Coaching and management career Stanley Matthews

stanley matthews port vale manager youth players

handed complete managerial control following mudie s resignation in may 1967, matthews couldn t guide club success – instead, port vale fined £4,000 in february/march 1968 , expelled football league financial irregularities. forced use name plead other football league clubs re-elect vale, duly did. stood down manager in may 1968, , despite being owed £9,000 in salary , expenses, agreed stay @ vale park continue work youth team. final settlement reached in december 1970, matthews given £3,300, other £7,000 owed written off. player roy sproson later said [matthews] trusted people should never have been trusted , people took advantage of him. convinced lot of people sponged off him and, while, club sliding. experience left sour taste in mouth, , enough convince him never try hand management in english football again.

matthews gave summers every year between 1953 , 1978 coach poor children in south africa, nigeria, ghana, uganda , tanzania. in south africa in 1975, ignored apartheid form team of black schoolboys in soweto called stan s men . members of team told him dream play in brazil, matthews organised trip there; first black team ever tour outside of south africa. did not have money fund trip himself, though used connections (for time other when used them save port vale in 1968) arrange sponsorship coca-cola , johannesburg sunday times newspaper. south african authorities did not want cause international incident, did not prevent stan s men getting on plane rio de janeiro, meet legendary player zico. on trip matthews met ronnie biggs. on way trip, stan s men captain gilbert moiloa called matthews black man white face .

he played final game of football england veterans xi against brazil veterans xi in brazil in 1985 @ age of 70; english lost 6–1 likes of amarildo, tostão, , jairzinho. damaged cartilage during match: promising career cut tragically short , wrote in autobiography.