Thomas Robertson (footballer, born 1875)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Thomas Robertson | ||
| Date of birth | 1875 | ||
| Place of birth | Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 8 December 1923 (aged 48) | ||
| Place of death | Worthing, Sussex, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Full-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Newton Thistle | |||
| St Bernard's | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1894–1895 | Stoke | 26 | (1) |
| 1895–1897 | Hibernian | 38 | (0) |
| 1897 | Millwall Athletic | ||
| 1897–1900 | Stoke | 88 | (2) |
| 1900–1902 | Liverpool | 42 | (0) |
| 1902–1904 | Southampton | 45 | (1) |
| 1904–1905 | Brighton & Hove Albion | ||
| Total | 239 | (4) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John Thomas Robertson (1875 – 8 December 1923) (usually referred to as Tom and sometimes as Jack) was a Scottish footballer who played at full-back around the turn of the 20th century for various clubs in England, including Stoke, Liverpool (where he was a member of the side which won the Football League championship in 1900–01) and Southampton (where he won the Southern League title in 1902–03 and 1903–04).
Robertson was born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, before moving 25 miles north-west to Newton Mearns, near Glasgow. After playing as an amateur for his local village team and for St Bernard's of Edinburgh, he started his professional football career with Stoke of the English Football League First Division in May 1894.
In each of his first two seasons with Stoke, when Robertson generally played as a half-back, he only managed 13 league appearances for the first-team. After spending the next two years at other clubs, firstly in Scotland with Hibernian (where he played on the losing side in the 1896 Scottish Cup Final) and then in England with Millwall Athletic of the Southern League, Robertson returned to Stoke for the start of the 1897–98 season. He now became the established right-back at the Victoria Ground, alongside Jack Eccles on the left.
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