Bobby Mann

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Bobby Mann
Personal information
Full name	Robert Alexander Mann
Date of birth	January 11, 1974 (1974-01-11) (age 35)
Place of birth	Dundee, Scotland
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Peterhead
Youth career
1991–1992	St Johnstone
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992–1999 1999–2004 2004–2007 2007–	Forfar Athletic Inverness Caledonian Thistle Dundee Peterhead	027 0(6) 171 (14) 081 0(4) 027 0(1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Robert (Bobby) Alexander Mann (born 11 January 1974 in Dundee) is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing for Peterhead.

Mann, a defender, started his career with St Johnstone in 1991 before joining Forfar Athletic a year later. He remained with Forfar for 7 years before moving to Inverness Caledonian Thistle in 1999. He was part of the Inverness team who famously defeated Celtic in the Scottish Cup in February 2000^[1] and he helped them reach the Scottish Premier League for the first time in season 2003-04.

Despite having reached the Premier League with Inverness, he joined fellow Premier League club Dundee. In his first season at Dens Park, Dundee were relegated to the First Division. Although he was appointed club captain, Mann became an increasingly peripheral figure for the Dark Blues during the 2006-07 season. He reached an agreement to leave Dens Park and was re-united with former boss Steve Paterson on January 31 2007, after signing with Scottish 2nd Division side Peterhead.

Ian McCall once said of Bobby Mann, after missing out on his signing when manager of Dundee United, "Bobby Mann is without a doubt the best distributor of a ball from defence, bar none". This goes to show the high regard some of the top managers in the game have for him.

[edit] References

1. ^ "Caley's minnows slay Celtic". BBC Sport website. 2000-02-08. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/636000.stm. 

[edit] External links

• Bobby Mann career stats at Soccerbase

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