Career
Bolitho played as a teenager of Pacific Coast Soccer League side Victoria O"Keefe South Carolina (U.S.) Bob made Everton Football Club over in Liverpool,England but he came back because he was homesick. The following summer Bolitho joined the Vancouver Whitecaps and remained with the club until 1980. He went on loan to the Los Angeles Aztecs during the 1979-1980 NASL indoor season.
In 1980, Bolitho began the season with the Whitecaps before being traded to the Tulsa Roughnecks with whom he played the rest of the 1980 outdoor as well as the 1980-1981 NASL indoor season.
In 1981, he moved to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. In 1984, the Strikers moved to Minnesota where they became the Minnesota Strikers.
He began as a starter that season, but soon moved to the substitutes bench before being traded to the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Bolitho then played one season for Victoria Vistas in the Computer Science Laboratory in 1989.
He played a defensive midfield role in the early days of his first class career before settling down at right back.