Bill Collins (footballer)
- Bill Collins (footballer)
Football player infobox
playername = Bill "Buster" Collins
fullname = William Hanna Collins
dateofbirth = 15 February 1920
cityofbirth = Belfast
countryofbirth = Ireland
currentclub =
position = Wing half
youthyears="unknown"
youthclubs="unknown"
years = 1942–1945
1945–1948
1948–1949
1949–1951
1951–1956
clubs =Belfast Celtic
Distillery
Luton Town
Gillingham
Snowdown Colliery Welfare
clubnumber =
caps(goals) ="unknown"
"unknown"
07 (0)
13 (0)
"unknown"
pcupdate =12:34, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
William Hanna "Bill" Collins, also popularly known as Buster Collins (born Belfast, 15 February 1920) [cite book | first=Roger|last= Triggs | title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club| publisher=Tempus Publishing Ltd | year=2001| id=ISBN 0-7524-2243-X|pages=p93] is a Northern Irish former professional football (soccer) player. His clubs included Distillery, Belfast Celtic, Luton Town [ [http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/luton/luton.htm Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database] ] and Gillingham. [ [http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/gillingham/gillingham.htm Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database] ]
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. [cite book | first=Roger|last= Triggs | title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club| publisher=Tempus Publishing Ltd | year=2001| id=ISBN 0-7524-2243-X|pages=p94] 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.[cite web]
title = Adams and Bruce were Buster's premier pupils | publisher = Daily Telegraph| accessdate =2007-09-27 | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2004/03/07/sfnpb207.xml|date=2004-03-06|author=Patrick Barclay] References
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