John Robertson (footballer born 1877)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Tait Robertson | ||
| Date of birth | 25 February 1877 | ||
| Place of birth | Dumbarton, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 24 January 1935 (aged 57) | ||
| Place of death | Milton, Wiltshire, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Half-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Poinfield | |||
| Sinclair Swifts | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 189?–1895 | Morton | ||
| 1895–1898 | Everton | 26 | (1) |
| 1898–1899 | Southampton | 19 | (0) |
| 1899–1905 | Rangers | 102 | (18) |
| 1905–1906 | Chelsea | 36 | (7) |
| 1907–1909 | Glossop | 45 | (10) |
| National team | |||
| 1898–1905 | Scotland | 16 | (3) |
| 1900–1905 | Scottish League XI | 6 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1905–1906 | Chelsea | ||
| 1907–1909 | Glossop | ||
| 1911–1913 | MTK Budapest | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John Tait "Jacky" Robertson (25 February 1877 – 24 January 1935) was a Scottish football player and manager who played as a central defender. He won 16 caps for his country, scoring three goals.
Having started his career at Morton, Robertson moved to Everton of the English Football League in 1895, and then Southampton in 1898, with whom he won the Southern Football League in his only season. He then returned to his homeland with Rangers, where he won three consecutive league titles in his first three seasons. Robertson was the first player signed to Chelsea in 1905, and served as their player-manager in their first-ever season, in addition to scoring their first competitive goal. He finished his career in the same role at Glossop North End.
Robertson began his career at Morton, and moved to Everton in 1895. He spent a single season at Southampton in 1898–99, winning the Southern League. Following that, he returned to Scotland and won three consecutive league titles at Rangers in his first three seasons.
In April 1905, Robertson was the first player to be signed by the newly formed Chelsea Football Club, but continued to play as well. It was Robertson who scored Chelsea's first competitive goal, in a 1–0 win at Blackpool on 9 September 1905. In his first season, he led the club to a third-place finish in the Second Division, one place off promotion. Robertson then surprisingly resigned from the club (third in the table at the time) on 27 November 1906. Chelsea were promoted to the top flight at the end of that season under caretaker secretary-manager William Lewis. Soon afterwards Robertson became player-manager of Glossop, where he remained until summer 1909, when he became reserve-team manager at Manchester United.
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