Thomas Henderson Docherty (24 April 1928 – 31 December 2020), commonly known as The Doc, was a Scottish football player and manager.

Docherty played for several clubs, most notably Preston North End, and represented Scotland 25 times between 1951 and 1959.

[8] He was part of the Scotland squads that played at the 1954 and 1958 FIFA World Cup finals which were held in Switzerland and Sweden, respectively.

Less than twelve months later, upon Ted Drake's departure and with the club facing relegation from the top flight, Docherty took over as manager.

[9] During his first year in charge he sold many of the club's older players and brought in new ones such as Terry Venables, Bobby Tambling, Peter Bonetti and Barry Bridges.

The team, nicknamed "Docherty's Diamonds", achieved promotion back to Division One in their first attempt and finished fifth the following year.

'"[11] He was then appointed manager at Queens Park Rangers, only to leave 29 days later after arguing with the club chairman over transfer policy.

[16] He left the job a month later and was succeeded by Willie Ormond, who secured qualification for the World Cup by winning a home match against Czechoslovakia in September 1973.

Docherty led United to the FA Cup final again in 1977, this time as underdogs, and beat league champions Liverpool 2–1.

[6][15][17] Shortly afterwards news that Docherty was having an extramarital affair with the wife of a United physiotherapist, Mary Brown, became public.

He was sacked in a blaze of publicity in July 1977 and replaced at Old Trafford by Dave Sexton, the same man who had followed him into the manager's office at Chelsea.

[13] When he took over at Loftus Road, Rangers had been relegated to the Second Division (three years after almost winning the league title) and he had to lift the team's spirits to start the new season.

[29][30] "Tommy Docherty came in as manager and he knew I didn't want to be around to see the club in such dire straits", commented Hibbitt when interviewed on his thoughts on leaving Wolves.

[31] Docherty would also have problems leading into the season with first choice goalkeeper John Burridge, who was making demands of the club but instead of meeting these, Docherty promoted 17 year academy player Tim Flowers into goal, where he remained for the season with Burridge also leaving the club.

[34] Wolves were misfiring but despite this, Docherty allowed defender Geoff Palmer, having played 394 times for the club, to move to Burnley.

Pressure was mounting in January 1985 and former fan favourite and now Chairman Derek Dougan eventually resigned from his position on the board.

Docherty's final game at home was against Huddersfield Town, where Wolves secured just their eighth victory of the season in front of only 4,422 fans.

[40] Docherty married his first wife, Agnes, in December 1949, after he left his native Scotland to sign for Preston North End.

[17] Docherty and Agnes had four children together: Mick (himself a former professional footballer and manager), Thomas Jr., Catherine and Peter.

[42] In 2008, Tommy Docherty Jr. released a book, Married to a Man of Two Halves, which was based on memoirs and newspaper cuttings which he had discovered when clearing out his mother's house after her death.