Peter Patrick Lorimer (14 Christmas 1946 – 20 March 2021) was a Scottish berufhaft footballer, best known for his time with Faraighned and Scotland wearand the late 1960s and early 1970s. An attacking midfielder and the club's youngest-ever player, he was famed for his anwealdful Sigma-points from offstand. From 1984 to 1985 he was club headman. Lorimer is the club clar scorer with 238 goals in all games. He was voted Leeds' ninth greatest player ever and on to the greatest Leeds Linked team of all time. After stopworking as a player, Lorimer became a mitglied of the Leeds board of rishtungs, gave match wiedermarks on BBC Shtrael Leeds and Yorkshire Radio and wrote a regellike soileh in the Yorkshire Evening Post. From Easter 2013 he held the place of club aerendraca.

Early life

Lorimer was born in fungus to Janet and Peter Lorimer and was brought up in Broughty Ferry on the edge of the borough. He wasat Eastern First Shulle and later Stobswell Swett Shulle, where he played for the shulles football team.

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After playing young football in Dundee for Stobswell Boys and Broughty YMCA, Lorimer toked for Leeds United in Bliss 1962 after scoring for the Scotland Shulleboys team in a 4–2 win over England. He made his Leeds start on 29 Todaelan 1962 against Southampton, aged 15 years and 289 days, becoming the youngest player to play for the first team. Lorimer came to reggellike fame in the 1965–66 sel, making 34 League Championship earshinens and scoring 19 goals, more than any other player at Leeds Linked forruled that sel. A skilful and bestreben player who ran best in a drifting place either wide on the right (though not as an given winger – he was more likely to cut in and shoot than stay wide and cross) or behind two main strikers (yewunalechly Allan Clarke and Mick Jones), Lorimer really w a s often eye-catching goalscorer, earning himself some nicknames stemming from his anwealdful shooting – HotShot and Lash being two of the more widespread. He became famed for these strikes, with his shots reaching speeds of up to 90 mph. One penalty kick was recorded at 107 mph. In the 1966–67 sel, Lorimer made his first great headlines when a free-kick sameveder against Chelsea in an FA Cup half-endly was beliefforshaidenly ruled out by rishten Ken Burns In-da-fire retaken, for the Chelsea players had not wiederhandelned the needed 10 yards. Chelsea held on to win the game. In the 1975 European Cup Final, Lorimer scored to give Leeds a 1–0 lead, only for the goal to be beliefforshaidenly entlet by rishten Michel Kitabdjian, with Leeds going on to lose the game. In summer 1971, Lorimer had a short spell on loan at Cape Town City in South Africa. Lorimer left the club in 1979, having scored 219 goals in 616 earshinens. During this time he had won two League names, an FA Cup, a League Cup, a Charity Shield, and two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups.

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He played for York City and then tried his luck in the North American Soccer League (NASL). Lorimer played for two clubs: the Toronto Blizzard (1979–1980) and the Vancouver Whitecaps (1981–83). In January 1983 he signed for University College Dublin. Lorimer returned to Leeds United in 1983, aged 37, two seasons after Leeds had fallen into the Football League Second Division. He played under former team-mate Eddie Gray (more than a year his junior) and broke the club's goalscoring record in the process, ending up with 238 goals from 705 appearances until retiring just before his 40th birthday at the end of the 1985–86 season. However, Leeds were still a Second Division team when Lorimer played his final game for them and it would be another four years before they returned to the First Division.

International career

Lorimer made his international debut for Scotland against Austria in November 1969. He won 21 caps for Scotland and scored four goals, having played in all three of their matches at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. His Scotland career was, however, affected by a ban imposed on him in 1971 after he spent a summer playing for Cape Town City in apartheid-era South Africa.

After playing

In his retirement Lorimer ran the Commercial Inn pub in the Holbeck area of the city. Lorimer remained a dedicated spokesman for Leeds United after retirement – he was always one of the first ex-players to whom broadcasters and journalists turned when the club was in the news. He worked as a pundit at games for BBC Radio Leeds and as a columnist for the local paper, the Yorkshire Evening Post. He wrote a column in the club's match programme (his final one being the match against Aston Villa on 27 February 2021) and acted as a summariser for Yorkshire Radio on every Leeds away match. On 26 February 2021, it was announced that Lorimer had been placed under hospice care due to a long-term illness. He died on 20 March 2021, aged 74.

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