Joe Nibloe

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Joe Nibloe
Personal information
Full name Joseph Nibloe
Date of birth (1903-11-23)23 November 1903
Place of birth Corkerhill, Scotland
Date of death 25 October 1976(1976-10-25) (aged 72)
Place of death Doncaster, England
Position(s) Full back
Youth career
– Glencairn Green
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
–
Shawfield Juniors
1923–1924
Rutherglen Glencairn
1924–1932 Kilmarnock 279 (1)
1932–1934 Aston Villa 48 (0)
1934–1939 Sheffield Wednesday 116 (0)
Total 443 (1)
International career
1929–1932 Scotland 11 (0)
1929
Scottish League XI[1]
 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joseph Nibloe (23 November 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Kilmarnock, Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday in a 15-year career between 1924 and 1939, during which time he made 459 club appearances including cup games. He also made eleven appearances for Scotland.

Nibloe was a full back who could play on either flank, initially starting his career as a left back then switching to the right later in his career. He is one of a select group of players who won national cup winner's medals in both England and Scotland; he played in three cup finals in the space of six years.[2]

Playing career

Early days

Nibloe was born in the small hamlet of

centre forward, once scoring five goals in a game for Shawfield, but his career took off when he converted into a left back and was offered a professional contract by Kilmarnock
in June 1924.

Kilmarnock

Nibloe seldom featured in his first season at Kilmarnock but became a regular in his second after the departure of

Aston Villa for the 1932–33 season for a fee of £1,800 after a disagreement with Kilmarnock over a benefit match.[8] His run of 132 consecutive league appearances between October 1925 and February 1929 (ending only because he was travelling as a reserve with the Scottish national team)[9] is still a club record.[10]

Aston Villa

Nibloe struggled to find a regular place in the Villa team in that first season as the team finished runners up to

Tommy Mort. However the following season (1933–34) Nibloe dislodged Mort from the team and displayed excellent form, and it caused something of an uproar when he signed for Sheffield Wednesday in the summer of 1934 in a part-exchange deal which saw George Beeson going to Villa Park
along with £2,500.

Sheffield Wednesday

Wednesday's signing of the experienced 30-year-old Nibloe was seen as something of a coup by the club, no doubt the influence of manager Billy Walker made a difference as Walker had been a teammate of Nibloe's at Villa the previous season. Competition for the left back spot was keen even though Wednesday had lost Ernie Blenkinsop to Liverpool the previous season; Ted Catlin had stepped into Blenkinsop's boots and Nibloe was forced to switch to right back to secure a place in the team. He made his Wednesday debut in the opening fixture of the 1934–35 season on 25 August 1934, in a 4–1 home victory over Stoke City.[11]

Nibloe played in five out the six

Jack Ashley. He retired from playing competitive football at the outbreak of World War II at the age of 35.[13]

International

Shortly after winning the Scottish Cup in 1929, Nibloe was called up for the first of his eleven appearances for

Glasgow.[14]

After football

Nibloe worked in a munitions factory in Stocksbridge during the war. After the conflict he continued to live in Stocksbridge and work in the Samuel Fox steelworks. He died on 25 October 1976 in Doncaster, aged 72.

His son

Stockport County between 1958 and 1964; he was killed in a road accident on the Woodhead Pass in November 1964.[15]

References

  1. ^ (SFL player) Joe Nibloe, London Hearts Supporters Club
  2. ^ allfootballers.com. Gives career statistics.
  3. ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian Magazine.
  4. ^ (Kilmarnock player) Nibloe, Joe, FitbaStats
  5. ^ Scottish Cup Surprise | Kilmarnock's Great Victory Over Rangers, The Glasgow Herald, 8 April 1929
  6. ^ "06-04-1929 Rangers (N) Scottish Cup Final | Killie Win The Cup for the Second Time". KillieFC. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  7. ^ Rangers Win The Cup | Kilmarnock Well Beaten, The Glasgow Herald, 21 April 1932
  8. ^ Kilmarnock in History: Nibloe's tough exit, Kilmarnock FC, 9 July 2020
  9. ^ Kilmarnock in History: Four games, three countries, five days, Kilmarnock FC, 22 June 2020
  10. ^ www.napit.co.uk. States that Nibloe is the most capped Kilmarnock player.
  11. ISBN 978-0-7524-4156-6
    Page 179 Gives details of Sheffield Wednesday career.
  12. ^ "1935/36 F.A. Charity Shield". footballsite.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  13. ^ Sheffield Wednesday Archive. Gives details of Sheffield Wednesday career.
  14. ISBN 9798513846642
    .
  15. ISBN 0-9547264-9-9
    Page 217 Gives biographical information.
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