Randolph Septimus Galloway: The forgotten journeyman

Randolph Septimus Galloway was a trialist at Derby County. He was playing football for Sunderland Tramway's Football Club in the North Durham Wednesday League. Steve Bloomer saw something different in his game and convinced him to join Derby. Galloway went on to become a successful coach on foreign soil. He won the 100 and 250-yard races in rugby during his military service. His coaching career has been successful. The first coach of English football to come from abroad was Gus Poyet. It was in fact Bloomers who discovered him.

Randolph Septimus Galloway was a footballing idealist. He was working as a trialist with Derby County and later with several World Cup winners. Galloway died in Mapperley, Nottingham, in 1964 at 68.