Bobby Mason

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Bobby Mason
Personnel
Surname Robert Henry Mason
birthday March 22, 1936
place of birth Tipton ,  England
position Half-striker
Juniors
Years station
1951-1954 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1954-1952 Wolverhampton Wanderers 146 (44)
1962-1963 Chelmsford City
1963-1964 Leyton Orient 23 0(0)
1964-1965 Poole Town
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Henry "Bobby" Mason (born March 22, 1936 in Tipton ) is a former English football player . The half-forward won the English championship with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1958 and 1959 and was the club's top scorer in the 1959/60 European Cup .

Athletic career

Mason spent his youth with Wolverhampton Wanderers and was taken into the professional field at the age of 18. The agile and always on the move half-striker earned his first sporting merits in the junior and substitute teams, including his way to the final of the FA Youth Cup in 1954 , which again only just barely happened after a round-trip match against the then series winner Manchester United was lost 4: 5. In addition, he won the Central League with the reserve eleven in 1953 and 1958 .

The missions in the first team were initially only sporadic. On November 5, 1955, Mason made his debut against Luton Town in a league game here, but it ended with a hefty 5-1 defeat and was the last competitive appearance until November 1956. Only the departure of Dennis Wilshaw to Stoke City made the end of 1957 for Masons leap into the first team. He used his chance, scored ten goals in league and cup games in the remaining games of the 1957/58 season and won the English championship . He also made a significant contribution to defending his title the following year with 13 goals. The highest scoring he achieved in the 1959/60 season, when he scored 15 times in domestic competitions and was the top scorer of the "Wolves" with four goals in the European Cup . He narrowly missed the third championship title with his team behind Burnley FC . "Compensation" offered in 1960 winning the FA Cup , although the cup competition ended disappointing for Mason personally, as he had completed all rounds before the final, but was surprisingly represented in the final by Barry Stobart .

After two more seasons with rather modest goalscoring, Mason left the Wolves in June 1962 for Chelmsford City , which was active in the lower-class Southern League . A year later he briefly returned to the professional field, played a goalless season in 1963/64 for the second division Leyton Orient and let his active career fade away at Poole Town until 1965 . After his resignation, he turned his back on football and settled first in southern Christchurch and later in Swadlincote in central England .

Achievements / titles

literature

  • Tony Matthews: Wolverhampton Wanderers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2008, ISBN 978-1-85983-632-3 , pp. 140 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mason, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mason, Robert Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Tipton