Referee Bobby Calder
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| Bobby Calder |
- Formally Robert Calder.
- Most commonly listed as R. Calder; also seen as B. Calder & Bobbie Calder.
- Uncle of Bobby Tait. The odd thing about Bobby doing the Cowdenbeath friendly in 1948 was that he wasn’t actually on the Referee List at the time. The game was a few weeks after he had resigned from being Dunfermline’s Manger and he had applied to be reinstated to the List. They must have been short of referees that weekend! He never did get back on the list and, even more amazingly, he refereed a friendly, Celtic v Aston Villa, in February 1949!
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 15.11.1941 Motherwell [a] L1-6 (Southern League - game 15) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 06.04.1942 Celtic [h] L1-3 (Southern League - game 29) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 03.10.1942 Celtic [h] L2-3 (Southern League - game 8) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 07.11.1942 Albion Rovers [h] W6-2 (Southern League - game 13) |  |
0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | W5-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 12.12.1942 Queen's Park [h] W2-1 (Southern League - game 18) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 20.03.1943 Airdrieonians [a] W2-0 (Southern League Cup Section B - game 4) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 03.04.1943 Motherwell [a] W3-0 (Southern League Cup Section B - game 6) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 18.03.1944 Celtic [h] L0-1 (Southern League Cup Section B - game 3) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 03.06.1944 Third Lanark [h] W3-1 (Summer Cup 1st Round, 1st leg) | |
0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | W5-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 10.06.1944 Third Lanark [a] W3-2 (Summer Cup 1st Round, 2nd leg) agg: W6-3 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 16.09.1944 Morton [a] L0-2 (Southern League - game 5) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 04.11.1944 Airdrieonians [a] W3-0 (Southern League - game 12) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 03.02.1945 Motherwell [a] L1-2 (Southern League - game 24) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 21.04.1945 St Mirren [a] W2-1 (Southern League - game 29) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 30.06.1945 Hibernian [n] W2-0 (Summer Cup Final) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 25.08.1945 Third Lanark [a] W2-1 (Glasgow Cup Quarter Final) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 15.12.1945 Morton [a] D1-1 (Southern League, Division A - game 19) | 0 | |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 18.05.1946 Hibernian [h] D1-1 (Victory Cup Quarter Final) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 25.05.1946 Hibernian [a] L0-2 (Victory Cup Quarter Final replay) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 21.09.1946 Kilmarnock [a] L2-3 (League Cup Division A, Section A - game 1) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 02.11.1946 Kilmarnock [a] L1-3 (SFL Division A - game 11) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 28.12.1946 Queen of the South [h] L1-2 (SFL Division A - game 19) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
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Bobby Calder (Rutherglen) | 06.03.1948 Cowdenbeath [a] L1-2 (Friendly) | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | D0-0 |
| 0 | 23 | ← Totals → | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | W10-5 |
| Bobby Calder's Summary | |
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| Average crime count per game | 0.65 pts |
| The crime count % balance | 67-33 in favour of Thistle |
| Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win) | 1.391 (W10 D2 L11) |
| compiled to our All Games criteria @ 07-Dec-2024 | |
| Thistle's Historical Summary | |
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| Average crime count per game ᵃ | 1.453 pts |
| Average crime count per game ᵇ | 4.616 pts |
| The crime count % balance | 48-52 to Thistle's detriment |
| Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win) | 1.409 (W2733 D1430 L2671) |
| ᵃ from 1886-87 to 1996-97 (see crime count notes) | |
| ᵇ from 1997-98 to date (see crime count notes) | |
| compiled to our All Games criteria @ 25-May-2025 | |
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Crime Count notes |
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5 pts are allocated for a penalty, in favour of whichever team is awarded the kick. Our data is comprehensive from 1891-92 (the season of introduction) to date. |
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1 pt is allocated for any given player's first yellow card, the point being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is booked and vice-versa. Second yellows are always ignored as superfluous. We introduce the yellow card count from season 1997-98 onwards as our records are comprehensive and meaningful from that season onwards. Official cautions began in the 1940s and we continue to (casually) build such data with a view to, perhaps, setting an earlier date for our yellow card analysis. Incidentally, the actual yellow card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80. |
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4 pts are allocated for sending offs, the points being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is sent-off and vice-versa. Our crime count database is 'open for business' from 1886-87 onwards as this was the first season that the English FA decreed that the referee had the power to send a player off, although the first known in a Scottish game wasn't until a season later and the first known in a Thistle game wasn't until 1891. Our data is comprehensive from then to the present day. As per the yellow, the actual red card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80. |