Bobby Finan
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Joseph Finan | ||
| Date of birth | 1 March 1912 | ||
| Place of birth | Old Kilpatrick, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 1983 (aged 70–71) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1933 | Yoker Athletic | ||
| 1933–1947 | Blackpool | 173 | (85) |
| 1947–1949 | Crewe Alexandra | 59 | (14) |
| 1949–1950 | Wigan Athletic | 31 | (12) |
| Total | 263 | (111) | |
| National team | |||
| 1939 | Scotland (wartime) | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Robert Joseph "Bobby" Finan (1 March 1912 — 1983) was a Scottish professional football player. He played as a forward.
Finan was born in Old Kilpatrick in West Dunbartonshire. He started his career at Scottish junior club Yoker Athletic before signing for Blackpool, managed by fellow Scot Sandy MacFarlane, in 1933. He made his debut for the club in the penultimate league game of the 1933–34 season, a 7–0 defeat at Grimsby Town on 28 April 1934. He went on to score three more goals during that league campaign.
Finan scored his first professional goal in the opening game of the following 1934–35 campaign, a 5–1 victory at Bury on 25 August 1934.
In 1935–36, with Jimmy Hampson injured, Finan deputised at centre-forward and ended the season as the Second Division's joint-top scorer with 34 goals. He scored two hat-tricks: the first in a 6–2 win against Charlton Athletic at Bloomfield Road on 22 February 1936, and the second in a 6–0 whitewash of Newcastle United at home on 22 April.
The following campaign, 1936–37, Finan (28) and Hampson (16) scored 44 league goals between them, as Blackpool finished the season as runners-up in the Football League Second Division and were promoted to the Football League First Division. As he grew older, his speed began to wane, and he was moved to outside-left, where he laid on goals for Willie Buchan and, later, Jock Dodds.
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