Bryan Edwards (footballer)

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Bryan Edwards
Personal information
Date of birth	(1930-10-27) 27 October 1930
Place of birth	Woodlesford, Leeds, England
Playing position	Wing half
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1947–1965	Bolton Wanderers	483	(8)
Teams managed
1971–1975	Bradford City
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Bryan Edwards (born October 27, 1930) is a former football player and manager. He played 483 games as wing half for Bolton Wanderers picking up an FA Cup Winners medal in 1958 and later managed Bradford City and was a coach and physiotherapist at several clubs.

Playing career

Edwards excelled at both football and cricket and had trials for both sports, at Bolton Wanderers and Yorkshire CCC in 1947.^[1] He joined Bolton and signed a full-time professional contract in October 1947. He stayed at Burnden Park for 18 years, although his career was interrupted by two years National Service,^[1] winning an FA Cup winners medal in 1958 when Bolton defeated Manchester United 2–0. He made 483 league appearance, most as wing half before converting to centre half, at Bolton before he retired in 1965, aged 35.

Managerial career

When Edwards retired he first joined Blackpool as assistant trainer-coach before moving to Preston North End first as coach and later first-team trainer. He moved to Plymouth Argyle as chief coach, before becoming manager at Bradford City in November 1971.

He took over with City struggling towards the bottom of Division Three but he could not arrest the slide and the club were relegated in bottom place in the 1971–72 season. The club came 16th the following season and 8th in 1973–74 before Edwards resigned in January 1975 to be replaced by Bobby Kennedy.

He became a qualified physiotherapist and served as physio and coach at Huddersfield Town and youth team coach at Leeds United before returning to Bradford City in July 1977. He filled a host of roles at Valley Parade including physio, assistant manager and general manager.^[1] Whilst at Bradford, he helped them win the Football League Division Three title in 1984–85. On the last day of that successful season his day was to turn into a nightmare when 56 spectators were killed in a horrendous stand fire while playing Lincoln City.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Terry (1988). Bradford City A Complete Record 1903–1988. Breedon Books Sport. pp. pp76–77. ISBN 0-907969-38-0.

External links

Bryan Edwards management career stats at Soccerbase

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 (1952)
Powell (1952–55)
P. 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)
Atherton, Jacobs, Wetherall and Windass (joint caretakers) (2003)
Robson (2003–04)
Todd (2004–07)
Wetherall (2007)
McCall (2007–10)
Jacobs (2010)
Taylor (2010–11)
P. A. Jackson (2011)
Cooper (2011)
Parkinson (2011–)

Persondata
Name	Edwards, Bryan
Alternative names
Short description	English footballer and manager
Date of birth	October 27, 1930
Place of birth	Woodlesford, Leeds, England
Date of death
Place of death

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