Arthur Graham Player Profile

Arthur Gra­ham

Glaswe­gian Arthur Gra­ham arrived at Aber­deen from Cam­buslang Juni­ors at the start of the 1969–70 sea­son and the bandy legged out­side left was soon included in the first team. A tre­mend­ously tal­en­ted teen­ager, the Rick Wake­man look alike was a part of the Aber­deen side that beat Celtic 3–1 in the 1970 Scot­tish FA Cup Final.

Arthur Gra­ham made over 200 appear­ances for Aber­deen before the wily winger decided to move to Leeds United for a trans­fer fee of £125,000 in the sum­mer of 1977. At Elland Road, the flank­man man­aged to notch up a total of 47 goals in 260 first team appear­ances for The Pea­cocks dur­ing his six sea­sons at the West York­shire club. As Leeds United were releg­ated to the Second Divi­sion in 1982 and failed to regain their status in the First Divi­sion the fol­low­ing sea­son, Gra­ham was sold to Manchester United for £50,000 in August 1983. Des­pite of the fact that he spent just two sea­sons at the club, he enjoyed a short but suc­cess­ful spell under man­ager Ron Atkin­son. A con­sist­ent and hard work­ing per­former, he made 37 league out­ings for Manchester United before he finally fin­ished a fine foot­balling career with Brad­ford City in 1987. A Scot­land inter­na­tional, Arthur Gra­ham gained eleven full caps after mak­ing his debut against East Ger­many in 1977.

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