Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alexander "Alex" Russell Elder (born April 25, 1941) is a retired Northern Irish football left back, who played for Burnley. He was said to plays a very mature game for someone with so little experience of top-class football. Although not quick on the turn, he timed his tackles well and invariably made good use of the ball. Elder was the very last piece in Harry Potts Championship jigsaw, signing aged 17 in January 1959 for 5,000 from Irish League club Glentoran. He spent the remainder of the 1958/59 season in the Burnley reserves, remaining there when the 1959/60 season began. By the eighth game of that season he made his first team debut against Preston and the great Tom Finney. Despite a 1-0 defeat Elder played well enough to retain his place and played in all but one of the remaining games that season.