Albie Roles

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Albie Roles
Personal information
Full name Albert James Roles
Date of birth (1921-09-29)29 September 1921
Place of birth Southampton, England
Date of death 3 October 2012(2012-10-03) (aged 91)
Place of death Southampton, England
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Position(s) Full back
Youth career
Deanery School
Albion Boys
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1949 Southampton 1 (0)
1940 → West Ham United (wartime guest)
1949 Gloucester City
1949–1952 Cowes (player-manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Albert James "Albie" Roles (29 September 1921 – 3 October 2012) was an English

Football League and four FA Cup
appearances.

Football career

Roles was born in Southampton and attended the Deanery School, becoming an apprentice engineer. He represented Southampton and Hampshire Schools and played his youth football with Albion Boys Club.[1]

While playing in the Southampton Junior League, he was spotted by scouts from Southampton and joined them as an amateur in 1938. By the time he turned professional in October 1940, League football had been suspended because of the war, but Roles made 188 wartime appearances, more than any other Saints player. Roles was not conscripted during the war because his employment, making engines for torpedo boats at Parsons on the Town Quay, was a reserved occupation.[2] During the war, Roles also made at least one guest appearance for West Ham United.[3]

Described as a "mobile left-back",

National Service and before he returned to The Dell in 1948, his position at left back was occupied by Bill Rochford
who had been signed in July 1946.

On his return to the club after his National Service, Roles was placed on the

Bradford Park Avenue. At this time, Southampton were eight points clear at the top of the Second Division table with seven matches left to play and were confident of promotion. In the event, Southampton (also without top-scorer, Charlie Wayman) lost 2–0 at Bradford and only won once in the final six matches, missing promotion by one point.[5]

In May 1949, Roles was released by the club, and joined

Cowes.[1]

Later career

In 1952, Roles and his wife both contracted

Southampton Institute of Higher Education.[2]

Roles died on 3 October 2012, aged 91 years. He had been married to Vie for sixty six years; the couple had one son, David.[6]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-9514862-3-3
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  2. ^ a b Bull, David (15 October 2012). "Albie Roles: An Appreciation". Southampton F.C. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Albert Roles". Player profile. westhamstats.info. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
  4. ISBN 0-907969-22-4
    .
  5. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X
    .
  6. ^ "Albert James (Albie) Roles". Death announcement. Daily Echo. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

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