CLUB HISTORY

Welcome to Pudsey Juniors football club...

Chairman Ron Downs recieves the Charter Standard development club award from former Leeds and England Star Norman Hunter

For almost 40 years our family of qualified Managers and Coaches have been developing junior football in Pudsey and surrounding areas. I was looking at some old match programmes recently - and one particularly caught my eye.

The match was between Pudsey Juniors and St. Edmunds 3rd April 1977 (The programme cost 3p - Happy days!!) 2 names jumped off the team sheet for me Stuart McCall and David Harrison.

Stuart has had a distinguished career for Club and Country and David had a spell at Arsenal and is now recruitment officer for Leeds United.

Of course all our players can't become professionals but whatever your footballing ambitions I can assure you of a warm welcome for aspiring footballers and their families at Pudsey Juniors.

Ron Downs

Chairman

As the Chairman mentioned in his welcome, Pudsey Juniors has been going for Forty years.

Did you play for Pudsey Juniors as a youngster ? Or perhaps you know someone who did and went on to greater things in the game. Please contact us so we can share your recollections and build up a picture of some of the people who have played for or have been involved with club over the years.

Perhaps some of you have old newspaper clippings or team photo's. Please feel free to mail us with any items of interest and we will publish them in our club history section.

We are grateful for the following contributions from Pudsey Juniors ex players; please keep sending your e mails

to the PJ website!

Hello,

It has all come full circle for me because I am now the manager of the
Pudsey Juniors Girls U16s team but back in 1966-1968 I was in the great
Pudsey Juniors team run by Alan Cowley who was also my headmaster at
Pudsey Southroyd. I played in Midfield and my great friend Stephen
Jameson played at full back. In those days we seemed to win every game
and Mr Cowley was a great manager his training methods might seem
strange now, for instance he used to have us kicking a football as hard
as possible at the fence at Crawshaw School for 30minutes non-stop, or
trying to keep control of the ball with our head, knees and feet for
30mins but he certainly got the results. I also remember going on a
trip to the Isle of Man, which incidentally was were Mr Cowley was born
and we beat every team by double figures, however in a bid to make the
opposition feel better Mr Cowley arranged a swimming gala but I am
afraid this back fired when we beat them at that.


I have great memories of being in the great Pudsey Juniors team of the
late 60s and this makes me even more proud that my daughter and all her
fellow team mates play for them now.

Nigel Cromack

EEH BAH GUM.

Hello from Montreal Canada my name is Alan Richardson. I played for Pudsey juniors

in the early sixties and was captain of the team. We would win games 10 -0 we were awesome.

Now I can wipe the tears away, what memories, you gave me so much joy and now you

give it to others. Please forgive the spelling I’m in shock here I am 3,000 miles

away reading something  that takes me right back to my to my childhood AND

PUDSEY JUNIORS STILL EXIST AWESOME.

Im almost 60 so the memories are a little hazy please give me a little time to

recover from the shock.

I will attempt to reply with names of fellow players at that time and a summary

of my exploits in soccer after Pudsey Juniors.

God bless you for giving so much to the young and talented, it meant so much to me, may it go on forever

Alan Richardson

Interested to read your site. I played centre-forward back in 1964 / !965 for
Pudsey Juniors. Obviously the memories are not crystal clear but I remember a
team tour to the Isle of Man, where we annihilated the local opposition.
In those days several Leeds players put in an appearance at training. Willie
Bell was there occasionally and Jack Charlton quite regularly. He gave me a real
ticking-off for not waiting outside Elland Road after a game to collect my
autograph book after he'd taken the trouble to get all the team's autographs.
Great bloke though - genuine as they come.
Lived over in Germany now, so have to content myself with watching Bundesliga,
which isn't at all bad. Great stadiums, especially now before the World Cup.
Even managed to get tickets in the lottery for a local game in Munich
Cheers,

Stephen Griffiths

I played for Pudsey Juniors from 1968 to 1973, after that progressed to Leeds
Ashley Rd. We were prolific winners of most cups we entered as well as the
league. Started age 14. Pudsey Juniors were the envy of every club in Yorkshire.
Many England old boys include Dave Kinder, Malc Wright, Steve Garbutt, Gary
Dufton, Brian Crowther, Steve Longden, Willy Oulton and yours truly.When I was
18 I captained Yorkshire Boys and was a member of the winning Yorkshire Boys
side the year before when we beat Cheshire in the final at Hillsborough 2-0.
Scorers that evening were G Dufton & D M Kilner.
The team that day comprised of at least 8 players from Pudsey Juniors
Happy days. Broke my right femur in a car crash aged 20. Never played again.
Still got the England cap and shirt though.
Our coach and mentor in those heady days was Alan Cowley, a nicer man you
couldn't wish to meet. Ian Roughley looked after us in the Ashley Rd days.
We regularly used to act as fill ins down at Elland Road for junior matches,
another fantastic experience.
Hope you find this interesting
Regards

Dave M Kilner