Bob Fairman
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Robert Samuel Fairman[1] | ||
Date of birth | 13 July 1883[2] | ||
Place of birth | Southampton, England[1] | ||
Date of death | June 1968 (age 84)[1] | ||
Place of death | Abingdon, Berkshire | ||
Position(s) | Full back, wing half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
– | Southampton | 0 | (0) |
1907–1909 | Birmingham | 22 | (2) |
1909–1912 | West Ham United | 90 | (0) |
1912–1917 | Birmingham | 16 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Robert Samuel Fairman (13 July 1883 – 1968) was an English footballer who played as a full back or wing half. He scored two goals in 38 appearances in the Football League over two spells for Birmingham,[1] and played 90 Southern League matches for West Ham United.[3]
Fairman was born in Southampton, Hampshire. He began his football career with Southampton, although he never played a first-team match, before joining Birmingham in 1907.[4] He played regularly at left half at the start of the 1908–09 season, but lost his place when the club signed Thomas Daykin,[5] and he moved to West Ham United, then a Southern League club, at the end of the season. He spent three years with West Ham, playing more than 100 games in all competitions, before returning to Birmingham in 1912.[3] He played little first-team football after his return, and retired from the game in 1917.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d Joyce, Michael (2012) [2002]. Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-905891-61-0.
- ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ a b "Robert Fairman". westhamstats.info. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
- ^ Matthews, pp. 82, 155.
- ^ Matthews, pp. 86, 159–61.
- 1883 births
- 1968 deaths
- Footballers from Southampton
- English footballers
- Association football fullbacks
- Association football wing halves
- Southampton F.C. players
- Birmingham City F.C. players
- West Ham United F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Southern Football League players
- English football defender, 1880s birth stubs