Colin Todd

Colin Todd
Personnel
birthday	December 12, 1948
place of birth	Chester-le-Street ,  England
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
1964-1966	Sunderland FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1966-1971	Sunderland FC	173 (3)
1971-1978	Derby County	293 (6)
1978-1979	Everton FC	32 (1)
1979-1982	Birmingham City	93 (0)
1982-1984	Nottingham Forest	36 (0)
1984	Oxford United	12 (0)
1984	Vancouver Whitecaps	8 (0)
1984	Luton Town	2 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1968-1975	England U23	14 (0)
1972-1977	England	27 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1987-1990	Middlesbrough FC (assistant coach)
1990-1991	Middlesbrough FC
1993-1994	Derby County (Assistant Coach)
1994-1996	Bolton Wanderers (Assistant Coach)
1996-1999	Bolton Wanderers
2000	Swindon Town
2000-2001	Derby County (Assistant Coach)
2001-2002	Derby County
2003-2004	Bradford City (Assistant Coach)
2004-2007	Bradford City
2007-2009	Randers FC
2009	Darlington FC
2012-2016	Randers FC
2016	Esbjerg fB
1 Only league games are given.

Colin Todd (born December 12, 1948 in Chester-le-Street , County Durham , England ) is a former English football player and current coach . As a player, he completed a total of 27 international matches for the English national team between 1972 and 1977 .

Player career

Todd began his career at Sunderland , where he made his debut in the First Division in 1966 at the age of 18 . After 173 games for this club, the central defender moved in 1971 to the Derby County club , which was coached by Brian Clough and Peter Taylor at that time . He spent a very successful time there, winning the English championship in 1972 and 1975 and was even voted England's Footballer of the Year ("PFA Players 'Player of the Year") by the PFA players' association in his second year of championship .

During this time he was also an international and made his debut on May 23, 1972 at Wembley Stadium against Northern Ireland . His career in the English national team would last around five years until he played his last game on May 28, 1977 against the same opponent in Belfast . International successes with England were largely denied him.

After Todd had left Derby in 1978 and then played at Everton and Birmingham City , he joined Nottingham Forest in 1982 , who was coached by his old coach Brian Clough. In his mid-thirties, he played for two years in Nottingham and then spent a short time at Oxford United , the Canadian Vancouver Whitecaps and Luton Town , before ending his active career.

Coaching career

In March 1990 he took over as head coach at Middlesbrough FC and succeeded Bruce Rioch . Under Rioch, he had already looked after the team as Kotrainer and led them from the third-class Third Division to the first-class First Division in two consecutive seasons . Middlesbrough was at the time in the lower half of the table in the Second Division and in acute danger of having to accept two relegations in a row after the two successes in promotion. With Todd the club managed to stay up and in the following year Middlesbrough qualified for the play-off games for promotion to the first division, but where they were defeated in the semifinals by the eventual winners of Notts County . Todd then left the club and was inherited by Lennie Lawrence , who then succeeded in promotion in his first season.

In October 1993 he was named assistant to Roy McFarland at his former - now second-rate - club Derby County. Together they reached the play-off games again for promotion to the Premier League and lost in the final against Leicester City . He then moved to the Bolton Wanderers , where he - as in Middlesbrough - should work again under Bruce Rioch. When Rioch then moved to Arsenal FC after Bolton's promotion to the Premier League , Todd got McFarland again, a superior coach who had already worked with. In the meantime, Derby, another former club Todds had risen to after his departure in the Premier League and should play there for six years first division football.

Bolton could not hold their own in the Premier League and sacked McFarland in early 1996 when the team was at the bottom of the table. Todd took over the coaching position, but could not avoid relegation together with his assistant Ian Porterfield .

The 1996/97 season started Bolton in a very strong form. The club always led the table and then rose last season in the old stadium - Burnden Park - with 98 points and 100 goals directly back into the Premier League, where from now on they should play in the new Reebok Stadium . Todd signed some high profile footballers, including Robbie Elliott from Newcastle United and Dean Holdsworth from Wimbledon FC . Nevertheless, the team found themselves again in the table cellar and rose in the end due to the worse goal difference compared to Everton FC in the second division. After a poor start in the first seven games of the 1999/2000 season and the sale of the leading player in midfield Per Frandsen , Todd resigned from his position. Two years later, Bolton was able to return to the first division under Sam Allardyce .

Todd was hired in June 2000 by the third-rate club Swindon Town , which had just been relegated from the second division. However, the high expectations of a recovery were disappointed and Swindon quickly found himself in the regions of relegation. After just five months, Todd announced his retirement and became a Derby County Kotrainer for the second time in his career. From then on, Swindon was able to prevent the fall in the fourth division under Todd's successor Andy King .

After Jim Smith had resigned his coaching office in October 2001, Todd was promoted to Derby's head coach in the Premier League. After only three months, however, he was released again after persistent unsuccessfulness, with a 1: 3 home defeat against Bristol Rovers - a relegation candidate from the fourth division - was his undoing. Even his successor John Gregory could then no longer avert relegation to the second division.

In December 2003, Todd returned to the coaching business as an assistant to Bryan Robson at Bradford City. The Bantams had previously fought relegation under coach Nicky Law in the second division and things got worse under the new line of coaches when Bradford was relegated to the third division as penultimate. The club did not renew Robson's contract and instead appointed Todd, who had now been promoted to a head coaching position for the fourth time. Although he was the coach with the longest tenure at Bradford City - based on the last 20 years - he was never able to gain undisputed support at the club and was fired on February 12, 2007. As reasons for the resignation of Todd, the club chairman Julian Rhodes gave the poor results and the increasing pressure from the supporters.

On April 10 of the same year it was announced that Todd will take over the coaching position at the Danish club Randers FC on June 18 under a two-year contract. After two years in the Danish league, he was replaced by John Jensen in summer 2009 . A short time later he took over the coaching position at the English fourth division FC Darlington . After the club got just two points in nine games at the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Todd and Darlington parted ways by mutual agreement.

Others

• His son Andy Todd was also a professional footballer and most recently played in the Australian A-League for Perth Glory, among others .

successes

• English champion : 1972, 1975
• England's Footballer of the Year: 1975

Web links

• Photo by Colin Todd
• Colin Todd in the soccerbase.com database
• Article on bbc.co.uk
• Colin Todd in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)