Ivor Powell

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Ivor Powell
Personal information
Full name	Ivor Verdun Powell
Date of birth	5 July 1916 (1916-07-05) (age 91)
Place of birth	Bargoed, Wales
Playing position	Wing half
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1938–1948 1948–1951 1951 1951–1952 1952–1954	Queens Park Rangers Aston Villa Port Vale Barry Town Bradford City	110 (2) 079 (5) 006 (0) 083 (9)
National team
	Wales	014 (0)
Teams managed
1951 1952–1955 1960–1963	Port Vale Bradford City Carlisle United Bath City
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Ivor Verdun Powell MBE (born 5 July 1916 in Gilfach Bargoed, Wales) was a Welsh footballer who gained fourteen Welsh caps and later became a manager.

He was inducted to the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2004 alongside snooker player Terry Griffiths and cricketer Tony Lewis. He also entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest working football coach on his 90th birthday after 55 years as a coach.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 3 Away from football 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Playing career

Powell started his working life down the mines. His playing career began with South Wales League side Bargoed. At the age of 17 he was spotted by Queens Park Rangers. He made 110 league appearances for QPR before commanding a reord £17,500 fee for a half back when he moved to Aston Villa.^[1] He made another 79 games for Villa before he became a player-manager at Port Vale.

Powell also made eight international caps for Wales and was a war-time international. In one game he was replaced by Englishman Stanley Mortensen in a game between England and Wales when his injury left the Welsh side without an available substitute.

[edit] Managerial career

Powell started his managerial career at Port Vale as player-manager in 1951 where he played six times. He moved to Barry Town before being appointed the new Bradford City manager, again as player-manager, before the start of the 1952–53 season.

His first season at Valley Parade was disappointing as the slipped to 16th in Division Three (North). The following season they came fifth but were 16 points shy of the promotion places. During that season he missed the first penalty of his career in a home fixture with Workington.^[2]

The following season he was carried off with knee ligament damage against Wrexham.^[2] The injury ended his career. City's form also struggled and Powell left in February 1955 after a run of seven straight defeats and just two wins from 19 games without his presence on the field. City were forced to apply for re-election at the end of the campaign.

Powell became a trainer-coach at Leeds United before he returned to management with Carlisle United in May 1960 succeeding Andy Beattie. He led the Cumbrians to their first promotion when they finished fourth in Division Four in 1961–62. He left the following season, with the club struggling in the league and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Southern League side Gravesend & Northfleet.^[2] He became manager of Bath City in 1964.

He was inducted to the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.^[3] In 2006 while assistant coach for Team Bath F.C. at the University of Bath he celebrated his 90th birthday and entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest working football coach.^[4] He has completed 53 years as an FA accredited coach.^[5] He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours for his services to sport.^[6]

[edit] Away from football

During the Second World War Ivor worked as an RAF physical trainer, and he became friends with Sir Stanley Matthews, who went on to be Ivor's best man at his wedding to Joan Browell in 1943.^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Ivor Powell management career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Port Vale F.C. – Managers Gleaves (1896–05) • Clare (1905–11) • Walker (1911–12) • Myatt (1912–14) • Holford (1919–24) • Schofield (1924–30) • Morgan (1930–32) • Holford (1932–35) • Cresswell (1936–37) • Morgan (1937–38) • Frith (1945–46) • Hodgson (1946–51) • Powell (1951) • Steele (1951–57) • Low (1957–62) • Steele (1962–65) • Mudie (1965–67) • Matthews (1967–68) • Lee (1968–74) • Sproson (1974–77) • Harper (1977) • Smith (1977–78) • Butler (1978–79) • Bloor (1979) • McGrath (1979–83) • Rudge (1984–99) • Dearden (1999) • Grew (1999) • Horton (1999–2004) • Foyle (2004–07) • Glover (2007) • Sinnott (2007–)

v • d • e Bradford City A.F.C. – Managers Campbell (1903–05) • O'Rourke (1905–21) • Menzies (1921–26) • Veitch (1926–28) • Foster (1928) • O'Rourke (1928–30) • Peart (1930–35) • Ray (1935–37) • Westgarth (1938–43) • Sharp (1943–46) • Barker (1946–47) • Milburn (1947–48) • Steele (1948–52) • A Harris (52) • Powell (1952–55) • Jackson (1955–61) • Brocklebank (1961–64) • B Harris (1965–66) • Watson (1966–67) • Hair (1967–68) • McAnearney & Hallett (1968) • Wheeler (1968–71) • Wilson (1971) • Edwards (1971–75) • Kennedy (1975–78) • Napier (1978) • Mulhall (1978–81) • McFarland (1981–82) • Cherry (1982–87) • Dolan (1987–89) • Yorath (1989–90) • Docherty (1990–91) • Stapleton (1991–94) • Lawrence (1994–95) • Kamara (1995–98) • Jewell (1998–2000) • Hutchings (2000) • McCall (2000) • Jefferies (2000–01) • Smith (2001) • Law (2002–03) • Four senior players (2003) • Robson (2003–04) • Todd (2004–07) • Wetherall (2007) • McCall (2007–)

v • d • e Carlisle United F.C. – Managers Kirkbride (1904–05s) • McCumiskey (1905–06s) • Houston (1906–08s) • Stansfield (1908–10) • Houston (1910–12) • Graham (1912–13) • Bistow (1913–30) • Hampson (1930–33) • Clarke (1933–35) • Kelly (1935–36) • Westgarth (1936–38) • Talyor (1938–40) • Harkness (1940–45) • Clarke (1945–46s) • Broadis (1946–49) • Shankly (1949–51) • Emery (1951–58) • Beattie (1958–60) • Powell (1960–63) • Ashman (1963–67) • T. Ward (1967–68) • Stokoe (1968–70) • MacFarlane (1970–72) • Ashhman (1972–75) • Young (1975–76) • Moncur (1976–80) • Harvey (1980) • Stokoe (1980–85) • Robson (1985) • Stokoe (1985–86) • Gregg (1986–87) • Middlemass (1987–91) • McCaffrey (1991–92) • McCreery (1992–93) • Wadsworth (1993–96d) • Day (1996–97) • Knighton (1997–98) • Pearson (1998–99) • Mincher (1999) • Wilkinson (1999–2000) • Atkins (2000–2001) • Collins (2001–2002) • Barr (2002c) • Collins (2002–03) • Simpson (2003–06) • McDonald (2006–07) • Abbott (2007c) • J. Ward (2007–) (c) caretaker (d) director of coaching (s) secretary-manager