Player #260 for Aston Villa, Richard Ernest York, known as Dicky York played as a winger for the club in the outside right position.

Dicky played for Villa between 1919-20 and 1930-31 making 389 appearances.

Dicky was born in Villa Cross, less than 2 miles from Villa Park, on 25th April 1899 and he made his debut appearance for Villa on the 30th August 1919 aged 20.

Villa had signed Dicky from Birchfield Rangers in March 1915 as an amateur and he signed as a professional forms with the club in August 1919.

Dicky had an eventful journey to professional football having served in the RAF during WW1 escaping with his life from a plane crash.

His start to life at Villa was far more quiet with Dicky scoring just once in 17 games in 1919-20 and playing no part in the club's sixth FA Cup victory that season.

1920-21 saw Dicky appear just 11 times scoring once so it would therefore be 1921-22 before Dicky established himself as a regular in the Villa first team - making 41 appearances as Villa finished 5th.

Despite his increased exposure Dicky's goalscoring form was yet to surface as he hit just two goals making four in total over 3 seasons.

The following season Dicky hit 9 goals in 37 and he followed that up with 5 in 43 in 1923-24 as Villa finished 6th in the league and runners up in the FA Cup.

Despite a downturn in Villa's results during 1924-25 as they fell back to 15th, Dicky hit 7 in 34.

It was to be 1925-26 when Dicky made his most prolific contribution with 19 goals in 40 league games.

That proved a watershed season for Dicky and was the catalyst that saw him promoted to being an ever present over the following four seasons.

Although he didn't reach the same goalscoring heights again, Dicky scored 12 in 43 in 1926-27, 4 in 30 in 1927-28, 18 in 48 in 1928-29, 7 in 32 in 1929-30.

By 1930-31 however with Villa finishing league runners up, Dicky didn't score making just 4 appearances.

York had struck up an effective partnership on the opposite flank with Arthur Dorrell over their decade together in the Villa first team with both leaving the club for Port Vale to recreate their dynamic footballing prowess at a lower level.

Dicky played his final game for Villa on the 15th September 1930 before he moved on to Port Vale.

After retiring from football, Dicky ran a decorating and plumbing business in Birmingham.

Dicky played under both the George Ramsay and Billy Smith led Management Committees.

Dicky passed away in Handsworth on 9th December 1969 aged 70.