Post-retirement
After retiring as a player, Wilshaw stayed with Stoke City as a scout and also became a qualified FA coach and sports psychologist.
He also took up his old career as a schoolteacher and eventually became head of a school in his native Stoke. Later he joined the Social and Community Studies department at Crewe and Alsager College of Education.
He died in Stoke-on-Trent on 10 May 2004, at the age of 78, after suffering a heart attack.
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