Bobby Tait

06/05/2024 12:28

Club historian Stuart Basson has written the following tribute to former Chesterfield player Bobby Tait, who recently passed away… Born in Edinburgh in 1938, Bobby began playing as an outside-left for a Scottish junior side, Loanhead Mayflower, but National Service made him more widely known as a footballer. He was posted to RAF Watnall, near Nottingham, and starred in a side that won honours in RAF football. Nottingham Forest scouted him but Aberdeen moved faster and he joined them on amateur forms initially, in February 1960. He completed his service at RAF Watnall, where he also met a member of the Women’s Royal Air force, to whom he would remain happily married for the rest of his life.  His Aberdeen career was blighted by injury before it got off the ground. Three months were missed and when he came back he was played at left-back and centre-forward more than in his preferred position. He had a couple of first-team games with the Dons before being freed in May 1961 and joining Elgin City. Although he was playing in Scottish football’s far north he hadn’t been forgotten in Nottingham, and Notts County brought him down in the summer of 1962. Happy […]