Signed from: Bradford City (£100,000), Summer of 1993
Debut: 2-0 win vs Port Vale (League Cup tie), October 5th 1994
League Record: no league appearences, two as sub in the League Cup
Sold to: free transfer to Macclesfield Town, Summer of 1998
My only memories of Graeme are of reading about his arrival in the official club magazine, of which I still have every copy from the first (in December 1992) to around 2004. I say “I” still have them – the vast majority are currently going very mouldy in my parents’ attic.
Tomlinson was an early case of Fergie importing young talent (insert your own joke there), a practise a lot more common today. He’d impressed in a Youth Cup tie, and had even scored a few for the Bradford first team. He first got into the team a year after he signed, in the second leg of the (in)famous Port Vale League Cup tie, following it up with another showing from the sub's bench in the next round, where we put up a decent showing against Newcastle, losing 2-0 at St James' Park.
Sadly, a bad injury whilst out on loan stopped him making any real progress, robbing him of a lot whatever Fergie has seen in him in the first place. Given a free transfer, he drifted to Macclesfield and Exeter, never finding any goalscoring form, before leaving the professional game.
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