Ivor Broadis
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ivan Arthur Broadis | ||
| Date of birth | 18 December 1922 | ||
| Place of birth | Isle of Dogs, Poplar, London, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1946–1949 | Carlisle United | 91 | (52) |
| 1949–1951 | Sunderland | 79 | (25) |
| 1951–1953 | Manchester City | 74 | (10) |
| 1953–1955 | Newcastle United | 42 | (15) |
| 1955–1959 | Carlisle United | 159 | (32) |
| 1959–1960 | Queen of the South | 63 | (20) |
| Total | 512 | (157) | |
| National team | |||
| 1951–1954 | England | 14 | (8) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1946–1949 | Carlisle United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ivan Arthur "Ivor" Broadis (born 18 December 1922), is an English former professional footballer.
During a career spanning eighteen years from 1942 to 1960, Broadis represented Carlisle United, Sunderland, Manchester City, Newcastle United and Queen of the South, gaining 14 caps and scoring eight goals for England at international level. Broadis played at inside forward; after retiring from playing in 1960, he pursued a career as a football journalist.
Broadis was born in Isle of Dogs, Poplar, London. During the Second World War he completed 500 flying hours on RAF Wellingtons and Lancasters, although he was never on a bombing mission. During the war he'd guested as an amateur for Tottenham Hotspur among other clubs. It was at Tottenham that someone misread his real name (Ivan) as Ivor. And so he inadvertently became known henceforth as Ivor Broadis.
Broadis recalled to the Northern Echo how he was in Italy when news of the Japanese surrender arrived. "Next day we flew hundreds of troops back to England, some of whom hadn't had leave for five years. I was navigator, so I kept passing round notes telling them where we were. It was very emotional when we came over the white cliffs of Dover and you could see all the bonfires down below. I have very fond memories of that."
At the end of the war Broadis was posted to Crosby-on-Eden. "Until after the war I'd never been so far north in my life, I thought I'd need a dog team to get up here," recalled Broadis. When Carlisle United heard how close he was, when he was just 23, they offered him the player/manager's position in August 1946. Broadis is still the youngest man to have been player/manager in the English Football League.
Broadis is the first manager to transfer himself to another club when he sold himself to Sunderland in January 1949. As Broadis told the BBC, "Carlisle got £18,000 for me. It was an incredible amount in those days". Broadis was succeeded as manager by Bill Shankly. Broadis continued to live and train in Carlisle.
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