Emmanuel "Manny" Williams (born 13 November 1981) is a Sierra Leonean

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who is the Joint Manager of Egham Town. He plays as a forward. He has been capped once by the

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Career

Club career

Williams played for

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and

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early in his career, though he did not make any senior appearances for either side. He then dropped into the

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, playing for Concord Rangers and Bowers United, before progressing to the

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with

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. In 2005 he moved up to the

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with

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, but stepped back down a level to return to Leyton the following season. A year later, he stepped up to the second tier of non-league football again to play for

Maidenhead United Maidenhead United Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Affiliated to the Berks & Bucks FA, they are currently members of the . The club were established in October 1870 and have played at ...

. After 24 league goals in the 2007–08 season, and 30 goals in all competitions, winning the Players' and Supporters' Player of the Year awards, he joined

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side

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. However, he failed to score in twelve league games, and returned to Maidenhead and then

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on loan. Williams joined Havant & Waterlooville in summer 2009. He scored 31 league goals across two seasons before joining Maidenhead for a third time. The following season he joined

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, but left for Basingstoke Town in November. He stayed there until the end of the 2015–16 season, scoring 37 goals in 116 league games. He had brief spells with Hampton & Richmond Borough and Hungerford Town, before joining Slough Town on loan from the latter in January 2017. He joined Slough permanently that summer. He scored 10 league goals for the Rebels that season, and came off the bench to score the winner in the

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play-off final against Kings Lynn Town. By now in his late 30s, Williams made a diminishing number of appearances for Slough following promotion to the

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, and had loan spells with Basingstoke, Beaconsfield Town, Harrow Borough and

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while continuing to remain an important squad player for the Rebels. Williams joined

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side Burnham as player-assistant manager for the 2020-21 season. Williams became player-manager in October 2021. He returned to Slough in January 2022 as player-assistant manager after leaving Burnham by mutual consent.

International career

Born in Sierra Leone but raised in

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, Williams was capped by England Schoolboys as a youngster. He made his only appearance for the

in February 2012, as a substitute against

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.Williams' pride at international debut
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at Aylesbury United {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Manny 1981 births Living people English men's footballers Sierra Leonean men's footballers Sierra Leone men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Notts County F.C. players Millwall F.C. players Concord Rangers F.C. players Bowers & Pitsea F.C. players Leyton F.C. players Yeading F.C. players Maidenhead United F.C. players Woking F.C. players Weston-super-Mare A.F.C. players Havant & Waterlooville F.C. players Hayes & Yeading United F.C. players Basingstoke Town F.C. players Hampton & Richmond Borough F.C. players Hungerford Town F.C. players Slough Town F.C. players Beaconsfield Town F.C. players Harrow Borough F.C. players Staines Town F.C. players Burnham F.C. players National League (English football) players Isthmian League players Southern Football League players Egham Town F.C. managers 21st-century English sportsmen