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D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Defender

1889 🕒 1 | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | #53 |

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D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Personal Profile

Full Name
Birth Date
Birthplace
Birth Country
Citizenship
Height
Foot
Robert Samuel Thomas
April 1867
Birmingham
England
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
England
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Personal
Transfer In

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Transfer In

Season
Date
Age
Fee
From
From
Signed Under
1888-89
1888
21
Free
Cocknage FC
George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Season
Date
Age
Fee
From
From
Returned Under
Season
Date
Age
Fee
From
From
Returned Under
Career

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Villa Career

Seasons Active | In Fee
Active in League
🕒 Games | Starts (Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |
🟩 Won | 🟨 Drew | 🟥 Lost |
Cards 🟨 Booking | 🟥 Sending Off |
Goalkeepers Only 🥅 Goals Conceded | ⛔ Clean Sheets |

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Aston Villa 1889 | Free |
Football League |
🕒 1 | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | #53 |

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Played Under

George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1889

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Career Summary

Seasons
Appearances 🕒
Starts 🕒
Substitute 🔁
Unused Sub 🇺
Points per Game (PPG)
1
1
1
0
0
🟩 Won
🟩 Win %
🟨 Drew
🟨 Drawn %
🟥 Lost
🟥 Loss %
Goals ⚽
Assists 🔥
Yellow Cards 🟨
Red Cards 🟥
0
0
-
-
Goal Involvements (GI)
Games per Goal (GPG)
Games per Goal Involvement (GiPG)
0
0.00
Seasons

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Season by Season Record

Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
1888-89
21
FL
1
1
0
0
0
0
0.00
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🇺
🔥
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG
Season
Age
Lg
#
🕒
🕒
🔁
⚽
🔥
🇺
🟩
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
PPG
GPG
GiPG

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Goalkeeping Record

Goalkeeper #
Goals Conceded 🥅
Goals Conceded per Game (CPG)
Clean Sheets ⛔
% Clean Sheets ⛔ %

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Season by Season Goalkeeping Record

Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
1888-89
21
FL
1
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔
Season
Age
Lg
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔
⛔

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Honours

Played for the Villa

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Villa Youth Record

n/a

Previous Clubs

Cocknage FC

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Debut

Squad From Season
First Squad Match
First Squad Under
1888-89
2 March 1889
George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Promoted to First Team Under
Promoted to First Team Date
George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
2 March 1889
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Debut Season
Debut Date
Debut Age
Debut Under
1888-89
2 March 1889
21
George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Debut

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

First Goal Date

Game #
Match
Scorer(s)

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Loans Out

None

Final

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Final Appearance

Final Season
Final Game
Final Age
Final Game Under
1888-89
2 March 1889
21
George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Squad To Season
Final Squad
Final Squad Under
1888-89
2 March 1889
George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Transfer Out

Out Season
Transfer Out Date
Age
Fee
To
To
Left Under
1888-89
1889
21
Free
Walsall Town
George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Out Season
Transfer Out Date
Age
Fee
To
To
Left Under
Out Season
Transfer Out Date
Age
Fee
To
To
Left Under
Transfer Out

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Subsequent Clubs

Walsall Town

Retired

Quotes

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Quotes

Biography

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Biography

Player #53 for Aston Villa, Robert Samuel Thomas, known as Bob Thomas played as a full back for the club. Bob represented Villa just once during the 1888-89 season.

Bob was born in Newtown, less 3 miles from the current Villa ground in April 1867 and made his only appearance for the club as a 21 year old on 3rd March 1889.

Villa had signed Bob from Cocknage FC.

Bob later transferred to Walsall Town.

Bob had played under the George Ramsay led Management Committee.

Bob passed away in Edgbaston in March 1936 aged 68.

Died

1 March 1936, Aged 68

Appearances

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Appearances

1

Game
Matchday Summary
Match Squad
Game #64
🟥 2 Mar 1889, Villa 1-8 Blackburn, Leamington Road
GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | B Gershom Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | B Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | HB Harry Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | HB Harry Yates | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | HB Jack Burton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | IR Albert Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | IR Tommy Green | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | IL Albert Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | CF Archie Hunter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Starts

1

Game
Matchday Summary
Line Up
Game #64
🟥 2 Mar 1889, Villa 1-8 Blackburn, Leamington Road
GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | B Gershom Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 | B Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 | HB Harry Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | HB Harry Yates | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 | HB Jack Burton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 | IR Albert Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | IR Tommy Green | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 | 🔴 | IL Albert Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | CF Archie Hunter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🚑 |
Starts
Subs

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Substitute Appearances

0

Game
Matchday Summary
Sub Sub
Unused

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Unused Substitute Appearances

0

Game
Matchday Summary
Unused Substitutes

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Goals Scored

0

Game
Matchday Summary
Scorer(s)
Goals
Assists

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Assists Made

0

Game
Matchday Summary
Assist(s)
Cards

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Cards Received

🟨

-

🟥

-

Game
Matchday Summary
Villa Cards
International

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International Career

England

FA
National Team
Caps with Villa
England
FA
National Team
Full International Record
England
FA
🕒 Caps
🕒 Starts
🔁 Sub
⚽ Goals
FA
First Cap with Villa
FA
First International Goal with Villa
FA
Last Cap with Villa

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International Record

​

England

Starter

Match

Substitute

Match

Goals

Match
Matches

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

Matches

D Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #53 |

🟥 2 Mar 1889, Villa 1-8 Blackburn, Leamington Road

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Game #64

Manager: George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Glasgow, 1886-1926 led Management Committee
Referee: John Charles Clegg | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1888-
HT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-8
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

Season | 1888-89 |
Matchday | #24 |
Manager Game | #38 |
Saturday, 2 March 1889

Full Match Report

Scorer(s) | Albert Allen | 1-6 |

Assist(s) | None

Teams

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Starting XI

GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B Gershom Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 |
B Bob Thomas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 |
HB Harry Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
HB Harry Yates | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 |
HB Jack Burton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 |
IR Albert Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
IR Tommy Green | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 | 🔴 |
IL Albert Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Archie Hunter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🚑 |

Substitutes

No Substitutions permitted in period

Unused Substitutes

No Substitutions permitted in period

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Starting XI

GK Herbie Arthur | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B Jack Southworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B John Forbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB Jimmy Douglas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB Willie Almond | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
HB Jimmy Forrest | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LW William Townley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LW Harry Fecitt | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RW Robert Haresnape | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |
RW Nat Walton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Southworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Substitutes

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Unused Substitutes

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Match Timeline

🚑 | Player takes field of play injured, Gershom Cox
🚑 | Player injured on field of play, Archie Hunter
🚑 | Player injured on field of play, Harry Yates
🚑 | Player injured on field of play, Tommy Green
🚑 | Player injured on field of play, Jack Burton
🥅 | Goal, 0-1, (Blackburn Rovers)
💥 Referee Clegg allows the goal despite Warner punching the ball out seemingly ahead of the goal line
🥅 | Goal, 0-2, (Blackburn Rovers), Haresnape
🥅 | Goal, 0-3, (Blackburn Rovers), John Southworth
🕒 | HT Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | Goal, 0-4, (Blackburn Rovers), Gershom Cox o.g.
🥅 | Goal, 0-5, (Blackburn Rovers), Haresnape
🥅 | Goal, 0-6, (Blackburn Rovers), Haresnape
⚽ | Goal, 1-6, Albert Allen
🥅 | Goal, 1-7, (Blackburn Rovers), John Southworth
🥅 | Goal, 1-8, (Blackburn Rovers), John Southworth
🕒 | FT Blackburn Rovers 8-1 Aston Villa

On This Day

An injury ravaged Villa suffer their biggest defeat in all competitions until Paul Lambert rocked up at Villa Park for the 2012-13 season. Meanwhile, this was the first Villa game in which Referee Clegg had officiated since his disgraceful post match claims in the previous season's FA Cup. Forward Tommy Green made his final Villa appearance aged 25 before moving on to Kidderminster Harriers. Despite scoring 15 goals in the campaign and creating numerous goals for his team-mates, Green was allowed to leave. Full back Bob Thomas made his sole appearance for Villa having joined from from Cocknage FC before transferring to Walsall Town.
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