Bob Edwards (soccer player)

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Bob Edwards
Personnel
Surname Robert Henry Edwards
birthday May 22, 1931
place of birth Guildford ,  England
date of death 29 May 2019
Place of death Norfolk ,  England
position Half-forward (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1951 Woking FC
1951-1955 Chelsea FC 13 ( 02)
1955-1959 Swindon Town 173 (65)
1959-1961 Norwich City 1 ( 00)
1961–1962 Northampton Town 23 (10)
1962-1965 King's Lynn FC
1965-1967 Boston Town
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Henry "Bob" Edwards (born May 22, 1931 in Guildford , † May 29, 2019 in Norfolk ) was an English football player . The left half-forward won the English championship with Chelsea in 1955 , but was only used in a single league game and shortly afterwards moved to Swindon Town , where he spent four and a half years as a regular in the third division.

Athletic career

Edwards began his active football career first at Woking FC , before he moved in November 1951 with discharge from military service to the first division club FC Chelsea . In the "Blues", who often fought against relegation at the beginning of the 1950s, he made his debut against Stoke City in the first team on Boxing Day 1952 . In the further course of the 1952/53 season he completed a further eleven league games and with two goals against Tottenham Hotspur (3: 2) and Liverpool (3: 0) in March 1953, he had a share in the fact that Chelsea again narrowly kept the league succeeded. The hoped-for sporting breakthrough was denied to the young half-forward and so his appearance on September 6, 1954 in the 0-1 home defeat against Preston North End was the last. Chelsea won the English championship that season in 1954/55 and in July 1955 Edwards moved to third division club Swindon Town .

On the first day of the 1955/56 season Edwards made his debut against FC Southampton (1: 2) and the first goal on this debut was followed by three more hits in the following four games. The sporting success was initially absent and a last place in the first year was only followed by a slight improvement as the penultimate in the season 1956/57, although Edwards developed into a top scorer. In the third year the form curve of the club showed clearly upwards and after securing the place in the single-track third division from 1958 Edwards was Swindon Town's best scorer again in the 1958/59 season.

In December 1959, Edwards was hired by Norwich City for a £ 3,000 transfer . There he was only used in a league game in just under a year and a half, before playing at Northampton Town from March 1961 , against which he had scored two goals in a friendly two days earlier. With Northampton, he rose at the end of the season from the Fourth Division , to which he had contributed on the last match days with eight hits in 13 missions. From 1962 Edwards let his football career end in non-league football , first with FC King's Lynn and then with Boston Town .

Edwards earned his living after his football career as a milkman in Sandringham , 1.04 and Dersingham . In 2015 the father of four celebrated a diamond wedding .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile on barryhugmansfootballers.com , accessed June 28, 2020
  2. ↑ Robert Henry Edwards (stamford-bridge.com)
  3. ↑ Bob EDWARDS (swindon-town-fc.co.uk)
  4. ↑ Mike Davage: Glorious Canaries - Past and Present 1902-1994 . Norwich City FC Ltd, Norfolk 1994, ISBN 0-9523857-0-8 , pp. 125 f .
  5. ↑ yourlocalpaper.co.uk: Diamond anniversary for former footballer (June 12, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Edwards, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edwards, Robert Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Guildford
DATE OF DEATH 29 May 2019
Place of death Norfolk