Nobby Upton

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Nobby Upton
Personal information
Full name Robin Patrick Upton [1]
Date of birth (1942-11-09) 9 November 1942 (age 81) [1]
Place of birth Lincoln, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) [2]
Position(s) Wing half, centre half
Youth career
195?–1959 Brighton & Hove Albion
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1959–1966 Brighton & Hove Albion 40 (0)
1966–196? Crawley Town 8 (0)
1968–1969 Durban United
1969–197? East London Celtic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robin Patrick Upton (born 9 November 1942), commonly known as Nobby Upton, is an English former professional footballer who played as a wing half or centre half in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion. [1]

Life and career

Upton was born in 1942 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, [1] where he attended the local grammar school. Against the advice of his teachers, he joined Brighton & Hove Albion as a 15-year-old, and turned professional on his 17th birthday. [3] Beginning his career as a wing half, he made his debut in November 1962, and played twice more before a knee cartilage operation kept him out for the rest of the season. He played regularly at centre half the following season, broke his leg in late 1964, broke it again ahead of the 1965–66 campaign, and played just twice more for Brighton. He moved on to Crawley Town in September 1966, and tried his luck in South African football in 1968 with Durban United and then East London Celtic. [2] [4] [5] He quit football after injuring knee cartilage in the first minute of a trial with AFC Bournemouth, and then worked for a bakery, ran a mobile grocery business, and worked on the railway as ticket inspector and train manager. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Nobby Upton". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 247. ISBN   978-0-9521337-1-1.
  3. 1 2 "Bad breaks hit Nobby's promising Albion days". The Argus. Brighton. 25 February 2001. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "We salute the men on the Cape border" (PDF). South African Soccer Monthly. Vol. 7, no. 5. September 1969. p. 7.
  5. ↑ "East London's Napoleons" (PDF). South African Soccer Monthly. Vol. 7, no. 11. May 1970. p. 10.


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