Editing Stanley Matthews (section)

==Coaching and management career==
Matthews was appointed general manager at Stoke's [[Potteries derby|rivals]] [[Port Vale F.C.|Port Vale]] in July 1965, alongside good friend [[Jackie Mudie]]; Matthews was unpaid, though was given expenses.<ref>{{harvnb|Matthews|2000|p=549}}</ref> The pair had a plan of bringing through talented schoolboys and selling one or two off every so often to improve the club's bleak financial picture whilst at the same time advancing through the leagues; in his autobiography he said that what [[Dario Gradi]] later achieved at [[Crewe Alexandra F.C.|Crewe Alexandra]] is what he had in mind for the Vale.<ref name="page 551–53">{{harvnb|Matthews|2000|pp=551–53}}</ref> Matthews concentrated his search in [[North East England]] and [[Centre of Scotland|Central Scotland]], where he discovered talented striker [[Mick Cullerton]], though overlooked a teenage [[Ray Kennedy]].<ref name="page 551–53"/>
[[File:Sir Stanley Matthews Port Vale Manager.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Matthews as Port Vale manager with youth players]]

Following Mudie's resignation in May 1967, Handed complete managerial control, Matthews could not guide the club to success. Instead, Port Vale were fined £4,000 in February/March 1968 and expelled from the Football League for financial irregularities.<ref name="Kent"/> He was forced to use his name to plead with the other Football League clubs to re-elect the Vale, which they duly did.<ref name="page 555">{{harvnb|Matthews|2000|p=555}}</ref> He stood down as manager in May 1968 and, despite being owed £9,000 in salary and expenses, agreed to stay at [[Vale Park]] to continue his work with the [[Youth system|youth team]]. A "final settlement" was reached in December 1970, and Matthews was given £3,300, with the other £7,000 he was owed to be written off.<ref name="Kent">{{cite book |last=Kent |first=Jeff |title=Port Vale Personalities|publisher=Witan Books|page=187|year=1996|isbn=0-9529152-0-0}}</ref> Player [[Roy Sproson]] later said that "he [Matthews] trusted people who should never have been trusted and people took advantage of him. I am convinced a lot of people sponged off him and, all the while, the club were sliding."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sprosonfund.com/Stories/meetthemanagers.html|title=Meet the Managers|last=Harper|first=Chris|date=17 February 1975 |work=The Sentinel|access-date=23 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119233137/http://www.sprosonfund.com/Stories/meetthemanagers.html|archive-date=19 November 2008}}</ref> The experience "left a sour taste" in his mouth, and was enough to convince him never to try his hand as management in English football again.<ref name="page 555"/>

Matthews gave up his summers every year between 1953 and 1978 to coach poor children in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania.<ref>{{harvnb|Matthews|2000|p=558}}</ref> In South Africa in 1975, he ignored [[apartheid]] to form a team of black schoolboys in [[Soweto]] called "Stan's Men".<ref name="whiteface">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/stoke/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8775000/8775869.stm|title=Stanley Matthews' football legacy in South Africa|date=30 June 2010|work=BBC|access-date=6 September 2011|archive-date=19 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119163500/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/stoke/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8775000/8775869.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> The members of his team told him that it was their dream to play in Brazil, so Matthews organised a trip there; they were the first black team ever to tour outside of South Africa.<ref name="page 566–68">{{harvnb|Matthews|2000|pp=566–68}}</ref> He did not have the money to fund the trip himself, though used his connections (for the only time other than when he used them to save Port Vale in 1968) to arrange sponsorship from [[Coca-Cola]] and the ''[[Johannesburg Sunday Times]]'' newspaper.<ref name="page 566–68"/> The South African authorities did not want to cause an international incident, so did not prevent Stan's Men from getting on the plane to [[Rio de Janeiro]], where they would meet legendary player [[Zico (footballer)|Zico]].<ref name="page 566–68"/> On the way back from the trip, the Stan's Men captain Gilbert Moiloa called Matthews "black man with the white face".<ref name="page 566–68"/> In a 2017 documentary film on his life, ''[[Matthews (film)|Matthews]]'', the film crew traveled to Soweto to interview Stan's Men about their memories with Matthews.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Broadbent|first=Rick|title=Matthews: The Original No 7 — the story of when Sir Stanley took on apartheid|newspaper=[[The Times]]|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/matthews-the-original-no-7-the-story-of-when-sir-stanley-took-on-apartheid-zxhrjc00h|access-date=15 March 2021|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=19 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119163458/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/matthews-the-original-no-7-the-story-of-when-sir-stanley-took-on-apartheid-zxhrjc00h|url-status=live}}</ref>

He played his final game of football for an England Veterans XI against a Brazil Veterans XI in Brazil in 1985 at the age of 70; the English lost 6–1 to the likes of [[Amarildo Tavares da Silveira|Amarildo]], [[Tostão]], and [[Jairzinho]].<ref>{{harvnb|Matthews|2000|p=575}}</ref> He damaged his [[cartilage]] during the match: "a promising career cut tragically short", he wrote in his autobiography.<ref>{{harvnb|Matthews|2000|p=2}}</ref>