Bernard Robinson (footballer)

Bernard Cecil Robinson (5 December 1911 – 29 November 2004) was an English professional footballer who spent his entire professional career with Norwich City. He was a half-back, and is regarded as one of the club's greatest ever players.

Robinson played 380 games for Norwich (scoring 14 goals) from his debut on 2 April 1932 at Exeter City to his final appearance on 12 March 1949 against Ipswich Town at Carrow Road. The Second World War took six years out of his career, but for which he may well have become the club's appearance record holder. He was a member of the Norwich team that won the Division Three (South) Championship in 1934 and was considered an expert penalty taker.

After retiring from football, Robinson briefly ran a public house. By the time of the club's centenary celebrations in 2002, Robinson was the club's oldest surviving player.

Five days after Robinson's death, a minute's silence was held before Norwich's home match against Fulham (in their first ever season in the English Premier,) and the squad wore black armbands in further tribute.

Sources

Canary Citizens by Mark Davage, John Eastwood, Kevin Platt, published by Jarrold Publishing, (2001), ISBN 0-7117-2020-7
12 Canary Greats by Rick Waghorn, published by Jarrold Publishing (2004), ISBN 978-0-7117-4026-6

Norwich City F.C. – Hall of Fame inductees

2002	Allcock Ashman Brennan Butler Davies Deehan Forbes Gavin Gunn Hannah Keelan Lochhead Macaulay Nethercott Nutchey Peters Ramsay Roberts Robinson Ross Saunders South Stringer Varco Vinall Watling

2003	Adams Bellamy Bennett Bly Bond Bone Bowen Boyer Brown Bruce Bryceland Channon Chase Crook Cross Crossan Crowe Culverhouse Curran Drinkell Eadie Eyre Fashanu Fleck Fleming Foggo Foulkes Fox Furness Gordon Goss Hartford Hill Hollis Ga. Holt Hunt Kennon Kenton Kinsey Lewis Livermore Low MacDougall Mackay Marshall Mendham McCrohan McVeigh Megson Morgan Neighbour Newman Newsome Norman O'Neill Paddon Pickwick Polston Powell Punton Reeves Sheppard Smith Suggett Sutch Sutton Thurlow Townsend Walker Watson Williams Woods Worthington Wynn-Jones

2006	Briggs Burton Butterworth Green Halliday Howes Huckerby Machin Parker Phelan

2012	Ashton Drury Ekoku Foulger Hoolahan Gr. Holt Kirchen Lambert

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