Michael John Giles is an Irish former association football player and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from management in 1985, Giles served as the senior analyst on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football from 1986 until 2016. The FAI voted Giles as the greatest Irish player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004.
Giles pictured in 2013
Johnny Giles (second seat from the right inside the little box) and the rest of the RTÉ soccer panel at Croke Park during the first leg of the 2010 FIFA World Cup play-off with France
Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire in England. The club play their home matches at Elland Road and compete in the Championship, the second level of the English football league system.
Blue plaque commemorating the foundation of Leeds United in 1919
The first Leeds United team at the start of the 1920–21 season
Statue of Don Revie outside Elland Road
A statue of former Leeds' captain Billy Bremner, outside Elland Road sculpted by Frances Segelman