Background
Roberts was born in Chirk and played with Oswestry Town in the Welsh league, impressing enough to earn a move to First Division side Stoke City as a teenager.
Roberts was born in Chirk and played with Oswestry Town in the Welsh league, impressing enough to earn a move to First Division side Stoke City as a teenager.
He made his Football League debut on 8 December 1984 against Ipswich Town becoming Stoke City"s youngest goalkeeper at the age of 17 years, 258 days. Stoke lost 2–0 and Roberts played in four more matches during a woeful 1984-1985 campaign which saw them relegated with a record low points tally. At the end of the season he was released and joined Irish club Derry City.
His last game was the 1988 FAI Cup Final.