fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals position manageryears birth_date managerclubs article_title name
frederick george luther ford 1946-1947 1947-1948 16 october 1981 kidlington , england charlton athletic millwall carlisle united dartford , england 9 28 0 0 wing half 1960-1967 1968-1969 1969-1971 10 february 1916 bristol city bristol rovers swindon town fred ford -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 fred ford
fred ford -lrb- footballer -rrb-

frederick george luther ford -lrb- born 10 february 1916 - 16 october 1981 -rrb- is a former footballer and manager .
ford played for a number of clubs , including arsenal , charlton athletic , millwall athletic and carlisle united .
it was at carlisle that he began his coaching career .
he also became a part-time staff coach with the football association , where besides being a course instructor , he additionally coached the england b team and under-23 side .
in 1955 he linked up with a former charlton colleague , bert tann -lrb- then manager of bristol rovers -rrb- and gained widespread recognition for his work as rovers ' first team coach .
this prompted rovers ' closest rivals , bristol city to appointing him as their manager in 1960 , he remained in charge of city until 1967 when he moved to swindon town for the first time as a coaching assistant .
ford moved to city 's rivals bristol rovers in 1968 and took up the post of team manager until 1969 when he was appointed manager at swindon town .
swindon had just won the 1969 league cup and promotion to division two but danny williams had left the club without a coach .
ford joined swindon in july 1969 , with the team preparing for both the 1969 anglo-italian league cup and the 1970 anglo-italian cup , competitions they went on to win under ford 's stewardship .
the teams performance the following year led to the board signing dave mackay with a view to him taking on management , mackay refused to usurp ford and remained a player until ford 's eventual dismissal on 1 november 1971 .
he subsequently spent a number of years as chief scout and youth team coach at oxford united , where he developed a thriving conveyor belt of talented teenage players .
