BILL FOTHERBY, Mr F or Mr Fotherby as John Reed would say, left an indelible mark on anyone he met and by his own admission he made things happen. For Harrogate Town Fotherby certainly did. He took over at the struggling NPL Division One club on the 1st March 2000 and turned them into one read more→
Football League hopefuls Harrogate Town have only won three league titles in their history and goalkeeper Ash Connor was a major part of the most recent. The Golcar United joint manager is perhaps remembered by many strikers who have gleefully scored past him over the years(!), but he started his Non League career with Harrogate read more→
John Reed claims his task at Ossett Town is bigger than the one he faced at Harrogate Town over a decade ago. Reed won the old Evo Stik Division One North title in 2002 with Harrogate under new Ossett Town director of football Bill Fotherby’s chairmanship – a side that ironically featured his Ossett predecessor read more→
Interview by James Grayson (Twitter: @jamesAgrayson) By own his admission, new Ossett Town director of football Bill Fotherby is a man in a hurry. Now in his eighties and “feeling the best” he has “in years”, the former Leeds United and Harrogate Town chairman is plotting his latest conquest – helping Evo Stik Division One read more→
John Reed believes Bill Fotherby’s arrival at Ingfield can inspire Evo Stik Division One North side Ossett Town to greater heights, writes James Grayson (Twitter: @jamesAgrayson). Former Leeds United and Harrogate Town chairman Fotherby was appointed as Ossett’s director of football yesterday after Reed recommended him to the club’s chairman James Rogers. Reed and Fotherby read more→
By his own admission Bill Fotherby “makes things happen” and his track record proves he does just that. The man who played a key role in returning Leeds United to the old First Division in the late 1980s and then turned Harrogate Town from nobodies to one of the top Non-League clubs in West Yorkshire read more→
Former Leeds United and Harrogate Town chairman Bill Fotherby is back in football as the new director of football at Ossett Town and he insists his new club can “go places”. The appointment reunites him with Ossett manager John Reed as the pair worked together at Harrogate between 2000 and 2005. Ossett hope Fotherby’s arrival read more→
It was a great time. That is Craig Elliott’s verdict on his spell as a player at Harrogate Town at the beginning of the Bill Fotherby glory years, writes James Grayson (Twitter: @jamesAgrayson). The current Ossett Town manager was playing elsewhere when former Leeds United chairman Fotherby swept into the club and promised to take read more→
