GABBY Logan's Dad, former Leeds and Wales footballer Terry Yorath, has died at the age of 75.
Logan was presenting Match of the Day on Wednesday (January 7) night, when she was forced to leave the show.
She was replaced by Mark Chapman, who revealed she had to leave due to a "family emergency".
Chapman, according to TalkSport , said: “Sadly, Gabby has got a family emergency that she had to rush off and deal with.
“She’s gone to do that, and I’ve come from the radio to finish the show.”
Praying with all my will that Gabby Logan was able to see her dad Terry Yorath one last time (this is why Mark Chapman took over, coming directly from Radio 5 Live in the middle of Match Of The Day) pic.twitter.com/aN7ZE183pG
— Joe Gibney (@joegibney15) January 8, 2026
Former Leeds and Wales footballer Terry Yorath dies aged 75
It has now been revealed that Logan's father, former Welsh international and Leeds footballer Terry Yorath, has died at the age of 75.
Yorath was part of an exclusive club of footballers who played for and managed their country and was a penalty kick away from leading Wales to the 1994 World Cup.
He won 59 caps as a rugged midfielder between 1969 and 1981 before taking charge of the Wales national team in 1988.
Under Yorath, Wales reached their then-highest FIFA ranking of 27 in August 1993, and almost qualified for their second World Cup in the US in 1994.
Needing to beat Romania at home in their final qualifier, Wales were drawing 1-1 in the second half when Paul Bodin’s penalty struck the crossbar.
Wales ended up losing 2-1 and, instead of being granted national hero status by taking the country to the World Cup, Yorath found himself out of work.
The Football Association of Wales did not renew Yorath’s contract and appointed Real Sociedad’s John Toshack as a part-time manager instead.
But Yorath’s former team-mate resigned after just one game, with Welsh fans still upset at the dismissal of his predecessor.
Yorath was born in Cardiff in March 1950 and signed for Don Revie’s Leeds at the age of 17.
At first, he found it difficult to find a place in a Leeds midfield featuring Billy Bremner and Johnny Giles, and was on the bench for the FA Cup final defeat to Sunderland in 1973.
That same year, he started in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final loss to AC Milan.
But Yorath was a key member of Leeds’ 1973-74 championship-winning team as England-bound Revie marked his final season at Elland Road by beating Liverpool to the title by five points.
The following season Yorath became the first Welshman to play in the European Cup final when Leeds lost 2-0 to Bayern Munich in Paris.
In 1976, Yorath, who was captain of a Wales team that would reach the quarter-finals of Euro ’76, moved to Coventry for £125,000.
He was captain at Coventry before joining Tottenham for £300,000 in 1979.
Yorath wound down his career at Vancouver Whitecaps in Canada and at Bradford, where he became assistant manager to his former Leeds team-mate Trevor Cherry.
He was at Bradford in 1985 when 56 fans were killed by a fire at their Valley Parade home, Yorath himself was injured when he was forced to jump out of a window after evacuating supporters from a bar.
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After winning promotion at Swansea from the old fourth division, Yorath was appointed part-time manager of Wales.
He combined managerial roles at Swansea and Bradford with the national job before concentrating on Wales in 1991.
At the start of the 1992 World Cup campaign, he suffered personal tragedy when his son Daniel died at the age of 15 from an undetected heart condition while playing football in the back garden.
Yorath is also the father of three other children - Gabby, Louise, and son Jordan.
After World Cup heartbreak and his departure from Wales, Yorath managed Cardiff, the Lebanon national team, Sheffield Wednesday, and Margate.
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