Career
Bobby began playing football for Glasgow Junior side Pollok Football Club. He then joined Celtic during 1944 from other Glasgow junior side Street.Anthony"son He started out his Celtic career as a forward, but it wasn"t until manager Jimmy McGrory moved him back to right-half that Evans became a Celtic great. Unmistakable with his red hair, he was probably the first to wear his shirt out of his shorts, his trademark.
He then went on to give the sustained performance of a lifetime throughout the unexpectedly triumphant Coronation Cup run two years later.
In the final, Evans was regarded by many as simply sublime, as he played the great Lawrie Reilly out of the game and fittingly instigated the move that led to Jimmy Walsh"s clinching strike in the 2–0 defeat of favourites Hibernian. He made 535 appearances for Celtic and scored 10 goals in 16 years with the club
Evans left Celtic in 1960, heading south to Chelsea, where he played for one season before being appointed player-manager of Newport County. He returned to Scotland in a playing capacity with Greenock Morton in 1962, then joined Third Lanark as a player with coaching duties in 1963.
He was promoted to manager in June 1964 but left after a difficult 1964-1965 season.
He played with Raith Rovers for two further years. Evans died of pneumonia in 2001, after suffering for several years with Parkinson"s disease. In 2008 Evans was inducted to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame.
