Bertie Thomson

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Robert Austin Thomson (1907 – 1937) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Celtic, Blackpool, Motherwell and Scotland.

James Stark (footballer)

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James Stark (1880– ? ) was a Scottish footballer who played for both Rangers and Chelsea. He played at centre half.

Stark joined Rangers from junior side Glasgow Perthshire in May 1900. He had seven successful years at Ibrox, winning the league twice and a Scottish Cup, before moving to Chelsea in 1907. He returned to Rangers a year later.

He was noted as being the only player to captain Rangers to the Glasgow Exhibition Cup in 1901.
Stark also won two Scotland caps in 1909 and was captain of the side for both matches. He was selected twice by the Scottish League XI.

References

 http://www.londonhearts.com/SFL/players/jamesstark.html

Sources

James Stark at the Scottish Football Association

Bobby Campbell (Scottish footballer)

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Robert Inglis Campbell (28 June 1922 – 4 May 2009) was a Scottish footballer, who played during the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Glasgow.

A winger, Campbell's playing career consisted of spells with Falkirk, Chelsea and Reading. He also played for Queens Park Rangers as a "guest" during the Second World War. He won five caps for the Scotland national team, between 1947 and 1950. He scored his only Scotland goal against Switzerland in April 1950.

Upon retiring Campbell became a coach with Reading, before taking the manager's position at Dumbarton in 1961. He left Boghead Park a year later and assumed a scouting role with Bristol Rovers for the next 15 years. He was promoted to manager of the Gasheads in November 1977, leaving in December 1979. His last managerial appointment was with Gloucester City.

References

 "Bobby Campbell". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 13 April 2017.

 Lamming, Douglas (1987). A Scottish Soccer Internationalists Who's Who, 1872–1986. Hutton Press. ISBN 0-907033-47-4.

External links

Robert Campbell at the Scottish Football Association Edit this at Wikidata

Profile at Londonhearts.com

Jimmy Lawrence

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James Lawrence (16 February 1879 – 21 November 1934) was a Scottish football player and manager. A goalkeeper, he played for Newcastle United between 1904 and 1922.

Career

Playing career

Born in Glasgow, Lawrence's first club was Partick Athletic, from where he moved to Glasgow Perthshire. Although still connected to Glasgow Perthshire, he played three matches in 1904 for Edinburgh side Hibernian when their regular custodian Harry Rennie was unavailable. He played with Newcastle for eighteen years after joining the Tyneside club in 1904 and still holds the record for making the most appearances for them - 432 league appearances, 496 matches in total.

He was thought to have been born in 1885, and used this year in his registration documents with Newcastle United, but sports historian Andy Mitchell found that he was in fact born six years earlier. This discovery makes him Newcastle United's oldest ever player.

With Newcastle he won the English Championship of 1905, 1907 and 1909, and the FA Challenge Cup of 1910. In the years 1905, 1906 1908 and 1911 he also reached the Cup final.

In 1911 he also represented the Scottish national team on one occasion. In a match for the British Home Championship Scotland then drew 1-1 with England at Goodison Park in Liverpool.

Management

Lawrence showed an aptitude for administration when Chairman of The Players' Union in his later days at Newcastle and after his playing retirement Lawrence moved into management. His first appointment was with then Second Division side South Shields (1922–1923) before joining Preston North End. He stayed with the Lilywhites until 1925, when he relocated to Germany to manage Karlsruher FV. With this club he won the regional championships of Württemberg/Baden in 1926 and of Baden in 1928, 1929 and 1931 which qualified the club to participate in the matches for the German football championship.

Lawrence later returned to Scotland and in 1933 was elected chairman of Stranraer. He died while in office a year later.

Honours

As a player

Newcastle United

Football League championship: 1908–09

FA Cup winner: 1910

FA Cup finalist: 1908, 1911

References

 Older than he looks - how Jimmy Lawrence 'lost' six years

 Lamming, Douglas (1987). A Scottish Soccer Internationalists Who’s Who, 1872-1986. Hutton Press. ISBN 0-907033-47-4.

 http://www.enfa.co.uk/index.php

 Newcastle United FC: Appearance Records Archived 2010-03-10 at the Wayback Machine

 RSSSF: England - FA Challenge Cup Finals

 RSSSF: Scotland - International Matches

 RSSSF: Germany - Championships 1902-1945

 Karlsruher FV 1891: Chronik Archived 2010-10-11 at the Wayback Machine

 "Death of J. Lawrence". The Times. 23 November 1934. p. 5.

External links

Toon 1892: Player Profile - Jimmy Lawrence