Carlisle United were managed by 26 year old Ivor Broadis in January 1949. He took on the managership in August 1946 and is still the youngest person to manage an English Football League side at 23 years young.
He was also a player, well in his prime, so it was a bit of a shock to the club when he transferred himself to Sunderland for £18,000, an incredible amount of money at the time.
On March 22nd 1949, a certain Bill Shankly acccepted the appointment as the club's new manager, his first challenge and of course Shankly had a fabulous career from this humble beginning. Broadis lived and trained at Carlisle and that was where he learned a lot about football and himself, listening to and working at his game under Shankly.
Born on the Isle of Dogs, Broadis served in the RAF during the war and got involved with Carlisle having been posted to a nearby RAF station. From his transfer to Sunderland, he went on to Manchester City for £25,000 and earned his first England Cap. He then went to Newcastle for £20,000, playing with the likes of Jackie Milburn and back to Carlisle in 1955, finally ending his career at Queen of the South.
In 2006 he went to watch a Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park and was "not allowed into the ground because he was carrying an offensive weapon", namely a vacuum flask! When the police were told whom he was they allowed him into the ground.
He is 93. Born Ivan, a printing mistake on a Tottenham programme, when he guested for them during the war, left him always known at Ivor.
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