fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals position manageryears birth_date managerclubs article_title name
william ernest lambton 1935-c .45 1945-46 1946 1946-47 16 september 1976 nottingham , england nottingham forest peterborough united exeter city doncaster rovers nottingham , england 1 3 0 0 goalkeeper 1958-59 1959 1962-63 2 december 1914 leeds united scunthorpe united chester bill lambton
 bill lambton
bill lambton

william `` bill '' lambton -lrb- 2 december 1914 , nottingham - 16 september 1976 -rrb- was an english football player and manager .
he played in goal for nottingham forest , exeter city and doncaster rovers , although he made just three football league appearances in total with his playing days largely coinciding with the second world war .
lambton is better remembered for his spells in coaching and management .
he worked as a coach in denmark with kb copenhagen and then with scunthorpe united , grimsby town and leeds united .
in december 1958 he became leeds manager .
despite signing leeds legends don revie and billy bremner , he was asked to leave after just four months .
this however was to be significantly longer than his next managerial post , as he was in charge of scunthorpe for just three days in april 1959 .
lambton was appointed chester manager in january 1962 , two months after the sacking of stan pearson .
chester were enduring a miserable season that saw them finish bottom of the football league .
greater things were expected the following season , but a poor run of just four wins in their last 18 games saw them finish fourth from bottom and forced to again apply for re-election to the league .
although chester comfortably achieved enough votes to remain in the league , lambton had his contract cancelled by mutual consent in july 1963 .
a former sergeant major in the army , lambton was known as ` iron man bill ' .
he died in sherwood , nottingham aged 61 .
