 He was a key player in their promotion to the first Division, and was called up to Taylor's England squad for matches in Czechoslovakia, but played only in the B internationals.In five years, he played 189 league games for the Latics, scoring 10 goals.As well as the Second Division title medal in 1991, he came close to collecting a major honour in 1994 when the Latics reached the FA Cup semi-finals and only a late equaliser by Manchester United's Mark Hughes, followed by a 4–1 hammering in the replay, prevented Jobson for having a crack at the FA Cup final appearance he had missed out on with Watford a decade earlier.