Glanford was, from 1974 to 1996, a local government district with borough status in the non-metropolitan county of Humberside, England.

The district was created on 1 April 1974 as part of a general reform of local government in England and Wales under the Local Government Act 1972. Among the innovations of the 1974 reorganisation was the creation of a new county of Humberside uniting areas of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire previously divided by the River Humber. Glanford was one of nine districts into which Humberside was divided.

Glanford was formed by merging three districts, previously part of the administrative county of Lincolnshire - Parts of Lindsey: Barton-upon-Humber urban district, Brigg urban district and Glanford Brigg Rural District. The borough was bounded by Cleethorpes to the east, Lincolnshire to the south, Boothferry to the west, and had a shore on the River Humber to the north. It entirely surrounded the Borough of Scunthorpe.

Following a review by the Local Government Commission for England, both the County of Humberside and Borough of Glanford were abolished on 1 April 1996. Four unitary authorities replaced both the county council and nine district councils, and Glanford was merged with the Borough of Scunthorpe and part of the Borough of Boothferry to form the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire.

Brian Laws (born 20 March 1960) is an English former footballer and manager, most recently of Burnley.

Playing as a defender, Laws made over 100 appearances for each of Burnley, Middlesbrough, and Nottingham Forest. In 1994, Laws became player-manager of Grimsby Town before taking a similar position with Scunthorpe United in 1997. For the next nine years, Laws served as manager of Scunthorpe, guiding them to promotion twice. In 2006, he accepted the managerial role at Sheffield Wednesday, lasting three years in the job during which time Burnley approached him for their managers job when Steve Cotterill left, but were put off by the compensation demanded by Wednesday. Wednesday later struggled with financial problems and he was sacked in December 2009 after a poor run of results.

After only a brief spell out of the game, Burnley appointed Laws as their manager, giving him his first chance to manage in the Premier League after Owen Coyle left the club for Bolton in January 2010 and took the entire management team with him. He was sacked by the club in December that year.

Matthew Ronald "Matt" Sparrow (born 3 October 1981 in Wembley, London) is an English footballer currently contracted to Football League Championship side Brighton & Hove Albion. Sparrow previously spent 11 years at Scunthorpe United before leaving in June 2010.

Sparrow spent 11 years of his professional career at Scunthorpe United, playing in the bottom three tiers of league football for them. He formally signed for the club as a 16-year-old and played in the FA Youth Alliance final for Scunthorpe at the old Wembley stadium against West Bromwich Albion.

After spending several months in prison in 2001, he became a regular in the Scunthorpe first team.

In August 2007, he was offered a new three-year contract with the club.

Sparrow scored the opening goal in the 2008/09 League One Play-Off Final at Wembley Stadium against Millwall which lead them to a 3-2 victory to clinch promotion to the Coca-Cola Championship.

On 24 June 2010 is was reported that Sparrow had turned down a new contract offer and was looking elsewhere to continue his career.