Terry Yorath, who has died aged 75, was a long-serving Welsh football international who went on to manage his national side during a successful five-year period from 1988 to 1993. As a player he was best known as a combative defender and midfielder for Leeds United, missing out on the team’s initial successes under Don Revie but emerging as a regular from 1972 onwards, after which he won a First Division championship medal and appeared in a European Cup final.
He played in 28 matches during the 1973-74 championship-winning season and the following year in all eight of Leeds’ European Cup games (by then under the managership of Jimmy Armfield), culminating in the final in Paris against Bayern Munich, which they lost 2-0.
