Tony Coleman

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Tony Coleman
Personnel
Surname Anthony George Coleman
birthday May 2, 1945
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
position Winger (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1961–1962 Stoke City 0 ( 00)
1962 Ellesmere Port Town
1962-1964 Tranmere Rovers 8 ( 00)
1964-1965 Preston North End 5 ( 01)
1965 Bangor City ? ( 02)
1965-1967 Doncaster Rovers 58 (11)
1967-1969 Manchester City 83 (12)
1969-1970 Sheffield Wednesday 26 ( 02)
1970-1971 Blackpool FC 17 ( 00)
1971 Cape Town City FC
1973 Durban City
1973-1974 Southport FC 23 ( 01)
1974-1976 Stockport County 30 ( 03)
from 1976 Macclesfield Town
1 Only league games are given.

Anthony George "Tony" Coleman (born May 2, 1945 in Liverpool ) is a former English football player . The left winger celebrated his greatest successes with Manchester City when he won the English championship in 1968 and the FA Cup the following year .

Athletic career

Coleman began his career at Stoke City in 1961 . From Ellesmere Port Town it went in 1962 to the fourth division team Tranmere Rovers , where he made his championship game debut in the 1962/63 season. On April 13, 1963 he was on the left, offensive flank in the starting line-up against York City (2-1). It was the only use in the 1962/63 season; the following year, seven more games followed, the last six of which in the closing stages of the 1963/64 season. However, it was just as inadequate as a regular player there, as was the case with the second division Preston North End , where he had ended up in the 1964/65 season. In the meantime, "PNE" loaned him to the Welsh club Bangor City , before he returned to fourth division in November 1965 - now to the Doncaster Rovers . In Doncaster Coleman celebrated his first sporting successes and he was in the season 1965/66 a fixture in the team, which succeeded in promotion to the third division. Although the Rovers should go back to the lower house of English professional football after a year , he moved to the top division of Manchester City for £ 12,000 shortly before relegation . In total, Doncaster had scored eleven goals, including a decisive hit against Crewe Alexandra in the promotion battle .

Suddenly Coleman found himself in a team that was playing for the big titles in English football, and right in the middle of the action he was a regular for the "Citizens", which won the English championship in 1968 and the FA Cup the following year . As a left winger, he contributed eight goals to the league title and on April 26, 1969, he completed the English Cup final, which was won 1-0 against Leicester City . Coleman's time in Manchester was not without problems, however, and so Coleman occasionally incurred the displeasure of trainer Joe Mercer about his frequent excursions into city life at night. In October 1969 Coleman left the club in the direction of league rivals Sheffield Wednesday , around ten months later it went on to Blackpool FC .

Then Coleman's sporting career at the highest level was over. In the early 1970s, he moved to South Africa, where he worked for Cape Town City FC and Durban City . After his return to England, the lower-class clubs Southport FC , Stockport County and Macclesfield Town were the last known stations in active football. He later emigrated to Australia.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Various online sources give Ellesmere Port as an alternative place of birth.
  2. ↑ a b "City FA Cup winner to sell medal" (BBC Sport)
  3. ^ Gilbert Upton / Steve Wilson / Peter Bishop: Tranmere Rovers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby, 2009, ISBN 978-1-85983-711-5 , pp. 344 ff., 523 .
  4. ↑ "Tony Coleman" (doncasterrovers.co.uk)
  5. ↑ "Legend Lee who paved way to Etihad reflects on City's incredible journey: My top player was on 15 grand a week - blimey, academy lads are on that now" (Daily Mail)
personal data
SURNAME Coleman, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coleman, Anthony George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool , England