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Tim Flowers

Personal information
Full name	Timothy David Flowers
Date of birth	(1967-02-03) 3 February 1967 (age 45)
Place of birth	Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Northampton Town (Goalkeeper Coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1984–1986	Wolverhampton Wanderers	63	(0)
1986–1993	Southampton	192	(0)
1987	→ Swindon Town (loan)	7	(0)
1993–1999	Blackburn Rovers	177	(0)
1999–2003	Leicester City	54	(0)
2001	→ Stockport County (loan)	4	(0)
2002	→ Coventry City (loan)	5	(0)
2002	→ Manchester City (loan)	0	(0)
Total		500	(0)
National team
1987	England U21	3	(0)
1993–1998	England	11	(0)
Teams managed
2007–2008	Coventry City (assistant manager)
2008	Queens Park Rangers (assistant manager)
2010	Hull City (assistant manager)
2010–2011	Stafford Rangers
2011	Northampton Town (caretaker)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Timothy David "Tim" Flowers (born 3 February 1967) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper from 1984 until 2003. He is currently employed as a goalkeeper coach at Football League Two side Northampton Town.

As a player he was notably part of the Blackburn Rovers side that won the Premier League in 1995 and earnt 11 caps for England. He also played for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Southampton, Swindon Town, Leicester City, Stockport County, Coventry City and Manchester City.

Club career[link]

Wolverhampton Wanderers[link]

Flowers was born in Kenilworth and began his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1984. He quickly broke into the first team, becoming their regular goalkeeper by his 18th birthday, but his breakthrough came at the bleakest time in the club's history, as the two seasons he spent there both ended in relegation (in 1984–85 to the Third Division and in 1985–86 to the Fourth. After Wolves fell into the Fourth Division to complete a hat-trick of successive relegations, they had to sell Flowers as part of the effort to avoid bankruptcy.

Southampton[link]

He joined First Division club Southampton for £70,000. He was understudy to Peter Shilton in 1986–87, but managed nine league appearances (the first in a 5–1 defeat to Manchester United in mid September) and also played a further nine games on loan to Swindon Town in the Third Division. He made another nine league appearances in 1987–88 (by which time Shilton had joined Derby County) and returned to Swindon for a five-match loan spell, before becoming Southampton's regular goalkeeper in the 1989–90 season. Within a couple of years of becoming Southampton's first choice goalkeeper, Flowers was regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the English league and inevitable rumours of a transfer to a bigger club began.^[1]

Blackburn Rovers[link]

He finally left Southampton on 4 November 1993 when a £2.4million move to Blackburn Rovers made him the most expensive goalkeeper in Britain. His excellent goalkeeping wasn't quite enough to win Blackburn the Premier League title that season, but they did finish second to Manchester United, and went one better the following year when they won their first top division title since 1914. He remained at Ewood Park for another four seasons before Blackburn were relegated in 1999.

Leicester City[link]

He was transferred to Leicester City, where he collected a Football League Cup winner's medal in his first season. He stayed with them for one season after their relegation to Division One two years later before retiring as a player. His final appearance for Leicester City was against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux in May 2003. It was the final game of the season, and with Leicester 1–0 down, Flowers came on as a late substitute. Leicester were awarded a late penalty, and despite shouts from the travelling Leicester fans for Flowers to take the penalty, and Flowers himself signalling to the bench, Micky Adams (then Leicester manager) ignored the fans, and allowed Trevor Benjamin to take it, who scored. It seemed harsh on Flowers, as Leicester were already promoted to the Premiership, and he could have ended his career with his only goal.

International career[link]

Flowers also won 11 caps with England between 1993 and 1998. He was in the squads for both Euro 96 in England and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France.^[2] He retired following the 2002–03 season.

Management & career[link]

Following a spell as goalkeeper coach for both Leicester City and Manchester City, on 19 February 2007 he was appointed as assistant manager to Iain Dowie at Coventry City. Flowers left Coventry on 11 February 2008 after Dowie was sacked, before joining him again at Queens Park Rangers. He left the assistant manager's role at QPR as well after Dowie was sacked again.

In February 2010, he was appointed part-time goalkeeper coach at Northampton Town,^[3] as well as mentoring Dean Coleman and Yasbir Singh at Kidderminster Harriers.^[4]

On 17 March 2010, he re-joined Dowie when he was appointed as assistant manager at Premiership club, Hull City.^[5]

On 14 October he was appointed manager of Conference North team Stafford Rangers.^[6]

Flowers resigned on 11 January 2011 after just nine games in charge.^[7] He was appointed caretaker manager of Northampton Town on 22 November 2011 replacing previous caretaker manager David Lee whose only game as caretaker was a 7-2 home defeat to Shrewsbury. Flowers didn't fare much better and only endured one game under his spell, a 4-1 loss, away to bottom club Plymouth Argyle. Before Aidy Boothroyd was appointed manager on a permanent basis. Flowers reverted back to his previous coaching position and currently holds it to this day.

Honours[link]

Southampton

• Full Members Cup finalist: 1992

Blackburn Rovers

• Premier League
  • Champion 1994–95
  • runner-up 1993–94
• FA Charity Shield: runner-up 1994, 1995

Leicester City

• League Cup: winner 2000

England

• Tournoi de France 1997: winner
• Umbro Cup 1995: runner-up
• 1998 King Hassan II International Cup Tournament: runner-up

References[link]

External links[link]

• Tim Flowers career stats at Soccerbase
• Englandstats.com profile

v t e England squad – UEFA Euro 1996 Third Place 1 Seaman 2 G. Neville 3 Pearce 4 Ince 5 Adams (c) 6 Southgate 7 Platt 8 Gascoigne 9 Shearer 10 Sheringham 11 Anderton 12 Howey 13 Flowers 14 Barmby 15 Redknapp 16 Campbell 17 McManaman 18 Ferdinand 19 P. Neville 20 Stone 21 Fowler 22 Walker Coach: Venables

v t e England squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Seaman 2 Campbell 3 Le Saux 4 Ince 5 Adams 6 Southgate 7 Beckham 8 Batty 9 Shearer (c) 10 Sheringham 11 McManaman 12 Neville 13 Martyn 14 Anderton 15 Merson 16 Scholes 17 Lee 18 Keown 19 L. Ferdinand 20 Owen 21 R. Ferdinand 22 Flowers Coach: Hoddle

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Jeffrey Jude "Jeff" Kenna (born 27 August 1970) is an Irish football manager and former player who played as a defender from 1989 until 2009 notably in the Premier League for Southampton and Blackburn Rovers.

He also played for Tranmere Rovers, Wigan Athletic, Birmingham City, Derby County and Kidderminster Harriers. He then went on to manage Galway United and St Patrick's Athletic whilst also being a player. In 2011 he joined the coaching staff of the IMG Soccer Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

Playing career[link]

Kenna was born in Dublin, but began his club career in England, beginning at Southampton in 1988. He made his debut on 4 May 1991 in a 6–2 league defeat by Derby County at the Baseball Ground. He became a first team regular in the 1992–93 season and remained a fixture in the first team until 15 March 1995, when he moved to Blackburn Rovers for a fee of £1.5 million,[1] playing a part in the run-in to the club's Premier League title that year.

He had played 114 league matches for the Saints, scoring four goals.

He was a regular in the Blackburn team until the 1999–2000 season, after Blackburn had been relegated to Division One. He made his final six appearances for Rovers in the 2000–01 season. During that campaign he had loan spells with Tranmere Rovers and Wigan Athletic, before finally exiting Ewood Park after nearly seven years to join Birmingham City on a free transfer on 24 December 2001.[2]

Kenna scored three goals for Birmingham City after their promotion to the Premier League as Division One playoff winners at the end of the 2001–02 season – their first top division campaign in nearly 20 years.

He joined Derby County on a free transfer in March 2004, and was appointed club captain 2005, but was released at the end of the season in May 2006. In August 2006 he sealed a move to Kidderminster Harriers in the Conference National. Along with Steve Guppy, he became the first player to play at both Wembley stadiums, having played twice at the old ground, when he played for Kidderminster in their defeat to Stevenage in the FA Trophy Final 2007.

Management career[link]

Kenna was named Galway United manager (taking over from his former Republic of Ireland U21 international team-mate Tony Cousins) in a press conference on 21 April 2008.^[1] He lost his first match in charge 3–2 versus Bray Wanderers.^[2]

At the time taking over at United, the club were bottom of the table and haemorrhaging money. Due to league financial regulations a lot of the senior players were sold onto other clubs to ensure that the clubs salary expenditure fell within league requirements. On 15 July 2008, Kenna officially (albeit somewhat reluctantly) became player-manager at Galway United.^[3]

Galway were forced to rely on a lot of young inexperienced players, but as the season drew to a climax Kenna engendered a real team spirit in the side to the extent that over the last seven games United collected five wins, a draw and one loss. This enabled Galway to garner seventeen crucial points and narrowly avoid relegation to the First Division, pipping Finn Harps by a single point.[3]. A wonderful feather in the cap of this fledgeling manager (he had also led the club to the last four of both the League Cup and the FAI Cup), Kenna was understood to be contracted for another season with Galway but decided to quit during the winter period.

He took the position of St. Patricks' Athletic manager on 15 January 2009. His first competitive match was a 3–0 home defeat at the hands of his previous club whose new manager, Ian Foster, had been Kenna's assistant the season before. Indifferent league form (which included two more defeats at the hands of Galway) combined with the fact that he was commuting between Dublin and the UK saw Kenna come under pressure from the St. Pat's fans quite quickly, but a run to the Fourth Qualifying Round of the Europa League (which included a victory over Russian side Krylia Sovetov) appeared to have weathered the storm.

However, a 2–0 loss at home to First Division Waterford United in the quarter final of the FAI Cup ultimately led to Kenna's resignation as St. Patrick's Athletic manager on 18 September 2009.

On 1 August 2011, Kenna joined the coaching staff at the IMG Academy of Soccer in Bradenton, Florida.^[4]

Family[link]

Kenna is the brother of heavyweight boxer Colin Kenna and second cousin of football manager Pat Scully. His father Liam is a former Irish snooker international. Since his days at Birmingham City Kenna's family had been settled in the West Midlands and he commuted to Ireland for training activities.

Honours[link]

Southampton

• Full Members Cup finalist: 1992

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jeff Kenna career stats at Soccerbase
• Republic of Ireland profile

Stuart Edward Ripley (born 20 November 1967) is a former English professional footballer, who played as a winger from 1985 until 2002, notably for Blackburn Rovers where he won the Premier League in 1995.

He also played in England's top flight for Southampton as well as playing in the Football League for Middlesbrough, Bolton Wanderers, Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday. He earned two national caps for England.

Club career[link]

Middlesbrough[link]

Ripley first made his name with Middlesbrough in the late 1980s, before achieving success in a £1.3 million move to Blackburn Rovers, helping them to the league title in the 1994-95 season and becoming a cult hero. In the 1991-1992 season he helped Middlesbrough achieve promotion to the newly founded Premier League, as well as playing an important role in Middlesbrough getting through to the League Cup semi-final (then known as the Rumbelows Cup). They also reached the fifth round of the FA Cup losing in a replay to Portsmouth.

Blackburn Rovers[link]

During the summer of 1992, Ripley was signed by Blackburn Rovers who had achieved promotion along with Boro. He was briefly their record signing until later in July they signed Alan Shearer for £3.3million.^[1] On his debut for Blackburn, he scored the club's first Premier League goal, opening their scoring a 3-3 draw with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.^[2]

Southampton[link]

In 1998, aged almost 31, he moved to Southampton teaming up with legendary Matthew Le Tissier, and retiring four years later. He scored one goal for Southampton against Derby County on 4 October 1999.^[3] He also served loan spells at Barnsley (twice^[4]) - scoring in his debut, a 1-2 home loss to former side Blackburn^[5] - and Sheffield Wednesday, where he scored once against Crystal Palace.^[6]

International career[link]

He was capped twice by England as a full international; once in 1993 and again in 1997.

Personal life[link]

After finishing his playing career, having been capped twice by England whilst at Blackburn, Ripley set up the Castleford Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic, providing physiotherapy to nearby rugby league teams, as well as local football teams.^{[citation needed]}

He graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in 2007, with a first class combined honours degree in Law and French.^[7]

His son, Connor Ripley, is a goalkeeper and plays for Middlesbrough.^[8]

In 2010 Ripley became a qualified solicitor.^[9]

Honours[link]

• Middlesbrough:
  • Zenith Data Systems Cup: Runner-up 1989-90

• Blackburn Rovers:
  • Premier League: 1994–95

References[link]

External links[link]

• Stuart Ripley career stats at Soccerbase
• Middlesbrough archives
• THE LIST: 50-41 of football's greatest wing wizards

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Tim Janis is an American composer^[1] with 10 Billboard charting CDs, over one million albums sold, four National Public Television Specials, and a constant touring presence.

Career[link]

Janis has worked with some of the top artists in the music and entertainment business including Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Ray Charles, George Clooney and James Earl Jones. He has also conducted the Czech National Symphony, the Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

Selected discography[link]

• Ghost Town (1992)
• Along the Shore of Acadia (1996)
• Etain (1996)
• Christmas (1999)
• December Morning (1999)
• Flowers in October (1999)
• Water's Edge (2000)
• American Composer in Concert (2001)
• Thousand Summers (2002)
• Flowers in October [bonus DVD] (2003)
• Across Two Oceans (2003)^[2]
• Beautiful America (2003)^[2]
• American Horizons (2005)
• Christmas Piano Collection (2005)
• Simple Gift of Christmas (2003)
• Coming Home (2005)
• Promise (2005)
• Winter's Eve (2005)
• Coastal America (2006)
• Quiet Shore (2006)
• Wondrous Christmas (2006)
• The American Christmas Carol (2006)
• Gifts of the Heart (2007)
• An Enchanted Evening (2008)
• Celebrate America (2009)
• The Journey Home (2010)

Public Television Specials[link]

• Tim Janis: An American Composer in Concert (2002)
• Tim Janis: Beautiful America (narrated by George Clooney) (2004)
• Tim Janis: Coastal America (narrated by George Clooney) (2006)
• Tim Janis: The American Christmas Carol (narrated by James Earl Jones) (2006)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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Art Crews is a retired American professional wrestler who competed in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance, particularly the Central States, Mid-South and Pacific Northwest territories, during the 1980s.

In Shawn Michaels' autobiography Heartbreak & Triumph, Michaels explains that Art Crews was the very first person he wrestled in his career, making him the very first person to defeat Michaels.

Career[link]

Early life and career[link]

Born in Topeka, Kansas and grew up in Meriden, Kansas, he was a fan of professional wrestling as a child often attending wrestling events in Saint Joseph, Missouri with his mother Billie Crews. Trained by Pat O'Connor and Ronnie Etchison, Crews made his debut in 1980 fighting Billy Howard to a time limit draw at the Kansas City Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas.^[1]

After spending almost two years in the Southeast, he began competing for Pacific Northwest Wrestling defeating Chris Colt at the Sports Arena in Portland, Oregon on September 5, 1981 and was later named the PNW "Rookie of the Year" by the end of the year. He appeared in Maple Leaf Wrestling teaming with Kenny Jay against Jerry and Johnny Valiant at the Oshawa Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, Ontario pinning Johnny Valiant on October 1, 1981 due in part to outside interference from the Rougeau Brothers.

Feuding with Dizzy Hogan in January 1982, he also lost several matches against Matt Borne, "Playboy" Buddy Rose, Billy White Wolf and fought to a draw against Stan Stasiak later that month.

Losing to Gene Kiniski on February 3, he later defeated Tiger Chung Lee and Terry Fargo. Hogan, however, dominated their feud during mid-February but finally lost to him on February 27, 1982.

Mid-South Wrestling and Central States[link]

Moving on to the St. Louis area, Crews teamed with "Bulldog" Bob Brown to defeat Gene Lewis and Ron MacFarlane at the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri on April 16, 1982. Facing Dewey Robertson in a series of matches during the year,^[2] he also faced Baron von Raschke, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, Terry Funk and Kerry von Erich in televised matches on the Mid-South's "Wrestling at the Chase" television program. WRESTLING AT THE CHASE, was St. Louis' TV program.

Facing "Dr. Death" Steve Williams and Kamala in January 1983, he also teamed with Tim Horner against Marty Lune and Tom Renesto and with Mr. Wrestling II against Tug Taylor and Joe Stark. The following month, he faced "Iron" Mike Sharpe and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan in several singles matches, as well as teaming with Tim Horner against Kelly Kiniski. Feuding with Kamala & The Black Ninja and later Mr. Olympia, Crews also appeared on the Superdome Extravaganza supercards defeating Kelly Kiniski on April 16^[3] and later lost to George Weingroff on July 16.^[4]

Although losing to Steve Williams on August 12, he defeated Doug Vines and Tim Horner later that month. After losses to George Weingroff, Jim Neidhart and Nikolai Volkoff, he teamed with Donna Day in a mixed tag team match against Debbie Combs and "Wildfire" Tommy Rich on September 22.

He also teamed with Mike Bond against The Missing Link and King Kong Bundy and later with Tom Stanton against George Weingroff and King Cobra during October. He later teamed with Doug Vines losing to Jerry and Marty Oates on November 4 and, with US Steel, losing to The A-Team on November 21.

Teaming with Robert Gibson, Bobby Eaton, Stagger Lee and Giant Frazier in a 10-man tag team match, Crews lost to The A-Team, The Moondogs and Dennis Condrey on November 28. However, teaming with Robert Gibson, Bobby Eaton, Stagger Lee, Terry Taylor and Tom Pritchard, Crews was able to defeat The A-Team, The Moondogs, Dream Machine and Porkchop Cash on December 5 and, with Ricky Morton, Bobby Eaton and The Jaguar, defeated The Moondogs, Angelo Poffo and Franklin Hayes on December 19, 1983.^[5]

In early 1984, Crews teamed with The Jaguar losing to Norvell Austin and Sabu on January 1. A week later, he fought to a draw against Terry Gibbs and lost to King Konga on January 24. He also teamed with Dutch Mantel against Angelo Poffo and Randy Savage losing to them by disqualification on January 31.

The following month, he lost to Rick Rude and, with Tommy Gilbert, to The A-Team before defeating The Black Ninja on February 28. He also participated in the Mid-South Wrestling Southern Tag Team Championship Tournament with Tom Jones being eliminated by Tommy Rich and Eddie Gilbert in the opening rounds in Memphis, Tennessee on March 26.^[6] After losses to Ox Baker and Jim Neidhart in early April, he left the area.^[7]

While in NWA Central States, Crews won the then vacant Central States TV title in a championship tournament defeating Scott Ferris in the first round, Marty Jannetty in the semi-finals and "Crazy" Luke Graham in the finals on May 24, 1984.

Returning to the Mid-South area to face Terry Taylor on August 16, he also teamed with Randy Barber against The Fantastics on August 23 and with Rick McCord against the Road Warriors August 30 before facing Magnum T.A. on September 21. In one of his last televised appearances with the promotion, Crews teamed with Lee Ramsey against Chavo & Hector Guerrero on November 16, 1984.

Although the title became vacant several weeks later, Crew regained the title on August 21 and feuded with the Man Eating Beast over the title^[8] before losing it to Gypsy Joe on September 2. Managed by Slick, Crews teamed with "Diamond" Timothy Flowers as Arthur W. Crews facing Rufus Jones and Butch Reed and The Midnight Rockers in several matches^[9] before Slick left for the World Wrestling Federation.^[10]

While touring South Africa with Flowers during 1985, the two nearly incited a riot in front of an estimated 20,000 crowd in Johannesburg after defeating two local South African wrestlers when both Crews and Flowers tore apart the South African flag carried by their opponents. Having to be escorted by police officers, Crews was stabbed in the lower back by an unknown fan while making their way to the dressing room. The wound was not serious however and Crews continued to wrestling on the tour.^[11]

After splitting up with Flowers, he defeated T.G. Stone, Dusty Wolfe in early 1985 and fought to a time limit draw with Roger Kirby on February 7. Winning a 6-man battle royal on February 14, he later defeated Roger Kirby in a rematch and teamed with Mike George against Super Destroyer^{[disambiguation needed ]} and Mr. Pogo on March 14.

Later that year, Crews defeated Gary Royal for the NWA Central States Television title on November 18, 1985 successfully defending the title until leaving the promotion in January 1986.^[12]

Later career[link]

Returning to the Portland-area during the next two years, he later defeated Brett Sawyer at the Tulsa Convention Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on August 17^[13] and later made an appearance on the UWF's Superdome Extravaganza supercard with a loss to Jeff Gaylord in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 27, 1986.^[14]

The following year, he toured with All Japan Pro Wrestling teaming with El Olympico against Jumbo Tsuruta and Genichiro Tenryu on February 20 and Hiroshi Wajima on February 24 before teaming with Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy against Jumbo Tsuruta and Genichiro Tenryu on March 7, 1987.

Law Enforcement Career[link]

In late 1987, Crews began cutting back his wrestling schedule in favor of pursuing a career in law enforcement and corrections and eventually retired in 1989. Attending trade school in Portland, Oregon, he was hired as a correctional officer by the Oregon State Corrections Department to teach self defense techniques and compliance holds to other officers.

Graduating from LaSalle University with a degree in Criminal Justice Management, he briefly worked for at a private correctional facility in Louisiana and, during his 13 year career, eventually worked his way up from an instructor and correctional officer to managerial positions as a prison administrator and executive manager. In 2001, he became Chief of Security at the Yakima Department of Corrections in Yakima, Washington, where he supervised 184 employees.^[15][16] He then became the warden of Coastal Bend Dentention Center in Texas and manages nearly 500 employees and 2500 inmates until his resignation in August 2009.

January 4, 2010 Crews started a new position as Jail Captain with the Chippewa County Sheriff's Department in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. ^[17]

Championships and accomplishments[link]

• Central States Wrestling
  • NWA Central States Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Timothy Flowers (disputed)^[18]
  • NWA Central States Television Championship (2 times)^[19]

Media[link]

• Best of UWF Mid-South (1985-1986). Perf. Art Crews. DVD. RF Video, 2006.
• Classic St. Louis Wrestling. Perf. Art Crews. DVD. RF Video, 2005.
• Wrestling's Greatest Matches, Vol. 21. Perf. Art Crews. VHS. Coliseum Video, 1994.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile at Online World of Wrestling
• Inactive Superstars - Art Crews
• Art Crews at the WrestleWiki