Eric Redrobe

Eric Redrobe (23 August 1944 – 31 December 2025) was an English association footballer who played in the Football League as a striker for Bolton Wanderers, Southport and Hereford United during the 1960s and 1970s.

Career Redrobe played rugby league for Lancashire Schoolboys, and received contract offers in that sport, but chose to play association football instead. His style was bustling and often physical, although he was not a particularly big man, with a height of about . He exhibited excellent ball control.

An England youth international, he started his career at Bolton Wanderers making four appearances and scoring one goal in two and a half seasons.

Redrobe later became a bailiff.

In 2007, he was chosen as the Southport fans' all-time favourite player as part of the Professional Footballers' Association centenary celebrations.

Death Redrobe died on 31 December 2025, at the age of 81.