{{short description|Barbadian footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Wingrove Manners |image = |image_size = |caption = |fullname = Wingrove Austin Manners<ref name = "Hugman"/> |birth_date = {{birth date|1955|3|7|df=y}} |birth_place = Barbados |death_date = {{death date and age|2014|4|22|1955|3|7|df=y}} |death_place = Leeds, England |height = |position = Forward |youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = Bradford City |years1 = 1972–1973 |clubs1 = Bradford City |caps1 = 1 |goals1 = 0 |totalcaps = |totalgoals = }} '''Wingrove Austin Manners''' (7 March 1955 – 22 April 2014)<ref name = "Hugman">{{Hugman|13083|accessdate=22 January 2019}}</ref> was a Barbadian professional footballer who played as a forward.
==Career== Manners joined Bradford City as an apprentice, moving to the first-team in January 1972.<ref name = "F402">Frost, p. 402</ref> He made 1 league appearance for the club.<ref>Frost, p. 385</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/bradfordcity/bradfordcity.html|title=BRADFORD CITY : 1946/47 - 2013/14|accessdate=22 January 2019|publisher=Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database|archive-date=1 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701212702/http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/bradfordcity/bradfordcity.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He was released by the club in February 1973.<ref name = "F402"/>
He later became a racketlon player, winning the Over-45s World Racketlon Tour Scottish Open title in October 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/3719438.manners-duo-keep-it-in-the-family/|title=Manners duo keep it in the family|date=1 October 2008|accessdate=22 January 2019|publisher=Telegraph & Argus|archive-date=23 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123010547/https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/3719438.manners-duo-keep-it-in-the-family/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Sources== *{{cite book|last=Frost|first=Terry|title=Bradford City A Complete Record 1903-1988|publisher=Breedon Books Sport|year=1988|isbn=0-907969-38-0}}
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