Bobby Reid

Robert Reid (19 February 1911 – 16 November 1987) was a Scottish footballer who played at both professional and international levels as an outside left. His best remembered for his time in the Football League with Brentford, for whom he made 110 appearances. Reid earned the nickname "the Flying Scotsman" for his performances down the wing for Hamilton Academical early in his career. He moved to England in January 1936 to reunite with friend David McCulloch at First Division club Brentford. A spell out following an appendicitis operation in 1936 allowed Les Smith into the team, with whom Reid would battle for a place through the rest of his Bees career. Reid next spent a season with Bury, scoring 1 goal in 17 league appearances, before ending his career with a player-coach spell at Third Lanark. He also made two appearances for the Scottish League XI.

Post-playing career Reid served Bury, Third Lanark, Airdrieonians and former club Hamilton Academical as a physiotherapist, arriving back at Douglas Park in the late 1960s. By the time of his death in November 1987, Reid was still with the Accies, working also as kit man. Scottish First Division 3 0 0 0

3 0 1933–34 Scottish First Division 9 2 0 0 2 1 11 3 1934–35 Scottish First Division 36 12 7 0 1 1 44 13 1935–36 Scottish First Division 14 5 0 0

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62 19 7 0 3 2 72 21

1935–36 First Division 18 3

18 3 1936–37 0 45 18 1938–39 First Division 1 0

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166 52 13 3 4 2 183 57

Honours Hamilton Academical Lanarkshire Cup: 1933–34, 1938–39