Ron Yeats

So sad RIP big man.

Liverpool FC following their 1962 Second Division championship


The Reds’ title-winning team in 1963-64


Skipper for the Reds’ first European fixture - in Reykjavik in August 1964


Yeats in action against Manchester United and George Best


Yeats lifting the FA Cup in 1965


Liverpool led by Yeats down the Wembley steps with the FA Cup


The Reds parade the FA Cup trophy around the pitch


Liverpool with the 1965-66 First Division trophy


Yeats with the First Division title in 1966


Yeats pictured following an international call-up for Scotland (don't think I've ever seen him in a Scotland shirt before)


Liverpool’s pre-season photocall in 1967, with Yeats pictured


Yeats in action against Tottenham Hotspur


Liverpool’s former captain on the Kop surveying Anfield circa 1970


On a return to Anfield following his retirement as chief scout in 2006


Yeats (right) and Ian St John (left) receiving Lifetime Achievement awards from the club in 2015

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Thank you for putting those pictures up....Fantastic

Ah saddened to hear this

Condolences to his family and friends

RIP big man, an absolute legend

The Collosus of Anfield has finally gone.
How sad RIP Big man

Passing of a legend.


Perhaps the only one of our players to have worked in a slaughterhouse, definitely the first of our captains to lift the FA Cup!

Always enjoyed this story.


A few days before the final, Yeats had received a phone call from Buckingham Palace and been instructed – should Liverpool win – not to address the Queen until she talked to him, and that he had to say ‘Yes, Ma’am’ and ‘No, Ma’am’. During the final few minutes of the game, he had been wondering what to say to her and, as the shattered and sodden players walked up the steps to the Royal Box at Wembley, Yeats wiped his hands on his clothes before he reached the Queen, who was ready to present him with the trophy.
“You must be exhausted,” she said to him.
“I’m absolutely knackered,” he replied.
“I’m certain that you are,” the Queen said, before handing him the trophy.





RIP Ron, thank you for your magnificent contribution.

I felt I had to post as soon as I heard the sad news. I probably didn't do the big fella justice, so thanks for all the following photos and snippets.

Isn't it weird. Probably haven't seen Ron in person, since 68 - 69, yet still feel like i've lost a friend. 

Very sad news.
Condolences to his friends & family.
R.I.P big man.
Legend.

Such sad news. A man to rival the Greek Gods. A true Anfield legend - whether it was Hansen, Hyypia or Virg, all the great defenders that came after him followed in his footsteps.

Rest in peace Big Ron

YNWA

It all started with Ron Yeats from him signing we. Just got better and better https://youtu.be/zgwub_hD7VU?si=Dc2oTYOIwJvdqS1z

https://youtu.be/CvRGWFFh6a8?si=gS59jLK4TIPTNkve
Watch our wing back formerly full back Chris Lawler score 2 inside 6 yard box. 56 years ago our DNA was formed watch our support at Leeds

When people talk about modern generations of players standing on the shoulders of giants, Ron Yeats is the kind of man they are referring to. A proper legend. RIP Ron.

I've got a scrapbook from when my Dad was young and its filled with newspaper clippings primarily featuring Yeats.

RIP Colossus.

Baffled as to how he only got 2 caps with Scotland

Reading the Boot Room Boys again. He was very much like the VVD signing for Shanks and company. One of the missing pieces and once he joined it was game on. Also cool story about him trying on the all red kit and blowing Shanklys mind.

Fly high 🕊️ Ynwa.

RIP Big Ron, a wonderful player for us and a very nice man who had time for a bunch of 12/13 yr olds who would watch training at Melwood every school holiday and then head to Anfield to wait for them to come out after they’d had lunch. He always had time to stop and chat. Condolences to his family.

It's a shame we need the passing of a legend for us to enjoy and reflect on just what a club Shankly built starting with the great man himself Rowdy Yates. Loads if old stuff on YouTube worth a look

RIP RON.

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     RIP Big Man

Great centre half, brought in by Bill Shankly, to build the club's undoubted success on.

He was indeed a colossus of a man, Shanks used him as a model to show off the All Red kit, Shanks reckoned players looked bigger in Red and no one came bigger than big Ron, so when big Ron took to the pitch he certainly looked bigger, and must have put the fear of god into opponents,

I remember the footage of him & Saint retracing their footprints to show off our first FA cup from St George’s hall, the 40th Anniversary in 2014, he must have felt tremendous pride to do that again after all those years, and now he is reunited with his Pal to climb a different set of steps.


RIP ‘Rowdy’ Yeats  ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’

It's really worthwhile checking him out on YouTube think about  60's version of Virgil he was a player not just a big lump. Ian St John reckons he was better than modern defenders and would argue with the Saint

People shouldn't forget the role he played as chief scout. I think sami hyppia was one of his.