Gerry Francis-first black player for Leeds

Signed for Leeds the year I was born. I haven't been able to find too much about him yet but would like to find some highlights of him playing.
Rest in peace
Thanks for the history lesson Real.

comment by NJS Vaguely Noble (U8272)
posted 8 hours, 55 minutes ago
I well remember Gerry Francis, played usually on the
right wing. The impression he gave me, as a 9, 10, 11
year old boy, was a skilful player, not spectacular and
rather quiet…but pleasing to watch with good dribbling
skills, good passer…had a good temperament while
coping with racist comments…par for the course I’m
afraid in those days, but having said that he was well
liked generally by the Leeds fans.

Thanks for the boyhood memories, Gerry.
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Rest in peace Gerry Francis💙🤍💛

An iconic player from before my time often forgotten by our fan base, RIP Gerry.

My father who passed away 3 weeks ago remembered when Gerry Francis played for Leeds and saw him play. He only was speaking last year about him, so when I saw this on the Leeds United website, I thought one or two of you might be interested to read about it.

Thanks for that Real…

Not many of us old sods around now to remember the
pre Revie era, here are a few names and a few of my
descriptions added, with my subjective marks out of 10

John McCole…centre forward, 6
Chris Crowe…inside forward, 7
George Meek…winger, very tricky, 7
Jackie Overfield…great dribbler, 7
Gerry Francis…classy on the ball, 7
Noel Peyton…schemer type, classy passer, 7
Wilbur Cush… small, midfield, tenacious, 6
Freddy Goodwin…centre half, reliable, good header, 6
Eric Kerfoot…left half, defensive, good passer, 6
Grenville Hair…very good left back, 7,
Jimmy Dunne…reliable right back, fav with fans,

John Charles…the greatest player, defender and
attack, perfection would be a 10/10 but no player
is that perfect, so 9.
I realised when John came back from Juventus that
Revie and the club had serious ambitions to be ‘big’
players in football…I was so excited to see John back
at Leeds…sadly it was rather anti-climax…I think John
was past his best and Revie was changing the club
from top to bottom. I saw him quite a few times at York
races…unmistakable, with his jumper/sweater tied
around his waist, always smiling and approachable.
When he died his funeral was attended by the great
and the good of football, remember them congregated
in the Lowfields side…his Juventus colleague the
great Omar Sivori, couldn’t stop crying…his partner
in the team ‘the Gentle hombre’ was dead.

NJS - mention of Omar Sivori, Eddie told a story about the day, he saw him at the church and invited him back to the ground as he was on his own, when they arrived Denis Law and Bobby Charlton were like " its Omar Sivori" and were straight over, before my time but he must have been a great player.

comment by AndDonRevieistheKing (U7852)
posted 20 minutes ago
NJS - mention of Omar Sivori, Eddie told a story about the day, he saw him at the church and invited him back to the ground as he was on his own, when they arrived Denis Law and Bobby Charlton were like " its Omar Sivori" and were straight over, before my time but he must have been a great player.
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Yeah, great story Don…some of the first football books
I got at Christmas late 50s/early 60s always had
articles and pictures of John Charles and Sivori,
usually arms around each others shoulders!
Sivori was known as great player but dirty….I might
be wrong but he was known in Italy as ‘an angel with
a dirty face’…haha, make of that what you will!

The wolfman was black?

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/may-1999-english-football-league-division-one-queens-park-news-photo/466253409

Wasn't there another Gerry Francis who played for QPR ??

Aye

THE WOLFMAN