{"id":780432,"date":"2026-09-23T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780432\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:08:08","slug":"allan-coleman-wins-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780432\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Coleman wins Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Widnes Vikings head coach Allan Coleman has been voted by his fellow Championship head coaches as the Betfred Championship Coach of the Year.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes following a fifth place finish for the Vikings, alongside his role in a stellar 1895 Cup campaign, which saw us reach the final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On winning this award, Allan Coleman said: \u201cI want to thank everyone at the club, players, staff, board, supporters, for sticking with us, we\u2019ve done it together as a collective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m really chuffed to receive this award, but I\u2019d like to dedicate it to everyone involved in the club, not just me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations, gaffer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings head coach Allan Coleman has been voted by his fellow Championship head coaches as the Betfred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}