Jimmy Robson

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Jimmy Robson
Personnel
Surname James Robson
birthday January 23, 1939
place of birth Pelton ,  England
position Half- forward , central defender
Juniors
Years station
Burnley FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1956-1965 Burnley FC 202 (79)
1965-1968 Blackpool FC 64 (14)
1968-1970 Barnsley FC 87 (15)
1970-1973 Bury FC 103 ( 03)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959 England U-23 1 ( 01)
1 Only league games are given.

James "Jimmy" Robson (born January 23, 1939 in Pelton ) is a former English football player . As inside forward , he was at Burnley member of the champion team of 1960 and later the Blackpool FC , the FC Barnsley and the Bury FC - there often on the center-back position - active.

Athletic career

Like many later footballers and 1960s Burnley champions, Robson comes from the Northeast of England and was discovered in a school final game together with his future teammate Ian Lawson . They presented themselves to the “Weinroten” with a trial training session and signed an amateur contract on the same day. On his 17th birthday, the first division club equipped Robson with a professional contract and in October 1956 he came to the train for the first time in the first team. He benefited from the fact that Jimmy McIlroy was traveling with the Northern Irish selection and was not available against Blackpool FC . So he made his debut as a right half-forward and the debut succeeded, as he prevented a defeat with the goal to 2-2 about ten minutes before the end. Regardless, he was largely left out in the next two years and most of the time he spent on Burnley's reserve team. In the 1958/59 season he ultimately developed into a regular player, where he primarily ousted Albert Cheesebrough , who then left the club in the summer of 1959 for Leicester City . In addition, he took part in an international match against Germany in Bochum for the English U-23 team in May 1959 and also scored a goal at 2-2 - but it was the only international experience in his career.

Overall, Robson had four successful years in Burnley and after his "breakthrough year" with ten league goals, he won the English championship with his men in the 1959/60 season . He contributed 18 hits (five of them in the 8-0 win against Nottingham Forest ), with only one less than Ray Pointer and two less than Burnley's top scorer John Connelly . In the following year he played 54 of 62 competitive games and in three of four games in the European Cup , he entered the statistics as a goalscorer. The next success for him was in the 1961/62 season, in addition to winning the runner- up, reaching the final in the FA Cup . Here, too, Robson scored another goal against Tottenham Hotspur , but his goal to make it 1-1 was not enough, because Burnley fell behind again and in the end the game was lost 3-1. Then he lost his regular place to the up-and-coming Andy Lochhead , but until his departure in March 1965 he played 46 more league matches. He finally moved to the first division rivals FC Blackpool for the transfer fee of 10,000 pounds.

In Blackpool Robson spent more than two first division years, which ended in 1967 with relegation to the second division . After the turn of the year 1966/67 Robson played more in the defense center, which relativized the relatively small yield of three goals in the year of relegation. After just three league appearances for Blackpool in the first months of the 1967/68 season, he then moved in January 1968 to FC Barnsley , which was just on the successful path to promotion to the third division. Two and a half years later he was hired by FC Bury , where his ex-Burnley colleague Connelly was also traveling. In Bury he let his active professional career as a defender end in a little more than 100 league games until 1973.

He then returned to Burnley, worked there under Jimmy Adamson as a youth coach and remained a player in the reserve team. The engagement lasted only about a year before he hired himself in the coaching staff of clubs such as AFC Rochdale and Huddersfield Town . Most recently he worked for Burnley from 1998 under Stan Ternent and after six more years with his long-term club he retired.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-23 International Results - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ↑ "Jimmy Robson" (Clarets Mad)
personal data
SURNAME Robson, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robson, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Pelton