Title > President of TeamBath FC and Assistant Coach Date and Place of Birth > 1916, South Wales Athletes Coached > TeamBath Football Club Biography > Ivor was the seventh son of a seventh son, he started his working life down the mines and was spotted by Queen’s Park Rangers playing for South Wales League side Bargoed aged 17. Worked as an RAF physical trainer during the Second World War when he struck up a...
Her Majesty the Queen presented Ivor Powell, the world's oldest working football coach, with his MBE at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday (Wednesday). Ivor was awarded the MBE in the 2008 New Year's Honours List and received it just a few days short of his 92nd birthday. He said: "I was honoured to receive the MBE from the Queen. It made me proud and gave me a great deal of pleasure. Professor Glynis Breakwell,...
