Colin Hutchinson (20 October 1936 – 20 January 2017) was an English

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played in

the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in the world, and was the top-level football league in England from ...

for

Stoke City Stoke City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The team competes in the , the second level of the English football league system. Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, the cl ...

Career

Hutchinson was born in

Consett Consett is a town in the County Durham (district), County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of County Durham, Durham, England, about south-west of Newcastle upon Tyne. It had a population of 27,394 in 2001 and an estimate of 25,812 in ...

and played for Crook Hall before signing for

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side

after a successful trial. He struggled to break into Frank Taylor's first team and in four seasons he managed to make just nine appearances. He joined

Stafford Rangers Stafford Rangers Football Club is a semi-professional English football team from Stafford which plays in the Northern Premier League Division One West. The team wear black and white stripes with black shorts. Stafford Rangers' rivals include ...

and had an unsuccessful spell with

Crewe Alexandra Crewe Alexandra Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Crewe, Cheshire, England. Its first team competes in League Two, the fourth level of the English football league system. Nicknamed 'The Railwaymen' ...

. He managed Stafford Rangers between 1965 and 1969, before taking charge of Nantwich Town(1973–1979) and

Droylsden Droylsden is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, east of Manchester and west of Ashton-under-Lyne, with a population at the 2011 Census of 22,689. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, in the mid-19th cen ...

(1979–1981).

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hutchinson, Colin 1936 births 2017 deaths Footballers from Consett English men's footballers Men's association football wingers Stoke City F.C. players Stafford Rangers F.C. players Crewe Alexandra F.C. players Macclesfield Town F.C. players English Football League players English football managers Stafford Rangers F.C. managers Nantwich Town F.C. managers Droylsden F.C. managers 20th-century English sportsmen