Bobby Campbell

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Passed away today.
60.

Only had one season with us, 77-78...
11 goals.

A 'Legend' up the road at Bradford City.

RIP

 

[Boxer Blade]

Passed away today.
60.

Only had one season with us, 77-78...
11 goals.

A 'Legend' up the road at Bradford City.

RIP

That's a young age, what did he die of lyndon,cancer?

 

[BushBlade]

Passed away today.
60.

Only had one season with us, 77-78...
11 goals.

A 'Legend' up the road at Bradford City.

RIP

I remember him playing for Bradford and my mate saying 'he used to play for us'.

Bobby Campbell
Personal information
Full name Robert McFaul Campbell
Date of birth 13 September 1956 (age 60)
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland
Place of death Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Striker
Youth career
1972–1974 Aston Villa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1974–1975 Aston Villa 10 (1)
1975 → Halifax Town (loan) 15 (1)
1975–1977 Huddersfield Town 31 (9)
1977–1978 Sheffield United 37 (11)
1978 Vancouver Whitecaps 13 (9)
1978 Huddersfield Town 7 (3)
1979 Halifax Town 22 (3)
1979 Brisbane City 20 (10)
1979–1983 Bradford City 148 (76)
1983 Derby County 11 (4)
1983–1986 Bradford City 126 (45)
1986–1988 Wigan Athletic 69 (27)
National team
1982 Northern Ireland 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Robert McFaul "Bobby" Campbell (born 13 September 1956) was a Northern Irish former international footballer who played as a centre forward.

Born in Belfast, Campbell started his career at Aston Villa, making his professional debut in April 1974. He failed to establish himself in the first team, making 10 league appearances for the club before being sold to Huddersfield Townin May 1975. He joined Sheffield United in 1977, but left the club after just one season. He briefly returned to Huddersfield Town for a second spell before signing for Halifax Town.

In December 1979, he joined Bradford City. He made over 300 appearances for the club, and became the club's all-time leading goalscorer with a total of 143 goals. Whilst at Bradford he won promotion from Division Four in the 1981-82 season and the Football League Division Three title in 1984–85, the latter of which paled into insignificance when 56 spectators were killed in a stand fire while playing Lincoln City in the final game of the season.

In April 1982, Campbell was included in the Northern Ireland squad for the upcoming British Home Championship,[1] and was subsequently capped twice during the tournament. He was also selected by his country for the 1982 FIFA World Cup later that year, but failed to make an appearance.

Campbell left Bradford in 1986 and joined Wigan Athletic, where he finished his playing career. After retiring from football in 1988, he ran a working men's club in Huddersfield.

Bobby passed away 15/11/16

 

[Bladesthorpe]

Remember him well, big strong forward who was a bit of a lad on and off the pitch.
Such a young age, RIP Bobby.

 

[loyalblade95]

R.I.P Bobby

 

[Booker4]

Sad news and far too young an age to pass. A legend for Bradford. Before my time, but I've heard of him and when you look at his record maybe we dropped a bit of a bollock selling him, since we were at a similar level to Bradford during his time with them.

I know its not the main point here but just wondered how good he was for us.

 

[Silent Blade]

Before my time, but I've heard of him and when you look at his record maybe we dropped a bit of a bollock selling him, since we were at a similar level to Bradford during his time with them.
.

Well, like Villa and Huddersfield before us, we got fed up of his off field lifestyle!

 

[Bert]

He was a rough bugger who liked to get stuck in, Bert quite liked him.

PS He's died, not passed.

 

[maidmarion]

I think it was a case of he had to leave us rather than he wanted to Silent.
I remember that he stayed at Moncrief House, the home of our apprentices and he was always climbing out of the fire escape and going drinking.
I also have a memory of him kicking a ball over a fully inflated hot air balloon that was on the pitch before a match......why the balloon was there I'm not sure but I can remember thinking, omg what if that ball lands on the top of the balloon. It didn't, it cleared it with inches to spare.
When he was transferred to Vancouver he was really upset to find that he'd gone in the middle of a beer strike........
We also caught up with him in Vancouver and my parents and aunt ( I was too young to drink) had cracking hangovers after joining him in the clubs social club after a game.

My mum has fond memories of him and says that despite being a bit of a lad, he was never malicious with his actions, just very mischievous.

RIP Bobby

 

[Silent Blade]

I think it was a case of he had to leave us rather than he wanted to Silent.
I remember that he stayed at Moncrief House, the home of our apprentices and he was always climbing out of the fire escape and going drinking.
I also have a memory of him kicking a ball over a fully inflated hot air balloon that was on the pitch before a match......why the balloon was there I'm not sure but I can remember thinking, omg what if that ball lands on the top of the balloon. It didn't, it cleared it with inches to spare.
When he was transferred to Vancouver he was really upset to find that he'd gone in the middle of a beer strike........
We also caught up with him in Vancouver and my parents and aunt ( I was too young to drink) had cracking hangovers after joining him in the clubs social club after a game.

My mum has fond memories of him and says that despite being a bit of a lad, he was never malicious with his actions, just very mischievous.

RIP Bobby

We thought we got a £10K bargain but at the end of the season we let him go for free.

One of the strongest and fearless players we have ever had

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I have stories!! Safe to say he liked a drink and was a bit of an Irish rogue. Hard as nails with it, probably second to Whitehurst in that. Potentially a very good player, but lifestyle got in the way.

RIP Bobby!

 

[sitwell]

Beerglass Bobby RIP

 

[Revolution]

Campbell was still one of five strikers (Edwards, Stainrod, Varadi and Benjamin being the others) who Harry Haslam got rid of in an 18 month period and who went on to score 100+ league goals.

Staggering incompetence.

 

[Grecian2000]

RIP Bob. Always remembered whenever the Stranglers "Go Buddy Go" gets an airing.
Go Bobby, go Bobby, go Bobby . . . . . . . .

 

[AlienWoodward]

RIP Bobby - One of my favourite players from that era.
I loved him in a United shirt - Very sad news

 

[JJ Sefton]

 

[Silent Blade]

I have never seen Bobby Campbell in any of our squad photos. Dennis Finnegan (from the 1960s) was with us for about 6 or 7 years but I don't seem to see him in any of our squad photos

 

[Ted Hemsleys chads]

RIP big man, not everybody's cup of tea but he played like a man in an era when it was still a man's game.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

He got 2 goals away to Cardiff Dec 3 1977.
We won 6 1 with goals from Cliff Calvert, Tony Kenworthy, big Bobby, Chico Hamilton and Alan Woodward.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Which reminds me that now 2 of our scorers are dead.
RIP Bobby.

 

[Woodwardfan]

Bobby Campbell was a rough looking aggressive striker who looked like a local farmer's lad not an athlete and always seemed capable of injuring the opposition. A whole-hearted, ungainly, big unit I'm sure he didn't intend to hurt people but he always had that determination to power for the ball which he didn't quite time that well. Defenders used to quake in their boots and referees always seemed to be lecturing Bobby, though he didn't get sent off too often from memory.

A player who did his best at all times. RIP.

 

[Silent Blade]

Bobby Campbell was a rough looking aggressive striker who looked like a local farmer's lad not an athlete and always seemed capable of injuring the opposition. A whole-hearted, ungainly, big unit I'm sure he didn't intend to hurt people but he always had that determination to power for the ball which he didn't quite time that well. Defenders used to quake in their boots and referees always seemed to be lecturing Bobby, though he didn't get sent off too often from memory.

A player who did his best at all times. RIP.

Got sent off for fighting with Ronnie Blair at Oldham

 

[LSF]

Nicknamed Boston Strangler after he (allegedly) throttled his landlady's cat when an apprentice at Villa. ( So i was told by one of his teammates at the Lane)
RIP Bobby

 

[Silent Blade]

Nicknamed Boston Strangler after he (allegedly) throttled his landlady's cat when an apprentice at Villa. ( So i was told by one of his teammates at the Lane)
RIP Bobby

Thought that happened when he was in Sheffield? I was told that Police woke Haslam up in the middle of the night by ringing his house to tell him what had happened?

 

[chipsncake]

RIP
"Bobby Campbell hit the post it should have been a goal", I recall was the chant at the time. To the "Bonanza" tune.

 

[Seanshoreham]

Remember one particular game where Bobby wasn't having his greatest game and was getting a bit of stick from the kop. There was a small group of Irishmen who turned on a bloke near me who was having a go at Bobby and told this bloke to shut it

Next thing Shread came down from the back of the kop and had hold of the groups leader and that quietened them down. Think that the Irishman had come over to see Bobby

I liked the guy RIP Bobby

 

[LSF]

Thought that happened when he was in Sheffield? I was told that Police woke Haslam up in the middle of the night by ringing his house to tell him what had happened?

Always different versions to what may be an urban myth.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Remember Campbell at the Lane, with him, Edwards and Stainrod we had 3 good young strikers in 77/78, much, much better than the shite Haslam left us with in a couple of years. Recall Porterfield was always linked to signing him in the early 80s as the much vaunted perfect target man foil for Edwards, he probably would have been in the lower leagues.

RIP Bobby