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Phillipson-Masters was born in Bournemouth.
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Forbes Phillipson-Masters
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He originally signed with Southampton as an apprentice goalkeeper in August 1972, but was given a free transfer two years later by Lawrie McMenemy. John McGrath, then Saints" youth team coach, persuaded the player to try his luck in the centre-half position. The conversion was successful, and, after playing nine times for the Saints first team, and spending spells on loan to Exeter City, A.F.C. Bournemouth and Luton Town, Phillipson-Masters was sold to Plymouth Argyle for £50,000 in 1979, where he was to make over a hundred league appearances.
He went on to Bristol City, where he made nearly another hundred, before winding up his career with a season with Yeovil Town.
In 1987, he moved into non-League football management in the Dorset area, and now has his own building company in Verwood, Dorset. Ollie Phillipson-Masters, son of Forbes, has played for Bournemouth "Poppies" F.C. of the Wessex League since August 2009.
