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Past articles have seen the likes of John Aldridge, Pat Nevin and Dave Russell profiled, and this week we take a look at a man who is regarded is a Tranmere hero purely for one 90 minute performance across the water.
Defender Steve Yates had a reasonably successful footballing career, playing for eight clubs over a nineteen year period.
It all started for the Bristol born boy with his local club, Bristol Rovers, for whom he played as a junior and then a YTS before making his first team debut during the 1988/89 season.
Yates was with the Pirates as a professional for five years, making just under 230 appearances for the club, ironically, considering what would later happen at Tranmere, failing to score a single goal.
Whilst at Bristol Rovers, Yates helped the Pirates all the way to the 1989/1990 Leyland DAF (now Johnstone's Paints) Trophy final at Wembley, where they would take on Tranmere Rovers, then managed by John King.
On the day, Tranmere won the game in front of a crowd of nearly 50,000 at the National Stadium, with Ian Muir scoring for Tranmere in a 2-1 win.
In 1993, Yates finally left Bristol Rovers, seven years after signing his YTS contract with the club. In 1991, Pirates manager Gerry Francis had moved to Queens Park Rangers, and Yates followed Francis a couple of years later, as QPR came in with an offer of £650,000, money that couldn't be refused.
Goals were still missing from Yates' game whilst with QPR, but he was still a regular starter, putting in consistent and solid performances through-out as he played all across the back four.
Over the next six years, Yates made an impressive 150 appearances for the London club, making his debut in the Premier League against Liverpool before missing the whole of the 1994/95 season through injury.
Yates didn't play again until October 1995, a 18 month lay off from the game, and when he came back he was thrown straight into a relegation battle with QPR, a battle that they lost and saw them relegated to Division One.
At the end of the 1998/99 season, Yates was released by Queens Park Rangers and he was quickly snapped up on a free-transfer by Tranmere Rovers manager John Aldridge. It was now that he would begin a three year love affair with Tranmere that will never end.
For the start of the 1999/2000 campaign, Yates was made club captain, showing just how much he had already impressed the manager and coaching staff in the little time he had been at the club.
Rovers would secure a mid-table place in Division One in this season, but it was notably their cup performances that put them in the newspapers, with Rovers reaching the League Cup final and the F.A. Cup Quarter Finals, where they would be knocked out by Leicester City at Wembley (2-1) and Newcastle United at Prenton Park (3-2).
In his first season, Yates scored three goals for the club, one more than he had scored in his previous eleven years as a professional footballer. His goalscoring antics of course didn't stop there and ultimately, despite being a defender, it is those he is remembered for by Rovers fans.
In the 2000/01 season, Tranmere would yet again put themselves on the footballing map thanks to a sparkling cup run, as they reached the F.A. Cup Quarter Finals for the second year running, a run in which Yates quite remarkably scored four times.
His first goal of the season actually came in the League Cup as Rovers came from 2-0 down in a brilliant match against Leeds United at Prenton Park to win 3-2, with Yates scoring the second in between two Andy Parkinson strikes, the second coming in extra-time, after Darren Huckerby had put Leeds two up before half-time.
That game though is forgetten by many purely based on the F.A. Cup run that would follow. It all started for Tranmere with an excellent 2-1 win away at Portsmouth. Yates scored Rovers first on that day, an equaliser just before half-time, before Parkinson scored a second-half winner for John Aldridge's side.
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Yates, naturally a right-back but playing on the left due to the absense of Gareth Roberts, scored twice, firstly giving Tranmere the lead in the first half with a looping header at the far post from a Parkinson cross, before his second came midway through the second half as he steamed in like an express train to head an unstoppable header into the back of the net from a Jason Koumas corner.
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Yates then played in the Fifth Round as Tranmere firstly drew 0-0 away at The Dell against Southampton, before in the replay Rovers came from 3-0 down at half-time to beat the Saints 4-3 at Prenton Park.
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2-0 down at half-time, another Yates header made it 2-1 on 47 minutes, but after Allison had made it 3-2 just before the hour mark, Robbie Fowler scored a dubious penalty for Liverpool with eight minutes left.
Tranmere were eventually relegated at the end of the 2000/01 season, finishing bottom of Division One and seeing John Aldridge step down as manager.
Yates would have just one further season at Prenton Park, this under Dave Watson. Increadibly for a defender, Yates, now in his fourteenth season as a professional, picked up his first career in this season as five yellow cards resulted in a one match ban.
A 110% professional, Yates always gave his all for the club as a solid defender who became a very unlikely source of goals Tranmere.
His cup goals against Everton will not be forgotten in a long time and it is those that have elevated the defender to such high regard amongst Rovers fans.
It was then that they not only expressed surprise but also dissapointment and anger as Yates was released at the end of the 2001/02 season, with Dave Watson not even offering the defender a new contract.
His departure was not the only surprising one though, as Watson also let the likes of Wayne Allison, Sean Flynn and Nicky Henry leave the club, most of whom Rovers fans would have preffered to hae stayed.
Over three seasons on the Wirral, Yates made an impressive 137 appearances for the club, with 24 of them coming in the League or F.A. Cup!
He netted on fourteen occasions for the team, and put in to perspective, over the other sixteen years of his career, Yates only scored five times!
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Yates initially announced retirement from football in July 2005 when he was released by Huddersfield, due to injury, having not played a game since January. However, he was twice coaxed out of it.
Firstly, he joined Scarborough and then played a handful of games for Halifax before again retiring at the end of the 2005-06 season.
But, Jimmy Harvey, a former Tranmere player, was manager of Morecambe at the time, and he convinced Yates to play another season of football, and it would prove to be a good one.
The defender was an integral part of the Morecambe team that won promotion from the Conference to the Football League for the first time in it's history, with Sammy McIlroy the manager for most of the season after Harvey had a heart attack.
Yates played 49 times for the Seaside club, scoring twice, and was able to hang up his boots for the final time in May 2007 a happy man after Morecambe won the play-off final at Wembley.
Yates was due to play at Prenton Park against Tranmere for Huddersfield in the 2004/05 season, but sadly injury ruled him out of the game, and the defender never played at Prenton Park after leaving the Super Whites in 2002, something that still dissapoints Tranmere fans to this day.
Indeed, many had hoped that he might pull on the Tranmere jersey for their debut in the Masters in 2008, just so fans could chant "Steve Yates is a goal machine" one more time, but it appears he will not feature for Rovers in the tournament.
He may not have been the greatest player to play for Tranmere, but it special moments like those goals against Everton which make the fans remember and love a player, and that's exactly what Yates provided: magic moments as Tranmere beat their Premier League neighbours in their own back yard. It doesn't get much better than that.