Links With The Past: A Kop Legend & Leicester City Manager

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Links With The Past: A Kop Legend & Leicester City Manager

Club Historian John Hutchinson's Links With The Past series continues with a look at the career of Liverpool legend Tom Bromilow, who also managed both Leicester City and Burnley.

2020-09-20T16:04:00.000Z

by John Hutchinson

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20 Sep, 2020

Links With The Past: A Kop Legend & Leicester City Manager

Club Historian John Hutchinson's Links With The Past series continues with a look at the career of Liverpool legend Tom Bromilow, who also managed both Leicester City and Burnley.

John Hutchinson

2020-09-20T16:04:00.000Z

Links With The Past: A Kop Legend & Leicester City Manager

Club Historian John Hutchinson's Links With The Past series continues with a look at the career of Liverpool legend Tom Bromilow, who also managed both Leicester City and Burnley.

John Hutchinson

2020-09-20T16:04:00.000Z

Links With The Past: A Kop Legend & Leicester City Manager

Club Historian John Hutchinson's Links With The Past series continues with a look at the career of Liverpool legend Tom Bromilow, who also managed both Leicester City and Burnley.

John Hutchinson

2020-09-20T16:04:00.000Z

Links With The Past: A Kop Legend & Leicester City Manager

Club Historian John Hutchinson's Links With The Past series continues with a look at the career of Liverpool legend Tom Bromilow, who also managed both Leicester City and Burnley.

John Hutchinson

2020-09-20T16:04:00.000Z

Bromilow managed several clubs. Two of them were Leicester City and this week’s opponents, Burnley. He also made a big impact at Liverpool as a player.

He played 375 games as a cultured left-half for Liverpool between 1919 and 1930. After the First World War, he turned up at Anfield in his army uniform asking for a game.

Tom made an immediate impression, was signed and played 375 games for the Reds, winning two League titles (in 1923 and 1924) and five England caps. He is in the list of ‘100 Players who shook the Kop’.

He became Leicester City’s manager in 1939. Football was suspended three games into his first season due to the outbreak of the Second World War.

However, he stayed on at Filbert Street until May 1945, helping to guide the Club through the turmoil of the War, winning two war time trophies in the process. These are on display in the Directors' Lounge at King Power Stadium.

The Club are privileged to have access to some of Bromilow's memorabilia, courtesy of his grandson, Lee Tracy, including three caps, (see above).

From right to left, they are his cap for his England debut match, which was against Wales at Ninian Park in 1922, his England trial cap from 1921/22 and his senior cap against Scotland at Villa Park in 1922. In those days, the colour of the England caps depended on the opponents.

Three of the seven framed shirt crests carry the Three Lions, and were worn by Bromilow whilst playing for England. The other four were worn whilst representing the Football League in games against the Scottish League in 1920/21 and 1923/4, and against the Irish league in 1924/5 and 1925/26.

The portrait of Bromilow shows him in his England cap and shirt before the game against Wales at Anfield in 1922.

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