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Full name
  
Robert Thomas Shinton

1971–1974
  
Walsall

Name
  
Bobby Shinton

Role
  
Football player

Years
  
Team


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Date of birth
  
(1952-01-06) 6 January 1952 (age 63)

Playing position
  
right wing (No 7)

Place of birth
  
West Bromwich, England

Wrexham v Rotherham United 1978


Robert Thomas Shinton (born 6 January 1952 in West Bromwich) is an English former football forward and manager.

Bobby Shinton Bobby SHINTON League appearances Newcastle United FC

Shinton began his playing career with Walsall in 1971 before moving on to Cambridge United in 1974. He left the club in the 1975 close season to sign for Wrexham where he proved a hit, helping the club to a Football League Third Division title and a series of FA Cup giant-killing results. A £300,000 move to Manchester City in the 1979 close season proved unsuccessful and Shinton was loaned out to Millwall before completing a full-time move to Newcastle United. Although he featured more regularly at Newcastle than he had in Manchester Shinton's scoring boots deserted him as the club struggled for goals across the board. He left Newcastle in March 1982 to sign for Millwall again. He finished his league career with the Lions after having his contract cancelled by mutual consent.

Dropping out of the league, Shinton played non-league football with Worcester City and briefly managed the club in 1984. He finished his playing career with spells at Weymouth and Malvern Town. During the late 1990s he was involved in the management of Newmarket Town although he has since left football to set up his own double glazing firm in Worcester. Shinton now works at a local builder's merchant, A.R. Aspinall & sons, in Cambridgeshire.

References

Bobby Shinton Wikipedia