Tommy Robertson

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Tommy Robertson
Personal information
Full name Thomas Robertson
Date of birth 1873
Place of birth Renton, Scotland
Date of death c. 1939
Playing position Outside left
Youth career
East Benhar
Heatherbell
Motherwell
Fauldhouse
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1896–1898 Hearts
1898–1902 Liverpool 126 (34)
1902 Hearts
1902–1903 Dundee
1903 Manchester United 3 (0)
1905–? Bathgate
National team
1898 Scotland 1 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Thomas "Tommy" Robertson (1873 – c.1939) was a Scottish international footballer who played for Liverpool in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, helping them to a league title.

Life and playing career

Born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, Robertson played for East Benhar, Heatherbell, Motherwell, Fauldhouse and Hearts before being signed with John Walker for £350 by Liverpool manager Tom Watson in March 1898. Making his debut in a Football League Division One against Sheffield Wednesday on the 11 April 1898 scoring his first goal in the same match. The winger had a very successful time at Anfield missing just a single game in his first 2 seasons at the club, he even bagged a very respectable 19 goals, not bad for someone playing out on the flank. Robertson was an ever present in the 1900–01 season as the Reds went on to win their first league title. Robertson left Liverpool at the end of the following season after making a further 25 games, he returned to Edinburgh and Hearts. He also went on to play for Dundee, Manchester United, one of the very few players to have played for both bitter rivals at each end of the East Lancs Road, and Bathgate.

Robertson received one international cap for Scotland, playing against Ireland in a British Championship match on 26 March 1898 at Solitude, Belfast. Robertson also managed to find the net in a 3–0 victory for Scotland.

Honours

Club

Liverpool

External links

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