Arsenal’s earliest quasi-managers: Sam Hollis and Bill Parr

Sam Hollis was not actually Arsenal’s manager but was Woolwich Arsenal’s trainer between 1894 and 1897. He was born in Nottingham in 1866 (exact date not recorded) and died on 17 April 1942 in Bristol where he subsequently spent much of his working life. He had worked for the government in the Probate Office and then …