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Ian Collard 20:11 - Mar 29 with 5571 viewsMattinLondon

Thanks to my dad and from reading various reports and books I thought that I’ve heard of the vast majority of Town players from the days of SBR who played fairly often for the club. But I have to admit that I have never heard of Ian Collard.

Anyway, went on Wikipedia and was sort of amazed that he played 92 times for the club but gave up on professional football when only 29. Does anyone know why this was the case?
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Ian Collard (n/t) (n/t) on 12:20 - Mar 30 with 372 viewsHarlestonblue

Ian Collard (n/t) (n/t) on 10:29 - Mar 30 by Swansea_Blue

He's number 8 in the final here:


I assume he was no. 8 in the semi-final too; if so there's a lot more footage of him in this video:


that's a very young Joe Royle playing for Everton.
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Ian Collard on 12:22 - Mar 30 with 373 viewsHarlestonblue

Ian Collard on 12:11 - Mar 30 by Harlestonblue

Ian was from the north-east, a former mining village in Durham i believe. He was a direct swap with WBA for Danny Hegan. He was a decent, tidy midfield player for us, but if memory serves, he picked up some injuries and may have been in direct competition with Colin Viljoen. He was a friendly guy who I got to know after his playing career was curtailled, probably due to injuries.
He was manager of the sports centre in Stowmarket but moved to the West Country with his new lady. I bumped into him at Ashton Gate once , probably in our promotion season of 1992 under John Lyall.


Soemone suggested he ran atea shop/restaurant in Felixstowe for a while. I'm sure that's right; one of those opposite the Pier.
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