Dicky Bond

Richard Bond (14 December 1883 – 25 April 1955) was an English footballer who played outside right. He was capped eight times by England and spent the vast majority of his playing career at Bradford City where he played more than 300 games.

Dicky Bond
Personal information
Full name Richard Bond[1]
Date of birth (1883-12-14)14 December 1883
Place of birth Preston, England[2]
Date of death 25 April 1955(1955-04-25) (aged 71)[3]
Place of death Preston, England
Height 5 ft 6+1⁄2 in (1.69 m)[4]
Position(s) Outside right
Youth career
0000–1901 Royal Field Artillery
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1902–1909 Preston North End 148 (34)
1909–1922 Bradford City 301 (60)
1922–1923 Blackburn Rovers 24 (2)
1923–1924 Lancaster Town
Garstang Town
International career
1905–1910 England 8 (2)
Football League XI 1
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club playing career

Preston North End

Born in Garstang, England, Bond started his career with the Royal Artillery before he signed professional forms with Preston North End in August 1902.[5] He was part of Preston's Division Two championship winning team in 1903–04.[6] Two years later, he was a regular, as the club were The Football League runners-up.[6]

Bradford City

Bond joined Bradford City in May 1909 for a £950 fee, a record fee for Preston at the time.[7] Bond represented City during the most successful spell in its history. But he missed out on the club's 1911 FA Cup triumph because he was suspended after using improper language at Woolwich Arsenal.[5][8] He had scored two goals in three appearances earlier in the cup run.[3]

In total he played 301 league games, scoring 60 goals, all in the top flight.[3] He also represented the club in 32 FA Cup games scoring 12 times.[3] He was selected in City's team of the millennium in 1999 by former Telegraph & Argus sports reporter David Markham.[9] He served with the Bradford Pals during the First World War before returning to City in 1919.[5] He was appointed club captain in 1920. But the side were relegated in 1921–22 prompting his transfer to Blackburn Rovers.[8]

Blackburn Rovers

Bond played for Blackburn for one season before his final move to Lancaster Town in August 1923 for one last season. He retired in 1924 but returned to play for Garstang Town two years later. His total league career brought him 96 goals in 473 league appearances. He became a publican before he died in Preston aged 71.[5]

International career

Bond made his first international appearance for England while at Preston on 25 February 1905 against Ireland.[2] He won a total of eight caps, scoring twice, both against Ireland in 1906.[2]

Honours

Preston North End

Personal life

Bond's football career was interrupted by the First World War.[10] He was serving as a sergeant in the Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) when he was taken prisoner-of-war in July 1916.[3] He was repatriated on 18 November 1918 and more than two years after it had finished,[3] he laid a commemorative wreath at the Cenotaph in London before Bradford City's game with Arsenal on 1 January 1921.[10] After his retirement from football, Bond ran a fish and chip shop in Garstang and later became a publican.[3]

References
  1. Joyce, Michael (16 October 2012). Football League Players' Records 1888–1939 (3rd Revised ed.). Tony Brown. p. 31. ISBN 9781905891610.
  2. "England Players – Dicky Bond". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  3. "Dickie Bond – Football and the First World War". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  4. Stapler (22 August 1921). "First Division prospects. Bradford City". Athletic News. Manchester. p. 5.
  5. Frost, Terry (1988). Bradford City A Complete Record 1903–1988. Breedon Books Sport. p. 87. ISBN 0-907969-38-0.
  6. "Richard (Dickie) Bond". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  7. "Record transfer fees received". Preston North End official website. 28 May 2000. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2007.
  8. "CITY TEAM-MATES: The 1911 FA Cup winners - and the maverick winger banned for the final". Bradford Telegraph and Argus.
  9. "The greatest ever to grace Valley Parade". Telegraph & Argus. 30 December 1999. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2007.
  10. Frost 1988, p. 325.
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