Sometime before 1888 Shaw left Wolverhampton Wanderers and signed for Walsall Swifts for his first spell there leaving in August 1888.
[2] Charlie Shaw signed for West Bromwich Albion, as an amateur, in August 1888.
In the last minute the referee, Mr Jope, agreed with Albion's claims that a shot from Charlie Shaw, in his only League game for the Baggies, had gone under the bar before being fisted away by Robert Kay, a decision 'hotly contested by the visitors'.
[3][4] An eager–beaver left–winger, Charlie Shaw came to Albion on a month's trial, playing just one senior game and scoring a goal against Burnley (home) in Division One in September 1888, (won 4–3).
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