Sam Ellis (footballer)

Sam Ellis
Personal information
Full name	Samuel Ellis
Date of birth	12 September 1946 (age 77)
Place of birth	Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Position(s)	Centre-half
Senior career*
Years	Team
1964–1972	Sheffield Wednesday
1972–1973	Mansfield Town
1973–1977	Lincoln City
1977–1979	Watford
Total
International career
1968–1969	England U-23
Managerial career
1982–1989	Blackpool
1989–1990	Bury
1994–1995	Lincoln City
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Samuel Ellis (born 12 September 1946) is an English

coach and former player. He was most recently the assistant manager of Middlesbrough. His only honour was guiding Blackpool

to promotion from Division Four to Division Three in 1984–85.

Career

Ellis was born in

Graham Taylor. With Ellis' help, Watford climbed the divisions before turning down a new contract in favour of trying his hand at management. When the Blackpool job was advertised, Ellis applied and was given the job on 1 June 1982.^[2]

Ellis was manager at the seaside for seven years, from 1982 to 1989, with no prior managerial experience, but the new board at

Football League, Ellis managed to turn the side around and gain promotion two years later with only limited funds handed to him. Although he kept the Tangerines in the Third Division, they were unable to make further progress and Ellis' contract was terminated on 28 March 1989,^[2]

with relegation looking a possibility. At the time of his departure, Ellis was the third longest serving Blackpool manager in terms of Football League games in charge.

Ellis then had a brief spell as manager of Bury before moving to Manchester City as Peter Reid's assistant manager. In 1994, he was appointed manager of Lincoln City before returning to Gigg Lane as Stan Ternent's assistant the following year. When Ternent moved to Burnley in 1998, Ellis followed him. After six years at Turf Moor, Ellis became assistant manager to Kevin Blackwell at Leeds United for 2 years. Ellis later worked with Blackwell at Luton Town (after a spell at Stoke City) and Sheffield United.^[3]

On 13 July 2018, he returned to football as the new assistant manager of

David Kemp who had left at the end of the previous season.^[4] After the departure of Tony Pulis, his contract was also not renewed by the club in May 2019.^[5]