{"id":49641,"date":"2016-10-27T17:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49641"},"modified":"2016-10-31T20:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:38:51","slug":"tony-collins-football-master-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49641","title":{"rendered":"Tony Collins: Football Master Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookguild.co.uk\/bookshop-collection\/biography\/tony-collins-english-football-leagues-first-black-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Tony Collins, Football Master Spy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookguild.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Book Guild Publishing Ltd<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-27<br \/>\n270 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781910878934<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quentincope.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Quentin Cope<\/strong><\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarita_collins3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarita Collins<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookguild.co.uk\/bookshop-collection\/biography\/tony-collins-english-football-leagues-first-black-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51j92KyDKWL.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The English Football League&#8217;s First Black Manager<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_Football_League\" target=\"_blank\">English football league\u2019s<\/a> first black manager. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Collins_(footballer)\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Collins<\/a> was a young man, born into disadvantaged circumstances, in a time period between two world wars where nothing was certain, except the kind of reception a black man would receive when attempting to move into a slightly brutal but reserved world of top class white sportsmen. After becoming the very first Black English Football League manager in history, Tony went on to be one of the most influential \u2018backroom boys\u2019 the game has ever seen, being labelled \u2018The Teacher\u2019 and football\u2019s \u2018Master Spy\u2019 by the National Press. The story falls naturally into three distinct parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Part I: His early life as a child in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>, his schooling and army life in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italy\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Part II: His career as a football player and time as a manager.<\/li>\n<li>Part III: His time as a chief scout for the top teams of the day and the England\u00a0side under well-known names as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Revie\" target=\"_blank\">Revie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ron_Atkinson\" target=\"_blank\">Atkinson<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Collins, Football Master Spy Book Guild Publishing Ltd 2016-10-27 270 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781910878934 Quentin Cope &amp; Sarita Collins The English Football League&#8217;s First Black Manager This is the story of the English football league\u2019s first black manager. Tony Collins was a young man, born into disadvantaged circumstances, in a time period between two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,8,17,10],"tags":[25307,81,25311,8952,25308,25309,8951,7222,25310],"class_list":["post-49641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","tag-book-guild-publishing-ltd","tag-england","tag-english-football-league","tag-football","tag-quentin-cope","tag-sarita-collins","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tony-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49702,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641\/revisions\/49702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}