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English footballer

Bob Fairman
Personal information
Full name Robert Samuel Fairman
Date of birth 13 July 1883
Place of birth Southampton, England
Date of death June 1968 (age 84)
Place of death Abingdon, Berkshire
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
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, and played 90 Southern League matches for West Ham United.

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. He played regularly at left half at the start of the 1908–09 season, but lost his place when the club signed Thomas Daykin, 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. He played little first-team football after his return, and retired from the game in 1917.

References

  1. ^ Joyce, Michael (2012) . Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-905891-61-0.
  2. 1939 England and Wales Register
  3. "The coming of the big ball: the Second Division: Birmingham". Athletic News. Manchester. 18 August 1913. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "Robert Fairman". westhamstats.info. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
  5. Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  6. Matthews, pp. 82, 155.
  7. Matthews, pp. 86, 159–61.


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