ABSTRACT
Harold Hobbis, an outside-left who could score goals, started his career with Bromley, an amateur club in Kent, but the team he stayed with throughout his professional career was Charlton Athletic, which he joined at the start of the 1930s, initially as an amateur and then, from March 1931, as a full-time professional. During the 1930s Hobbis saw his own career advance in line with the growing and remarkable success of the club. Under their manager, Jimmy Seed, the ‘Addicks’ rose from the depths of the Third Division to the upper reaches of the First, challenging the likes of Arsenal for the League Championship. Hobbis’s career similarly blossomed, eventually leading to international recognition as a player for England. As a key element in the ‘Seed revolution’, Hobbis can be regarded as an Addicks hero.
