Joe Jordan Player Profile

Joe Jordan

Born in Cle­land, Joe Jordan star­ted out at Mor­ton before he was brought from the hel­ter skel­ter of Scot­tish foot­ball by legendary Leeds United boss Don Revie who bought him for a bar­gain £15,000 in Octo­ber 1970. Being a quick learner, the tooth­less fron­trun­ner ulti­mately estab­lished him­self as a reg­u­lar in the first team at Elland Road.

While at Leeds United, Joe Jordan would play along­side house­hold names such as Allan Clarke, Eddie Gray, Mick Jones and Peter Lor­imer. Fol­low­ing Don Revie’s depar­ture to man­age the Eng­land team, how­ever, Leeds United were declin­ing and hatred between the play­ers star­ted to bubble over. Even­tu­ally, Manchester United Head Coach Dave Sex­ton brought Joe Jordan to Old Traf­ford for a trans­fer fee estim­ated to be some­where in the region of £350,000 in Janu­ary 1978 and the trig­ger happy marks­man would be joined by his pre­vi­ous Leeds United team­mate Gor­don McQueen only a few weeks later. A nat­ural born goal scorer, the former Elland Road hero went on to become a stal­wart cent­ral striker for Manchester United and his fear­less approach to the game made him a massive hit with the Old Traf­ford sup­port­ers. Peter Lor­imer: “Our whole ethos was built on loy­alty. Don Revie involved the play­ers’ fam­il­ies, to heighten the sense of togeth­er­ness. The man­ager organ­ised social nights for the play­ers, includ­ing rounds of car­pet bowls, dom­in­oes and bingo. We had 15 years of what no man gets. Every day you would go to work and it was an abso­lute pleas­ure. You couldn’t wait to get in your car and go down to the ground and be amongst the lads. It was a team that had everything. They had aggres­sion. They had class. They had exper­i­ence. It was the com­plete team, it had the per­fect blend of play­ers that offered every good part of the game.” Joe Jordan Fact File: Whilst with Manchester United, Joe Jordan notched up 37 goals in 109 Foot­ball League appear­ances for The Manchester Reds and he was a mem­ber of the team that reached the FA Cup Final in 1979 only to suf­fer a nar­row 3–2 defeat at the hands of bit­ter adversar­ies Arsenal. After short spells with AC Milan and Hel­las Ver­ona in Italy, the goal plun­derer extraordin­aire decided to join forces with First Divi­sion Southamp­ton at the begin­ning of the 1984–85 cam­paign before he finally fin­ished his pro­fes­sional foot­ball career with Third Divi­sion side Bris­tol City four years later. Wear­ing the fam­ous dark blue shirt of Scot­land on 52 occa­sions, Joe Jordan also man­aged to make his mark on the inter­na­tional scene.

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