Campbell Forsyth
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Campbell Forsyth | ||
| Date of birth | 5 May 1939 | ||
| Place of birth | Plean, Scotland | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Falkirk | |||
| Shettleston | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1955–1960 | St Mirren | 104 | (0) |
| 1960–1965 | Kilmarnock | 75 | (0) |
| 1965–1968 | Southampton | 48 | (0) |
| Total | 227 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1964 | Scotland | 4 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Robert Campbell Forsyth (born 5 May 1939) is a retired Scottish footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for St Mirren, Kilmarnock and Southampton. He also made four appearances for Scotland in 1964.
Born in Plean, then in Stirlingshire, Forsyth was briefly a trainee at nearby Falkirk before joining Junior Football club Shettleston from the east end of Glasgow. He joined St Mirren in April 1955, shortly before his 16th birthday, where he stayed for five years, making over 100 first-team appearances.
In November 1960, he joined Kilmarnock; at the end of his first season with "Killie", the club gained the runners-up position in the Scottish League Division One. After finishing fifth in 1962, Kilmarnock were again runners-up in both 1963 and 1964, but in 1965 they finally claimed the title. Although Campbell had been the first-choice keeper throughout most of the championship-winning season, an ankle injury during the run-in put him out of the last few weeks of the season, with Bobby Ferguson replacing him for the last-day triumph.
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