Bob Chapman

Robert Dennis " Sammy" Chapman ( born August 18, 1946 in Aldridge ) is a former English footballer.

Playing career

Nottingham Forest (1963-1977)

Sammy Chapman debuted on January 18, 1964 at the age of seventeen years in the Football League First Division 1963/64, for the English first division club Nottingham Forest, however, came in the course of the season to any other league use. In the following three years, he remained the role of a complement player, his first league goal he succeeded on December 19, 1964 in a 3-2 home win over West Ham United. 1966/67, won the 20 -year-old defender (9 games / 2 goals) and his team the runner-up behind Manchester United to Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best from the subsequent season 1967/68 he was regularly employed, but deteriorated the achievements of the club significantly. In the 1971/72 season Sammy Chapman ( 34 league games) since 1957 rose with Forest for the first time again in the second division. Only under the new coaching duo of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor managed the club in 1977 after five years of second-class return to the First Division. Sammy Chapman played thirty-two league games ( two goals), before he left the club after the season and over thirteen years.

Notts County and Shrewsbury Town (1977-1980)

The season 1977/78 he spent at Forest's city rivals Notts County in the second division before joining Shrewsbury Town in 1978 and with his new team in 1979 won the championship in the third-tier Football League Third Division. After the second division league in the 1979/80 season, he let his playing career end the evening with unterklassigen club Burton Albion.