Yorkshireman Bert Jepson graduated through local football to Huddersfield, top dogs of the Football League in the mid-to-late 1920s. There was no place for him on Huddersfield’s right-wing, but Bert fared rather better at Second Division Southampton.

It looked as though he had made the right-wing berth his own until Bobby Weale arrived in the middle of the 1928-29 season and generally won the competition for that position until he left at the end of the following season.

This left Bert as the sole contender – until the spring of 1932 when Dick Neal was signed and Bert would get but one more game.

Even so, he would happily have stayed at The Dell. But with the club sinking into debt, the Board transfer-listed him at £500.

There were no takers, but Fulham – newly-promoted to Division II and only too ready to exploit Southampton’s difficulties – grabbed him for free. Which merely meant that he spent a season in their Reserves. Third South Brighton rescued him. After two seasons, he retired and became a manager-cum-permit-player for Belgravia Dairy in Brighton. He remained active at that level – following some war-time guesting – after the War, when he became the player-coach at Sussex League Hove.

In September 1953 he was a guest of the club at The Dell for the win over QPR. He was spending a week in the town visiting old friends and staying with his daughter, Doreen who the Echo informed readers “is one of the ‘Four Silver Chords’ in Tom Moss’s show at the Grand Theatre”.