enough, very popular with Leeds fans on match days.