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Birthdate:
13.10.1955
Birthplace: Lowestoft, England
Other clubs: Lowestoft Town (amateur), Scunthorpe, Fulham, Derby (loan), Luton, Portsmouth, Scunthorpe (2)
Bought from: Fulham
Signed for LFC: £50000 May 1980
International caps: England u-21caps
Liverpool debut:
13.09.1980
Last appearance: 05.05.1981
Contract expiry: April 1982
LFC league games/goals: 14 / 0
Total LFC games/goals: 17 / 0
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Player Notes:
A central defender, who arrived at Anfield as a former England u-21 international, but failed to live up to his early promise. Money had acquired a good reputation in the lower leagues with Scunthorpe and Fulham, for whom he had appeared in close to 300 league matches, despite being only 24 years old when he signed for Liverpool. Even though 1980-81 was a season when Liverpool’s league form was erratic, a final placing of 5th compared with 1st in the two previous seasons, Richard was unable to break through as a first-team regular and made only 14 First Division appearances. Although his Liverpool career was but a brief one, he could at least claim to be part of one of the most famous nights in Liverpool’s European history when he played in the memorable 1-1 draw against Bayern in Munich’s Olympic Stadium, a result that took the club through against all the odds to their 3rd European Cup final in 5 seasons.
Richard went on loan to Derby County for a short time the following season before signing permanently for Luton Town. A spell at Portsmouth followed before he returned to Scunthorpe, the club where he had started his playing career. Money later became Scunthorpe's manager, also having managed AIK and Vasteras in Sweden, Australia's Newcastle United Jets and Walsall. In the summer of 2008 he was hired as the director of Newcastle United's academy.
At the end of October 2009 Richard was unveiled as the new manager of Luton Towm, one of the clubs he had played for in the Football League in the 1980s but who were now in the Conference division. At the end of his first full season back at Kenilworth Road (2009-10), Luton finished as runners-up to the champions (Stevenage) but were perhaps surprisingly beaten on aggregate by York City in the play-off semi-final (Luton had finished with ten points more than York in the regular season). |
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