Clifford Samuel Britton (29 August 1909 – 1 December 1975) was an English football player and manager.
[3] At first he was deemed too frail and so he was playing in the reserves in the 1931–32 Championship season, but he was one of the stars of Everton's 1933 FA Cup win.
However the Everton squad was of low quality and suffered eleven consecutive defeats in September to November of the 1950–51 season.
The board had also interfered with other decisions, but Britton had also made several mistakes such as dropping and then selling the talismanic Dave Hickson.
"[6] A sub-committee of the board unsuccessfully ran the Everton team for the remainder of the season until Ian Buchan was appointed.
[3] In the next five years, Preston North End flirted with winning the League championship and Britton laid the foundations of a solid youth policy.
[7] Again he relied on youth rather than the transfer market until an injection of cash in 1964 allowed him to bring in new players such as Ken Wagstaff.
He continued to trust the same group of players instead of bringing in new talent and so Hull's challenge for promotion to the First Division faltered.