Jobey was born in 1885 in Heddon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,[nb 1] and played football for local boys' clubs in Morpeth before joining Newcastle United in 1906.

He only spent a single season at Bradford before World War I intervened and the Football League was suspended.

He served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and played for Scottish club Hamilton Academical during the conflict,[2] before moving to Leicester City after hostilities ended.

Jobey's suspension was lifted in 1945, but apart from a year in charge of Mansfield Town between 1952 and 1953, he remained out of the game.

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