Robert Liddle was a footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke City

Stoke City F.C.

Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...

. He made two hundred and ninety seven appearances for Stoke.

Career

Robert Liddle joined Stoke at the age of 19 in 1928 and the following season he broke ito the first team, firmly establishing himself in the side in the 1929-30 season. He amassed and excellent strike record prior to World War II

World War II

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 and collected a Second Division

Football League Second Division

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 Championship medal in 1933. During the first-half of the war he continued to play for Stoke before retiring to become the club's trainer, until 1953. Liddle gave Stoke 25 years of service and became great partners with Stanley Matthews

Stanley Matthews

Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE was an English footballer. Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game, he is the only player to have been knighted while still playing, as well as being the first winner of both the European Footballer of the Year and the Football Writers'...

 and Joe Johnson

Joe Johnson (footballer born 1911)

Joseph Alfred Johnson was a footballer who played in the Football League for Bristol City, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion and also played for England.-Club career:...

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Career statistics

Club	Season	League		FA Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Stoke City Stoke City F.C. Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...	1928–29	12	1	0	0	12	1
	1929–30	25	6	0	0	25	6
	1930–31	41	14	3	1	44	15
	1931–32	39	11	5	0	44	11
	1932–33	33	7	2	1	35	8
	1933–34	33	6	3	0	36	6
	1934–35	38	10	1	0	39	10
	1935–36	33	4	5	1	38	5
	1936–37	20	1	0	0	20	1
	1937–38	21	1	0	0	21	1
	1938–39	2	0	0	0	2	0
Career Total		297	61	19	3	316	64