Tony Collins (1926 - ) was the first black football manager in the English football league. Collins played for two years at Rochdale A.F.C, making 47 appearances and scoring 5 goals before he was appointed player-manager in June 1960. He retired from playing the next year but carried on as manager of Rochdale, a post … Read more

When I left the army I played for Sheffield Wednesday,York,crystal palace, Watford, Torquay, Norwich, Rochdale where I became not only the youngest manager in the football league at that time aged 34 but the 1st black manager in the English football league, I then joined Alan Dicks as assistant manager at Bristol City, then I … Read more

Tony Collins (1926 - ) was the first black football manager in the English football league. Collins played for two years at Rochdale A.F.C, making 47 appearances and scoring 5 goals before he was appointed player-manager in June 1960. He retired from playing the next year but carried on as manager of Rochdale, a post … Read more