Glen Wilson was manager of Exeter City between June 1960 and April 1962 as the club found itself a regular member of Division Four during the first six years of the new league’s existence. Arriving as player-manager after a long playing career with Brighton and Hove Albion, he spent two disappointing seasons at the St James’ Park helm and did not manage again save for a brief spell as a caretaker manager of Brighton a decade later. 

Hailing from County Durham, and born within a few miles of the Tyne, he started his career as a reserve for Newcastle United before moving to Brighton as a twenty-year-old in 1949 where he was to make 409 league appearances over the next eleven seasons. 

Then, a few days short of his 31st birthday, the aspiring young manager arrived at St James’ Park in June 1960 where he was to combine the role of both player and manager. Fresh in the wake of Frank Broome, who had accepted a better-paid job with Southend United, City had paid £5,000 for Glen Wilson’s services and he picked himself on 25 occasions in 1960/61 when City finished a lowly 21st in Division Four necessitating an application for re-election. Ceasing to make appearances beyond October 1961, concentration on the management role alone only brought about modest improvement as the Grecians climbed to 18th in his second season. 

With City once again going through a period of financial struggle, Glen Wilson left the club in April 1962 and returned to the Sussex coast where he ran a pub before joining the coaching staff at the Goldstone Ground where he was briefly caretaker manager in 1973.

Continuing to be employed by his old club in various capacities until 1986, he died in Brighton aged seventy-six in 2005.