Bobby Reid
Personal information
Full name Robert Reid[1]
Date of birth 19 February 1911
Place of birth Hamilton, Scotland[1]
Date of death 16 November 1987(1987-11-16) (aged 76)[2]
Place of death East Kilbride, Scotland[3]
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[4]
Position(s) Outside left
Youth career
0000–1929 Ferniegair Violet
1929–1931 Hamilton Academical
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1931–1936 Hamilton Academical 62 (19)
1933 → Stranraer (loan)
1936–1939 Brentford 103 (34)
1939–1946 Sheffield United 14 (4)
1946–1947 Bury 17 (1)
1947–1949 Third Lanark
International career
1934 Scottish League XI 2 (0)
1937–1938 Scotland 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robert Reid (19 February 1911 – 16 November 1987) was a Scottish footballer who played at both professional and international levels as an outside left.[5] His best remembered for his time in the Football League with Brentford, for whom he made 110 appearances.[6] Reid earned the nickname 'The Flying Scotsman' for his performances down the wing for Hamilton Academical early in his career.[7]

Club career

Reid began his career in his native Scotland with Hamilton Academical and played for the club in the 1935 Scottish Cup Final.[3][8] He moved to England in January 1936 to reunite with friend David McCulloch at First Division club Brentford.[7] A spell out following an appendicitis operation in 1936 allowed Les Smith into the team, with whom Reid would battle for a place through the rest of his Bees career.[7] During his three years at Griffin Park, he was among the club's leading scorers, behind David McCulloch.[9]

Reid joined Sheffield United for a £6,000 fee in February 1939 and with his time at the club being affected by the Second World War, he made just 14 league appearances, scoring four goals,[2] before his departure after the war in November 1946.[7][10] Reid next spent a season with Bury, scoring 1 goal in 17 league appearances, before ending his career with a player-coach spell at Third Lanark.[2][6]

International and representative career

Reid won two caps for Scotland during the 1937–38 season.[11] He also made two appearances for the Scottish League XI.[12]

Post-playing career

Reid served Bury, Third Lanark, Airdrieonians and former club Hamilton Academical as a physiotherapist, arriving back at Douglas Park in the late 1960s.[6] By the time of his death in November 1987, Reid was still with the Accies, working also as kit man.[6]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Hamilton Academical 1932–33[13] Scottish First Division 3 0 0 0 — 3 0
1933–34[14] 9 2 0 0 2[lower-alpha 1] 1 11 3
1934–35[15] 36 12 7 0 1[lower-alpha 2] 1 44 13
1935–36[16] 14 5 0 0 — 14 5
Total 62 19 7 0 3 2 72 21
Brentford 1935–36[9] First Division 18 3 — — 18 3
1936–37[9] 28 10 2 2 — 30 12
1937–38[9] 40 17 4 1 1[lower-alpha 3] 0 45 18
1938–39[9] 17 3 — — 17 3
Total 103 33 6 3 1 0 110 36
Career total 165 52 13 3 4 2 182 57
  1. ↑ 1 appearance and 1 goal in Lanarkshire Cup, 1 appearance in Southern Counties Cup
  2. ↑ Appearance in Southern Counties Cup
  3. ↑ Appearance in the Empire Exhibition Trophy

Honours

Hamilton Academical

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 242. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bobby Reid". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Reid, Robert (1933)". Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Brentford. Only one change in 'Bees' team". Sunday Dispatch Football Guide. London. 23 August 1936. p. iv – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920–2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-0955294914.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Official Matchday Magazine Of Brentford Football Club versus Stoke City. Blackheath: Morganprint. 3 January 2000. p. 27.
  8. ↑ McGilvray, Andy (14 April 2010). "75 years since Accies' Scottish Cup final against Rangers". Daily Record. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 373–375. ISBN 0951526200.
  10. ↑ "Reid Bobby Hamilton Academical 1934". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  11. ↑ Bobby Reid at the Scottish Football Association
  12. ↑ "Robert Reid – Scotland Football League Record from 03 Oct 1934 to 31 Oct 1934 clubs – Hamilton Academical". londonhearts.com. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "1932–33". Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  14. 1 2 3 "1933–34". Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  15. 1 2 "1934–35". Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  16. ↑ "1935–36". Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  17. ↑ Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. p. 108. ISBN 1-874427-57-7.
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