Background
Jobey was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and played football for local boys" clubs in Morpeth before joining Newcastle United in 1906.
Jobey was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and played football for local boys" clubs in Morpeth before joining Newcastle United in 1906.
He made his senior debut on 20 April 1907 in a 4–2 loss at Bolton Wanderers. Jobey was transferred to Woolwich Arsenal in May 1913, and made an immediate impact. On 6 September 1913, Arsenal faced Leicester Fosse in their very first match at their new Arsenal Stadium in Highbury.
After Leicester"s Tommy Benfield had become the first player to score at the new stadium, Jobey joined him in the record books as the first Arsenal player to do so, heading home just before half-time.
In the second half, he was injured and so became the first player to be stretchered off at Highbury. He played 28 league matches that season before being transferred during the close season to Bradford Park Avenue.
He only spent a single season at Bradford before World War I intervened and the Football League was suspended. He played for Scottish club Hamilton Academical during the conflict, before moving to Leicester City after hostilities ended.
He was tempted back into the game five months later to become manager of.
His first season at Molineux proved a struggle and the club slipped down to the Third Division for the first time in their history. However, he again dropped out of the game though after this success, returning to running a hotel. In 1925, he returned to football when he was appointed manager of Derby County.
He was an immediate success, leading them to promotion in 1925-1926 and twice securing runners-up place in the First Division, in 1929-1930 and 1935-1936.
In 1941, he was accused of making illegal payments to players, as an inducement for them to sign for Derby. A Football Association inquiry found him guilty and banned him from football for life.
Jobey"s suspension was lifted in 1945, but apart from a year in charge of Mansfield Town between 1952 and 1953, he remained out of the game. He died in 1962, aged 76.