Richard Logan (footballer born 1969)

Infobox Football biography
playername= Richard Logan


fullname = Richard Anthony Logan
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1969|05|24|df=y
cityofbirth = Barnsley
countryofbirth = England
height = height|ft=6|in=0
currentclub = Retired
clubnumber =
position = Midfielder, Defender
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years =
1989-1990
1990-1994
1993-1996
1995-1998
1998-2000
2000-2003
2002-2003
clubs = Worsbrough Bridge Athletic
Belper Town
Gainsborough Trinity
Huddersfield Town
Plymouth Argyle
Scunthorpe United
Lincoln City
→ Gainsborough Trinity (loan)
caps(goals) =


45 0(1)
86 (12)
80 0(7)
17 0(0) [Many sources, such as soccerbase, credit Logan with scoring Lincoln's goal in the 1-1 draw with Kidderminster Harriers on 10 August, 2002. However, the club officially credited the goal to Simon Weaver, see cite web
url=http://www.redimps.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10440~253537,00.html
title="The goal was mine" says Weaver
publisher=Lincoln City F.C. Official Web-site
date=10 August, 2002
accessdate=2008-06-19]
nationalyears =
nationalteam =
nationalcaps(goals) =
pcupdate = 15:15, 08 April 2007 (GMT)
ntupdate =|

Richard Logan (born 24 May 1969 in Barnsley) is a retired English professional footballer. He began his career as a midfielder before moving to centre half. He made 228 appearances in the Football League scoring 20 times.

Early career

Logan began his career in non-league football with local side Worsbrough Bridge Athletic before moving first to Belper Town and then to Gainsborough Trinity whilst also working as a bricklayer, an occupation that would later earn him the nickname of 'Hod'.

He moved into the professional football ranks when Neil Warnock signed him for Huddersfield Town in November 1993. He quickly made an impact with Huddersfield andmarked his first season by scoring Town's goal in the 1994 Autoglass Trophy Final at Wembley; they would lose the final 3-1 on penalties to Swansea City.

In the summer of 1995, Warnock left for Plymouth Argyle and in the October returned to Huddersfield to secure the services of Logan for £20,000. Logan remained with Argyle until the summer of 1998 when he returned north to join Scunthorpe United. He remained with the Iron for two seasons before being released following Scunthorpe's relegation at the end of the 1999-2000 season.

Lincoln City

Following his release by Scunthorpe United, Logan agreed a three-year contract to join Lincoln City in July 2000. [cite web
url=http://www.redimps.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10440~60958,00.html
title=Logan becomes latest signing
publisher=Lincoln City F.C. Official Web-site
date=5 July, 2000
accessdate=2008-06-16] He appeared in Lincoln's first five games of the 2000-2001 season before sustaining an ankle injury in the 1-1 away draw with Hull City on 28 August, 2000 which sidelined him for a month. Returning to fitness, Logan made a return as a substitute in the 2-0 home defeat to Mansfield Town on 30 September, 2000 before suffering a prolapsed disc in his back. The injury required surgery and would keep Logan out of the first team picture for fourteen months. [cite web
url=http://www.redimps.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10440~121516,00.html
title=Logan set for valuable run-out
publisher=Lincoln City F.C. Official Web-site
date=7 November, 2001
accessdate=2008-06-16]

He would return to the substitutes bench for the 2-1 home victory against Hull City on 10 November, 2001 but a series of niggling injuries meant that it would not be until the 2-1 away defeat to Oxford United on 16 February, 2002 that he would make a first-team appearance, his first for over 16 months.

He began the 2002-2003 in Lincoln's first team before suffering a calf strain in the 0-0 draw at Torquay United on 28 September, 2002. In a bid to regain fitness Logan was loaned to former club Gainsborough Trinity in November; [cite web
url=http://www.redimps.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10440~298693,00.html
title=Logan loaned to Trinity
publisher=Lincoln City F.C. Official Web-site
date=8 November, 2002
accessdate=2008-06-16] Trinity were then under the stewardship of Phil Stant who had initially signed Logan for Lincoln. [cite web
url=http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?newsmode=FULL&nid=7036
title=Logan returns to Trinity
publisher=NonLeagueDaily.com
date=11 November, 2002
accessdate=2008-06-16] Logan made his debut in the 2-1 home victory over Altrincham on 9 November, 2001 and would remain with the club for two months before, once again, suffering a prolapsed disc in his back which required surgery and would sideline him for the remainder of the season. [cite web
url=http://www.redimps.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10440~342937,00.html
title=Cropper facing long lay off
publisher=Lincoln City F.C. Official Web-site
date=13 February, 2003
accessdate=2008-06-16] With his contract expiring at the end of June 2003, Logan agreed to a deal to terminate his contract two months early. [cite web
url=http://www.redimps.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10440~379765,00.html
title=Logan agrees to severance deal
publisher=Lincoln City F.C. Official Web-site
date=2 May, 2003
accessdate=2008-06-16]

References

External links

*Soccerbase|4587|Richard Logan
* [http://www.redimps.com/archive3/index.mv?cat=players&drop=playerdetsdrop&play=loga01 Lincoln City F.C. Official Archive Profile]