Ted Robinson

Readers of Peter Jones and Gareth Davies' excellent histories of Wrexham Football Club can hardly have failed to have noticed an easily-recognisable figure cropping up in team pictures throughout the first half of the Twentieth Century. 

In trademark Macintosh and flat cap, TED ROBINSON was always in the background, a stalwart at The Racecourse from the years before Football League status was earned, who worked tirelessly to maintain that position. 

Robinson was well thought of as a centre back in thirteen years of service on the pitch for Wrexham, starting in the late Nineteenth Century. Three Welsh Cup winners' medals, and five unsuccessful appearances in the final were augmented by four Combination League titles, but his contribution to the club was only just beginning. 

When he finally hung up his boots he continued to devote himself to Wrexham FC, working as secretary and then financial secretary as the club entered the Third Division North, and becoming synonymous with the fortunes of the North Walian side to the extent that it is widely regarded to be in his honour that the club nickname, for so many years, was "The Robins".