Glen Robson

Glen Robson
Personal information
Full name Glen Alan Robson[1]
Date of birth (1977-09-25) 25 September 1977[1]
Place of birth Sunderland, Tyne and Wear,[1] England
Playing position Forward
Youth career
– Southampton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
– Murton
1996–1998 Rochdale 10 (0)
1998 Spennymoor United
1998–1999 Harrogate Town
1999–2003 Blyth Spartans
2003 Darlington 6 (0)
2003–200? Durham City
2010 Morpeth Town
2010 Consett
2010 Brandon United
2010–2011 Shildon
2010–2011 → Stokesley (loan)
2011 Newton Aycliffe
2011–2012 Sunderland RCA
2012–201? Bedlington Terriers

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

† Appearances (goals)

Glen Alan Robson (born 25 September 1977) is an English former footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Rochdale and Darlington. He also played non-league football for many clubs in the north-east of England.

Life and career

Robson was born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.[1] He began his football career with local team Murton and spent time as a youngster with Southampton before signing for Third Division club Rochdale in 1996.[1][2] Robson made his debut in the Football League on 25 February 1997, as a late substitute in a 2–1 defeat at home to Hull City. He played in two more league matches that season and seven the next, all coming off the bench, without scoring,[3] and was released. He then played for Spennymoor United[4] and Harrogate Town,[5] with whom he was the Northern Premier League First Division second-highest goalscorer in the 1998–99 season.[6]

Robson signed for a third Northern Premier side, Blyth Spartans, ahead of the 1999–2000 season. His Blyth career was interrupted by an ankle injury sustained in October 1999, later confirmed as a hairline fracture, that forced him to miss the remainder of the season.[6][7][8] Returned to fitness, he scored heavily in his second season,[9] at the end of which he had a trial with Darlington of the Third Division. He chose not to take up their offer, as he would earn more playing semi-professionally for Blyth and working outside football.[10] Again the club's top scorer in 2001–02,[11] he was equally prolific in 2002–03 when available, but was sent off several times and missed large parts of the season through suspension.[12] His Blyth career ended with 86 goals from 126 appearances, and he went on to be inducted into the Blyth Spartans Hall of Fame.[2]

In the 2003 close season, he made another attempt to break back into the Football League. He was reported to have taken a week off work and paid his own expenses to take part in Oldham Athletic's pre-season tour to Ireland,[13][14] and then, after scoring three goals in two pre-season fixtures for Darlington, signed a one-year contract with the club.[15] He played six games in August, which included scoring the matchwinning penalty in the shootout to eliminate First Division club Bradford City from the League Cup,[16] and a place in the starting eleven for Darlington's first match at their new stadium,[17] but was then out until the end of October with a hamstring injury.[18] He made one brief substitute appearance on his return, but was released a few days later by new manager David Hodgson, and signed for Northern League club Durham City.[16]

Given orders to "shoot on sight",[19] Robson scored 24 goals in what remained of the season and helped his team reach the final of the Northern League Cup and finish as runners-up in the league. Despite interest from other clubs, he signed for another season with Durham.[20] In November 2004, he suffered a knee injury[21] that was to keep him out of football for a lengthy period. In May 2009, he was reported to be "keen to resurrect his career at Durham",[22] and he trained with the club at the beginning of the new season,[23] but did not sign.

Robson played for Northern League Morpeth Town in 2009–10,[24] and went on to appear for a variety of clubs in north-eastern non-league football: successively, Consett,[25] Brandon United,[26] Shildon, Stokesley (on loan),[27] Newton Aycliffe,[28] Sunderland RCA,[29] and Bedlington Terriers.[30]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1998). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–1998. Queen Anne Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-1-85291-585-8.
  2. 1 2 "Glen Robson". Blyth Spartans A.F.C. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Games played by Glen Robson in 1996/1997". and "1997/1998". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Rochdale: 1946/47–2013/14". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Seaside signings refresh Town". The Press (York). 26 January 1999. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. 1 2 Rowley, Grahame. "Blyth Spartans Pen Pics". The Alty Pages. John Laidlar. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Linnets show Blyth spirit". Crewe Guardian. 4 November 1999. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  8. ↑ "Club News – Archive". Blyth Spartans A.F.C. 8 January 2000. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004.
  9. ↑ "Results and Fixtures – 2000–2001". Blyth Spartans A.F.C. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "Club News – Archive". Blyth Spartans A.F.C. 7 August 2001. Archived from the original on 22 June 2004.
  11. ↑ "Results and Fixtures – 2001–02". Blyth Spartans A.F.C. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  12. ↑ "Club News – Archive". Blyth Spartans A.F.C. 5 October 2002. Archived from the original on 22 June 2004.
    "Spartans are back to winning ways again". News Post Leader (Northumberland). 26 March 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  13. ↑ "Dowie's men give Ballymena battlers a real headache". Belfast Telegraph. 19 July 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2014 – via HighBeam Research.
  14. ↑ "Striker taken on loan". Unofficial Latics. FootyMad. 7 July 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2014 – via HighBeam Research.
  15. ↑ "Tait delight as Quakers sign striker Robson". The Northern Echo (Middlesbrough). 2 August 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  16. 1 2 "Games played by Glen Robson in 2003/2004". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
    "Hodgson releases duo". BBC Sport. 13 November 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  17. ↑ "Darlington 0–2 Kidderminster". BBC Sport. 15 August 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  18. ↑ "We must get over Liddle blow, insists Tait". The Northern Echo (Middlesbrough). 29 October 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  19. ↑ "Glen's quest". Evening Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne). 14 November 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  20. ↑ "The Albany Northern League Today". The Northern Echo (Middlesbrough). 11 June 2004. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  21. ↑ "The Albany Northern League: Magnificent seven gives Guisborough hope". The Northern Echo (Middlesbrough). 15 November 2004. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  22. ↑ "Durham facing a striker crisis". Evening Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne). 26 May 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  23. ↑ "City manager Lee Collings hopes side gel quickly". Evening Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne). 14 August 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  24. ↑ "Town facing a King-sized scrap to avoid drop". Evening Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne). 12 February 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  25. ↑ Simpson, Ray (16 August 2010). "Crook squander chance to make FA Cup progress". The Northern Echo (Darlington). Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  26. ↑ Simpson, Ray (30 September 2010). "STL Division Two: Guisborough on a high after scoring nine". The Northern Echo (Darlington). Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  27. ↑ "Robson returns for Shildon in League Cup". The Northern Echo (Darlington). 2 February 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  28. ↑ "Aycliffe sign ex-Quakers striker" (PDF). Newton News. 15 July 2011. p. 16. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  29. ↑ "STL Northern League". The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne). 10 December 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  30. ↑ Simpson, Ray (24 February 2012). "STL Division One Big match between two title contenders". The Northern Echo (Darlington). Retrieved 22 December 2014.
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