Malcolm Manley

{{short description|Scottish footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Malcolm Manley

| image =

| caption =

| fullname = Malcolm Richardson Manley

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1949|12|01}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2020|08|16|1949|12|01}}

| birth_place = Johnstone, Scotland

| height =

| position = Centre back

| youthyears1 = 1964–1966

| youthclubs1 = Johnstone Burgh

| years1 = 1966–1973

| years2 = 1973–1974

| years3 = 1977

| clubs1 = Leicester

| clubs2 = Portsmouth

| clubs3 = South Melbourne

| caps1 = 120

| caps2 = 11

| caps3 = 2

| goals1 = 5

| goals2 = 0

| goals3 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 1964

| nationalteam1 = Scotland Schoolboys

| nationalcaps1 = 3

| nationalgoals1 =

}}

Malcolm Manley (1 December 1949 - 16 August 2020), was a footballer.

Manley gained Schoolboy international honours for Scotland before joining his hometown club Johnstone Burgh. Here he quickly caught the eye of scouts south of the border and he signed for Leicester City F.C.[http://www.ynw62.dial.pipex.com/leiceste.htm Photo during Leicester days] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218000603/http://www.ynw62.dial.pipex.com/leiceste.htm |date=18 December 2007 }} in January 1967."The PFA Premier League and Football League Players' Records 1946-98" Hugman,B: Harpenden, Queen Anne Press, 1998 {{ISBN|1-85291-585-4}} The highlights of his time at Filbert Street included being substitute in the 1969 FA Cup final side {{cite web| url=https://www.sportingchronicle.com/FACUP/1969.html| title=Match details}} and a 1971 Second division Championship winners Medal. He also played as a substitute when Leicester won the 1971 FA Charity Shield.{{cite news |url=http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1971-72CharityShield.htm |title=1971/72 Charity Shield |website=footballsite.co.uk |accessdate=23 March 2020}} In December 1973, Manley signed for Portsmouth[http://www.mirrorprintstore.co.uk/pictures_66301/Portsmouth-Football-Malcolm-Manley-1974.html In his brief spell at Pompey] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120911030907/http://www.mirrorprintstore.co.uk/pictures_66301/Portsmouth-Football-Malcolm-Manley-1974.html |date=11 September 2012 }} with funds made available by ambitious new chairman John Deacon."Portsmouth, from Tindall to Ball" Farmery, C: Southend-on-Sea, Desert Island Books, 1999 {{ISBN|1-874287-25-2}} Manager John Mortimore planned a rock-like central partnership between the Scotsman and fellow new signing Paul Went which briefly materialised[http://pompeyglory.users.btopenworld.com/players/ManleyM.htm Short but effective partnership with Went] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708102314/http://pompeyglory.users.btopenworld.com/players/ManleyM.htm |date=8 July 2011 }} before he severed a cartilage in only his 11th game for the Fratton Park club, never to play professionally again.