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Bill Collins
Personal information
Full name William Hanna Collins
Date of birth (1920-02-15)15 February 1920
Place of birth Belfast, Ireland
Date of death 3 November 2010(2010-11-03) (aged 90)
Position(s) Wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1942–1945 Belfast Celtic
1945–1948 Distillery
1948–1949 Luton Town 7 (0)
1949–1951 Gillingham 51 (0)
1951–1956 Snowdown Colliery Welfare
Managerial career
1975 Gillingham (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Hanna "Buster" Collins (15 February 1920 – 3 November 2010) was an Irish professional footballer. His clubs included Distillery, Belfast Celtic, Luton Town and Gillingham.

He later became reserve team manager at Gillingham, and in 1965 was appointed by manager Freddie Cox as the head of the club's newly organised youth scheme, a post he held for nearly twenty years. He served as first team trainer and kitman for a further ten years, finally retiring in 1993 at the age of 73. He has been cited as a major influence on the careers of future stars Micky Adams and Steve Bruce.

He died in 2010 at the age of 90.

References

  1. Bradley, Andy (12 October 1985). "10 Years Ago". Gillingham F.C. Official Matchday Magazine.
  2. Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 93. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X.
  3. Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database
  4. Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database
  5. Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 94. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X.
  6. Patrick Barclay (6 March 2004). "Adams and Bruce were Buster's premier pupils". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 November 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2007.
  7. "Gillingham stalwart Bill Collins dies". BBC. 3 November 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
Gillingham F.C. – managers
(c) = caretaker manager


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