1. John George "Tim" Coleman MM was an English footballer who played as a forward for Kettering Town, Northampton Town, Woolwich Arsenal, Everton, Sunderland, Fulham, Nottingham Forest and Tunbridge Wells Rangers.
11 Facts About Tim Coleman
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Tim Coleman made a single appearance for the England national football team and later in life was a manager in the Netherlands.
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Tim Coleman was signed by Second Division Woolwich Arsenal in the summer of 1902, and immediately became a regular goalscorer for the club.
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Tim Coleman made his debut against Preston North End on 6 September 1902, and in his first season was top scorer with 17 goals in 30 matches, as Arsenal finished third.
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Tim Coleman's season was topped with Arsenal reaching the FA Cup semi-finals, and his one and only cap for England, against Ireland on 16 February 1907.
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In total, Tim Coleman had played 196 games for Arsenal, scoring 84 goals.
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Tim Coleman subsequently served as player-manager of the reserve team at Maidstone United.
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Tim Coleman later moved to the Netherlands, where he managed a number of the clubs to promotion.
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Tim Coleman died at St Mary Abbots Hospital in November 1940, at the age of 59, when he fell through the roof of a generating station in South Kensington.
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Tim Coleman served as a private in the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in October 1918.
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On 29 December 1916, Tim Coleman was misreported in the Sporting Chronicle as having been killed in action.