10 Facts About Malcolm Musgrove

Malcolm Clarke Musgrove was an English football player and manager.

Malcolm Musgrove played for a Forces team and for Scottish junior side Sunnybank while in the RAF and joined West Ham United in December 1953.

Malcolm Musgrove went on to make 301 league and cup appearances for the Hammers before joining Leyton Orient as player-coach in December 1962.

Malcolm Musgrove became chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association in 1962 and remained in the post until his retirement as a player in 1966.

Malcolm Musgrove left Orient in 1965 to coach Charlton Athletic under Bob Stokoe, from where he moved to Aston Villa in 1967.

When O'Farrell moved to Manchester United in June 1971, Malcolm Musgrove followed, again taking an assistant manager's position.

In January 1973, Malcolm Musgrove took the manager's job at Torquay United, a post that O'Farrell had held himself five years earlier.

Malcolm Musgrove left Torquay in November 1976, to be replaced by O'Farrell, and the following year coached NASL side Connecticut Bicentennials.

Malcolm Musgrove was made redundant in 1984 and then took the post of physio for the Qatar FA in the Middle East.

Malcolm Musgrove was already suffering the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, which was to eventually take his life on 14 September 2007.