LONDON: Former England inside forward Ivor Broadis has died at 96. Broadis scored eight goals in 14 games for England between 1951 and the 1954 World Cup finals in Switzerland.

His club career was built on spells with Carlisle United, Sunderland, Newcastle United, Manchester City and Queen o’ the South.

Posted to RAF Crosby-on-Eden after World War Two, Broadis signed for Carlisle in 1946.

Although he was only 23 years old, he was was offered the player-manager job and remains the youngest man to have held such a position in the English Football League.

Later Broadis worked as a football reporter in the city after his retirement and had been England’s oldest surviving international footballer.

Last year he was made a freeman of the city.

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