fullname years death_date clubs caps birth_place goals position article_title name
robert mcfarlane 1888 1892 -- ? -- 1890 1890 -- 1891 1891 -- 1892 october 1898 bootle sunderland albion newton heath airdrieonians 18 airdrie , scotland 1 full-back bob mcfarlane -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 bob mcfarlane
bob mcfarlane -lrb- footballer -rrb-

robert `` bob '' mcfarlane -lrb- `` unknown '' -- october 1898 -rrb- was a scottish footballer who played as a full-back .
born in airdrie , mcfarlane began his career with local side airdrieonians , before moving to england to play for bootle .
he was part of the bootle side that took part in the inaugural season of the football alliance in 1889 -- 90 , helping them to second place behind the wednesday .
that summer , he joined sunderland albion , whom he also helped to a runners-up spot in 1890 -- 91 .
he moved on to newton heath in 1891 -- 92 , where he took over as captain from the departing jack powell .
he immediately became the club 's first-choice right-back and played in all but four league matches during the season , scoring once in a 5 -- 0 win at home to walsall town swifts on 5 march 1892 , as he secured his third successive second-place finish .
he also played in four fa cup matches -lrb- although the second round qualifying match was technically a friendly after their opponents , heywood , were disqualified from the competition -rrb- and the manchester senior cup semi-final defeat to bolton wanderers .
at the end of the season , while on holiday back home in airdrie , he re-signed for airdrieonians after being allowed to resume his amateur status .
to replace mcfarlane , newton heath signed airdrieonians full-back andrew mitchell , who had been set to partner mcfarlane in defence for the scottish club .
mcfarlane played a further 67 league games between 1894 and 1898 , when he contracted pneumonia and died .
his final appearance for the club came against morton at cappielow on 8 october 1898 , and he died later that month .
mcfarlane was married to a sister of the doughty brothers , jack and roger , who also played for newton heath in their pre-league days .
