The fascinating and often enlightening story of the English Football League’s first black football manager

Tony Collins not only fought his way up from the bottom, facing prejudice and scorn from some but praise and well-received assistance from others – he became a name that regularly filled the sporting headlines of all the major UK national newspapersWhen a football playing talent with a complex ethnic background returns to London’s notorious Portobello Road in 1946, there is only one way forward for a man with ambition, determination and a courage destined to leave its mark on some of the most famous club names in English soccer. He was referred to by them as ‘The Teacher’ and English