1. George Jobey was an English football player and manager.
11 Facts About George Jobey
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George Jobey won the league championship as a player with his hometown club Newcastle United.
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George Jobey was transferred to Woolwich Arsenal in May 1913, and made an immediate impact.
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George Jobey played 28 league matches that season before being transferred during the close season to Bradford Park Avenue.
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George Jobey only spent a single season at Bradford before World War I intervened and the Football League was suspended.
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George Jobey served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and played for Scottish club Hamilton Academical during the conflict, before moving to Leicester City after hostilities ended.
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George Jobey then became player-manager of Northampton Town in 1920, as the club became founder members of the Third Division.
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George Jobey achieved two mid table finished before quitting the game in April 1922 to become a hotelier.
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George Jobey was tempted back into the game five months later to become manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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George Jobey's suspension was lifted in 1945, but apart from a year in charge of Mansfield Town between 1952 and 1953, he remained out of the game.
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George Jobey died in hospital in Derby on 9 May 1962, aged 76.