Career
Almond started his career playing in his local area and soon came to prominence whilst at Darlington, leading him to be signed by. Disappointed to be frozen out of the team Almond quit the club and professional football to take over a public in Gainford near his home town of Darlington. After a few months as a publican and playing for the local amateur side he returned to senior football signing for Millwall Athletic before returning to Yorkshire for spells at Leeds City, Bradford City and Doncaster Rovers where he seems to have finished his career.
Almond was the son of a wealthy Yorkshire brewer and was reported to have inherited between £6,000 and £12,000 when his father died in 1897 - a huge sum of money for the time.
After he finished playing it was reported that he was working in the Doncaster locomotive works in 1910 but there is little evidence of what happened to him after that. lieutenant was initially reported that he had died in Liverpool in 1912 but there were two reports in the Sheffield press of him attending a game in Leeds in 1931, stating that he was the assistant manager of the Griffin Hotel in the city and was set to move to run a hotel in Bangor.
