manageryears birth_date years youthyears caps goals image_size image name caption fullname birth_place height totalcaps totalgoals youthclubs clubs position managerclubs article_title
2014 2014 5 june 1977 1994 2005 -- 2006 2006 -- 2008 2007 2008 -- 2015 -- 1997 1999 -- 2002 2002 -- 2006 1994 -- 1997 37 82 135 10 13 4 244 0 2 11 0 0 0 6 200 sam collins 30-07-11 1.png sam collins collins playing for hartlepool united in 2011 samuel jason collins pontefract , england 6 2 525 19 huddersfield town huddersfield loan -rrb- hull city → swindon town -lrb- loan -rrb- town hartlepool united bury port vale → hull city -lrb- centre-back hartlepool -rrb- united -lrb- caretaker -rrb- hartlepool united -lrb- caretaker sam collins -lrb- footballer -rrb-

sam collins -lrb- footballer -rrb-

samuel jason `` sam '' collins -lrb- born 5 june 1977 -rrb- is an english former footballer who played as a defender .
his brother , simon , is also a former professional footballer and manager .
he started his career with huddersfield town in 1997 , alongside his brother , before he transferred to bury in 1999 .
after three years he moved on to port vale , where he established himself as club captain and star defender .
his performances earned him a move up to hull city in 2006 , though a series of knee injuries blighted his time at the club .
loaned to swindon town for a brief spell in 2007 , the following year he signed permanently with hartlepool united .
spending most of his career in the third tier of english football , he has been described as a `` warrior '' and as `` the quintessential lower-league centre-back '' .
he was appointed caretaker-manager of hartlepool united in october 2014 , and then once again two months later .
