Barrie Williams

Barrie Williams
Personal information
Full name Barrie Williams
Date of birth (1937-09-23)23 September 1937
Place of birth Carmarthen, Wales
Date of death 23 April 2018(2018-04-23) (aged 80)
Place of death Spain
Teams managed
Years Team
1991 England Women

Barrie Williams (23 September 1937 – 23 April 2018) was a British football coach. He managed Sutton United during the 1980s and the England women's team during 1991. In January 1989, Williams led Sutton United, of the Football Conference, to a famous FA Cup win over top division Coventry City. A teacher of English Literature by profession, Williams was known for quoting Shakespeare[1] and Kipling, as well as smoking a pipe.[2] He later emigrated to Spain.[3]

References

  1. David Lacey (2012-01-06). "FA Cup suffers from bigger teams' neglect and minnows' growth". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
  2. "The FA Cup Managers". TheFA.com. 2006-02-01. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
  3. Neil Moxley & Laura Williamson (2011-12-02). "Sutton stunned Coventry in 1989, now it's time for another... Cup-set!". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2012-01-15.


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