Shirley Hubbard

Shirley Hubbard (18 February 1885 – 22 February 1962) was an English professional football inside right and manager who made 140 appearances in the Football League for Leicester City. He was later player-manager of Ashby Town.

Playing career
After beginning his career with local Leicester clubs, Second Division club Leicester Fosse bought Hubbard out of the army to sign him on 22 April 1907. Over the course of the next six years he made 151 appearances and scored 39 goals for the club and helped the Foxes to promotion to the First Division at the end of the 1907–08 season. Hubbard departed Filbert Street for North Eastern League club Darlington in May 1913 and was playing for South Shields upon the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. During the war, he guested for Port Vale, Bloxwich Strollers, Birmingham and on two occasions for Leicester Fosse. Hubbard briefly resumed his professional career with the reformed Leicester City during the 1919–20 season, before departing to take over as player-manager at Leicestershire Senior League club Ashby Town. He later returned to Leicester City as a coach prior to the Second World War.

Personal life
As of 1901, Hubbard was working as a shoe finisher and enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment on 14 July 1903. He was posted to India and served until April 1907. In November 1914, three months after the outbreak of the First World War, he re-enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment and was sent to the Western Front in February 1915. Hubbard saw action at Hooge, the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the Somme and during the Hundred Days Offensive. After his retirement from football, Hubbard remained on the sports scene and wrote a column in the local Leicestershire press.

Honours

 * Leicester Fosse
 * Football League Second Division runner-up: 1907–08