16 Facts About Colin Dobson

Colin Dobson was an English professional footballer who played as an inside-forward.

Colin Dobson had a long career in coaching and coached domestic and national teams in Arabia.

Colin Dobson has managed the Bahraini club West Riffa, Qatari club Al Rayyan, Kuwaiti side Al Arabi, as well as the Oman under-17s.

Colin Dobson has worked behind the scenes for Bristol Rovers, Coventry City, Port Vale, Aston Villa, Sporting Lisbon, Gillingham, Stoke City, and Watford.

Colin Dobson became a part-time professional in November 1957 and turned fully professional in 1961.

Colin Dobson was not selected for the 1966 FA Cup final defeat to Everton.

In league and cup competitions, Colin Dobson scored 52 goals in 193 first-team appearances at Hillsborough.

In June 1972, Colin Dobson signed with Bristol Rovers as a player-coach, having been a former teammate of manager Don Megson at Sheffield Wednesday.

Colin Dobson scored four goals in 63 league and cup games during his time at the Eastville Stadium.

Colin Dobson left Bristol Rovers to become the youth coach at Coventry City in May 1976.

Colin Dobson acted as Port Vale's coach voluntarily from December 1983 to March 1984 to help out former teammate turned manager John Rudge before managing West Riffa in Bahrain.

Colin Dobson was the youth coach at Portuguese Sporting Lisbon, the youth coach and chief scout at Gillingham, a coach back at the Coventry City youth set-up, before taking up the position as first-team coach of Kuwaiti Al Arabi.

Colin Dobson went on to coach Oman at the 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Egypt.

Colin Dobson later worked as chief scout at Stoke City and was credited with the discovery of England international goalkeeper Ben Foster.

Colin Dobson was appointed chief scout at the Britannia Stadium in 2000 by director of football John Rudge, but left to scout for Watford in June 2005, only to return to the "Potters" by 2008.

Colin Dobson died in Middlesbrough on 16 February 2023, at age 82.