Ron Yeats obituary
Footballer who captained Liverpool under Bill Shankly and helped win the FA Cup for the first time in the club’s history
The footballer Ron Yeats, who has died aged 86, was captain of Liverpool in the mid-1960s when they made their breakthrough back into the big time, winning League Championships in 1964 and 1966 as well as an FA Cup in between.
For most of the decade before that, Liverpool had been nothing more than a decent Division Two side. But a new manager, Bill Shankly, joined in 1959 and began to rebuild with Yeats, a fellow Scot, as his on-the-field leader.
