Gordon Roberts (footballer)

Gordon Roberts
Personal information
Full name Douglas Gordon Roberts[1]
Date of birth (1925-05-30)30 May 1925[1]
Place of birth Foleshill, England
Date of death October 1991 (1991-11) (aged 66)
Place of death Northampton, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2]
Position(s) Outside forward
Youth career
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1942–1945 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 (0)
1945–1949 Northampton Town 57 (7)
1949–1951 Brighton & Hove Albion 17 (3)
1951–1952 Accrington Stanley 39 (11)
1952–195? Rugby Town
Cheltenham Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Douglas Gordon Roberts (30 May 1925 – October 1991) was an English professional footballer who made 113 appearances in the Football League playing as an outside forward for Northampton Town, Brighton & Hove Albion and Accrington Stanley.[1][2][3]

Roberts was born in Foleshill, Warwickshire, in 1925.[2] He worked for many years as a draughtsman for British Timken at Duston, Northamptonshire.[2] He died in Northampton in 1991 at the age of 66.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d "Gordon Roberts". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
  3. ^ "Player search". English National Football Archive. Retrieved 11 January 2020.