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Akpo Sodje
Idoro Akpoeyere Ujoma "Akpo" Sodje (born 31 January 1980) is an English footballer of Nigerian heritage who plays for Tianjin Teda in the Chinese Super League. A journeyman striker, he is usually an instantly recognisable figure on the pitch due to his original – and most of all colourful – hairstyles.
With Queens Park Rangers in 2001, he was loaned out to Stevenage Borough, before beginning a career in non-league football with Margate in 2001. He moved on to Heybridge Swifts via Gravesend & Northfleet the following year, before joining Erith & Belvedere in 2003. He rejoined the Football League with Huddersfield Town in 2004, before joining Darlington the next year, after a successful loan spell. He spent the 2006–07 season with Port Vale, before becoming a Sheffield Wednesday player. He found success and popularity at both clubs, before he joined Charlton Athletic in 2010, after two loan spells. He moved into Scottish football with Hibernian in 2011, before departing in January 2012. Two months later he emigrated to China to sign with Tianjin Teda. He is the first English footballer in the Chinese Super League.

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Alan Ashman
George Alan Ashman (30 May 1928 – 30 November 2002) was an English association footballer, best remembered for some notable managerial successes.
Born in Rotherham, Ashman had an undistinguished amateur playing career with Sheffield United F.C. and Nottingham Forest F.C. during the ad hoc competitions of World War II. In 1951, he signed for Carlisle United F.C. for whom he made 207 appearances, scoring 98 goals. In 1958, suffering from cartilage damage, he retired from playing to manage the poultry farm of Mr Monkhouse, one of the club's directors. As a recreation, he managed amateur team Penrith F.C. and when Third Division Carlisle found themselves in need of a manager in February 1963, Mr Monkhouse offered Ashman the job. During his playing career he played cricket for Cumberland in the 1956 Minor Counties Championship.
In 2009 Ashman was named at 18th in a list of Carlisle United's top 100 players, compiled by local newspaper the News and Star.
Ashman was too late to prevent that season's relegation but the following season saw a bounce back, and the season after that, the Third Division championship. Leading Division Two for much of the 1965-66 season, the club was disappointed to miss out on promotion by finishing third.

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Alan Buckley
Alan Peter Buckley (born 20 April 1951 in Mansfield, England) is an English football manager. He was manager of League Two side Grimsby Town until his dismissal in September 2008. Buckley was formerly a professional footballer, most notably as a striker for Walsall F.C.
Buckley is one of only 14 managers to have reached 1,000 matches in charge of a league club, but the only one of the 14 never to have managed a team in the Premiership or its predecessor, the First Division.
His younger brother Steve played over 300 games as a full-back for Derby County, and well over 100 for Luton Town. His son Adam played in midfield for Grimsby Town and Lincoln City, and his other son Simon also had a brief stint with Grimsby.
Buckley began his career with Nottingham Forest, but was transferred to Walsall in 1973 having never managed to win a regular place in the first team. He became a prolific striker at Fellows Park, before he was transferred briefly to Birmingham City in October 1978. He returned to Walsall as their record signing (£175,000) in June 1979. He began his managerial career with 'The Saddlers', initially as player/manager and briefly as co-manager with Neil Martin. This was an era that became a hallmark for some of the most attractive football seen in Walsall and the side gradually established itself as promotion contenders. Buckley also gained something of a reputation as a giant killer during his time in the Black Country, scoring against Manchester United as a player during an FA Cup upset in January 1975, and leading his Walsall side as a manager to victories against the likes of Arsenal, and a draw at Anfield during a League Cup run which took them to the semi-finals, just '90 Minutes From Europe'. He was sacked in August 1986, as enigmatic millionaire Terry Ramsden bought the club, installing his own managerial team within 90 minutes of the takeover deal being completed.

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Alan Durban
William Alan Durban (born 7 July 1941 in Bridgend) is a Welsh former international footballer and manager between the 1970s and 1990s.
Durban was brought up in Bracken Road, Margam, Port Talbot. He began his career at Cardiff City, making his debut in a 2-1 win over Derby County in 1959. After initially making an impact on the team he fell out of favour and was transferred to Derby County for £10,000 in July 1963 at the age of 22 having played over 50 times for Cardiff. He made his Derby debut on 24 August 1963 in a 3-1 defeat to Newcastle United and helped the side to thirteenth place in his first season and his partnership with the newly arrived Eddie Thomas saw the side begin to move up the table, finishing in 9th and 8th position in the following two years.
After finishing in seventeenth place during the 1966–67 season Tim Ward was replaced as the Derby manager by Brian Clough. Under Clough, Durban was moved from Inside-forward to an attacking midfield role and was handed the captaincy for the first time in a 5-1 win over his former club Cardiff City. He won a Football League First Division championship medal with Derby in 1971-72, although he then left the club in 1973 to join Shrewsbury Town where he later took charge as player-manager

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Alan Quinn
Alan Quinn (born 13 June 1979 in Dublin) is a retired professional footballer from the Republic of Ireland. He was a midfielder. He is one of nine brothers; both Stephen and Keith were on the books at Alan's former club, Sheffield United while another brother, Gerry, played for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland. Quinn has also played for Sheffield Wednesday, and is the only player to have scored for both teams in the Steel City derby.
Quinn played youth football in Dublin for Manortown United and Cherry Orchard.
Quinn started his English club career at Sheffield Wednesday, making his first appearance as a substitute during 1997–98 and his first start the following season. After two games in his first two seasons his career took off during 1999–00 and he eventually played 178 League and Cup games for Wednesday, scoring 17 times.
After 6 games on loan to Sunderland, and winning OwlsOnline.com player of the year award for the 2002–03 season he moved to Wednesday's rivals Sheffield United on a free transfer in 2004.

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Alfred Barker
Alfred Barker (1873 – 1940) was an English association football manager who managed Stoke City between 1908 and 1914.
Barker became Stoke manager at a time when Stoke almost became extinct. In 1908 Stoke F.C. entered into liquidation and lost their Football League status. A new company was formed, Stoke F.C. (1908) Ltd with Barker as secretary-manager and made a last bid to gain re-election into the League. He was unsuccessful and he entered Stoke into the Birmingham & District League. He spent six years as manager before leaving the club following an argument with the board over his decision to employ part-time staff. He is considered to be one of the men to save football in the city of Stoke-on-Trent.

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Andy Beattie
Andrew "Andy" Beattie (11 August 1913 – 20 September 1983) was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He was the first manager of the Scottish national team.
Andy Beattie was born in Kintore, Aberdeenshire and was employed as a young quarry-man at the Inverurie Loco Works. He was soon to join the Inverurie Loco Works FC where he established himself as an accomplished full-back before attracting the interest of English First Division club Preston North End. They paid £135 for him in March 1935, but World War II was to sadly interrupt his career and he made just 125 Football League appearances for the Lilywhites, scoring five goals, before retiring from his only professional club in March 1947.
The war also curtailed a promising international career which saw him awarded seven Scotland caps between April 1937 and December 1938. In spite of spending part of his military service abroad Beattie was also to gain a further five unofficial caps for Scotland during wartime internationals and appear as a 'guest' player for several clubs. Most notably though he helped his own side Preston North End secure the 1940–41 double of the North Regional League Championship and the Wartime League Cup, which they won by beating Arsenal 2–1 after a 1–1 draw.

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Andy Kilner
Andy Kilner (born 11 October 1966) is a former manager of Stockport County.He was appointed the youngest manager in the country at the age of just 32 having played in the glory days of Stockport County under Danny Bergara,reaching the playoff finals twice and gaining promotion,Kilner was a fans favourite with his exciting wing play and knack of scoring spectacular goals and was later elected into the County hall of fame. He took over the management position at the club from Gary Megson in June 1999 and remained until November 2001 when he left by mutual consent.Kilner performed miracles in keeping the club in the championship for his tenure despite having the lowest wage bill in the division.The County faithful will long recall some memorable victories under Kilner not least the 2-1 defeat of neighbours and fierce arch rivals Manchester City at Maine Road.He took County to the 5th round of the FA Cup for the first time in 51 years and looked about to achieve the unthinkable and get into the playoffs before having to sell the likes of Kevin Cooper,Tony Dinning,Carlo Nash,and leading scorer Ian Moore. Kilner joined Sunderland under the Howard Wilkinson regime as part of the backroom scouting team and remained with them when Mick McCarthy took over the reins in March 2003,he left Sunderland in 2006 after the departure of McCarthy and embarked on a new career as Managing Director of a sports management company where he was the person behind many high profile transfers of football players throughout the world. Having spent over 25 years in professional football and built up extensive contacts across the globe there are few people who have built up his experience both on the playing side as well as the business side of the game. | publisher = Stockport County F.C. | date = | accessdate = 2008-03-02}}</ref>

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Archie Macaulay
Archibald Renwick "Archie" Macaulay (30 July 1915 – 10 June 1993) was a Scottish football player and manager.
Born in Falkirk, Macaulay started his playing career with Rangers, where he became a regular at the age of only 18. Playing as an inside right, he won a Scottish Cup medal in 1935-36 and a Scottish League Championship medal the year after. In 1937 he was transferred to West Ham United for £6,000; the Second World War interrupted his career somewhat but he still won a Wartime Cup medal in 1940 and played five unofficial wartime matches for Scotland.
Macaulay was signed by Brentford in October 1946, and made his official Scotland debut (against England at Wembley Stadium on 12 April 1947). By this time he had been converted to a wing half, Brentford were relegated to the Second Division at the end of the 1946-47 season, and he was signed by Arsenal in July 1947 for £10,000. Macaulay made his Arsenal debut against Sunderland on 23 August 1947 and in his first season with the Gunners, he played 40 league matches and won a First Division Championship medal.

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Arthur Dickinson
Arthur Dickinson was manager and honorary secretary of Sheffield Wednesday. He became Sheffield Wednesday's first manager in 1891 and its honorary secretary two years later. He remains the club's longest serving and most successful manager with 393 wins, 338 losses, and 188 draws in 919 games with the club. He also managed the club to two league titles and two FA Cups during his 29 year reign. He first offered his resignation in the middle of the troubled 1919-20 season but was convinced to stay on to the end of the season. He died in November 1930.

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Arthur Lochhead
Arthur Lochhead (December 8, 1897 - December 30, 1966 in Busby, East Renfrewshire) was a Scottish football player. He played as a forward.
Lochhead started his career with Heart of Midlothian before transferring to Manchester United in a swap deal in 1921, with Hearts exchanging him for £530 and Tom Miller. After scoring 50 goals in 153 appearances for United, he transferred to Leicester City in 1925, where he netted over 100 times and was part of the side who finished league runners-up in 1928-29.

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Arthur Mann
Arthur Fraser Mann (23 January 1948 – 4 February 1999) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a defender. He later moved into management and coaching.
Mann was born in Falkirk, Scotland and began his playing career at Heart of Midlothian. He played for Hearts in the final of the 1967-68 Scottish Cup, although he ended up on the losing side as Dunfermline won 3-1. He then moved to England, where he represented Manchester City. He was signed by Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison for a then club record of £65,000. Unfortunately he in common with Dennis Bergkamp had a fear of flying and so was unable to take part in City's European escapades. He failed to break into the successful Cup winning side and moved on after a season to Blackpool. He then moved to Notts County, Shrewsbury Town, Mansfield Town, Boston United (whom he also managed), Kettering Town and Telford United. He was Alan Buckley's assistant manager at Grimsby Town and West Bromwich Albion, and had a spell as caretaker-manager at Albion early in 1997 following Buckley's dismissal. He is the father of former Hull City stalwart Neil Mann. Mann died on 4 February 1999 in an industrial accident at a Birmingham factory.

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Arthur Reeves
Arthur Reeves (1837–1915) was an English association football manager at Stoke.
When Reeves took the job in 1891 he knew he had a lot of work to do as Stoke finished the 1891-1892 season next to bottom of the First Division. But after some hard work and a lot of effort on Reeves part the players responded and at the end of the 1892-1893 season Stoke finished in mid-table.
Reeves brought in a number of local players and some players from Scotland during his time at Stoke and this method worked well for Reeves however in 1895 he was replaced by Bill Rowley.

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Arthur Shallcross
Arthur Shallcross (1876 – 1950) was an English association football manager who managed Stoke City between 1919 and 1923.
Shallcross played for his native Leek and was also a match referee before becoming Stoke manager in February 1919. He never really hit it off with the supporters, especially after transferring Charles Parker to Sunderland, but he did bring in Bob McGrory from Burnley.
Under Shallcross the team had one or two good spells, yet only avoided relegation by the skin of their teeth in 1921, Twelve months later however he had turned things round completely as he led the potters to the First Division. Sadly from his point of view, results started to go wrong and relegation was suffered. This led to Shallcross resigning is march 1923. He was in charge of team affairs for 162 League games, of which only 56 were won. He died in Stoke-on-Trent in 1950 aged 74.

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Asa Hartford
Richard 'Asa' Hartford (born 24 October 1950 in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire) is a retired Scottish international midfielder and footballer who became famous for failing a medical examination due to the discovery of a heart condition which put paid to a high profile transfer to Leeds United in November 1971.
He first played for Drumchapel Amateurs in Glasgow, but began his professional career at West Bromwich Albion in 1967. During his time with West Brom, the team won the FA Cup Final in 1968 (although he did not play in the final), were beaten Semi-Finalists in 1969 and reached the League Cup final in 1970.
Given his role in the team it was no surprise that he would attract interest from the top clubs but in November 1971 a high profile transfer to Don Revie's Leeds United was cancelled when a suspected hole in-the-heart condition was found during a pre-transfer medical examination. He was eventually transfer listed by then West Brom coach Don Howe alongside favourites Len Cantello and Jeff Astle in April 1974 and his subsequent career made nonsense of the fears occasioned by Leeds' doubting staff.

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Benito Carbone
Benito known as Benny Carbone (born 14 August 1971 in Bagnara) is a retired Italian professional footballer and former manager of Serie B club Varese. He played as a forward, winger or midfielder. He has played professional football for seventeen different clubs.
Carbone began his career in 1989 with Torino in his native Italy, and became a journeyman for the next few years before being signed by Sheffield Wednesday in 1996 for £3 million from Internazionale. Carbone became the club's highest goal scorer for the 1998–99 season scoring nine goals and was voted the fans` favourite player.
After a contract dispute with Wednesday at the start of the 1999–2000 season, he joined Aston Villa for an undisclosed fee and played for a season at Villa Park, earning an FA Cup runners up medal after Villa lost 1–0 in the final to Chelsea. He had previously scored a hat-trick against Leeds United in an earlier round, including a spectacular long range strike from 35 yards.^{[citation needed]} At the start of the 2000–01 season, he joined Bradford City on a free transfer. Despite some disillusionment over his wages, he scored some memorable goals and endeared himself to the Valley Parade faithful.^{[citation needed]} Bradford City were relegated and although he played the start of the following season with them as well as pledging his future to them, he later moved on loan to first Derby County, where he scored once against former club Aston Villa, and then Middlesbrough, where he again scored once in the league against Aston Villa. In 2002, he left Bradford, after they went into administration, and returned to Italy with Como and played for Parma from 2003 to 2005. \ accused him of being a mercenary due to Carbone moving clubs on a regular occurrence. He was, however, very popular with the fans of his clubs, particularly at Sheffield Wednesday and Bradford City. He also waived much of the money owed to him after he had moved to Como which helped City survive in the administration of 2002.

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Bert Gosnell
Albert Arthur (Bert) Gosnell (10 February 1880 – 6 January 1972) was an English international footballer who played in two FA Cup finals for Newcastle United in the early 20th century and later managed Norwich City.
Gosnell played for The Albion (Colchester), Colchester Town, New Brompton and Chatham before joining Newcastle United in 1904, the outside left made 106 appearances and scored 15 goals between 1904 and 1910, which includes making appearances in the 1905 FA Cup Final and 1906 FA Cup Final where he collected runner's up medals on both occasions. After leaving St James' Park, Gosnell signed for Tottenham Hotspur where he featured in seven matches in all competitions. After Spurs he went on to play at Darlington.
In the summer of 1912 he signed with Port Vale, who at the time were plying their trade in the Central League. He appeared fairly regularly over the course of the 1912–13 season, though on 9 November 1912, in a match at Liverpool Reserves he was mistakenly sent off for kicking an opponent during the 1–0 defeat. He was a member of the side that took home the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1913, but left the club in the summer of that year.

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Bert Stansfield
Bert Stansfield is a former manager of English football clubs Carlisle United and Norwich City.
Stansfield was United's and City's fourth manager, and was in charge for the latter for 248 matches between 1910 and 1915, returning to the job for a short spell in 1926. His sides won 78, lost 95 and drew 75 games.

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Bill Asprey
William (Bill) Asprey (born 11 September 1936) is an English former football player and manager. He spent thirteen years as a player with Stoke City, also managing the club for a brief period in the mid 1980s.
Born in Wolverhampton in 1936, he played 341 times for Stoke City between 1953–54 and 1965–66, winning a Second Division Championship medal and a League Cup runners-up medal. He subsequently played for Oldham Athletic before being purchased by Port Vale for £2,000 in December 1967. He enjoyed regular football until September 1968 and retired as a player in December 1968, at the age of 32.
After retiring from playing, Asprey joined Sheffield Wednesday's coaching staff, in 1968. In 1970 he joined Coventry City as Noel Cantwell's assistant. The Sky Blues played in the European Fairs Cup (now the UEFA Europa League) but lost 7–3 on aggregate in the 2nd round to Bayern Munich, despite winning the second leg 2–1 at Highfield Road. In that year, Highfield Road became the first all-seater, floodlit stadium in the country.In a training session at Coventry City he came up with the idea of the famous donkey-kick free-kick routine that was executed by Willie Carr and scored by Ernie Hunt in a league game against Everton in October 1970. This was immediately outlawed due to the fact the ball was touched twice.

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Bill Ridding
William "Bill" Ridding (4 April 1911–1981), also known as Nibbler Ridding, was an English football player and manager, most notably in a 17-year period managing Bolton Wanderers between 1951 and 1968, during which time the club won the 1958 FA Cup.
Ridding started his playing career at Tranmere Rovers in 1928, where he had his most successful run, scoring 12 goals in 13 games, before being transferred to Manchester City in early 1930, for £3,500. He only made a handful of appearances for City before, in 1931, he was transferred to cross-town rivals Manchester United, then playing in the Second Division.
In the 1932–33 season he was United's top scorer with eleven goals. He would go on to score league 14 goals for United in 42 matches before retiring due to injury in 1934 (aged 23), although he subsequently had brief spells at Northampton Town in 1934, Tranmere Rovers and Oldham Athletic in 1935.
In 1942, Ridding was appointed manager of Tranmere Rovers. However, due to the Second World War he only took charge of twenty matches in his four year spell as manager.

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Bill Rowley
William Spencer "Bill" Rowley (1865–1939) was an English footballer who played as goalkeeper for Stoke in the 1880s and 1890s, also making two appearances for England. He later became Stoke's manager between 1986 and 1898.
He played for Burslem Port Vale, before joining Stoke in 1887. He played in the first ever season of the Football League, before helping the "Potters" to the Football Alliance title in 1890–91. He also won England caps in 1889 and 1892. After struggling with injuries, he was appointed player-manager at Stoke in 1896, and took the club to sixth in the league. However he left the game for good after being censored for arranging his own transfer to Leicester Fosse in August 1898.
Rowley was born in Hanley, Staffordshire and started his professional career playing in Stoke's reserve team as a forward before joining local rivals Burslem Port Vale in April 1884.
Immediately establishing himself as the first choice goalkeeper, he played 66 games in his two and half years with the club. He even scored a goal, being one of the scorers in a 12–0 route of Ironbridge in the final of the 1885 Burslem Challenge Cup.

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Billy Ayre
William "Billy" Ayre (7 May 1952 – 16 April 2002) was an English footballer who played for three different clubs in a sixteen-year professional career, making over three hundred League appearances in the process. After retiring from the playing side of the game, he became a manager, and took the helm at five different clubs between 1984 and 2000. He guided Blackpool to two successive play-off finals, in 1991 and 1992, during his four years in charge of the club.
Billy Ayre was born in the Gateshead suburb of Crookhill. After trying his hand at refereeing in his teenage years, he played for several years in non-League football at two amateur clubs in County Durham: Crook Town and Bishop Auckland.
Ayre began his professional playing career at Scarborough in 1975 whilst balancing a teaching profession at St. Leonard's R.C.V.A Comprehensive School in Durham, where he taught art and physical education. He won the Supporters' Player of the Year award in 1977. It was his uncompromising performances for Boro that earned him a move, also in 1977, to Hartlepool United.

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Billy Davies
William McIntosh "Billy" Davies (born 31 May 1964) is a Glasgow-born Scottish former football manager, noted for his achievement in the Football League Championship with East Midlands Rivals Derby County and Nottingham Forest and Preston North End which has led him to be described, in 2011, as "probably the best manager at this level, in the game." He won the 2007 Playoffs with Derby County, finished as runners-up in 2005 with Preston and reached the semi-finals in 2006 (Preston), 2010 and 2011 (both with Nottingham Forest). He also holds the record for the most Football League Championship Manager of the Month awards (jointly with Neil Warnock having won two each at Preston, Derby and Nottingham Forest).
As a schoolboy, Davies was associated with Manchester United and he was offered a contract by then manager Dave Sexton.
Davies started his professional playing career at the Scottish club Rangers F.C., where he spent six years. He made his debut aged 17 years, 115 days against Brechin City on 23 September 1981. He had a brief spell with Swedish team IF Elfsborg. Davies went on to play for St Mirren, Leicester City and Dunfermline Athletic before he finished his playing career with Motherwell in his native Scotland.

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Bob Masters
Bob Masters (born January 16, 1913 in Comanche, Texas) is a former professional American football player who played running back for six seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears. He was also a member of the "Steagles", a team that was the result of a temporary merger between the Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers due to the league-wide manning shortages in 1943 brought on by World War II.

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Bob McGrory
Robert McGrory (17 October 1891–24 May 1954) was a Scottish footballer who played as a defender. After starting his career at Dumbarton, he later moved to the English club Burnley where he made three appearances. In 1921, he moved to First Division side Stoke City where he made 511 appearances as a full-back. He later became a football manager, following his retirement from playing. McGrory spent 17 years at Stoke City as manager, before leaving in 1952.
Born in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Bob McGrory began work as an apprentice joiner on Clydeside. However, he chose to follow a career in football instead and signed a contract with the Scottish side Dumbarton F.C.. He then moved to English side Burnley F.C., where he made three league appearances.
In May 1921, McGrory was signed by Stoke City manager Arthur Shallcross, who at the time were playing in the Football League First Division. McGrory went on to make 511 League and Cup appearances for the club, the majority of these being as a right-back. He was a strong tackling defender, with good positional sense, this combined with his consistency and leadership skills led to him being given the club captaincy. In 1932, at the age of 41, he decided to discontinue his playing career and instead took over as the club's reserve team manager. However, injuries to first-team players meant McGrory was recalled to the senior side by Stoke's manager Tom Mather. In his final season as a player, 1934–35, McGrory featured in all 42 of Stoke's league games. His final appearance came in May 1935, at the age of 43, marking the end of a 14 year spell as a player for Stoke.

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Bob Stokoe
Robert "Bob" Stokoe (21 September 1930 – 1 February 2004) was an English footballer and manager who was able, almost uniquely, to transcend the traditional north-east rivalry between the region's footballing giants, Newcastle United and Sunderland. As a player he won an FA Cup winner's medal with Newcastle in 1955 and in 1973 was manager of Sunderland in their famous victory over Leeds United.
Born in Mickley, Northumberland, the son of a miner, Stokoe began his footballing career at Newcastle United, signing for them in 1947 and playing the first of 287 games, usually as centre-half, on Christmas Day 1950 against Middlesbrough, a game in which he also scored. The highlight of his 10 years at Newcastle was the 3–1 1955 FA Cup Final victory over Manchester City. After leaving Newcastle in 1960, Stokoe spent a short time playing for Bury before making the move into management with the same club.
Stokoe took the post of player-manager at Bury in 1961, leading them to the semi-finals of the League Cup in 1962-63. He stopped playing in 1964, staying on as manager for another year after which he moved south to take charge at Charlton Athletic from 1965–1967. He was manager of Rochdale from 1967 to 1968, followed by three separate spells at Carlisle United (1968–1970, 1980–1985 and 1985–1986).

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Bobby Gould
Robert Anthony "Bobby" Gould (born 12 June 1946) is an English former footballer and manager.
Born in Coventry, Gould started his career at Coventry City, making his debut for the club whilst still an apprentice at the age of 16. He did not sign professional until June 1964. A striker, he scored 40 goals in 82 league games for the Sky Blues, helping them to win the Second Division title in 1966–67.
He moved to Arsenal in February 1968 for £90,000. He could not hold down a regular place in the Arsenal first team, although he did score a headed goal in the 1969 League Cup Final against Swindon Town, to send the game into extra time; Arsenal went on to lose 3–1. Gould played no part in Arsenal's European Fairs Cup 1969–70 final win and by the end of 1969–70 was on the sidelines at Arsenal.
In June 1970 Gould was transferred to Wolves for a fee of £55,000, and made his debut against Newcastle United in August 1970, but after just 15 months he was signed by West Bromwich Albion manager Don Howe for £66,666. He made his Albion debut at home to Ipswich Town in the same month, and partnering Jeff Astle in attack, went on to score 12 goals in his first season at the Hawthorns. In all he scored 19 goals in 60 appearances for Albion, but when his form began to wane he was sold to Bristol City for £68,888 in December 1972.

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Brian Clough
Brian Howard Clough, OBE (/ˈklʌf/ KLUF; 21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English footballer and football manager.
As a player Clough was a prolific goalscorer with Middlesbrough and Sunderland, scoring 251 league goals from 274 starts. He also won two England caps, both in 1959. Clough retired from playing at the age of 29, after sustaining anterior cruciate ligament damage. He remains one of the Football League's highest goalscorers.
In 1965 Clough took the manager's job at Fourth Division Hartlepools United and appointed Peter Taylor as his assistant, the start of an enduring partnership that would bring them success at numerous clubs over the next two decades. In 1967 the duo moved on to Second Division Derby County. In 1968–69, Derby were promoted as Second Division champions. Three years later, Derby were crowned champions of England for the first time in the club's history. In 1973 they reached the semi-finals of the European Cup. However, by this point Clough's relationship with chairman Sam Longson had deteriorated, and he and Taylor resigned.

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Brian Laws
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.

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Brian Talbot
Brian Ernest Talbot (born 21 July 1953 in Ipswich) is an English football manager and former player. His son is Daniel Talbot.
A midfielder, Talbot began his footballing career as an apprentice with Ipswich Town in 1968, turning professional in 1972; in the meantime he had spent two seasons on loan with Canadian club Toronto Metros. He made 227 appearances for Ipswich, and won the 1978 FA Cup with the club. In the 1978 FA Cup semi-final against West Bromwich Albion, Talbot scored the first goal eight minutes into the game. He was injured on the play when he collided head-to-head with Albion's skipper, John Wile. Wile played with a bandaged head for the remainder of the contest while Talbot was removed on a stretcher. In January 1979, Talbot moved to Arsenal for a fee of £450,000.
Talbot immediately became a first-team player at Arsenal. He played for the Gunners in the FA Cup final of that year, scoring a goal in a thrilling 3–2 victory over Manchester United; Talbot thus achieved the unique distinction of winning the FA Cup with two different teams in consecutive seasons. The following year he set a club record, as an ever-present in Arsenal's marathon 1979–80 season, when he played a total of 70 matches in a single season (the club reached the finals of both the FA Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup, but lost them both).

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Brian Whitehouse
Brian Whitehouse (born 8 September 1935 in West Bromwich) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward. He later undertook various coaching and scouting positions.

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Bruce Rioch
Bruce David Rioch (pronounced /ˈriːɒk/; born 6 September 1947) is an English-born football manager and former player. He was manager of Aalborg BK in the Danish Superliga, until his sacking on 23 October 2008.
As a player, he made more than 550 appearances in the Football League and, by virtue of his father's birthplace, represented Scotland in 24 matches; he became the first Scottish captain to be born in England. As a manager, he has taken charge of clubs in England, the United States, and Denmark. His brother Neil, son Gregor and nephew Matty Holmes were also professional footballers.
Rioch was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. After moving to Luton, Bedfordshire at the age of 14, he joined his local side, Luton Town, turning professional in September 1964. He made his first team debut later that month, and his league debut in November 1964 in a 1–0 defeat at home to Southend United. He spent a couple of years establishing himself and was a regular member of the Luton team, scoring 24 goals, that won the Fourth Division title in 1968. He moved to Aston Villa in July 1969 for a fee of £100,000, then a record fee paid by a Second Division side. He won a League Cup runners' up medal in 1971, Villa losing 2–0 to Tottenham Hotspur.

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Bryan Gunn
Bryan James Gunn (born 22 December 1963 in Thurso) is a Scottish former professional goalkeeper and football manager. After learning his trade with Aberdeen in the early 1980s, he spent most of his playing career at Norwich City, the club with which he came to be most closely associated. This was followed by a brief spell back in Scotland with Hibernian before his retirement as a player in 1998.
Gunn feels the peak of his playing career was making what he calls the save of his life in the UEFA Cup match against Bayern Munich in 1993. This event was called the summit of Norwich City's history by The Independent. He is one of only nine Norwich players to win the club's Player of the Year award twice, and the only goalkeeper to do so. He was made an inaugural member of Norwich City's Hall of Fame. He was a member of the Scotland national football team, making six appearances for his country in the early 1990s.
Gunn worked for years behind the scenes at Norwich in a variety of roles, from matchday hosting to coaching. He was appointed temporary manager towards the end of the 2008–09 season and then confirmed as permanent manager during the summer. However, after a 7–1 home defeat in the opening game to local rivals Colchester United, he lost his job a week into the 2009–10 Football League One season.

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Bryan Hamilton
Bryan Hamilton (born 31 December 1946) is a Northern Irish former professional football player and manager. He gained 50 caps for Northern Ireland between 1969 and 1980, and later managed the national team for four years. He is currently Technical Director at Antigua Barracuda F.C.
Born in Belfast, Hamilton began his career at Distillery, before moving on to Linfield. He was named Ulster Footballer of the Year and Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association Player of the Year for the 1970/71 season, also finishing as Irish League top goalscorer. In 1971 he signed for Ipswich Town, where he spent five years and made over 150 appearances for the club. In 1976 he signed for Everton, before moving onto short spells at Millwall and Swindon Town.
In the FA Cup semi-final of 1977, full time was looming in the clash between Everton and local rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford, with the score at 2-2, when Hamilton put the ball into the back of the net. However, infamously, his goal which should have stood was disallowed by referee Clive Thomas and the match went to a replay, which Everton lost 3-0.

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Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson OBE (born 11 January 1957) is an English football manager and a former player. He played in midfield for West Bromwich Albion in the late 70s before moving to Manchester United in 1981 where he became the longest serving captain in the club's history. He was the manager of Sheffield United, being relieved of his first team duties at the club in February 2008. The following month, Robson returned to Manchester United as an ambassador for the club.
Born in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, Robson began his playing career at West Bromwich Albion, before moving on to Manchester United, whom he captained to three FA Cups and a European Cup Winners' Cup. He also won two FA Premiership winners medals. Towards the end of his playing career he moved into management as player-manager with Middlesbrough. Robson had a good goal-scoring record; terrific anticipation, movement, timing on and off the ball; was fiercely competitive and brave; possessed high levels of stamina; tackled, passed well and was also a good header of the ball.^{[citation needed]} He represented England on 90 occasions, making him the sixth most capped England player of all-time, and has the eleventh highest goalscoring tally with 26. Robson captained his country 65 times, with only Bobby Moore and Billy Wright having captained England on more occasions. Robson is also known by the nicknames "Robbo" and "Captain Marvel". Bobby Robson stated that after Kevin Beattie, Robson was, along with Alan Shearer, the best British player he ever worked with. In August 2011, Robson was voted as the greatest ever Manchester United player from a poll of ex Manchester United Players as part of a new book, 19, released to celebrate their 19th league title win.

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Carlton Palmer
Carlton Lloyd Palmer (born 5 December 1965 in Rowley Regis) is an English former professional footballer, manager and football television pundit.
As a player he was a defender and midfielder from 1984 to 2005, playing in the Premier League for Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United, Southampton, Nottingham Forest and Coventry City. He also played for West Bromwich Albion, Watford and Dublin City. He was capped 18 times by England, and went into management in 2001 when he was appointed player/manager of Stockport County, later holding the same position at Mansfield Town from 2004 to 2005.
Palmer started his career at West Bromwich Albion, joining as an apprentice in July 1983 before turning professional in December 1984. He made his league debut in September 1985, as a substitute against Newcastle United. He earned a move to Sheffield Wednesday in February 1989 for £750,000, where he made his name in the Premiership. This led to him being bought by Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson for £2.6 million in June 1994.

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Cecil Potter
Cecil Bertram Potter (born 14 November 1888 in West Hoathly, West Sussex) was a professional manager at Huddersfield Town, Derby County and Hartlepools United.

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Charles Foweraker
Charles Foweraker (11 March 1877 – July 1950) was an English football manager, serving in the capacity at Bolton Wanderers from 1919 to 1944, making him the club's longest serving manager. He is also the club's most successful manager, winning the FA Cup three times during his time there.
Born Charles Elliott Foweraker in Ruthin, Denbighshire on 11 March 1877, his father Aaron was a coachman. He married Harriett Hodges at the parish church of St. Paul in Deansgate, Bolton on 19 July 1909.
Foweraker was employed in various capacities by the club for 49 years, initially as a gateman and checker when Burnden Park first opened. At this time he was also employed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. Acting initially as assistant to Tom Mather, when Mather was called up by the Royal Navy in 1915, Foweraker took on his duties before making the position his own in 1919.
During his time there, he presided over the club's greatest triumphs. The FA Cup was won in 1923 (the White Horse Final), 1926 and 1929. He also discovered Nat Lofthouse, a player generally regarded as the best player the club has ever produced.

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Charlie Wright
Charles George "Charlie" Wright (born 11 December 1938 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish-born Hong Kong former footballer and manager.
Wright was caretaker manager and then manager of Bolton Wanderers in the 1984/1985 season. His first game as full time manager was a 2-0 win against Plymouth Argyle. However the good times did not last long and Wright was quickly replaced by ex-Liverpool and England defender Phil Neal.

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Chic Bates
Philip Desmond "Chic" Bates (born 28 November 1939) is an English former football manager.
He managed Shrewsbury Town between July 1984 and November 1987, and later was the manager of Stoke City from July 1997 to January 1998. He returned to manage Shrewsbury Town for two further brief spells, the first for one game in November 1999 and the second for five games between October and November 2004.
He now works as a Football coach for a College academy in Telford. TCAT.

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Chris Kamara
Chris Kamara (born 25 December 1957 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire) is a retired English footballer. He ended his playing career in 1995 but made a brief comeback in 2012 for Mid Wales Football League side Welshpool Town. He last managed a club in 1998. He is now a presenter and football analyst on Sky Sports.
Kamara was born in Middlesbrough to a father of Sierra Leonean roots in 1957. Before starting his footballing career at Portsmouth in 1975 Kamara served with the Royal Navy. Chris remains a great friend of Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson with whom he grew up on Middlesbrough's Park End council estate. He and Gibson regularly attended matches together.
Kamara's football career started when he joined Portsmouth in 1975, beginning a professional footballing career that saw him move between nine clubs, scoring 71 goals in 641 league appearances. The clubs he played for included Brentford, Luton Town and Leeds United – where he won the Division Two championship title.
Kamara became the first English player to be convicted of assault for an on-pitch incident, after breaking Shrewsbury Town player Jim Melrose's cheekbone with a punch straight after the final whistle of a game in 1988.

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Chris Waddle
Christopher Roland "Chris" Waddle (born 14 December 1960 in Felling, Tyne and Wear) is a former footballer from England. During his professional career he played for clubs including Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday in England, and Olympique de Marseille in France. Waddle earnt 62 caps for the England national football team between 1985 and 1991, and was a member of England's squad for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, where he missed a penalty in England's shoot-out defeat to Germany in the semi-finals.
Waddle currently works as a co-commentator for ESPN's Premier League football coverage, and for BBC 5 Live.
Waddle began his footballing career with Pelaw Juniors, moving on to Whitehouse SC, Mount Pleasant SC, HMH Printing, Pelaw SC, Leam Lane SC and Clarke Chapman before joining Tow Law Town before the start of the 1978-79 season. He worked during the day at Skipton Financial Services.^{[citation needed]}
While working in food processing, Waddle had unsuccessful trials with Sunderland and Coventry City. He joined Newcastle United in July 1980 for £1,000.

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Clement Keys
Clement Keys (born c. 1847) was an English football secretary-manager, who performed that role at West Bromwich Albion from 1895 to 1896.

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Colin Calderwood
Colin Calderwood (born 20 January 1965 in Stranraer) is a Scottish football player and coach. In November 2011 he was appointed as Chris Hughton's assistant manager at Birmingham City.
Calderwood made over 150 league appearances for Swindon Town and Tottenham Hotspur. He was a regular player for the Scotland national football team during the late 1990s, appearing in two major tournaments. Calderwood retired as a player in 2001.
Calderwood became manager of Northampton Town in 2003, guiding the club to promotion in 2006. He then became manager of Nottingham Forest, helping the club win promotion in 2008. Calderwood was sacked by Forest in December 2008 and then moved to Newcastle United, working as first team coach. After a year with Newcastle, Calderwood became a manager again by moving to Hibernian, but he was sacked after just over a year in that job.
Despite being born in Stranraer, Calderwood never played in the Scottish leagues. He started his career in the lower reaches of The Football League, with Mansfield Town. He played 100 league games for the club, three as substitute. His debut for Mansfield was spoiled by the club making an error in his registration which caused them to be deducted two league points.

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Colin Hendry
Edward Colin Hendry (born 7 December 1965) is a retired Scottish footballer and manager, who played as a defender. Hendry started his career with Dundee in 1983 and spent spells at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Rangers, Coventry City, Bolton Wanderers and Blackpool. He was part of the Blackburn squad that won the Premiership in 1995 and the Rangers squad that won the domestic treble in 1999. His most recent stint in football was as manager of Scottish First Division side Clyde, from June 2007 until January 2008, when he chose to resign for family reasons.
Hendry first played for local clubs Keith and Islavale, mainly as a striker. He began his professional career in 1983 with Dundee, and in 1987 was picked up by Blackburn Rovers, where he was converted into a defender. One of his first appearances came in the Full Members Cup final, where he scored the only goal in the 1-0 Wembley win over Charlton Athletic.
He played over 100 games for Blackburn before joining Manchester City in 1989, where he was named Player of the Year in the 1989–90 season. His days at City were numbered, however, after he fell out of manager Peter Reid's plans when Reid took over in November 1990 on the departure of Howard Kendall to Everton.

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Colin Todd
Colin Todd (born 12 December 1948) is an English football manager and former player. As a player, he made more than 600 appearances in the Football League, playing for Sunderland, Derby County, Everton, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Oxford United and Luton Town, and also played in the North American Soccer League for the Vancouver Whitecaps. He won two Football League titles with Derby County during the 1970s, and won the PFA Players' Player of the Year award in 1975. He was capped by England on 27 occasions.
He has managed English league clubs Middlesbrough, Bolton Wanderers, Swindon Town, Derby County, Bradford City, Darlington and Danish Superliga side Randers FC. He took Bolton Wanderers to the Division One title with 98 points and 100 goals, although he was unable to establish them in the Premier League.
The young Todd had opportunities to sign for Newcastle United and Middlesbrough, but chose Sunderland "because of their tradition for youth". He played a major part in the Sunderland youth team's 1967 victory in the FA Youth Cup, led by coach Brian Clough. By then Todd was already a first-team regular. He made his debut as substitute for Charlie Hurley in a 1–1 draw away against Chelsea in the First Division on 10 September 1966, and by mid-season had established himself in the starting eleven. He missed only three league games in the next three seasons, at the end of which Sunderland were relegated from the top flight. After 191 appearances and three goals in all competitions for Sunderland, Todd rejoined Clough at Derby County in February 1971.

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Craig Levein
Craig William Levein (born 22 October 1964 in Dunfermline) is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager of the Scotland national team. During his playing career he played for Cowdenbeath and Heart of Midlothian. He won 16 caps for Scotland and was part of his country's 1990 World Cup squad in Italy.
As a youth, Levein attended Inverkeithing High School, where he was in the football team alongside another future Scottish international footballer, Gordon Durie. His early football career saw him turn out for Dalgety Bay, Leven Royals and Inverkeithing under-16s. At the age of 15, however, he gave up football for a year, only resuming when his brother, who played for junior club Lochore Welfare invited him to training there. Levein subsequently signed for Lochore and after trials with several senior clubs he finally joined Cowdenbeath in 1981.
Levein quickly established himself in the first team at Central Park and soon became a target for larger clubs than Cowdenbeath.
In 1983 he moved to Heart of Midlothian for a fee of £40,000 and soon found himself a regular place in the Hearts first team. Levein won the SPFA Young Player of the Year award in 1985 and in 1986 became the first player to retain the title. 1986 was the season when Hearts chased a league and cup double. In the league they were minutes away from lifting the title before goals in the last 10 minutes of the season by Albert Kidd gave Hearts their first league defeat in 31 games. It was enough to knock Hearts off the top of the table and hand the title to Celtic. Levein and his team mates lost 3-0 the week after in the Scottish Cup final against Alex Ferguson managed Aberdeen.

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Craig Madden
Craig Anthony Madden (born 25 September 1958 in Manchester) is an English former professional football striker. He is assistant manager at Fleetwood Town.
After playing for Northern Nomads, Madden began his professional career at Bury in 1977. He spent nine years at Gigg Lane, making almost 300 league appearances and scoring 129 goals. He still holds the record for the most goals (35) in a season (1981-82).
A short spell at West Brom followed, before he joined Blackpool, then under the guidance of Sam Ellis, in February 1987. At Bloomfield Road he began to fall prey to niggling injuries, and each time he dropped out of the team it became more difficult for him to break back in. On 11 November 1989, he opened the scoring in Blackpool's home League game against Brentford after just eighteen seconds, which was only seven seconds outside Bill Slater's all-time record for the club. Midway through that disastrous 1989-90 season for Blackpool, Jimmy Mullen allowed him to move to non-league Fleetwood Town, where he found his scoring touch again and continued to enjoy the game.

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Craig Shakespeare
Craig Shakespeare (born Birmingham, 26 October 1963) is a former professional footballer who went on to become a football coach. He is currently assistant manager at Leicester City after leaving Hull City to follow Nigel Pearson.
In his playing days he was an attacking midfielder; he favoured his left foot and his preferred position was on the left side of midfield. He signed as an apprentice at Walsall F.C. in September 1979, turning professional in November 1981. Shakespeare rates his goal in a 2–2 League Cup draw against Chelsea in October 1984 as the best of his career. In 1987–88 he helped Walsall to win promotion to Division Two via the playoffs, an achievement which he has since described as his greatest in football. He played well over 350 games for the Saddlers, scoring 59 goals, and in 1989 he moved to Sheffield Wednesday, then in the First Division, for a fee of £300,000.
He spent less than a year at Hillsborough, before moving to West Bromwich Albion F.C. for £275,000. He stayed at Albion for over three years, making 128 appearances in total and becoming the team's first choice penalty taker. He scored twice from the penalty spot in Albion's first ever game in the Third Division, a 6–3 victory over Exeter City in August 1991.

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Cyril Spiers
Cyril Henry Spiers (4 April 1902 – 21 May 1967) was an English association football goalkeeper who played for Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur and later went on to manage at Football League clubs for twenty years.
Spiers began his professional playing career at Aston Villa where he made 104 League and 8 FA Cup appearances over a seven year career. He was forced to retire after suffering a serious injury and, believing that he could never play again, Aston Villa released him. However he underwent experimental surgery and was able to return to football with Tottenham Hotspur, making 169 appearances between 1927 and 1932. He eventually left the club and became assistant manager to Frank Buckley at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
In 1939 he took over as secretary-manager at Cardiff City but his rebuilding of the team was cut short following the outbreak of World War II. He stayed at the club throughout the war and set up a number of nursery teams, including Cardiff Nomads who would go on to bring players such as Alan Harrington and Colin Baker to the club, to bring most of the local football talent to the club. He fell out with the club over a dispute over money and left to manage Norwich City. He was back at Cardiff two years later as manager to replace Billy McCandless, bringing the Cardiff Nomads back with him having adopted the club for Norwich when he joined. He took them to promotion during the 1951-52 season but eventually left to manage Crystal Palace in September 1954. He later had a spell scouting for Leicester City before taking his last managerial post at Exeter City in 1962.

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Cyrille Regis
Cyrille Regis, MBE (born 9 February 1958) is a French-born English former footballer. His professional playing career spanned 19 years, where he made 610 league appearances and scored 159 league goals, most prolifically at West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City.
Regis was born in Maripasoula, French Guiana, to Robert and Mathilde Regis. His father moved to England in 1962, with the rest of the family, including Cyrille, following a year later. The family lived initially in the Portobello Road area of London, later moving to Stonebridge. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Regis attended Kensal Rise Primary School and later, Cardinal Hinsley RC Secondary School in Harlesden. At Cardinal Hinsley he participated in athletics, cricket and football, and was called up to represent the Borough of Brent boys football team. He was also offered a trial by Chelsea, but was unable to take advantage due to a hamstring injury. Regis progressed to playing Sunday league football for Ryder Brent Valley. He then moved to Oxford & Kilburn Boys before re-joining Ryder Brent Valley. After leaving school, Regis trained as an electrician, earning a City and Guilds diploma; he continued to practice the trade until his move into professional football. Cyrille is the cousin of John Regis MBE, the former English athlete, who still holds the UK record for the 200 metres.

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Danny Bergara
Daniel Alberto "Danny" Bergara de Medina (July 24, 1942 – July 25, 2007) was a Uruguayan footballer and manager.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Bergara began his playing career at the age of 16, playing for Racing Club in the Uruguayan First Division, picking up a handful of under-21 caps for Uruguay, before moving to Spain in 1962 where he was top scorer for Real Mallorca for four seasons and Sevilla for two seasons. While playing in Spain Bergara married an English travel guide, Jan, and when he retired from playing football they moved to England.
Bergara coached the reserve teams at Luton Town and Sheffield United before getting his first managerial job at Rochdale in August 1988. Bergara is often wrongly referred to as the first foreign manager in English football – he was in fact preceded by managers such as the South African Peter Hauser, who managed Chester City between 1963 and 1968 – but he is believed to be the first Football League manager who did not speak English as a first language. He was also the first manager born outside the British Isles to lead an English club out at Wembley, when he took Stockport County to the 1992 Autoglass Trophy final.

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Danny Shittu
Daniel Olusola "Danny" Shittu (born 2 September 1980) is a Nigerian footballer who currently is on free agent.
"Olusola" is a nickname for the Yoruba name "Oluwanisola" (meaning "God creates wealth").. He is known for his strength and is frequently referred to as a 'tank'
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Shittu started his career at Charlton Athletic. He spent most of his two years at the club on loan, first at Blackpool in January and February 2001, then Queens Park Rangers.
Shittu's debut for Rangers as a loanee, away at Peterborough on 23 October 2001 in a Football League One fixture, was rather inauspicious ending in his being sent off in the 83rd minute. His first goal came away at Chesterfield on 15 December 2001 in a game in which he was again sent off.
QPR acquired his services permanently for £350,000 in January 2002. He was bought by fan (and later Life President) Harold Winton, who also paid Shittu's wages during his first season at the club. His first game as a permanent player was the home fixture with Bury on 12 January 2002. Shittu went on to have a very successful spell at Loftus Road becoming a fan's favourite for his robust and combative performances in the heart of the defence. He was part of the team that made it to the League One play-off Final in 2003 where Rangers were narrowly beaten by Cardiff and the team that won promotion the following season. He made a total of 182 appearances in four seasons and scored 17 goals.

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Dave Bassett
David Bassett (born 4 September 1944 in Stanmore), also frequently known by his nickname of Harry, is an English football manager and a former player.
In his career he has managed Wimbledon, Watford, Sheffield United, Crystal Palace, Nottingham Forest, Barnsley, Leicester City and Southampton.
As a player Bassett was a defensive midfielder at semi-professional level, playing for St Albans City where he made eleven appearances in the 1967/68 season, Harrow Borough, Hayes, Wycombe Wanderers, Walton & Hersham, where he was part of the side that won the FA Amateur Cup in 1973, and most notably at Wimbledon. He was part of the Wimbledon team who, in the 1975 FA Cup, famously beat First Division Burnley away in the 3rd round then forced a draw in the 4th round at reigning League Champions Leeds United, before losing narrowly 1-0 (the goal being a wide shot that deflected in off Bassett's knee) in the replay.
He retired from playing, due to injury and business commitments, soon after Wimbledon won election to the Football League in 1977, having made just 35 Football League appearances. He was then appointed by the club as team coach, under the management of Dario Gradi.

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Dave Halliday
David "Dave" Halliday (11 December 1897–1970) was a Scottish footballing prolific goalscorer and trophy winning manager. His 38 goals in 1923-24 made him top scorer in Scotland's top flight that season and 43 goals in 1928–29 gave him the same distinction in England's top flight that season. He scored 376 senior goals as well as scoring at two then non-league clubs. As a manager only Halliday and Alex Ferguson have guided Aberdeen to be Scottish champions.
Dave Halliday was born in Dumfries and started in local schools football where he featured on the left wing. He attended Noblehill Primary School before attending Dumfries Academy. Halliday then trained as a motor mechanic with car manufacturer Arrol-Johnston and played for the works team, one of three clubs who merged to form Queen of the South in 1919. However despite having played in the trial matches arranged in the formation of the new club Halliday did not join Queens until 17 January 1920. Between playing for Arrol-Johnston and Queens, Halliday had a brief spell with Tayleurians. After joining Queens until the end of the season in May 1920 Halliday played 19 games.

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Dave Kevan
David "Dave" Kevan (born 31 August 1968) is a Scottish football coach, currently with Stoke City. He is also a former professional player who played as a midfielder, making nearly 200 career appearances.
Born in Wigtown, Kevan played for Notts County, Cardiff City, Stoke City, Maidstone United and Bournemouth, making a total of 181 League appearances. Kevan also played for the Scottish under-21 side.
After retiring as a professional player, Kevan joined the coaching staff of Stoke City. Kevan was appointed first-team coach in 2001, and later spent a spell as caretaker manager in October 2002. Kevan became Assistant Manager at Notts County in 2007, having held similar posts at both Stoke City and Burnley. Kevan rejected an approach from Crewe Alexandra to become their Assistant Manager. Following the sacking of Ian McParland, Kevan took charge for the next two games and when Hans Backe was named as manager Kevan was kept as Assistant Manager. Just seven weeks later he took the position of Caretaker manager against as Hans Backe resigned. He remained in charge until 23 February 2010, and reverted to his previous role as Assistant upon the appointment of Steve Cotterill as manager.

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Dave Stringer
Dave Stringer (born Great Yarmouth October 15, 1944), is a former player and manager of Norwich City football club.
As a player, he won the fans' vote to be Norwich City player of the year in 1972 and made a total of 499 appearances for the club. He ended his playing career with Cambridge United before returning to Norwich city to coach the youth team, winning the FA youth cup in 1984. He went on to manage the reserve team and was appointed first team manager on 9 November 1987 following the sacking of Ken Brown.
In his first season as Norwich manager, 1987-88, he guided the club to 14th place in the Football League First Division. The following season was arguably the best in the club's history, as they featured in the league title race and topped the league at several stages before finishing fourth, and also reached the semi finals of the FA Cup. They were one of several teams (the others including Liverpool and Nottingham Forest) who were in contention for the double that season, and perhaps the most unlikely. They finished 10th in 1990 but dipped to 15th in 1991, and their 18th place finish in 1992 was the closest they had yet come to relegation since being promoted in 1986. They reached the FA Cup semi finals again in 1992 and this time were faced with a seemingly far easier challenge than they had been faced with three years earlier (when they had clashed with Everton), as they were now paired with Sunderland who were a division below them. However, they were once again deprived of playing in their first ever FA Cup final as the Wearside club defeated them.

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David Ashworth
David Ashworth (1868 in Waterford – 1947) was an Irish football referee and manager, most notably managing Liverpool F.C. and Oldham Athletic.
He became the first manager of Oldham Athletic in 1906, spending eight successful years there before moving on to manage Stockport County in 1914 and staying with them through the First World War.
In 1920 he was appointed manager of Liverpool and in his first season in charge he guided them to their second successive season in 4th place, eight points behind the Champions Burnley.
The following season, 1921/22, Ashworth lead Liverpool to their third League Championship. The team were well on their way to a second successive Championship the following season, when in February 1923 Ashworth left the table-topping side to return to Oldham, then at the bottom of the league. Oldham ended the season relegated, while Liverpool only won one of their last seven games, but still won the Championship by six points.
Ashworth remained at Oldham for just over a year before moving to Manchester City, but he resigned in 1925 as the club struggled towards relegation. He next tried his hand in management with a brief spell with Walsall between 1926 and 1927.

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David Pleat
David John Pleat (born Nottingham, England on 15 January 1945) is an English football player turned manager and sports commentator.
He is remembered by his contemporaries primarily for his career as manager of Tottenham Hotspur and Luton Town football clubs, and for an oft-televised clip of him running onto the pitch in 1983 to celebrate after a last-minute goal by Raddy Antic against Manchester City prevented Pleat's team Luton Town from being relegated from Division One.
Pleat's first club as a senior player was Nottingham Forest (1962–64), which was his local club. From there he moved on to Luton Town (1964–67), Shrewsbury Town (1967–68) and Exeter City (1968–70), where he once played outside left against the team that he was later to manage, Tottenham Hotspur. His playing career ended with a stint at Peterborough United (1970–71), after which he turned to coaching and management.
He made 185 Football League appearances for his five clubs, scoring 26 goals.
As a winger, Pleat represented England at schoolboy and youth level.

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Derek Geary
Derek Peter Geary (born June 19, 1980 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish footballer, who plays as a full-back.
Derek is one of the few players to have played for both sides in Sheffield. He was signed by Sheffield Wednesday from Rivermount Boys of Finglas in Dublin, his only schoolboy club, on November 11, 1997, he made a total of 121 appearances for the Owls and won the player of the season award for the 2001-2002 season.
On July 26, 2004 he joined Stockport County and made 13 appearances before transferring to Sheffield United for £25,000 on October 22, 2004.
Geary became the third ex Sheffield Wednesday player to be signed by Neil Warnock that season (the others being Alan Quinn and Leigh Bromby).
Geary made his first start for the Blades in a 3-2 away victory over Crewe at the end of December. His one and only senior career goal came for the Blades in a 2-1 away victory over Millwall in December 2004 where he scored a late winner.
Making 26 appearances in the Premiership for the Blades in season 2006-07, he subsequently signed a contract extension to keep him at Bramall Lane for a further three years in July 2007.

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Des Walker
Desmond Sinclair "Des" Walker (born 26 November 1965 in Homerton, London) is a former England international footballer who is best remembered for his spells with Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday.
Walker, a pacy and hard-tackling central defender, was spotted playing locally in London and was signed by Forest in 1980 as an apprentice. Known for being unafraid of pitching youngsters into the first team if they were good enough, Forest manager Brian Clough, trying to build a second great side after his ageing European Cup winning team broke up, gave Walker his debut in March 1984 at the age of 18, just two months before the end of the 1983-84 First Division campaign in which Forest finished third and qualified for the UEFA Cup.
Forest made progress with Walker and his fellow young graduates from the youth academy gaining ground and plaudits. Further top half-finishes in the League were followed by a run to the semi-finals of the FA Cup in 1988 with Walker in outstanding form, to the extent that calls began to come from football observers for England coach Bobby Robson to select Walker to play for his country.

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Dietmar Hamann
Dietmar "Chimesie" Hamann (born 27 August 1973) is a German footballer who was most recently manager at Stockport County. Throughout his career, he has played for Bayern Munich, Newcastle United, Liverpool, and Manchester City primarily in a defensive midfield position. He also spent time at Milton Keynes Dons as a player/coach before joining Leicester City as a first team coach. He was a member of the German national side from 1997 until 2006.
Throughout his playing career Hamann gained a reputation for being a highly consistent and reliable player. He is highly respected by supporters of Liverpool due in large part to his involvement in the 2005 Champions League Final. Hamann has stated his ambition of becoming the manager of Liverpool in the future.
On 5 July 2011 Hamann was named as the new manager of Stockport County, replacing former manager Ray Mathias. He resigned from the post on 7 November 2011 after only four months with Stockport struggling in 17th place in the Conference National citing failure of a proposed takeover by Tony Evans.

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Don Howe
Donald 'Don' Howe (born 12 October 1935) is an English football player, turned coach and manager.
Howe was in the Springfield area of Wolverhampton in 1935 and spent his secondary education at St. Peter's Collegiate School.
Howe spent most of his playing career at West Bromwich Albion, joining the club as a youth player in December 1950. He turned professional in November 1952, but did not make his debut until 1955, against Everton. A full back, he played nearly 350 games for the Baggies in twelve years, as well as becoming a regular in the England team; he played in the 1958 World Cup, and won 23 caps in total.
Howe was signed by Billy Wright's Arsenal in 1964, and was made club captain. However, in March 1966 he broke his leg playing against Blackpool and never recovered well enough to play in the first team again. Howe retired from playing and became Arsenal's reserve team coach under Bertie Mee, then stepping up to first team coach after the departure of Dave Sexton in 1968. Arsenal won the Double in 1971 with Howe playing a crucial role, but not long after he returned to his old club, West Bromwich Albion, as manager.

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Don Megson
Donald Harry Megson (born 12 June 1936 in Sale, Cheshire) is an English former footballer and football manager.
Don Megson is regarded as one of Sheffield Wednesday's greatest servants. He was signed from Mossley in the Cheshire League by Wednesday in 1952. He made his first team debut in November 1959, becoming a regular in the side as a left-back and eventually taking up the role of club captain. It was as captain that he led his team to a lap of honour (the first to do so as a losing captain) after Wednesday's 3-2 defeat to Everton at the 1966 FA Cup Final. Don made 442 appearances (including 386 league appearances and scoring six goals) for Sheffield Wednesday before moving to Bristol Rovers in March 1970 for whom he made 31 league appearances and scored one goal.
He managed Bristol Rovers from 1972 to 1977, winning the 1972 Watney Cup in only his third game in charge. He coached the Portland Timbers of the North American Soccer League from 1978 to 1980. He also coached at A.F.C. Bournemouth for seven months in 1983. Both of his sons, Gary and Neil, have also played and managed professionally.

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Duggie Lochhead
Duggie Lochhead (16 December 1904 – 29 August 1968) was a Scottish professional football player and manager.
Lochhead played for Walsall, after signing from St. Johnstone. He also played for Norwich City scoring the first ever goal at Carrow Road.
After retiring as a player, Lochhead managed Norwich City between 1945 and 1946, and again from 1947 to 1950. Lochhead was in charge for 171 matches during that period, winning 57, losing 74 and drawing 40 games.
He also coached in Europe, including Galatasaray of Turkey, and Heracles Almelo of the Netherlands.

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Eamonn Holmes
Eamonn Holmes (born 3 December 1959) is a Northern Irish journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work on UK television, notably presenting GMTV and This Morning. He is married to TV presenter Ruth Langsford.
Holmes is a former pupil of Holy Family Primary School in Belfast and St Malachy's College on the Antrim Road in Belfast. He then studied journalism at the Belfast College of Business Studies.
Holmes worked for a business journal before joining UTV, where he hosted Farming Ulster before becoming a presenter on regional news magazine Good Evening Ulster.
Holmes later moved on to network presenting the 1980s daytime programme Open Air on BBC1.
Holmes started at GMTV in 1993, after appearing in 1992 as an earnest police constable in Inspector Morse.
One infamous interview occurred when American illusionist David Blaine appeared on the show on 29 August 2001. Holmes cites this interview with Blaine as the most awkward moment of his professional career and one of TV's bloopers when he refused to speak and gave him the "evil eye".

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Eddie Hopkinson
Edward Hopkinson (29 October 1935 – 25 April 2004) was an English football goalkeeper. He was born in Wheatley Hill, near Peterlee, County Durham.
During his club career he played for Oldham Athletic and Bolton Wanderers, the latter from 1952 to 1970, where he holds the club record for appearances. He earned 14 caps for the England national football team from 1957 to 1959, and was England's reserve goalkeeper at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Ashton United.

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Eddie Quigley
Edward "Eddie" Quigley (13 July 1921 – 18 April 1997) was an English football player and manager.
He was born in Bury, Lancashire, the son of Edward and Martha (née Rowley) Quigley.
He scored 179 goals from 337 appearances in the Football League playing as a centre-forward for Bury, Sheffield Wednesday, Preston North End and Blackburn Rovers in the post World War II era. He was transferred from Sheffield Wednesday to Preston for a fee of £26,500, which was at the time a British transfer record. He managed Blackburn Rovers and Stockport County.
He died in Blackpool in 1997 at the age of 75.

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Eric Webster
Eric Webster (born 24 June 1931) is an English former association football player and coach.
Born in Manchester, Webster began his career with Ardwick Lads Club, before signing for Manchester City, where he made one appearance in the Football League. After leaving Manchester City, Webster played with Ashton United, Hyde United, Nantlle Vale, Pwllheli and Stalybridge Celtic.
After retiring as a player, Webster managed Stalybridge Celtic, Hyde United, Runcorn and Ashton United, before moving to Stockport County to become a coach, eventually becoming full manager between 1982 and 1985.

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Fabrice Muamba
Fabrice Ndala Muamba (born 6 April 1988) is a footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers as a midfielder. He previously played for Arsenal and Birmingham City. Though born in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Muamba has represented England at under-21 level.
Muamba began his career in 2002, joining Arsenal's youth academy. After three years, he turned professional in 2005. He made his debut for Arsenal in the League Cup, but played only one other professional match for the club. Following a loan spell with Birmingham City, he made the move permanent in 2007. He stayed with Birmingham for one additional year, and left after making more than 70 appearances and making his England under-21 debut while with the team. He joined his present club Bolton Wanderers in 2008, where he has played almost 150 times.
Muamba was born in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). His father fled the country in 1994, because of his political views and arrived in the United Kingdom seeking asylum. In 1999, he was granted indefinite leave to remain, at which time he was joined by the rest of the family. They settled in east London, where Muamba attended Kelmscott School in Walthamstow. Despite having arrived in Britain aged 11, unable to speak English, he went on to achieve 10 GCSEs and A-levels in English, French and Mathematics.

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Frank Burrows
Frank Burrows (born 30 January 1944 in Larkhall) is a Scottish soccer manager, and former player.
Frank Burrows began his football career at Scottish club Raith Rovers. In 1965 he moved south to England and joined Scunthorpe United. Impressive performances as a defender for Scunthorpe led to him being signed by Swindon Town F.C. for the 1968–69 season as a replacement for the departing Mel Nurse. Burrows was a major factor in helping Swindon to their most successful ever season in which they won promotion and the League Cup.
Burrows played alongside team captain Stan Harland in the middle of a defence that conceded just 35 goals in 46 League matches. He went on to make over 350 appearances for Swindon. At the start of the 1973-74 season he was made a player coach, such was the feeling that he was a natural leader as well as a solid defender.
The 1975–76 season saw his coaching come more into prominence. The season had not gone well for Swindon with a defeat at the hands of Tooting & Mitcham United in the FA Cup and a slide down the Football League Division Three table into a perilous position.

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Frank Heaven
W. Frank Heaven (1873 - 26 December 1905) was a cricketer and football administrator.
Heaven was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham and was educated at Camp Hill Grammar School. He was a keen cricketer and played for a number of clubs, including Warwickshire Club and Ground and Smethwick CC. On 25 August 1896 he was appointed as secretary (manager) of West Bromwich Albion, his annual salary starting at £104. He became Albion's general financial secretary in June 1897, and helped to oversee the club's move to their new ground, The Hawthorns, in the summer of 1900. In May 1902 he was asked to resign his post following a disagreement over policy with Albion's directors. After a two year hiatus from football he served as secretary of Third Lanark in 1904-05. He died in Worcester in 1905.

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Frank McLintock
Francis "Frank" McLintock MBE (born 28 December 1939) is a Scottish former football defender who played for Leicester City, Arsenal and QPR.
Born in Glasgow and brought up in the Gorbals, McLintock started his career in the Scottish Juniors with Shawfield, before moving to Leicester City in 1957 as a wing half, making his debut for them in 1959. He spent seven years at Filbert Street, where he forged a celebrated half-back partnership with Colin Appleton and Ian King and was part of the revered "ice kings" team which chased the double in 1962-63. With Leicester he reached, but lost, two FA Cup finals (1961 and 1963) and a winning League Cup final (1964).
During this time he also made his debut for Scotland, against Norway on 4 June 1963, and in his third appearance for Scotland, against Spain on 13 June 1963, scored one of the goals in a 6–2 win. He made a total of 168 Football League appearances for Leicester.
In October 1964, he was signed by Arsenal for a then club record £80,000 and went straight into the first team. McLintock spent the next nine seasons with the Gunners, moving from midfield to centre half. He was a first-choice player throughout, and became the club's captain in 1967, and would go on to skipper the club during their period of success under Bertie Mee. He reached another two League Cup finals (losing both, in 1968 and 1969), and became so disheartened he handed in a transfer request in 1969. Arsenal manager Bertie Mee managed to persuade him to stay, and McLintock went on to win three major trophies in the space of two years.

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Frank Womack
Francis "Frank" Womack (16 September 1888 – 8 October 1968) was an English association football player and manager born in Stannington, Sheffield, Yorkshire. He still holds the league appearances record for Birmingham City playing 491 games and holds the league record for most games (511) by an outfield player without scoring a goal. He died in Caistor, Lincolnshire, at the age of 80.
Frank Womack began his professional football career in July 1908 when he joined Birmingham from Rawmarsh Albion, having previously played for Lapham Street. He made his league debut in September 1908, away to Gainsborough Trinity. He spent nearly his entire playing career at Birmingham, never signing a contract, and was club captain for 16 years from 1912 to 1928.
During his time at the club, they twice finished in 3rd place in the Second Division (1913, 1920) and won the Second Division in 1921 and were still in the First Division when Womack left in May 1928 to join Worcester City as player-manager. In his first season with Worcester, Womack guided them to the Birmingham League title and to the first round of the FA Cup. He returned to League football at the end of the season, joining Torquay United, where he played a further 19 league games and 1 FA Cup appearance.

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Fred Everiss
Fred Everiss (born 1882 in West Bromwich) was secretary-manager of the English football club West Bromwich Albion and also served the club as assistant secretary and later as a director.
Everiss joined Albion's office staff in 1896. He was appointed secretary-manager in 1902, a post he would hold until 1948. His 46 years in the job technically make him English football's longest serving manager of all time, although much of his combined role was administrative, and the job of picking the team was left to the directors. Indeed Albion did not create the full-time post of 'manager' until Everiss retired from his position, becoming a director until 1951.
Everiss' son Alan joined the Albion staff in 1933. He was associated with the club for 66 years, serving as clerk, assistant-secretary, secretary, director and life member. Alan died in 1999.
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Fred Scotchbrook
Fred Scotchbrook (April 1886–1959) was an English football player and manager, who managed Stockport County and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Scotchbrook followed his father into football, playing for non-league sides Gymnasium and his hometown Horwich, before joining Football League side Bolton Wanderers in 1914. However, he failed to make the grade as a professional and soon retired from playing to become a coach for the club, and later assistant-secretary.
He became manager of Stockport County in November 1924, where he narrowly saved them from relegation to the Third Division. The next campaign started badly though, as the team lose six of its opening seven fixtures, leading to Scotchbrook's dismissal in February 1926.
He was appointed manager of Second Division side Wolverhampton Wanderers the next month, after the sudden departure of Albert Hoskins. He took the club to a 15th place finish in his only full season at Molineux, 1926–27. After a heated exchange with the board of directors during an AGM in June 1927, where he questioned their policies, he was relieved of his duties. He left football after this.

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Fred Westgarth
Fred Westgarth (born in July 1887 in South Shields, England, died on February 4, 1957) was an English footballer though he is more renowned for his role as a manager.
Westgarth was a successful football coach after a playing career achieved little of note. He was South Shields' assistant trainer before he joined Ebbw Vale, Workington and Luton Town in a training capacity. In 1938 he joined Stockport County as trainer-manager.
In December 1936 he moved to Carlisle United not waiting to see his Stockport side win the Division Three (North) title that season. In March 1938 he resigned at Carlisle to move to Bradford City.
He helped Bradford to lift its first honour for ten years, albeit in only the Third Division North Challenge Cup, in 1938-39. The following season, World War Two interrupted English football. Westgarth stayed at City until 1943 when he joined Hartlepools United.
He had a successful spell at Hartlepools during the mid 1950s. In 1955 the club reached the 4th round of the FA Cup, its best ever performance. In 1956-57 Hartlepools narrowly missed out on winning Division Three (North). But in 1957 he was taken seriously ill and died on February 4 shortly after he saw his side lose 4-3 to Manchester United in the FA Cup Third Round in front of a record 17,264 crowd at Victoria Park.

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Gareth McAuley
Gareth 'Big G' McAuley (born 5 December 1979) is a Northern Ireland footballer who plays for West Bromwich Albion as a defender.
Coming from Glenoe outside of Larne and nicknamed "Big G", McAuley began his career at Linfield and spent some time in early 2000 on loan at Ballyclare Comrades. After four years at Linfield, he moved to Crusaders in the summer of 2000. After two successful seasons, he moved to Coleraine. During this period, he worked as a window draftsman.
In the summer of 2004, McAuley decided the time had come to look for a move into full-time football in the English Football League. After attracting interest from Lincoln City and Stockport County he linked up with Edgeley Park based club for a two week trial under the eye of the former Northern Ireland manager Sammy McIlroy who had given McAuley his first Northern Ireland B call-up. After impressing in his trial, McAuley seemed set to sign for Stockport but talks broke down and he instead joined Lincoln City on a two-year deal with Coleraine receiving £10,000 for his services. With Lincoln already boasting one of the strongest defences in League Two at the time of McAuley's arrival, he did not walk straight into the first team. His first few appearances for the club were all as a substitute, and often in the role of a target man striker.

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Gary Bannister
Gary Bannister (born 22 July 1960 in Warrington, Lancashire, England) is a former English professional footballer who played for Coventry City (two spells), Sheffield Wednesday, Queens Park Rangers, West Bromwich Albion, Oxford United, Nottingham Forest, Stoke City, Lincoln City and Darlington. He had a long 17 year career lasting from 1978 to 1995 during which time he made 564 appearances in league and cup matches plus 42 as substitute. Bannister played as a striker, being just 5 foot 7 inches (170 cm) tall and weighing little over 11 stone (70 kg) he relied on his pace and skill to score 199 career goals in all competitions. He made one appearance for the England Under 21 team against Poland in April 1982. A broken leg at the age of eleven meant that he has one leg two inches shorter than the other.
Bannister was born in Warrington, then in Lancashire. He joined Coventry City as an apprentice and graduated through their youth team to make his first team debut in May 1978. He made only 22 appearances, scoring three goals in over three years for Coventry City before moving to Sheffield Wednesday in a £100,000 deal in the summer of 1981. Bannister was a crowd favourite at Wednesday, he was top scorer in each of the three seasons he was there with 22 goals in each campaign. In his first season (1981–82) he was voted Player of the Year, and represented England at under-21 level. In 1983–84 he formed a feared partnership with Imre Varadi; the pair scored 41 goals between them as Wednesday returned to the First Division for the first time in 14 years.

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Gary Megson
Gary John Megson (born 2 May 1959 in Manchester) is an English former football player and manager.
He has previously managed Norwich City, Blackpool, Stockport County, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield Wednesday. His biggest successes so far came at West Bromwich Albion, where he won promotion to the Premier League in 2002 and again in 2004.
He is the son of former player Don Megson and the brother of Neil Megson, another former footballer.
As a player, Megson was a tough-tackling defensive midfielder who played for nine different clubs. He began his career at Plymouth Argyle, where he impressed enough for Everton to sign him for a £250,000 transfer fee. Megson struggled to establish himself in the Everton line-up, and after two years at Goodison, he moved to Sheffield Wednesday, where his father had once played, for a fee of £130,000.
Megson immediately gained a place in Wednesday's starting lineup, and was a member of the team that gained promotion to the top flight in 1983–84, ending a 14-year exile from the elite. In his three years at Hillsborough, he missed only three league games. In the summer of 1984, he was signed by Nottingham Forest, only for Brian Clough to decide "he couldn't trap a bag of cement". Megson spent five months at the City Ground, without making a single first-team appearance before being sold to Newcastle United.

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Gary Shelton
Gary Shelton (born March 21, 1958 in Nottingham, England) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Shelton came through the ranks at Walsall to become a first-team player, catching the eye of neighbours Aston Villa. He made an £80,000 switch to Villa Park in January 1978 but was to struggle to establish himself at the club. He made no appearances in the 1980–81 championship success and enjoyed just one more league outing before a £50,000 switch to Sheffield Wednesday in March 1982.
Shelton spent five years at Hillsborough, helping the club win promotion to the top-flight in 1984 and reach the FA Cup semi-finals two years later. In July 1987 Shelton moved to Oxford United for £150,000, but he was unable to prevent their relegation out of Division One and Littlewoods Cup semi-final loss to Luton Town.
Shelton was transferred again in August 1989, when he joined Third Division side Bristol City in a swap deal with future England manager Steve McClaren. His first season ended in promotion and Shelton was to enjoy a brief spell in joint caretaker charge of the club with Mark Aizlewood and Russell Osman in 1992.

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George Eastham
George Edward Eastham, OBE (born 23 September 1936 in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English former footballer. He is known for playing for Newcastle United, Arsenal and Stoke City, as well as a non-playing member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad. However, he is also notable for his involvement in a 1963 court case which proved a landmark in improving players' freedom to move between clubs.
Eastham was part of a footballing family — his father George Eastham, Sr., was an England international who played for Bolton Wanderers and Blackpool, while his uncle Harry Eastham played for Liverpool and Accrington Stanley.
Eastham junior first played for Northern Irish club Ards, where his father was player-manager, and the two played together on the pitch. A skilful midfielder/inside forward, he was signed by Newcastle United in 1956, and made his debut against Luton Town on 6 October 1956, in a match which finished 2-2. He spent four seasons with the Magpies and during his time there he won caps for the Football League and the England U23 side. He played 125 games for Newcastle, scoring 34 goals, their best finish during this time being eighth in 1959-60.

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George Mulhall
George Mulhall (born 8 May 1936) is a Scottish former footballer and manager.
Born in Falkirk, Scotland, Mulhall played as outside left who played at Aberdeen and Sunderland and was capped three times for Scotland before he became a manager for Bradford City, Bolton Wanderers and Halifax Town.
Two of George Mulhall's elder brothers had forged professional careers with Falkirk and Albion Rovers by the time he signed for Aberdeen on his 17th birthday. He had played at Denny YMCA and Kilsyth Rangers before moving to Pittodrie. He was limited to 110 games for Aberdeen, scoring 30 goals, but he helped the club to become Scottish League Division One runners-up in 1955–56 and the Scottish League Cup the same season.
In October 1959 he earned his first international cap when he scored in a 4–0 win over Northern Ireland. In September 1962 he signed for Sunderland for £25,000. Mulhall played more 250 appearances for Sunderland, where he still holds the record for the most consecutive appearances for the club - 125 - and scored 66 goals. He won another two caps, also against Northern Ireland, before moving to South Africa to play for Cape Town City. He stayed for two seasons before playing one final game for Greenock Morton.

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George Swindin
George Hedley Swindin (4 December 1914 – 26 October 2005) was an English football player and manager.
A goalkeeper, Swindin was born in Campsall, Doncaster, Yorkshire. He played as an amateur for various local clubs, including Rotherham United, before turning professional in 1934 with Bradford City. He played 26 times for Bradford City, before being signed by Arsenal in 1936 for £4,000. He made his debut against Brentford on September 3, 1936, and played nineteen games in his first season. To begin with, his time at Arsenal was characterised by nervous and erratic displays, and he was made to share the goalkeeping spot with Alex Wilson and Frank Boulton. However, he played seventeen games in 1937-38, the most of Arsenal's three keepers, and won a First Division medal.
The Second World War interrupted his career somewhat, but Swindin continued to play through the war for Arsenal, whilst acting as a PT instructor for the Army. In 1945, he made a guest appearance for Southampton.
By the time first-class football had resumed after the war, he became Arsenal's undisputed No. 1, and stayed there for the next six seasons. By now, he had put his erracticness behind him, and he was a commanding keeper who was especially known for his aerial ability and assured handling of crosses, as well as his strong physical resilience. He won his second League title in 1947-48. After the arrival of Ted Platt in 1950, Swindin was forced to share the goalkeeper's spot for 1949-50, but kept his place to play in the 1950 and 1952 FA Cup finals; Arsenal won the former against Liverpool, but lost to Newcastle United in the latter.

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Gerald Sibon
Gerald Sibon (born 19 April 1974) is a retired Dutch football player.
He featured for FC Twente in the 1993–94 season as a substitute but could only string together three games before deciding to sign for VVV-Venlo of the Eerste Divisie in the following season. After two successful seasons playing for VVV where he scored 34 goals, he joined Roda JC in 1996 and impressed with 13 goals back in the top-flight.
Sibon moved to Ajax Amsterdam in 1997 but was frustrated and hampered by a lack of first team action, having been relegated to the bench by the likes of Wamberto, Shota Arveladze, Georgi Kinkladze and crowd favourite Brian Laudrup. An offer by English Premiership club Sheffield Wednesday prompted Sibon to transfer to the Yorkshire club in 1999 for the price of £2 million. Joining him at Sheffield Wednesday were Dutch international Wim Jonk and the Belgian Gilles De Bilde.
After spending four seasons with Sheffield Wednesday, where he scored 43 goals overall for the club and was the club's highest goal scorer for three consecutive seasons, also winning two consecutive player of the year awards, he decided to return to the Eredivisie and joined SC Heerenveen in 2002. He featured for Heerenveen in 38 matches and scored 19 goals in two seasons before signing for PSV in 2004. He won the Dutch Eredivise title in 2004–05, contending with Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and Robert for a first team spot. In July 2006 he joined Bundesliga side Nuremberg on a free transfer. He left the club one year later, signing a two-year contract with his old team Heerenveen.

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Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957, Hayes, London) is an English former footballer and manager who played as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, AS Monaco, Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England.
In 2007 he was inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame which cited him as one of the most gifted English footballers of his generation exhibiting "sublime balance and close control, unrivalled passing and vision and extraordinary shooting ability, both from open play and set pieces".
He is currently running the Glenn Hoddle Academy in Spain, set up to help young British players return to professional football after being released by their clubs. Hoddle's younger brother Carl was also a footballer and died at the age of 40 from a brain aneurysm on 2 March 2008.
He has been manager of Swindon Town (earning promotion to the Premier League), Chelsea (taking them to the FA Cup final), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur (reaching a League Cup final) and most recently Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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Glenn Roeder
Glenn Victor Roeder (born 13 December 1955 in Woodford, Essex) is an English football manager and former player, most recently in charge at Norwich City. As a player, Roeder represented England B on 7 occasions. Roeder is currently Chief Scout at Aston Villa
Roeder failed to earn a scholarship at Arsenal and began his professional playing career at Leyton Orient, making his name as a classy ball-playing defender before moving to Queens Park Rangers.
At QPR, Roeder captained the team in the 1982 FA Cup Final but missed the replay due to suspension. During his time at Loftus Road, he was famed for his shuffle, known as the "Roeder Shuffle", a stepover that he used to extricate himself from tight spots and also to instigate attacking moves from the heart of the defence.^{[citation needed]}
During a successful loan spell at Notts County, (in which the team were undefeated) a transfer fee of £125,000 was agreed. The Notts Chairman Jack Dunnett agreed to match every penny the supporters donated for the fee.^{[citation needed]} Only £40,000 was raised, the transfer was not completed and Notts County were relegated that season.

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Glenn Whelan
Glenn David Whelan (born 13 January 1984) is an Irish footballer who plays as a centre midfielder from Premier League club Stoke City and the Republic of Ireland national team.
Whelan started his career at Manchester City but only made one appearance which came in the UEFA Cup and after a loan spell at Bury he moved on to play for Sheffield Wednesday, with whom he won promotion to the Championship in May 2005. In January 2008 Whelan joined Stoke City for a fee of £500,000 with whom he helped gain promotion to the Premier League.
Whelan started his career with Manchester City joining from Irish feeder club Cherry Orchard in 2001. He made one solitary appearance in the UEFA Cup coming on as a substitute for Paul Bosvelt against Total Network Solutions in August 2003, before joining Bury on a one-month loan the following month. After appearing in the Republic of Ireland's World Youth Cup campaign in November and December, he returned to Bury on another one-month loan on 24 December 2003.
Whelan joined Sheffield Wednesday on a free transfer in the summer of 2004. He was vital in securing a play-off place for the club, starting a total of 41 games and scoring four goals. Whelan was voted "man of the match" in the League One play-off final against Hartlepool United at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff after scoring the game-winning third goal for Wednesday.

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Gordon Milne
Gordon Milne (born 29 March 1937) is an English former footballer and football manager.
Gordon Milne, was born in Preston, Lancashire, England and is the son of the former Preston player Jimmy Milne, and son to Jesse Milne. He was a nephew to Richard Forbes Sutherland, and cousin to Richard William Sutherland and Walter Sutherland.
He had a successful playing career with amateur side Morecambe, Preston North End, Liverpool (1960–1967), Blackpool (1967–1970) and Wigan Athletic (1970).
He was one of Bill Shankly's first signings, when he moved from Preston North End for £16,000 in August 1960. He made his debut in the 1-0 2nd Division defeat at Anfield by Southampton on 31 August 1960, he scored his first goal in the 10th minute of a 2-1 league win over Newcastle United at St James' Park on 20 September 1961.
Milne was a successful right-half for Liverpool during the 1960s and played a prominent role in Liverpool's rise from the old Second Division, forming a partnership with Gerry Byrne. While at Anfield, he won First Division Championship medals in 1963-64 and 1965–66, a Second Division Championship medal in 1961-62 and two shared Charity Shield triumphs in 1964 and 1965.

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Graeme Souness
Graeme James Souness (

/ˈsuːnɨs/; born 6 May 1953) is a Scottish former professional football player and manager.
Souness was the captain of the successful Liverpool team of the early 1980s and player-manager of Rangers in the late 1980s as well as captain of the Scottish national team. He also played for Tottenham Hotspur, Middlesbrough and Sampdoria in a long career. Following his retirement from playing he managed Rangers, Liverpool, Southampton, Benfica, Galatasaray, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.
Souness now does media work and divides his time working as a pundit for RTÉ, ESPN, Sky Sports and Al Jazeera Sports.
Souness was brought up in the Saughton Mains area of Edinburgh, and supported local side Hearts and Rangers. As a teenager Souness played for local boys' club North Merchiston.
Souness's career began as an apprentice at Tottenham Hotspur under Bill Nicholson. He signed professional forms as a 15 year-old in 1968. Frustrated at a lack of first team opportunities, the teenage Souness reputedly informed Nicholson that he was the best player at the club. Souness made one solitary appearance for Spurs in the UEFA cup as a substitute.

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Graham Carr
William Graham Carr (born 25 October 1944 in Corbridge, Northumberland) is an English former professional footballer and football club manager. He is currently Head Scout at Newcastle United.
Carr, a half-back, joined his first professional club, Northampton Town in August 1962 and captained their reserve side before breaking into their first team. He played 27 times in Northampton's only season in the First Division. He moved to York City in June 1968 and then to Bradford Park Avenue in July 1969 where he was a regular in their final season in the Football League.
After leaving Bradford he moved into non-league football with Altrincham and Telford United, with whom he won an FA Trophy winners medal in 1971. He later played for Poole Town and Dartford, with whom he won the Southern League and gained an FA Trophy runners-up medal in 1974.
Carr's first job in management was as player-manager at Dartford. He briefly left management to play for Tonbridge and Weymouth before being appointed player-manager of Weymouth in January 1977.

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Graham Coughlan
Graham Coughlan (born 18 November 1974) is an Irish footballer who plays as a centre back for Southend United, while also acting as a player-assistant manager.
He began his career in his native Ireland with Bray Wanderers before being signed by Blackburn Rovers. He joined Livingston in 1999 and his performances for the Scottish club led to a transfer to Plymouth Argyle two years later. He was an integral member of the squad that won two Football League championships between 2002 and 2004, and was a favourite among supporters for his uncompromising style of play at the heart of their defence. Coughlan joined Sheffield Wednesday in 2005 before dropping down to League Two to play for Rotherham United. He moved on to Shrewsbury Town a year later and combined playing duties with coaching their young players. He signed for Southend United in July 2010.
Coughlan started his playing career at Leinster Senior League side Cherry Orchard, he then briefly moved to League of Ireland club Bray Wanderers. At 21 he was brought to England by then Blackburn Rovers manager Ray Harford but struggled to earn a place in the Premier League Champions' first team. Loan spells at Swindon Town and Livingston followed before he made a permanent move to the Scottish club in the Summer of 1999 having impressed whilst on loan there. Coughlan spent two successful seasons at Livingston before moving back to England to Devon club Plymouth Argyle.

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Graham Paddon
Graham Charles Paddon (24 August 1950 – 19 November 2007) was an English footballer who played as a midfielder.
Paddon made five League appearances for Coventry City, scoring one goal, before signing for Norwich City in October 1969 for £25,000. He played with the promotion winning team of 1972, and the team that reached the 1973 League Cup Final.
After 290 League appearances and 25 goals for the Canaries, Paddon joined West Ham United for £170,000 in 1973. He made 150 League and cup appearances and scored 20 goals in his three years at West Ham, featuring in the FA Cup Final of 1975 and the European Cup Winners' Cup Final of 1976. He also played in the Charity Shield match against Derby County at the beginning of the 1975–76 season. In 1975, West Ham sent him on loan to the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League.
Paddon rejoined Norwich for £110,000 in November 1976, and later played in the United States with the Tampa Bay Rowdies. On his return to England, he had a spell at Millwall where he made 5 League appearances and scored one goal. He finished his career in Hong Kong with Eastern AA.

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Graham Poll
Graham Poll (born 29 July 1963 in Tring, Hertfordshire) is an English former football referee in the Premier League and is considered the best English referee of the last 25 years in a list maintained by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). With 26 years of experience, he was regarded as one of the most prominent referees in the Premiership, often taking charge of the highest profile games. His final domestic game in a career spanning 1,544 matches was the Championship play-off final on 28 May 2007 between Derby County and West Bromwich Albion.
As well as refereeing the 2005 UEFA Cup Final he was the English representative at 2 World Cups and UEFA Euro 2000.
At the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, he refereed two matches successfully and, had he continued to receive high marks from assessors, would have been a candidate to take charge of the Final. However, in his third game, Croatia vs Australia, he cautioned the same player (left back Josip Simunic) three times before sending the player off. Poll retired from refereeing international tournament finals matches citing his error in the match. He continued to referee in the Premiership, Champions League and on International Games, but said he would not allow himself to be nominated to represent the FA at any Tournament Finals as he felt he had had his chance.

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Guðjón Þórðarson
Guðjón Þórðarson (born 14 September 1955) is an Icelandic former footballer and the current manager of Grindavík.
He has previously been manager of ÍA, KA, KR, Keflavík, Notts County, Iceland, Stoke City, Barnsley, Start in Norway, Crewe Alexandra and provincial Icelandic club BÍ/Bolungarvík, from which he was sacked in October 2011 after having guided the team to a 6th place finish in the B division and a semi-finals spot in the league cup, during his year in charge. On 7 November 2011 he was appointed new manager of Grindavík, succeeding Ólafur Örn Bjarnason, that had been manager and player of the club for one year, but resigned as manager so he could fully focus on his performance on the pitch.
Guðjón has three sons who also play professional football, namely: Bjarni, Joey and Þórður Guðjónsson.
Guðjón played over 400 matches for his hometown club, ÍA Akranes, scoring 22 goals in the process. In his career, Gudjon won 5 league titles and 5 cup titles. He also played 22 European games for ÍA Akranes.

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Harold Wightman
Harold Wightman was an English football manager, who managed Luton Town, Mansfield Town and Nottingham Forest.

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Harry Catterick
Harry Catterick (26 November 1919 – 9 March 1985) was an English football player and manager. As a player Catterick played for Everton and Crewe Alexandra, in a career that was interrupted by World War II, but he is most notable as a manager. After spells with Crewe and Sheffield Wednesday, with whom he won the Football League Second Division title, he took over at Everton and won the Football League twice and the FA Cup with the Merseyside club and is regarded as one of Everton's most successful managers. He finished his managerial career at Preston North End.
Catterick played at amateur level for Stockport County where his father, Henry, was a coach and for Cheadle Heath Nomads before signing for Everton in 1937 as an 18-year-old. Prior to turning professional, he was an apprentice marine engineer.
However, his professional career coincided with the Second World War so that his opportunities to play were limited. His wartime scoring record with Everton was an impressive 55 goals in 71 games. During the war, he also played for Manchester United and Stockport County.

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Harry Lockett
Harry Lockett (1855–1930) was an English association football manager and administrator.
Lockett was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1855 and died in 1930.
Lockett represented Stoke at the meeting in London which led to the formation of the Football League, and served as the League's first Secretary from 1888 to 1902. Lockett managed Stoke for their first two seasons in the League, although he began as manager in 1884. During his time at Stoke he was in charge for 55 games, which resulted in 13 victories, 33 losses, and 9 draws.

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Harry Potts
Harold "Harry" Potts (22 October 1920 – 16 January 1996) was an English football player and manager.
Born in Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, as was another well-known name in football, Bob Paisley. The duo spent much of their childhood playing various sports, but it was football that Potts loved most. A promising young footballer as well as a good scholar, he was forced to choose between sport and studies, and he chose football as his career.
Potts joined Burnley, who had one of the first youth-development systems in football; however, his own development was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, which came before he could make his début for the club. He served for the British Army mainly in India as a P.T. instructor. Although playing for the club a few times in wartime fixtures, his first league action for Burnley came after its conclusion. He took time to return to the form that saw him regarded as a promising youngster, but he eventually became a success as a Burnley player.

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Horace Austerberry
Horace Denham Austerberry (1868–1946) was an English association football manager.
Austerberry was born in Hanley, Staffordshire in 1868 and died in 1946.
Austerberry managed Stoke City from 1897 to 1908.
Austerberry spent 11 years in charge at Stoke, with the first 10 being in the First Division. He was also the first manager to lead the club in to the semi finals of a national cup competition by reaching the Semi-finals of the FA Cup in 1899. In 1907 Stoke were relegated and Austerberry left the club a year later.

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Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson (born 13 November 1943 in Sheffield) is a former English football player and manager, and has recently stepped down as a Non-Executive Director at Sheffield Wednesday after formerly relinquishing the chairman role to Milan Mandaric
Despite having a low profile playing career, Wilkinson embarked on a successful managerial career. He won the First Division championship in 1992 with Leeds United, the final season before the creation of the Premier League. To date, he remains the last English manager to win the top flight league in England. He later had two spells as caretaker manager of the English national team.
His son Ben is a professional footballer, who most recently played for Chester City but is now unattached after the club was dissolved.
Born in the Netherthorpe district of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Wilkinson began his playing career with local team Sheffield United, before joinging cross-city rivals Sheffield Wednesday. After making just 22 league appearances, between 1962 and 1966, he joined Brighton & Hove Albion where he played well over a hundred league matches as a winger, helping the club to win promotion to the then second division in 1972. His final club was Boston United. Whilst there, he won several Northern Premier League titles. It was at the Pilgrims where he began his managerial career, being appointed player manager in 1975. He won two more Northern Premier League titles as the manager.

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Ian Butterworth
Ian Stuart Butterworth (born 25 January 1964 in Cheshire) is a former professional footballer, formerly assistant and caretaker manager at Norwich City. He is currently " is the English anchor man and sole judge" for a Turkish television programme, "Futbol Prensi”, or "Soccer Prince".
Butterworth was a central defender who started his career at Coventry City then joined Nottingham Forest as part of a deal that also took future England international Stuart Pearce to Forest from Coventry. In September 1986 he joined Norwich City on loan before signing for the club permanently for a fee of £160,000 the following month.
He was a regular for 8 years at Norwich in the centre of defence until knee injuries forced him to retire. He played for the Canaries during what was arguably the finest part of their history so far. He helped them finish fifth in the league in his first season (a year after promotion), finish fourth and reach the FA Cup semi-finals in 1989, reach another FA Cup semi-final in 1992, finished a club best third in the new FA Premier League in 1993 and eliminate Bayern Munich from the UEFA Cup in his final season.

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Ian Greaves
Ian Denzil Greaves (26 May 1932 – 2 January 2009) was an English football player and manager. He was born in Crompton, Lancashire. He won a League Championship medal and an FA Cup runners-up medal while playing fullback for Manchester United between 1953 and 1960 . He was not with the United team when eight of their players died in the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958, as he was ruled out by injury.He was the first player to occupy the left-back position at United after the death of captain Roger Byrne at Munich.
After leaving United in 1960, he later played for Lincoln City and Oldham Athletic.
He took over the reins at Huddersfield Town in 1968 and led them to the Football League Second Division championship in 1969–1970.
After leaving Huddersfield in the summer of 1974 he joined Bolton Wanderers as assistant to Jimmy Armfield and when Armfield took over the vacant manager's position at Leeds United he was promoted to the top job, taking over a squad that included Sam Allardyce and Peter Reid. In his time there he again won promotion to the top division and also reached the League Cup semi-final while the club were still in the second division. Unfortunately, Bolton's First Division performance was disappointing and Greaves was sacked in early 1980.

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Ian Holloway
Ian Scott Holloway (born 12 March 1963) is an English football manager and former player. He became the manager of Blackpool in May 2009, and has guided the club to The Championship play-offs in both of their seasons in the division during his tenure, the first resulting in promotion to the Premier League. Holloway is well-known amongst football fans for his off-the-wall interviews, with a wide selection of quotes and soundbites being printed. Holloway's playing career spanned 18 years from 1981 to 1999. A midfielder, he began his career at hometown club Bristol Rovers in 1981, going on to play for Wimbledon, Brentford, Torquay United (on loan), back to Bristol Rovers for a second spell, Queens Park Rangers and, finally, a third spell back at Bristol Rovers, where he became player-manager before ending his playing career in 1999. Before his current job as Blackpool manager, he had also previously managed QPR, Plymouth Argyle and Leicester City. He is known by the nickname "Ollie", which is also the title of his autobiography.

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Ian McParland
Ian 'Charlie' John McParland (born 4 October 1961 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish former professional association football player and manager. He played professionally as a striker with a number of teams and he is most known for his eight year spell with Notts County, a club he later managed. He was most recently assistant manager at Swindon Town.
McParland grew up in Tranent, East Lothian and after leaving an apprenticeship with Sunderland due to homesickness worked for two years in the Lothian coal mining industry whilst playing for Ormiston Primrose. McParland was with Notts County from 1980 to 1988, and had caught the eye of then Forest manager Brian Clough who wanted to bring him to Forest as a player, though it was not to be.^{[citation needed]} After his time at Notts, McParland had spells at Hull City, Walsall, Dunfermline Athletic, Lincoln City, Northampton Town, Instant-Dict (Hong Kong), Eastern AA (Hong Kong), Hamilton Academical and Berwick Rangers.
McParland eventually went to Nottingham Forest as a coach. He was with Forest for over 10 years and was the reserve team coach for most of that time. When Gary Megson left the club in February 2006, he was put in temporary charge with Frank Barlow in a joint first team management role.

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Ian Porterfield
John "Ian" Porterfield (11 February 1946 – 11 September 2007) was a professional footballer, and an experienced football coach who worked at both club and international level for almost 30 years. Up until his death, he was the coach of the Armenian national team. He has the distinction of being the very first manager to be sacked in the FA Premier League, when he was fired by Chelsea. He replaced Alex Ferguson as manager of Aberdeen in 1986.
Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, at the age of 15 Porterfield had a trial for Leeds United but returned homesick to Scotland, where he joined Raith Rovers. Moving south of the border in 1967 he signed for Sunderland where he experienced his finest moment as a player when he scored the winner at Wembley in the 1973 FA Cup Final, giving them a shock victory over Leeds United, who were among the finest club sides in Europe at that time. He stayed at Sunderland for ten years, with a brief loan spell at Reading in 1976, before moving onto Sheffield Wednesday in July 1977, first as a player and then as player-coach.

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Imre Varadi
Imre Varadi (born 8 July 1959 in Paddington) is an English former professional footballer of Hungarian origin, known as a journeyman forward who appeared for 16 different clubs at all levels of professional football in England.
Varadi started out in non-league football with Letchworth before joining Sheffield United in 1978, shortly before his nineteenth birthday.
Varadi went on to become a nomadic journeyman, who rarely spent more than two years with any club and never made 100 league appearances in the colours of any team he played for.
From Sheffield United, he moved on to Everton, Newcastle United, Sheffield Wednesday, West Bromwich Albion, Manchester City, Sheffield Wednesday again, Leeds United, Luton Town, Oxford United, Rotherham United, Mansfield Town, Boston United, Scunthorpe United and finally had a spell as player-manager at Matlock Town. He was part of the Leeds United side that won the old First Division in 1992 but did not play enough games to earn a winner's medal.
He became a fully licensed FIFA Agent in March 2004 and provides commentary on games for both PA Sport and BBC Radio Sheffield.

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Ivan Klasnić
Ivan Klasnić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈiʋan ˈklasnitɕ]; born 29 January 1980 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a striker. He is currently a free agent having last played for Bolton Wanderers. He is also a player for the Croatian national football team. In 2007, Klasnić underwent a kidney transplant, and became the first player to participate in a major tournament (UEFA Euro 2008) after a transplant.
Klasnić started his professional career with local side St. Pauli, and impressed as a striker in the three and half seasons he played for the club in the Second Bundesliga since becoming a professional in January 1998. Prior to his spell at St. Pauli, he has played for less known amateur sides Union 03 Hamburg and TSV Stellingen.
After helping St. Pauli to gain promotion to the first division with 10 goals scored for the club in the second division during the 2000–01 season, he made the switch to Werder Bremen in the summer of 2001 and finally made his mark in the first team in 2003 with some powerful performances in the Bundesliga. His first two seasons at the club had been marked by erratic form (he scored only three goals in 36 Bundesliga appearances) and two serious knee injuries, but he laid old ghosts to rest as he emerged a key figure in Werder Bremen's march to the Bundesliga title in the 2003–04 season, when he also won the DFB-Pokal with the club. He scored 13 goals and made another 11 for his Brazilian strike partner Ailton. His expiring contract caused a scramble for his signature at the beginning of the year before he eventually decided to stay at Bremen.

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Jack Charlton
John "Jack" Charlton, OBE, DL (born 8 May 1935 in Ashington, Northumberland) is an English former footballer and manager who played for Leeds United in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and was part of the England team who won the 1966 World Cup. He is the brother of former Manchester United and England footballer Bobby Charlton.
Charlton was a part of the successful Leeds United side of the 1960s and 1970s, winning a league championship (1969), an FA Cup (1972), a League Cup (1968) and two Fairs Cups (1968 and 1971) and made a club record 773 appearances. He won 35 England caps and played in every game of the successful 1966 World Cup campaign. In 2006, Leeds United supporters voted Charlton into the club's greatest ever XI.
Charlton later became a manager of both domestic and international sides. In his first season as a manager, he led Middlesbrough to the Second Division title, for which he was voted Manager of the Year in 1974. He later took charge of the Republic of Ireland national team, and led them to their first ever World Cup in 1990, where they reached the quarter-finals.

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James McEwen
James McEwen (born Bootle, Liverpool, 16 October 1872; died 1942) also known as Jimmy McEwen or "Punch" McEwen was an English professional footballer and coach.
McEwen started his playing career with Bootle, before moving south to join Luton Town. After one season, he then joined Glossop North End for their first season in the Football League. At the end of the season, North End gained promotion to the First Division. The club then changed their name to Glossop but finished the 1899–00 seaason at the foot of the table.
McEwen then moved on to Bury, where he won the FA Cup in 1903, with a crushing 6–0 victory over Derby County. After three years at Gigg Lane, he returned for a spell at Luton Town (now in the Southern League), before joining Norwich City, initially as a player, before taking on the role of manager. McEwen was City's second manager, and was in charge for 43 matches between 1907 and 1908, winning 13, losing 20 and drawing 10 games
After leaving Norwich City he returned to Glossop as a player for the 1911–12 season. He then joined Fulham as a scout before in 1914 he joined Arsenal's coaching staff, working under manager George Morrell. After Morrell's resignation in 1915, McEwen took charge of first-team affairs at the club during the remained of World War I, becoming the de facto caretaker manager of the team, which played in the London Combination. After the war had ended he was replace by Leslie Knighton for the start of the 1919–20 season, but McEwen continued to stay with the club, working as a dressing-room attendant and as a coach under Herbert Chapman.

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Jeremy Peace
Jeremy Roland Peace (born 13 August 1956 in West Bromwich). Since June 2002 he has been the chairman of West Bromwich Albion F.C., a professional football club in the West Midlands, England.
Jeremy Peace was born in 1956 and educated at Shrewsbury School. He worked in accountancy, as a stock broker and in investment banking between 1974 and 1983. Until 1991, he was a major shareholder and director of Morland Securities PLC (later renamed Access Satellite International PLC) and then Sangers Photographics PLC (later renamed Quadrant Group PLC). Since that time, he has operated as a director and/or shareholder in various public limited companies, namely South Country Homes, Thomas Potts, London Town, e-primefinancial, EP&F Capital, Galahad Capital, Camelot Capital and West Bromwich Albion.
He joined the board of West Bromwich Albion as a Non-Executive Director on December 8, 2000, becoming Chairman in June 2002 following the resignation of Paul Thompson. The Company was taken private in 2005, with him owning a majority shareholding.

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Jesse Carver
Jesse Carver (7 July 1911 - 29 November 2003) was an English footballer, best remembered for his enlightened management of some of Europe's finest clubs.
Carver started out in football as a player, he was a centre half and had a rugged style of playing. During the 1933-34 season, he made one appearance for Blackburn Rovers who finished 8th that year in the old Football League First Division.
He moved further up North to play for Newcastle United, making his debut against Barnsley in August 1936; with Carver playing the Toon's highest finish was 4th in the old Football League Second Division (second tier of the league). After playing 70 times in the league and 6 in the FA Cup for Newcastle United, Carver's playing career was cut short by the Second World War. During the war years he worked as a policeman.
In the years following World War II football training still commonly took place without a football, aiming at running alone. It was even suggested that allowing players to kick a ball between matches would quench their thirst for the game. Carver was at the forefront of innovation in improving the skills, athleticism and theoretical knowledge of players and using the ball during training.

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Jim Gannon
James Paul "Jim" Gannon (born 7 September 1968) is a former footballer and football manager, who is now director of football and manager of Conference National team Stockport County. He started and finished his career as a player in Ireland, but made most of his professional appearances in the English Football League at Stockport County, where supporters elected him as a member of the Hall of Fame. He has also managed Dundalk, Motherwell, Peterborough United, and Port Vale.
Gannon began his playing career at Dundalk, but moved to English club Sheffield United in 1989. The next year he transferred to Stockport County, following a short loan spell with Halifax Town. He spent the next ten years at Stockport, becoming one of the club's most loyal servants, and helped the club to second place finishes in both the Second Division and Fourth Division, as well as two Football League Trophy finals. After leaving the club in 2000, he spent a season with Crewe Alexandra, before returning to Ireland with Shelbourne, winning two League of Ireland titles in his three years there.

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Jimmy Armfield
James Christopher "Jimmy" Armfield, CBE, DL (born 21 September 1935 in Denton, Lancashire) is an English former professional football player and manager who currently works as a football pundit for BBC Radio Five Live. He played the whole of his Football League career at Blackpool, usually at right back. Between 1954 and 1971 he played 627 games in all competitions, scored six goals, and spent a decade as the club's captain. He also captained the England national team fifteen times.
After Armfield's family moved to Blackpool from Denton, he was spotted in a practice match at Bloomfield Road by then-Tangerines manager Joe Smith. Armfield, who played on the left wing for that game, scored all of Blackpool's goals in a 4–1 victory. Impressed, Smith offered him a trial. On 27 December 1954, Armfield made his Blackpool debut at Portsmouth. Armfield recalled of the game: "That League debut at Fratton Park was not, I fear, a very conspicuous one for me. I found myself up against Gordon Dale, a very clever and strong winger with plenty of experience. He was far too good and we lost 3–0. Gordon really gave me the run-around, and I realised just how much I had to learn. They were a very good team in those days, and they scored a goal in about the first two minutes — and I hadn't touched the ball. We were three down after fifteen minutes."

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Jimmy Bloomfield
James Henry "Jimmy" Bloomfield (15 February 1934 – 3 April 1983) was an English football player and manager.
Born in Notting Hill, North Kensington, London, Bloomfield started his career at non-league Hayes before joining Second Division side Brentford in October 1952. After Brentford were relegated in 1954, Bloomfield was snapped up by Arsenal for £8,000 as a replacement for Jimmy Logie.
Bloomfield made his debut at the start of the season, against Everton on 25 August 1954, though he only played 19 times that season, and it wasn't until 1955–56 did he become a first-team regular. A powerful inside forward with a high work rate and accurate passing, Bloomfield was part of Arsenal's attack from 1955 to 1960, one of Arsenal's few stars during a mediocre period for the club. He won caps for England at U23 level (but never at full level) and the Football League XI, and also played in the London XI that lost the first Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final against FC Barcelona in 1958.
Bloomfield played 227 times for Arsenal, scoring 56 goals. However, with the arrival of George Eastham in 1960, Bloomfield lost his place in the team, and was sold to Birmingham City in November that year. Bloomfield spent four seasons with the Blues, reaching and losing another Fairs Cup final in 1961 (this time to Roma). He helped Birmingham win the 1963 League Cup, scoring a goal in the final itself as Birmingham overcame local rivals Aston Villa. In the summer of 1964 he returned to Brentford, and later had spells with West Ham United, Plymouth Argyle and Leyton Orient.

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Jimmy Case
James Robert Case (born 18 May 1954) is a retired English football player who shot to fame with the all-conquering Liverpool side of the 1970s and became known as a player with one of the hardest shots in the game.
Case was brought up in Allerton and was a distant neighbour of musician Paul McCartney on the council estate which had been built in the interwar years. He was a keen member of the local scouts. As a young teenager he was quite small for his age.
His credentials, however, were established locally when during a football game between the Garston Church Choir and the Allerton Scouts he gave the goalkeeper of the choir a hefty kick when the score was 23-22, with coats as goalposts. Jimmy established his reputation as a winner, if not a bad loser.
Even though Jimmy's team lost, his legend was born. There were subsequent games on Springwood Park where Jimmy played with such aces as John Gidman (Everton) and Billy Ashcroft (Middlesbrough).
Although small in stature, Jimmy graduated through the schools teams and then joined a tough dockers' side, Blue Union. The physical nature of these early games would have an impact on the rest of his football career.

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Jimmy Hagan
James (Jimmy) Hagan (21 January 1918 – 26 February 1998) was an English football player and manager born in Washington, County Durham, England. He played between 1938 and 1958 for Sheffield United and once for England. As manager he had his greatest successes with S.L. Benfica in the early 1970s.
Just one full England cap, 1948 versus Denmark in Copenhagen (0-0), does not do justice to one of the finest British footballers of his era. A two-footed inside forward with an astonishing repertoire of tricks, Jimmy was also a regular goalscorer. His career was interrupted by World War II, but he remains a legend amongst Sheffield United fans for his performances during nearly 20 years service at "the Lane".
Following in the footsteps of his father, Alf, a former Newcastle United, Cardiff City and Tranmere player, Hagan represented England at schoolboy level and after spells with Washington Colliery and Usworth Colliery; he joined the groundstaff of Liverpool before leaving for Derby County at fifteen years of age. He stayed at the Baseball Ground until the age of twenty when United's manager Teddy Davison met his Derby counterpart George Jobey and haggled over the £3,000 asking price, eventually agreeing to pay £2,925.

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Jimmy Jewell
Jimmy Jewell was an English association football manager. During his career he coached Norwich City.

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Jimmy McGuigan
James "Jimmy" McGuigan (1 March 1924 – 1988) was a Scottish professional football player and manager.
McGuigan, who played as a wing half, played junior football with Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic, before turning professional in 1946 with Hamilton Academical. After just one season in the Scottish Football League, McGuigan moved to England, playing in the Football League for Sunderland, Stockport County, Crewe Alexandra and Rochdale. McGuigan made a total of 334 League appearances between 1946 and 1959, scoring 48 goals.
After retiring as a player in 1959, McGuigan became a coach at former club Crewe Alexandra, before becoming manager in March 1960. After leaving Crewe in 1964, he later managed Grimsby Town, Chesterfield, Rotherham United and Stockport County. At Chesterfield, McGuigan won the 1969-70 Fourth Division title; he won the Manager of the Year award the same year.

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Jimmy McIlroy
James "Jimmy" McIlroy MBE (born 25 October 1931, Lambeg, near Lisburn, Northern Ireland) is a former football player, regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of Burnley Football Club.
Starting his footballing career at Belfast club Glentoran, McIlroy was signed by Burnley manager Frank Hill, who handed the youngster his league debut in the 1-1 draw against Sunderland at Roker Park in October 1950, just four days before his 19th birthday.
McIlroy's inclusion in the team was due to the sale of Harry Potts, his future manager of Burnley, who had just been sold to Everton.
McIlroy played in the second of the two greatest periods in Burnley's history, coinciding with Harry Potts's tenure as manager, when they became 1959-60 English League champions, appeared in the 1962 FA Cup Final and featured in European Competitions.
He played 439 times for the Clarets and scored 116 goals for the club. He is also Burnley's most capped international, appearing for his native Northern Ireland on 51 occasions, scoring 10 goals.

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Jimmy McMullan
Jimmy McMullan (26 March 1895 in Denny, Stirlingshire – 28 November 1964) was a Scottish football player and manager. McMullan won 16 Scotland caps as a player at half-back and was part of the famous "Wembley Wizards" side of 1928.
McMullan was born in Denny, Stirlingshire in 1895. He began his football career with junior side Denny Hibernian in 1911 before graduating to the Scottish League with Third Lanark the next year. Initially considered an inside left, by the time he joined Thirds Glasgow rivals Partick Thistle in 1913 he played predominantly as a left half. He stayed eight seasons with Thistle but missed out on participating in their Scottish Cup winning side of 1921 through injury. In 1920 he won the first of his sixteen caps for Scotland against Wales in a 1-1 draw in the 1920 British Home Championship. McMullan is considered to have been the greatest Scottish half-back of his day,. McMullan was an ever present in the 1921 British Home Championship which was won by Scotland.
In the close season of 1921 McMullan became embroiled in controversy. Partick turned down a £5,000 offer from Newcastle United for his signature and the player, determined to play in English football, signed for non-league Maidstone United as player-manager. He returned to the Glasgow club in the summer of 1923. McMullan helped Scotland to victory in the 1925 British Home Championship and was part of the Scotland team which defeated England 2-0 (Hughie Gallacher scored both goals). In February 1926 he eventually earned his long-desired move to the Football League aged 30, when Manchester City signed him for £4,700.

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Jimmy Meadows
James "Jimmy" Meadows (21 July 1931 – January 1994) was an England international who started his playing career in 1949 at Third-Division Southport, with whom, later in life, he had his most successful period in management. He took them to the 1972–73 Fourth Division championship with 62 points, a feat which Bill Shankly described at the time as tougher and more meritorious than his own championship with Liverpool that same year.^{[citation needed]}
Meadows was also caretaker manager of a number of other clubs, notably Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers and GIF Sundsvall (1976). His longest appointment was a two-and-a-half year spell at Stockport County in the late 1960s, and he returned there for a season in 1974. In between, he had a bizarre 81-day spell in charge of Bolton in 1971 as team manager to Nat Lofthouse's general managership. This spell saw the club virtually condemned to their first-ever period in the Third Division.
Jimmy Meadows played for Manchester City in their 1955 FA Cup Final defeat to Newcastle. He was injured in the 17th minute in an attempted tackle down by his own corner flag. As substitutes weren't allowed in the English game until 1965–66, City had to play the rest of the game with ten players resulting in Newcastle winning 3–1. Meadows frequently went on tour with England during his international career.

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Jimmy Melia
Jimmy Melia (born Liverpool, Merseyside, England on 1 November 1937) is a former English footballer who spent most of his career playing for Liverpool and went on to become a manager.
Jimmy joined the Reds straight from St. Anthony's School as a 15 year old, when manager Don Welsh saw the potential in the young schoolboy international's feet, he signed professional forms on his 17th birthday, 1 November 1954. He made his debut aged 18 on 17 December 1955 at Anfield in a 2nd Division fixture, Nottingham Forest were the visitors and came up against an in form Billy Liddell who scored a hat-trick in the 5–2 victory, Jimmy also scored his first goal for the club in the 48th minute, John Evans got the other.
Although Jimmy received rave reviews about his performance, Welsh held him back and brought him in to the set up slowly; it wasn't until the following season that he got a real run in the side starting 27 matches. Melia followed this up with a 36 match season scoring 10 goals; he had made his name and would be difficult to shift.

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Jock Rutherford
John "Jock" Rutherford (12 October 1884 – 21 April 1963), also known as Jackie Rutherford, was an English footballer.
Born in Percy Main, Northumberland, Rutherford was known for his longevity; he played nearly six hundred Football League and FA Cup matches, despite four seasons of football being cancelled due to World War I. He started his career at Newcastle United, making his debut in 1902 against West Bromwich Albion, scoring twice. Nicknamed "the Newcastle flyer", he spent ten seasons at the Magpies, as a right winger renowned for his pace and close control. Newcastle were a dominant force at the time; Rutherford picked up three First Division medals, and played in no fewer than five FA Cup finals (1905, 1906, 1908, 1910 and 1911), though Newcastle only won the 1910 final against Barnsley, winning 2–1 in a replay after a 1–1 draw; Rutherford himself scored the equaliser in the first match, in the very last minute of normal time.
While at Newcastle, Rutherford also played for England, making his debut against Wales on 9 April 1904. He went on to win eleven caps for his country and score three goals, making his last appearance against Bohemia (a country that technically did not exist at the time) in 1908.

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Joe Kinnear
Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kinnear (born 27 December 1946) is an Irish football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Newcastle United. Kinnear played as a defender, spending the majority of his career — ten seasons — with Tottenham Hotspur. With Tottenham he won the FA Cup, the Football League Cup twice, the FA Community Shield and the UEFA Cup. Kinnear was born in Dublin, moving to Watford, England at the age of seven. He was capped 26 times for the Republic of Ireland national football team.
Joe Kinnear moved to England at the age of seven. His father died when he was young and his mother brought up five children on a council estate in Watford.
Kinnear first made an impression as a player with St Albans City and North Watford Youth Football Club (Manager Charlie Pinnington). His talent as a defender was quickly recognised and in 1963 he moved to Tottenham Hotspur where he spent ten years, playing in the 1967 FA Cup final against Chelsea, a game Tottenham won 2–1. Kinnear made almost 200 league appearances for Tottenham, chipping in with two league goals. He won four major honours during his time at the club: the FA Cup in 1967; the UEFA Cup in 1972 and the Football League Cup on two occasions (in 1971 and 1973). In 1975, he moved to Brighton, where he made 16 appearances before retiring at the relatively young age of 30.

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Joe Schofield
Joseph Alfred "Joe" Schofield (1 January 1871 – 29 September 1929) was an English footballer and football manager.
A winger, he played for Stoke between 1891 and 1899, winning himself three England caps in the process. He was later appointed as Stoke's manager in 1915, before he left the post in 1919. He took up the reins at nearby Port Vale in March 1920. He remained in charge at Vale until his death nine years later. Though he did not pick up any major honours with either Stoke or Vale, he is considered a legend at both clubs as he played for Stoke in the First Division for eight years, and managed Vale in the Second Division for nine years.
A native of Hanley, Schofield joined nearby Football League club Stoke in September 1891. He made a goalscoring debut at the Victoria Ground in a 3–0 league win over Burnley on 10 October, and scored again in his next two matches, against Derby County and Aston Villa. He finished the season as the club's top scorer with 12 goals in 20 appearances. He was again top-scorer in 1892–93 with 13 goals in 30 appearances, including a hat-trick in a 3–3 draw with Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park on 25 February. Schofield was again top-scorer in 1893–94 with 16 goals in 30 games. The "Potters" struggled in the 1894–95 season, and were forced to play against Second Division high-flyers Newton Heath in a test match in order to retain their First Division status – Stoke won the match 3–0, with Schofield getting two of the goals; over the course of the campaign he was the club's joint-top scorer (with William Dickson), with 13 goals in 31 games.

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Joey Jones
For other persons named Joey Jones, see Joey Jones. For other similarly named people, see Joseph Jones or Joe Jones.
Joseph Patrick "Joey" Jones (born 4 March 1955 in Llandudno) is a former Wales international football full-back who played for Liverpool for three seasons, including the 1977 season, in which they chased "the European Treble".
Jones joined Wrexham in 1971. He made his debut at the age of 17 in a Welsh Cup tie against local rivals Chester City; Wrexham lost 1–0. He did, however, win the Welsh Cup with the club in 1975, when they beat Cardiff City in the final. Jones established himself as a right-back and helped Wrexham to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in 1974, the first time the club had reached that stage.
Jones left Wrexham to join his boyhood heroes, Liverpool (he has a Liverbird tattooed on his forearm)^{[citation needed]}, when Bob Paisley paid £110,000 for his services in July 1975. He made his debut on 16 August in a 2–0 league defeat to Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road. He missed out on a league championship medal in 1975–76, as he did not quite play enough matches to qualify.

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Johan Boskamp
Johannes ("Johan") Boskamp (born October 21, 1948 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch football manager, his most recent job was in Belgium managing KSK Beveren, but he was dismissed in late December 2009
His former clubs as a player include RVV HOV, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Holland Sport, R.W.D. Molenbeek (with whom he won the Jupiler League in 1975), and Lierse S.K.. Boskamp was furthermore voted Belgian Golden Shoe winner in 1975. He was part of the Dutch team for the 1978 FIFA World Cup, making one substitute appearance against Scotland.
Later Boskamp became a manager and coached Belgian clubs Lierse S.K., Verbroedering Denderhoutem, K.S.K. Beveren, K.V. Kortrijk, R.S.C. Anderlecht, K.A.A. Gent, and K.R.C. Genk, Georgian side FC Dinamo Tbilisi and also the Georgia national football team. After coaching Al Wasl FC of UAE and Kazma Sporting Club of Kuwait in the Middle East, he became manager of English side Stoke City for the 2005–06 season. He was then briefly manager at Standard Liège in 2006.
In November 2007 he became coach of another Belgian club: FCV Dender EH, on 19 May 2009 the has quit Dender after an argument with his coaching assistant Patrick Asselman, who has been named new coach.

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Johan Elmander
Johan Erik Calvin Elmander ([ˈjuː.ˈan ɛlˈmɑndɛr]; born 27 May 1981 in Alingsås) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a striker for Galatasaray and the Sweden national football team. He joined in a free transfer after his contract with English club Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League expired. Elmander has scored sixteen goals in 62 games for the Swedish national team, and was chosen to represent his country at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008. His 2-0 goal away to Wolverhampton Wanderers on 13 November 2010 was voted the greatest Premier League goal ever in a poll by The Guardian.
Elmander started his career as a striker for Swedish clubs but changed to a center midfielder Holmalunds IF and Örgryte, before making the move to Dutch club Feyenoord at the age of 18 where he continued to be used as a midfielder. Although never a first team regular, he came on as a substitute in the 2002 UEFA Cup final 3–2 win against German team Borussia Dortmund.
Elmander was subsequently put on loan back in Sweden with Djurgården, where he won the Double of both Allsvenskan championship and Swedish Cup title in 2002 and Allsvenskan in 2003, however he wasn't awarded any medal since he played too few matches. He also debuted for the Swedish national team, in a February 2002 friendly match against Greece. In 2003, he was loaned out to Feyenoord's Dutch league rivals NAC Breda.

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John Baynes
John Baynes (1758–1787), was an English lawyer and miscellaneous writer.
Batnes was born at Middleham, Yorkshire in 1758, and educated at Richmond Grammar School in the same county, under the Rev. Dr. Temple. Proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated B.A. in 1777, gaining one of Dr. Smith's prizes for philosophy and the first medal for classics. In 1780 he took his M.A. He was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1778 or 1779, and read law with Allen Chambre. In 1779 he was elected a fellow of Trinity, and remained one till his death. Besides practising as a special pleader, Baynes turned his attention to politics, and like his tutor, John Jebb, became a zealous whig. He joined the Constitutional Society of London, and took an active part in the meeting at York in 1779. At the general election of 1784 he supported the nomination of Wilberforce for Yorkshire, and inveighed against the late coalition of Portland and North.
Shortly before his death Baynes, with the junior fellows of Trinity, memorialised the senior fellows and master on the irregular election of fellows, but they were only answered by a censure. The memorialists appealed to the lord chancellor as visitor of the college, and the censure was removed from the college books. Baynes contributed political articles to the London ‘Courant.’ He wrote (anonymously) political verses and translations from French and Greek poems; specimens of these are published in the ‘European Magazine’ (xii. 240). He is mentioned by Dr. Kippis as supplying materials for the ‘Biographia Britannica.’ The archæological epistle to Dr. Milles, dean of Exeter, on the poems of Rowley is generally ascribed to Baynes, because it passed through his hands to the press; but he emphatically disclaimed the authorship. He intended to publish a more correct edition of Coke's ‘Tracts,’ but he died before his time in London from a putrid fever, on 3 August 1787, and was buried by the side of his friend Dr. Jebb in Bunhill Fields.

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John Deehan
John Matthew Deehan (born 6 August 1957) is an English former footballer who in recent years has had several spells in coaching and management. He is currently holds the position of Director of Football at Plymouth Argyle.
Born in Solihull, as a player Deehan was a striker who is best known for productive spells with Aston Villa and Norwich City. With Villa he was a member of the team that won the 1977 Football League Cup Final against Everton and was a member of the Norwich sides which won the 1985 Football League Cup Final and the Second Division championship in 1986. On 24 January 2012 he was appointed as Director of Football at League Two club Plymouth Argyle. Argyle stood at 22nd in League Two at the time of his appointment.
He was a competent goalscorer from an early age, breaking the 10-goal barrier in the league for three successive seasons by the age of 22. He was initially less successful after leaving Villa Park in September 1979 to sign for Villa's local rivals West Bromwich Albion, managing just five goals from 47 league games over the next two years, but recaptured his form after joining Norwich City in December 1981. He scored 20 league goals in his first full season at Carrow Road and managed 15 and 13 goals over the next two seasons, although he was unable to save the Canaries from relegation in 1984-85.

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John Hollins
John William Hollins MBE (born 16 July 1946) is a retired English footballer and manager. He was initially a midfielder who, later in his career, became an effective centre back.
Hollins' son, Chris Hollins is the main sports presenter on BBC Breakfast.
Born in Guildford, Surrey, Hollins was born into a footballing family – his father, grandfather and three brothers were all professional footballers as well. One brother, Dave, played international football for Wales.
He joined Chelsea as a youth player and made his debut for the Blues against Swindon Town in September 1963 aged only 17. A talented and hard-running midfielder, usually wearing the number 4 shirt, he was known for his dedicated attitude to the game and went on to become a regular and eventually club captain. Hollins played 592 games, and scored 69 goals in his first spell at Chelsea, and was part of the successful Chelsea sides of the mid-1960s and early 1970s, at one point making 167 consecutive appearances, a club record.
Hollins played in both legs of the 3–2 aggregate victory over Leicester City in League Cup final in 1965 and the loss to Tottenham in the FA Cup final two years later. In 1970, he played a significant part in Chelsea's hard-fought FA Cup final win over Leeds United, supplying the cross for Ian Hutchinson's late headed equaliser at Wembley. Chelsea eventually won 2–1 in the replay at Old Trafford. They won the Cup Winners' Cup in Athens against Real Madrid a year later, again after a replay, but Hollins missed the second match due to an injury. He was Chelsea's player of the year two years running. While at Chelsea, he also won a solitary England cap, against Spain, on 24 May 1967.

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John Trewick
John Trewick (born 3 June 1957) is an English football coach and former midfielder. He is currently Senior Coach at Shrewsbury Town. He was first team coach at Hereford United from 2004-2009. After the relegation of Hereford United to League Two, Trewick assumed the role of manager from Graham Turner, but he was dismissed from the Hereford manager's post on 8 March 2010.
Born in Bedlington, Northumberland, Trewick started his career at West Bromwich Albion and played nearly 100 league games for the club during the late 1970s. He also played six times in the UEFA Cup during the 1978–79 season, scoring one goal against Galatasaray.
During West Brom's visit to China he entered football history by, in reply to a question about the Great Wall, remarking "Impressive, isn't it? But once you've seen one wall, you've seen them all!". Trewick maintains the TV documentary gave the wrong impression and he was merely joking.
He moved to Newcastle United in 1980 for £250,000, which was a club record fee at the time for the Magpies. His time at Newcastle was somewhat affected by injury, although he enjoyed a successful loan spell at Oxford United, whom he later joined on a free transfer in 1984. Trewick played in every league game for Oxford during the 1984–85 season. The following season he was part of the team that won the League Cup.

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John Wile
John David Wile (born 9 March 1947 in Sherburn, County Durham) is an English former footballer and manager.
Wile played as a central defender for Sunderland, although he did not play a Football League match for them. In 1967–68 he signed for Peterborough United, having had a trial there first. He made 130 senior appearances for The Posh between 1967 and 1970.
Wile then joined West Bromwich Albion in December 1970. He spent more than 12 years at Albion, and was club captain during and after Ron Atkinsons spell as manager. Wile made a total of 619 senior appearances for Albion.
His most famous moment came when he played with blood pouring from a headwound during the 1978 FA Cup semi-final against Ipswich at Highbury. After leaving Albion in June 1983, Wile returned to Peterborough as player-manager after missing out on a similar post at Bolton Wanderers a year earlier. He later returned to West Bromwich as managing director, a position he occupied from 1997 through to 2002.
In 2004 he was named as one of West Bromwich Albion's 16 greatest players, in a poll organised as part of the club's 125th anniversary celebrations.

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Johnny Carey
John Joseph "Johnny" Carey (23 February 1919 in Dublin, Ireland – 22 August 1995 in Macclesfield, England), also known as Jackie Carey, was an Irish footballer and manager. As a player Carey spent most of his career at Manchester United, where he was team captain from 1946 until he retired as a player in 1953. He was also a dual internationalist, playing for and captaining both Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI. In 1947 he also captained a Europe XI which played a Great Britain XI at Hampden Park. In 1949 he was voted the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year and in the same year captained the FAI XI that defeated England 2–0 at Goodison Park, becoming the first non-UK team to beat England at home. Carey was also the first non-UK player and the first Irishman to captain a winning team in both an FA Cup Final and the First Division. Like his contemporary Con Martin, Carey was an extremely versatile footballer and played in nine different positions throughout his career. He even played in goal for United on one occasion.

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Johnny Giles
Michael John "Johnny" Giles (born 6 November 1940, in Ormond Square,Dublin, Ireland) is a former association footballer and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. Since retirement he has served as "the Senior Analyst" on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football.
Giles grew up in Ormond Square, a working-class area of inner-city Dublin, where he developed much of the skills that would aid him in becoming a professional footballer. He was encouraged to enter the game through his father Christy who played for Bohemians in the 1920s and managed Drumcondra during the 1940s.
The FAI voted Giles as the greatest Republic of Ireland player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004. In 2006, he was chosen by supporters at Elland Road as a member of the best ever Leeds United XI.
England's World Cup winning manager, Sir Alf Ramsey, said of Giles' influence as a player on English football:
"As I look at all the talent and character at my disposal today, my one regret is that John Giles wasn't born an Englishman."

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Keith Burkinshaw
Harry Keith Burkinshaw (born 23 June 1935 in Higham, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English former professional footballer and football manager.
Burkinshaw began his footballing career with Midland League side Denaby United while working at Dodworth Colliery. He had a brief spell as an amateur with Wolverhampton Wanderers before joining Liverpool in November 1953. He played just once for Liverpool, against Port Vale in April 1955, moving to Workington in December 1957 for a fee of £3,000. He was player-manager of Workington between November 1964 and March 1965, leaving to join Scunthorpe United in May 1965, having played 293 league games for Workington. He played a further 108 league games for Scunthorpe, and had a short spell as caretaker manager before retiring from playing in May 1968.
Shortly after announcing his retirement, Burkinshaw moved to Zambia where he coached for a few months before returning to England as coach of Newcastle United. He was sacked by Newcastle in May 1975 and joined Tottenham Hotspur as coach the same month.

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Kerry Dixon
Kerry Michael Dixon (born 24 July 1961, in Luton) is a retired English professional footballer who played most notably for Chelsea and England.
A tall and athletic striker who had pace, an impressive heading ability and was effective with both feet, Dixon started out as an apprentice with Tottenham Hotspur but was released before ever playing for the club.
After spells with Chesham United and Dunstable, he got his first taste of League football with Reading, who signed him for £20,000 in 1980. He scored 51 league goals in 116 appearances for the then Third Division club, including four in a 7–5 defeat at Doncaster Rovers in September 1982.
After his Reading days, Dixon signed with Chelsea in August 1983 by manager John Neal. Chelsea chairman, Ken Bates initially hesitated when faced with the £150,000 transfer fee plus an additional £25,000 if Dixon ever played for the England national side, but relented and the deal went ahead. Dixon arrived as part of Neal's radical re-building of the side and was joined in the same summer by Pat Nevin, Nigel Spackman, Joe McLaughlin and Eddie Niedzwiecki.

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Kevin Keegan
Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born 14 February 1951) is a former international footballer and former manager of the England national football team and several English clubs, most notably Newcastle United.
As a player in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been described as "arguably the first superstar English player to attract the modern media spotlight". He began his playing career at Scunthorpe United in 1968, before moving to Liverpool of Division One in 1971. At Liverpool, Keegan won three First Division titles, two UEFA Cups, one FA Cup and the European Cup. He also gained his first England cap in 1972, and moved to German top-flight club Hamburger SV in the summer of 1977. At Hamburg he was crowned European Footballer of the Year in both 1978 and 1979, won the Bundesliga title in 1978–79, and reached the European Cup final the following year. Keegan moved to Southampton that summer, and spent two seasons at the club before a transfer to second-tier Newcastle United in 1982. He helped Newcastle to promotion in his second season, and retired from football in 1984, having been capped 63 times for England, scoring 21 goals.

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Lawrie Madden
Lawrie Madden (born September 28, 1955 in Hackney), is an English former professional footballer, who played in The Football League for eight different clubs between the 1970s and 1990s. He was a member of the Sheffield Wednesday side that won the 1991 League Cup.
His final league side was Chesterfield, who he joined in October 1993 and left towards the end of the 1995–1996 season. His final League match was for Chesterfield at Oxford United, on 12 August 1995.

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Lee Chapman
Lee Chapman (born Lincoln, 5 December 1959) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker from 1978 until 1996, in which he scored almost 200 first-team goals.
He is best known for spells with Stoke City, Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest and West Ham United. He also played for Plymouth Argyle, Arsenal, Sunderland, Portsmouth, Southend United, Ipswich Town and Swansea City. As well as this he played in both France and Norway for Chamois Niortais and Strømsgodset IF, and was capped by both the England U21 and England B teams.
Chapman began his career at Stoke City, but made his league debut whilst on loan at Plymouth Argyle. On his return to Stoke, Chapman quickly became a first team regular, scoring made 34 goals in 99 appearances between 1979 and 1982.
His goal scoring abilities brought him to the attention of Division One clubs, and in August 1982 Chapman moved to Arsenal for £500,000. However, the move was not a success - he made only 23 appearances for the club between 1982 and 1984, and scored a meagre 4 goals. Chapman moved on to Sunderland for the 1983-84 season, but again failed to establish himself in the team, scoring just 3 goals in 15 appearances.

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Len Ashurst
Len Ashurst (born 10 March 1939 in Liverpool) is a former footballer, manager and football administrator in England.
As a player, Ashurst was a left-sided defender. He joined Liverpool in 1953 as an apprentice. After being released, he joined Sunderland in 1957, where he would go on to spend 14 years. He made his debut the following year against Ipswich Town and went on to make 458 appearances for the club; putting him 2nd in the all time appearances list in Sunderland's history, and one of only two outfield players to top 400 appearances. He scored four Sunderland goals during his time at the club.
In the late sixties, alongside Jimmy Montgomery, Cecil Irwin, Martin Harvey, Charlie Hurley and Jim McNab, Ashurst formed one of the most notable and most settled back fives in Sunderland's history.
After receiving a testimonial match against Newcastle United, Len was given a free-transfer to Hartlepool United where he became a player-coach. After finally retiring from playing in 1973, Ashurst managed Gillingham, Sheffield Wednesday, Newport County and Cardiff City before returning to Sunderland as manager in March 1984.

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Les Chapman
Leslie "Les" Chapman (born 27 September 1948) is an English former football player and manager and legendary Kit Man at Manchester City F.C. As a player, he made 749 appearances in the Football League in a career that spanned 22 seasons, playing for Oldham Athletic, Huddersfield Town, Stockport County, Bradford City, Rochdale, Stockport County and Preston North End, and also spent a season in the North American Soccer League with the San Jose Earthquakes. As a manager, he took charge of Stockport County and Preston North End.
Chapman was born in Royton, Lancashire and as a youngster played for Chadderton Boys before going on to play for Huddersfield Town's youth team during his schooldays. He spent the first months of his working life as a trainee accountant with Middleton Council before being recommended to Oldham Athletic, where he signed as a professional. He made his first-team debut as an 18-year-old against Bristol Rovers in February 1967, but went back to Huddersfield Town in September 1969.^{[citation needed]}

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Les Shannon
Leslie "Les" Shannon (12 March 1926 – 2 December 2007) was an English football player and manager.
Shannon was born in Liverpool; a centre-forward, he started his playing career with his hometown club of Liverpool in November 1944. He made his debut for the Reds four years later, against Manchester City at Anfield on 17 April 1948, as a substitute for Albert Stubbins. His only goal for the Merseyside club came the following season, in a 2-1 win at Sheffield United on 30 August 1948.
After Shannon's contract with Liverpool expired in November 1949, he joined Burnley. Playing on both flanks for Burnley, Shannon clocked up 263 league appearances and scored 39 goals.
Shannon retired from playing first-team football in September 1958 and captained Burnley's reserve team for a year.
In 1959, Shannon moved into coaching with Everton, and in 1962, he joined Billy Wright's backroom staff at Arsenal.
After four years at Highbury, Shannon took over as manager of Second Division Bury. Bury finished bottom in his first season in charge, but he guided them back the following season as runners-up to Oxford United, only to see them make the drop again in 1969.

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Lol Morgan
Lol Morgan (born 5 May 1931) is a former professional footballer and manager who was active during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Rotherham, England.
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Lou Macari
Luigi "Lou" Macari (born 4 June 1949 in Largs, North Ayrshire) is a Scottish former footballer and football manager of Italian descent.
After a promising start to his playing career with Celtic, he moved south of the border in 1973 for £200,000 to sign for Manchester United, where he would spend the bulk of his playing career.
During his time with Celtic he had scored 57 goals in 100 appearances since making his first team debut in 1970.
His first game for Manchester United came in January 1973 against West Ham United in which he scored a point-saving goal in a 2–2 draw. In 1977, his deflected shot off team mate Jimmy Greenhoff won Manchester United the FA Cup final against Liverpool (and ultimately denied Liverpool the European treble). He made 400 appearances for the club, scoring 98 goals.
Macari's early career at Old Trafford was spent trying to lead an attack that struggled to achieve anything. Relegation to the Second division in 1974 was the low point but Macari blossomed as a midfielder in the following seasons under Tommy Docherty, as United began to win back a large following with superb attacking football in which Macari enjoyed popularity alongside players such as Gordon Hill, Steve Coppell and the Greenhoff brothers.

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Louis Ford
Louis Ford (born 1845 in West Bromwich) was a businessman, football administrator and football referee.
Ford joined the committee of West Bromwich Albion in the late 1880s, serving as honorary financial secretary from 1887-1890. He performed the role of general secretary (manager) from 1890–1892, receiving an annual salary of £50 as Albion's first official, paid secretary. Ford also served as an FA councillor from 1890–1893 and was vice-president of The Football League from 1894-1897. He was the secretary of Walsall F.C. during the late 1890s, before becoming a league referee. From 1914-1915 he served as secretary at Leicester Fosse.

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Marc Degryse
Marc Gabriel Degryse (born 4 September 1965 in Roeselare), nicknamed Le Lutin d'Ardooie ("The Imp of Ardooie") and The Little One, is a former Belgian footballer, who played as a forward.
Degryse played with equal success in the Belgian First Division with giants Club Brugge KV and R.S.C. Anderlecht, six years apiece, moving to the latter in 1989 for a then-record €2.25 million, and proceeding to win five leagues combined, three in a row.
He then moved for £1.5 million to Sheffield Wednesday, but left after just one season (having scored eight goals in the Premier League, where the South Yorkshire club finished 15th and were just three places clear of relegation), moving to Holland with PSV Eindhoven, where he often struggled with injuries. During his time at Wednesday, he and teammate Orlando Trustfull had a cameo role in Sheffield based film The Full Monty but the scenes did not make the final cut.
Degryse retired in 2002, after spells back in Belgium with K.A.A. Gent and K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot, having played 543 professional matches and scored 212 goals. He returned to Club Brugge as a technical director the following year, before he eventually resigned due to bad results in late January 2007, alongside longtime former teammate, coach Franky Van der Elst.

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Marcus Tudgay
Marcus Tudgay (born 3 February 1983) is an English football player who plays for Nottingham Forest. He is a striker.
Born in Shoreham, Sussex. Tudgay came through the ranks at Derby County and made his senior debut in August 2002. His final Rams goal came against future club Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough in November 2005.
Tudgay joined Sheffield Wednesday for an undisclosed fee in January 2006, penning a contract to keep him at Hillsborough until 2010. He had initially signed on loan with the club but manager Paul Sturrock decided to make his move permanent after he claimed a debut goal in a 3–0 win over Crewe Alexandra.
The manager's faith in him was justified as Tudgay scored vital goals in Sheffield Wednesday's successful attempt to avoid relegation from the Championship, including a goal against his former employers on the last day of the season in a 2–0 win.
Tudgay was ruled out for the start of the 2006–07 campaign due to a bizarre injury sustained at a family barbecue over the summer. The player cut his toe on glass, severing tendons and requiring surgery which ruled him out of competitive action for three months. But he bounced back on his return, forming a good partnership with Deon Burton, to score six goals in five games. He was moved out to the wing after injuries to Wade Small and Jermaine Johnson but still finished the season with 11 goals. The 2007–08 season saw Tudgay add eight goals to his career record, the most notable of these was a second half volley to lead his side to a 2–0 victory in the Steel City Derby at Hillsborough and another goal against Derby County in the FA Cup which helped to earn his side a replay. He missed the end of the season due to an injury.

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Mark Beevers
Mark Geoffrey Beevers (born 21 November 1989) is an English professional football defender playing in the centre back position for Sheffield Wednesday.
As a youth he played for A yorkshire team named Barugh FC.
He was called up to the senior squad for the FA Cup 3rd round tie with Manchester City on 7 January 2007 after impressing for the reserve team, although he was never brought off the bench. He eventually made his senior debut against Southampton on 31 January 2007 when Wednesday lost 2–1.
Beevers made his first start of the 2007–08 season in a 2–0 defeat to Leicester City on 6 October 2007. Beevers replaced the injured Michael Johnson at half time, and his excellent performance earned him the man of the match award. Beevers gained another chance in the first team on 6 November 2007 in an away game at West Bromwich Albion, who were flying high in the league and the highest scorers in the league. Beevers lined up alongside Richard Hinds in an inexperienced centre back pairing, however Beevers played with the temperament and quality of a player far beyond his years and helped to earn the Owls a 1–1 draw.

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Mark Hateley
Mark Wayne Hateley (born 7 November 1961 in Wallasey, Merseyside) is a retired English football player who played as a centre-forward. He was capped 32 times for the English national team (including games in the 1986 World Cup), and played in top-level football leagues in England, Italy, France and Scotland. His nickname is Attila.
Hateley started his career at Coventry City, playing over 90 games in the First Division before moving to Portsmouth in the summer of 1983. He scored 22 league goals in the 1983–84 season and on 28 June 1984 he was transferred to A.C. Milan for £1million.
However, his move did not come at one of the famous Italian side's greatest times, when they were still re-establishing themselves in Serie A after slipping out of it twice (the first time due to demotion as a result of a match fixing scandal) in the previous six years. That year he also helped England win the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, scoring six goals in the knockout stages, bringing his final tally for the Under-21 side to eight goals in 10 appearances.

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Mark Lillis
Mark Anthony Lillis (born 17 January 1960 in Manchester) is a former professional footballer and manager. He is the caretaker manager at Huddersfield Town, where he started his career in the 1970s.
Mark Lillis started his professional career at Huddersfield Town in Summer 1978. He played for Huddersfield for seven seasons before being sold in 1985 to Manchester City for £130,000. He stayed at this club for just one season, and in August 1986 was sold to Derby County for £200,000. Because of knee problems, he didn't play very often for Derby, and in September 1987 he went to Aston Villa. After that he played for Stockport County and Scunthorpe United before his playing career finished at Witton Albion at the end of the 90s.
Lillis took his first job as coach for Macclesfield Town. Later, he worked for Huddersfield Town before he became assistant manager of Scunthorpe United in 1996. His first job as manager came in 1999, when he took the job at Halifax Town, a job he had until September 2000. In 2002, after John Gregory had employed him as a coach at Derby County, and Gregory was suspended from the job, Lillis was for a short time in March 2003 caretaker-manager of Derby.

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Mark McGhee
Mark Edward McGhee (born 25 May 1957 in Glasgow) is a former Scottish professional football player. He is currently the manager of Bristol Rovers. McGhee started his career at Greenock Morton in 1975 and spent spells at clubs including Newcastle United, Aberdeen, Hamburg, Celtic, IK Brage and Reading. McGhee was part of the Aberdeen side which won the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup and 1983 UEFA Super Cup, as well as three Scottish Premier Division titles. McGhee has since managed several clubs in both England and Scotland.
McGhee played for a host of Scottish and English clubs, before he had to abruptly retire because of injury. He started his playing career at Greenock Morton before moving on to Newcastle United – where he scored 36 goals in 99 appearances, including a fantastic last minute winner against Bradford, Aberdeen, Hamburg, Celtic, IK Brage and Reading and won the Scottish PFA Players' Player of the Year in 1982 as well as four caps and two goals for the Scotland national football team. He also played for Queen of the South as a guest player against Manchester United in a benefit game following the Lockerbie air disaster.

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Mark Pembridge
Mark Anthony Pembridge (born November 29, 1970) is a former footballer whose favoured position was the left side of midfield. He won numerous caps for Wales. He is currently a coach at the academy for Fulham.

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Martin Allen
Martin James Allen (born 14 August 1965) is a former football player. He played more than 100 games for each Queens Park Rangers and West Ham United before finishing his playing career with Portsmouth and Southend United. Five years later, he took his first job in management, at non-league Barnet. He has since managed Brentford, Milton Keynes Dons, Leicester City, Cheltenham Town, Barnet and Notts County. He rejoined Barnet as manager on 16 April 2012 on a short term, three-match contract succeeding Lawrie Sanchez.
In his playing career he was known as 'Mad Dog', he played for Queens Park Rangers, signing professional in 1983 and spending six years at Loftus Road and played in the 1986 League Cup Final against Oxford United, before a £670,000 move to West Ham United. He played in their promotion teams of 1991 and 1993.
Allen stayed with the Hammers until September 1995 when he made a £500,000 switch to Portsmouth after a successful loan spell at Fratton Park. After three frustrating years with Pompey, which took in a brief loan stint at Southend United, he hung up his boots and began a coaching career. He was a combative midfield player.

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Martin Hodge
Martin Hodge is an English former professional football player. He played as a goalkeeper for Plymouth Argyle, Everton, Sheffield Wednesday, Leicester City, Hartlepool United and Rochdale. His career lasted from 1977 to 1996 during which time he played 602 league and cup matches.
Hodge was born in Southport, Merseyside on 4 February 1959. He was spotted by Plymouth Argyle while playing for the amateur team Southport Trinity and was given a trial by the Devon Club. He signed as an apprentice for Argyle, and graduated through their youth scheme to make his debut during the 1977–78 season. He signed as a professional in February 1977, as he turned 18 years old. He played five times during 1977–78 and then forced his way into the first team to be the regular goalkeeper for 1978–79. Argyle had a pretty average season in Division Three that year but Hodge’s form caught the eye of Everton and he signed for them in July 1979 for a fee of £135,000. The 20-year-old Hodge had been signed by Everton as second choice keeper to George Wood, however Hodge forced his way into the first team in November 1979 with his good early form and played 23 league matches that season plus an FA Cup semi-final against West Ham United. After that first season Hodge’s opportunities were limited by the arrival of Neville Southall and he had spells on loan at Preston North End, Oldham Athletic and Gillingham before moving to Sheffield Wednesday in the summer of 1983 in a £50,000 deal.

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Matt Gillies
Matthew "Matt" Muirhead Gillies (12 August 1921 – 24 December 1998) was a Scottish football player and manager who played for, captained, coached and managed Leicester City for a total of 15 years between 1952–1955 and 1956-1968. He is the club's longest serving manager, lasting a decade in the manager's seat between November 1958-November 1968. He took charge of Leicester for a club record 508 matches, as well as making 111 appearances for the club as a player.
He was manager of the Leicester side nicknamed The Ice Kings, which chased the double in 1962-63.
Gillies played for Motherwell, and then joined Bolton Wanderers after the war, going on to make almost 150 Football League First Division appearances for them. In 1952 he moved to Second Division Leicester City and after seeing his leadership skills, was quickly made club captain by manager Norman Bullock. He captained the side to the 1953-54 Second Division title.
Gillies took a brief break from football after finishing his playing career at Leicester in the summer of 1955, but returned to the club less than a year later to become part of the club's coaching staff in April 1956, before being made the club's manager on 1 November 1958.

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Matt Woods
Matt Woods (born 1 November 1931 in Skelmersdale, England) is a former professional footballer who played for Everton, Blackburn Rovers, Sydney Hakoah, Luton Town and Stockport County.

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Maurice Setters
Maurice Edgar Setters (born 16 December 1936 in Honiton, Devon) is an English former football player and manager. As player, he made more than 400 appearances in the Football League representing Exeter City, West Bromwich Albion, Manchester United, Stoke City, Coventry City and Charlton Athletic, and in the United Soccer Association with the Cleveland Stokers (Stoke City under another name). His favoured position was wing half. As manager, he took charge of Doncaster Rovers and (briefly) Sheffield Wednesday, and spent several years as assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland.
Setters started his career with Exeter City and West Bromwich Albion. Setters was included in England's 1958 FIFA World Cup squad as a reserve player, but did not travel to the tournament or play in any matches. In 1960, he was transferred to Manchester United for a fee of £30,000. He would help United win the 1963 FA Cup. Setters left the club in 1964 for Stoke City after scoring 14 goals in 193 appearances. he joined Coventry City in November 1967 and played 50 times for the Sky Blues before moving on in 1970.

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Mel Sterland
Melvyn "Mel" Sterland (born 1 October 1961 in Sheffield) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United and in the Scottish Football League Premier Division for Rangers, and was capped once for England.
Sterland's career is distinctly in two parts: 10 successful years with Sheffield Wednesday and 4 equally successful years with Leeds United split by 4 months at Rangers.
In 1988 Sterland won his only England cap in a friendly against Saudi Arabia. Earlier in his career he had helped England win the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, in which he scored a goal in the final against Spain. At the time of his England cap in 1988, he was the first Sheffield Wednesday player to be capped by England since the 1960s.
An energetic, dynamic right back, Mel's powerful shooting earned him the nickname 'Zico' - after the Brazilian star - and his attacking prowess saw him strike 49 goals for Sheffield Wednesday, many from set-pieces. His surges down the right flank and deliveries into the box often created goals for his teammates and he was also known for his lengthy throw-ins. He signed for Sheffield Wednesday on leaving school in the summer of 1978 and played in the final two games of their 1978-79 Third Division campaign, scoring on his second appearance.

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Michael Appleton
Michael Antony Appleton (born 4 December 1975) is an English former footballer who is the current manager of Portsmouth.
He played as a midfielder until his playing career was cut short by a serious knee injury. He also played as a professional for Manchester United, Lincoln City, Grimsby Town and Preston North End. He had been the assistant head coach at West Bromwich Albion, one of the teams he had served as a player; he was temporarily caretaker manager after Roberto Di Matteo was placed on gardening leave. On 10 November 2011, he was appointed the manager of Portsmouth.
Born in Salford, Greater Manchester, Appleton attended Seedley Primary School and Buile Hill Secondary School, both in Salford. He represented the football teams of both schools, playing as a striker until the age of "12 or 13" before switching to midfield. A lifelong Manchester United fan, Appleton progressed through the club's youth system before earning a professional contact in 1994. In 1995–96 Appleton was loaned out to Lincoln City for a month to get first team experience, playing four Division Three matches and one match in the Football League Trophy, before returning to Old Trafford.

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Mick Harford
Michael Gordon "Mick" Harford (born 12 February 1959), is an English former football player turned manager. He is former manager of Rotherham and Luton Town and has also been caretaker manager of Nottingham Forest and QPR. Harford was relieved of his duties at QPR on 1 March 2010 following the appointment of Neil Warnock as manager. He is currently the assistant manager of the Milton Keynes Dons.
Born in Sunderland, Harford joined Lincoln City in 1977. He was at Lincoln for just over three years before he moved on to Newcastle United in a £180,000 transfer. After just 19 appearances and eight months at Newcastle, Harford moved on again, this time to Bristol City for £160,000 in August 1981. Seven months later, Harford had impressed enough to gain a move to Birmingham City for £100,000 in March 1982.
Harford continued to impress at Birmingham and in December 1984, then Luton Town manager David Pleat added Harford to his side for a £250,000 fee. In his time at Luton, Harford earned himself two England team caps, making his international debut against Israel in February 1988. He also featured against Denmark in a September 1988 fixture.

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Mick McCarthy
Michael Joseph "Mick" McCarthy (born 7 February 1959) is an English-born former Irish international footballer who was most recently the manager of Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
McCarthy began his playing career at Barnsley in 1977, and he later had spells at Manchester City, Celtic, Lyon, and finally Millwall, retiring in 1992. He also played internationally, representing the Republic of Ireland on 57 occasions.
After his 1992 retirement, he managed Millwall, and then the Republic of Ireland. He guided Ireland to the knockout stage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan. He later managed Sunderland, and most recently Wolverhampton Wanderers. He has also worked as a television pundit and commentator, most recently in South Africa as part of the BBC's 2010 World Cup coverage.
Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire and a boyhood Leeds United fan, McCarthy made his league debut for then-Fourth Division Barnsley on 20 August 1977 in a 4–0 win over Rochdale. He spent two years in the basement league, before the club won promotion. Two years later, the team again went up to the (old) Division 2. A strong central defender, he was a virtual ever-present for his hometown club, but departed in December 1983 for fellow Division 2 club Manchester City.

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Mick Mills
Michael Dennis "Mick" Mills (born 4 January 1949 in Godalming, Surrey) is an English former football full-back who, by the end of his career, had achieved Ipswich Town's record number of appearances and captained England at the 1982 World Cup.
Mills joined Portsmouth as a schoolboy, but the club abandoned its youth system, forcing him to look for a new club to begin his fledgling career. Ipswich Town took him on and he made his debut for the first team in 1966, aged just 17, in a 5-2 victory against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
A full back who could play on either side but was more frequently used on the left, Mills spent his late teens in and out of the Ipswich first team but became an established regular in 1969, the year the club achieved promotion to the First Division. It was also the year that Bobby Robson arrived as manager.
Robson appointed Mills as team captain in 1971 and so began a close working relationship between coach and skipper which was at the forefront of Ipswich's rise to the top of the game for a decade.

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Mick Prendergast
Mick Prendergast is a retired English professional footballer whose career lasted from 1969 to 1979 during which time he made a total of 232 appearances in all competitions, scoring 62 goals. He was a forward player who played for Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley. Prendergast was a popular player in his time at Hillsborough and went by the nickname of “Prendo”.
Prendergast was born in the South Yorkshire coal mining village of Denaby Main on 24 November 1950.
As a youth footballer he played for Yorkshire Boys and Don and Dearne Boys before joining Sheffield Wednesday as a 15 year old apprentice in October 1966.
Prendergast started in the Youth team at Wednesday and graduated through the ranks, making his reserve team debut in the Central League in September 1967. Prendergast was top scorer for the reserves in 1968–69 and he made his first team debut towards the end of that season, scoring in a 3–2 defeat at Newcastle United on 9 April 1969. The following season saw Wednesday relegated to Division Two with Prendergast making just 12 league appearances. The 1970–71 season saw Prendergast become a regular in the first team, finishing as top scorer by a comfortable margin with 16 goals.

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Micky Adams
Michael Richard "Micky" Adams (born 8 November 1961) is an English former professional footballer turned football manager who is in charge of League Two side Port Vale. As a player he was a full back, and made a total of 438 league appearances in a nineteen year professional career in the Football League, including five years with Southampton at the highest level. He began his managerial career as player-manager for Fulham in 1994 and has led several teams at varying levels with mixed success, being named Manager of the Season twice, and sacked a number of times.
Born in Sheffield, Adams was part of the youth team at Sheffield United from the age of twelve until released in 1977. He turned professional at the Third Division team Gillingham in 1979, where he established himself in the first team, winning a move in 1983 to Coventry City who were in the First Division. He spent four years at Coventry before being sold on to Leeds United in 1987. He was bought by Southampton for £250,000 in 1989, where he enjoyed five years of top-flight football. He was loaned out to Stoke City in 1994, before he signed with Fulham later in the year. Appointed as Fulham's player-manager in March 1996, he led the club out of the Third Division in 1996–97, and was named as the Third Division Manager of the Season. Sacked by Fulham despite his success, he walked out on Swansea City after less than two weeks in charge, and instead took charge at Brentford in November 1997. He was sacked after the club were relegated at the end of the season. At this point he ended his playing career.

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Mike Phelan
Michael Christopher "Mike" Phelan (born 24 September 1962 in Nelson, Lancashire), also known as Mick Phelan or Micky Phelan, is an English football coach, former player, and current assistant manager of Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson.
As a player, he spent most of his career at Burnley, Norwich City and Manchester United, with a short spell at West Bromwich Albion before retirement. Whilst with Manchester United, he also gained his one cap for England.
In 2002, Norwich fans voted Phelan into the club's Hall of Fame.
Phelan began his career at Burnley, signing as an associated schoolboy in July 1979, as an apprentice two years later and as a professional in July 1980. He made his league debut in January 1981 against Chesterfield and whilst at Turf Moor, gained England Youth caps and a Third Division champions medal in 1982. But in 1985, Burnley were relegated to the Fourth Division, and Phelan moved to Norwich City for £60,000 on 13 July 1985.
Norwich won the Second Division title in his first season at the club. He became club captain when Steve Bruce joined Manchester United in December 1987, captaining them to fourth place in the First Division and a place in the FA Cup semi-finals in his first full season as captain.

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Mike Summerbee
Mike Summerbee (born 15 December 1942 in Preston) is an English former footballer, who played in the successful Manchester City side of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Raised in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire where he attended Nauton Park Secondary M<odern School Summerbee made his league debut playing for Swindon Town in 1959 at the age of 16. He made more than 200 appearances for the Wiltshire club, scoring 38 goals. In 1965 Manchester City manager Joe Mercer signed Summerbee for a fee of £35,000. In his first Manchester City season Summerbee started every single match, the only Manchester City player to do so that season.
Playing on the right wing, Summerbee was one of the most influential players in the Manchester City side which won four trophies in three seasons from 1968–70. Something of a practical joker, Summerbee (or "Buzzer" as teammates nicknamed him) was also known for a fiery temperament, a trait described by teammate Francis Lee as "retaliating first". Summerbee left Manchester City in June 1975, moving to Burnley, for a £25,000 fee, after making more than 400 appearances for City.

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Milan Mandarić
Milan Mandarić (Serbian: Милан Мандарић) is a Serbian-American business tycoon who has owned a string of successful businesses and soccer clubs including Portsmouth, Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday. He currently is the chairman of Sheffield Wednesday. He was born near Gospić in today Croatia, on 5 September 1938, and grew up in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, in today Serbia.
He took control of his father's machine shop aged 21, and by the age of 26 had turned it into the largest business in the country. At the time Yugoslavia was a socialist country, but a relatively free one.
In 1969, worried by the government's view of his business, he left Yugoslavia and settled in the United States. He had to leave most of his fortune behind, and got a job for an American computer component manufacturer in California. When two of the senior managers left to start their own firm, Mandarić was invited to be their third partner. The firm was successful, but disagreements over manufacturing processes led to Mandarić leaving to form his own company, Lika Corporation, in 1971. In 1976, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. By 1976 Lika Corp. was the largest manufacturer of computer components in the USA, and Mandarić was pioneering the boom that led to the creation of California's Silicon Valley. He sold the company to the Tandy Corporation in 1980 and set up a new company, Sanmina, which manufactured printed circuit boards. In 2001 the company acquired SCI Systems, a much larger competitor, becoming Sanmina-SCI Corporation. Mandarić also began branching out into investment banking operations such as Behrman Capital. He also became owner of the St. Louis Storm, a Major Indoor Soccer League franchise that ceased operations in 1992 when the MISL also folded. He was ranked 1049 in the times top 2000 rich list worth £75m.

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Nat Lofthouse
Nathaniel "Nat" Lofthouse, OBE (27 August 1925 – 15 January 2011) was an English professional footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers for his whole career. He was capped 33 times for the England national football team between 1950 and 1958, scoring 30 goals and giving himself one of the greatest goals-per-game ratios of any player to represent England at the highest level.
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1925, Lofthouse joined the town's main club on 4 September 1939 and made his debut in a wartime 5–1 win against Bury on 22 March 1941 when he scored two goals. It was then more than five years until he made his league debut for the club, but he eventually played against Chelsea on 31 August 1946, when he scored twice in a 4–3 defeat. Lofthouse would go on to play 33 games for England, but his debut on 22 November 1950 made him 25 when he finally broke into the team. He perhaps justified a claim to an earlier call-up by scoring both goals in a 2–2 draw against Yugoslavia at Highbury on his debut.

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Neil Mellor
Neil Andrew Mellor (born 4 November 1982 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire) is an English retired professional footballer who began his career at Liverpool in the Premier League and most recently played for Preston North End. He made his name in 2004 by scoring a stunning last-minute goal from long range to give Liverpool a 2–1 victory over Arsenal at Anfield. Mellor also scored a vital goal and set up another during Liverpool's match with Olympiacos at Anfield during the group stage of the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, which Liverpool went on to win. In December 2011, a knee injury sustained following a tackle by Milton Keynes striker Jabo Ibehre resulted in Mellor being forced into announcing his retirement on 9 May 2012.
Mellor is the son of former Manchester City, Norwich City, Sheffield Wednesday and Brighton and Hove Albion player Ian Mellor. A strong, physical, centre forward, Mellor was top scorer in Liverpool's run to the FA Youth Cup semi-final during the 2000–01 season scoring eight goals in four games. He was also the top scorer for the under-19 team and Joe Corrigan's reserves during the 2001–02 season and in total scored 46 goals (56 including friendlies). Mellor progressed through the ranks at Liverpool and in the 2002–03 season he scored 20 goals for the reserve team. He made his first team debut in the same season and played a total of three games and scored in a Worthington Cup semi-final match against Sheffield United. Although the Reds lost the match 2–1, Mellor showed promise and was rewarded in March 2003 with a new three-year contract running to 2006.

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Niclas Alexandersson
Jens Niclas Alexandersson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈnɪklɑs ɑlɛkˈsɑndɛʂɔn] (born on 29 December 1971 in Halmstad, Sweden) is a retired Swedish football midfielder. He played as a right winger and right full back. Apart from his versatility, he is known for his dribbling and stamina.
After starting his career with local club Vessigebro BK he moved to Halmstads BK in 1988. He played for the team until 1995, when he joined IFK Göteborg, with whom he won the Swedish Championships and played in the UEFA Champions League. After one year in Gothenburg, he moved on to England, where he was signed for £750,000 by Ron Atkinson for Sheffield Wednesday. He played for three seasons in Sheffield, where he became a fan's favorite and won the Player of The Season award the year the team was relegated. After relegation he was signed by Everton for £2.5m where he played for from 2000–2003, until he moved back to Gothenburg, where he played from 2004-2008. After the retirement last season he has been working on IFK Göteborg project Änglagårdskolan. Is a school where you can combine school and football in the spirit of IFK Göteborg. 27 September 2009, newspapers told that Niclas is going for a comeback and will be start training again on 29 September 2009. On 2 October 2009 it was revealed that Alexandersson has sign a contract for the rest of the season. After the season, he retired for good.

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Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Sébastien Anelka (French pronunciation: [nikɔlas anɛlka]) (born 14 March 1979 in Le Chesnay, France) is a professional football player who is currently a player and assistant manager of Shanghai Shenhua. Anelka was also a regular starter for the French national team. Former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has described him as a quick player with good aerial ability, technique, shooting, and movement off the ball.
Anelka began his career at Paris Saint-Germain, but soon moved to Arsenal. He became a first team regular and won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award the following season. Real Madrid signed him for £22.3 million in 1999, a record fee at the time, but he did not settle in well and returned to Paris Saint-Germain in a £20 million deal. Despite regular first team football in Paris, Anelka set his eyes upon the Premier League once more; he went on loan to Liverpool in January 2002 but joined Manchester City for £13 million at the start of the 2002–03 season.
After three seasons in Manchester, he moved to Fenerbahçe for two seasons before returning to England to join Bolton Wanderers – in deals worth £7 million and £8 million, respectively. He transferred to Chelsea from Bolton for a reported £15 million in January 2008. During his transfers over the years, he has built an aggregate transfer cost of just under £90 million. On 12 December 2011, Shanghai Shenhua announced that they have reached an agreement with Anelka to join the team when the winter transfer window opens.

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Nigel Pearson
Nigel Graham Pearson (born 21 August 1963) is an English football manager and former professional player. He is currently in his second spell as manager of Leicester City, having previously managed Hull City, Southampton and Carlisle United, and been assistant manager for England Under-21s and Newcastle United. During his playing career, he was a defender and played for Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough.
Pearson was born in Nottingham where he attended William Sharp Comprehensive school, and began his playing career with non-league Heanor Town before joining Second Division Shrewsbury Town in November 1981. He made his first team debut in a 1–0 defeat at Oldham Athletic on the opening day of the 1982–83 season. Pearson's first Football League goal came on 12 March 1983 in a 3–1 win against Barnsley at Gay Meadow. Pearson ended the season with 39 out of a possible 42 starts as Shrewsbury finished in ninth place in the table.
The following season, Shrewsbury finished one place higher but injuries restricted Pearson to 26 games. Injury prevented him from playing at all in 1984–85, when Shrewsbury again finished eighth in the table, but he returned in 1985–86 making 35 appearances as Shrewsbury dropped to 17th.

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Nigel Worthington
Nigel Worthington (born 20 March 1962 in Ballymena, County Antrim) is a former Northern Ireland international footballer and ex-manager.
He was manager of the Northern Ireland national team from 2007 until after their final Euro 2012 qualifying campaign match against Italy in October 2011.
As a player, he was a left full back and occasional left midfielder, playing the majority of his club football for Sheffield Wednesday. As an international player, he is Northern Ireland's 9th most capped player with 66 appearances. At both Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United Worthington played under Howard Wilkinson who would be a major influence on Worthington's own managerial style. Bryan Hamilton was also important to Worthington's career, since he made Worthington his international captain when manager of Northern Ireland and also invited him to Norwich to assist him when he (Hamilton) was manager at Carrow Road.
Worthington began his managerial career as player-manager of Blackpool in 1997 before he succeeded Hamilton as manager of Norwich City in 2000. He guided Norwich to the Premier League in the 2003–04 season but left just over two years afterwards, having failed to keep them in the top-flight in 2005. He was briefly caretaker manager of Leicester City in 2007 prior to starting as manager of Northern Ireland, from which he stepped down in 2011.

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Nobby Stiles
Norbert "Nobby" Peter Stiles MBE (born 18 May 1942) is a retired English footballer. He was born in Collyhurst, Manchester.
Stiles played for England for five years, winning 28 caps and scoring 1 goal. He played every minute of England's victorious 1966 FIFA World Cup campaign. His best performance in an England shirt was probably the semi-final of that tournament against Portugal, where he was given the job of marking the prolific Eusébio. His tough performance resulted in Eusébio being practically nullified for the entire game. Stiles also played very well in the final, which England won 4–2 against West Germany. His post match celebration has become one of the most famous images in English sport history. The sight of Stiles dancing on the Wembley pitch, holding the World Cup trophy in one hand and his false teeth in the other, has lived for decades.
Stiles played the majority of his club career for Manchester United, spending eleven years at Old Trafford, where he became renowned for his tough tackling and ball winning qualities. With the Red Devils, he won two League titles and one European Cup. Stiles is one of only three Englishmen, alongside Bobby Charlton and Ian Callaghan, to have won both the FIFA World Cup and European Cup; however, only Stiles and Charlton actually played in the finals of both competitions.

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Norman Bullock
Norman Bullock (8 September 1900 – 22 October 1970) was the manager of Leicester City from 1949 to 1955. He also managed Bury for two four-year spells. He was born in Monton, Eccles, Lancashire.
He played most of his club football for Bury. Between 1920 and 1935 he made a total of 505 league and 32 FA Cup appearances, scoring 127 goals. He also made three appearances for England between 1923 and 1926 scoring twice.

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Norman Low
Norman Harvey Low (23 March 1914 – 21 May 1994) was a Scottish football player and manager. He was the son of Scottish international footballer, Wilf Low.
A central defender, he played for Newcastle United between 1931 and 1933, before a three years spell with Liverpool. From 1936 up until the end of World War II he turned out for Newport County, helping the club to the Third Division South title in 1938–39. After the war he spent 1946 to 1950 with Norwich City.
In 1950 he was appointed as Norwich City's manager, and led to the club to a second place finish in the Third Division South in 1950–51. Despite this, promotion alluded him before he departed in April 1955. He spent January 1956 to February 1957 as Workington's manager, before he was installed in the hotseat at Port Vale. He led the club to the Fourth Division title in 1958–59, before resigning in October 1962. Spending time as a scout at Stoke City and Liverpool, he was made Witton Albion manager in 1967, before he took to the United States for a brief spell in charge of the Cleveland Stokers in 1968.

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Osvaldo Ardiles
Osvaldo César Ardiles (born 3 August 1952 in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team. He now runs his own soccer school in the UK called the Ossie Ardiles Soccer School.
A competitive and skilled midfielder, Ardiles became a cult hero in England, along with Glenn Hoddle and compatriot Ricardo Villa, as a player for Tottenham Hotspur. He left England for a period on loan as a result of the outbreak of the Falklands War in 1982, thus missing most of the 1982–83 English season.
As manager of Tottenham in the mid-1990s, he played several matches utilizing a formation that had five forwards, a formation that hadn't been used in English football since the 1950s.
In Ireland he has been a pundit for RTÉ Sport.
In January 2012, newly promoted J. League Division 2 side Machida Zelvia appointed Ardiles as their manager.
As a youngster, Ardiles played football in the streets and was given the nickname Pitón (python) by his brother because of his snake-like dribbling skills. He began his professional career in Argentina with Instituto de Córdoba, alongside with Mario Alberto Kempes. He also played for Club Atlético Belgrano and Huracán. After the 1978 World Cup he moved to England to play for Tottenham where he spent ten seasons.

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Owen Coyle
Owen Columba Coyle (born 14 July 1966) is a Scottish-born Irish international former professional player and professional association football manager . He is currently the manager of Bolton Wanderers.
Paisley-born Coyle began his career at Dumbarton. He played for a number of Scottish teams as well as a spell at English club Bolton Wanderers. Upon retiring from playing, he managed Falkirk and St. Johnstone before heading to then Championship side Burnley. In his first full season in charge, Burnley won promotion to the Premier League. He then moved to Bolton halfway through his first season in the Premier League.
He has one cap for the Republic of Ireland, having qualified through Irish descent. He also played for the Republic of Ireland national under-21 football team.
Coyle began his senior career with Dumbarton in 1985, where he played alongside his brothers Joe and Tommy. In 1988 he joined Clydebank, then in March 1990 a £175,000 transfer took him to Airdrieonians. This move was instantly successful, Coyle scoring a hat-trick on his debut and going on to finish as the Scottish League's top scorer for 1989–90. Over the next two seasons his goals helped Airdrie to promotion, a Scottish Cup final appearance, and an appearance in the 1992–1993 European Cup Winners' Cup – as Scottish Cup winners Rangers, had won the Scottish Premier Division title and qualified for the European Cup.

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Paolo Di Canio
Paolo Di Canio (born 9 July 1968) is an Italian former professional footballer and current manager of newly promoted League One side Swindon Town. Di Canio made over 500 league appearances and scored over 100 league goals as a player.
As a player, Di Canio played in Serie A for Lazio, Juventus, Napoli and Milan, before playing in the Scottish Premier League for Celtic and the English Premier League for Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United and Charlton Athletic. His playing career contained several controversial incidents including his push on referee Paul Alcock in 1998, for which he received an eleven match ban, and his self-proclaimed allegiance to Fascismo. He was also SPFA Players' Player of the Year in 1997, West Ham United player of the season and a winner of the BBC's Goal of the Season in 2000 and of a FIFA Fair Play Award in 2001. After his seasons in the Premier League he returned to Italy where he played for Lazio, Ternana and Cisco Roma before retiring in 2008. He played for the Italy U-21 team but not for Italy despite his goal scoring record. In 2011 Di Canio entered football management in England with Swindon Town, guiding them in his first season as manager to promotion to Football League One.

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Paul Hart
Paul Hart (born 4 May 1953) is an English football manager and former football defender, who is currently Academy Director at Charlton Athletic. The son of Johnny Hart, a football inside forward and manager, Hart had five-year spells with both Blackpool and Leeds United, while also playing for Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday amongst others. He began his management career with Chesterfield, before managing Nottingham Forest, Barnsley, and Rushden & Diamonds. He was manager of Premier League side Portsmouth from February to November 2009, and managed Queens Park Rangers for five games until leaving the club in January 2010, joining Crystal Palace two months later.
He made his Blackpool debut on 22 October 1973, two months after signing for the Seasiders, and only made two more appearances that season. Eventually, though, he established himself as a regular first-teamer and, in 1976–77, when he scored six goals as Blackpool challenged for promotion, he was ever-present.
In March 1978, after making 143 league appearances, scoring fifteen goals in the process, Hart left relegation-bound Blackpool for Leeds United for £300,000, as a replacement for Gordon McQueen. Hart spent five years at Elland Road, playing 191 games.

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Paul Jewell
Paul Steven Jewell (born 28 September 1964) is a former English footballer who is currently the manager of Ipswich Town.
His playing career started with Liverpool before moving to Wigan Athletic and then a ten-year spell with Bradford City. He had a short loan spell with Grimsby Town but when his playing career ended he became part of the coaching staff at Bradford.
He was appointed manager in 1998 and took City to the Premier League before resigning and becoming manager of Sheffield Wednesday. He returned to Wigan to win a second promotion to the Premier League, but resigned a day after he kept them up in the 2006–07 season. He later joined Derby County on 28 November 2007, before resigning 13 months later.
He was appointed manager of Ipswich Town in January 2011.
Born in Liverpool and educated at De La Salle School, Jewell began his career as an apprentice with home-city club Liverpool, but because of the dominance of Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish he never made a first-team league appearance and pursued his career elsewhere.

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Paul Lambert
Paul Christopher Lambert (born 7 August 1969) is a Scottish professional association football manager and former player who is the manager of Norwich City.
Lambert won numerous honours as a player, winning the Scottish Cup with St. Mirren as a 17-year-old, the UEFA Champions League with Borussia Dortmund, all the Scottish domestic honours with Celtic and 40 caps for Scotland.
He achieved success managing in England's lower divisions and guided Norwich into English football's Premier League.
Lambert started his playing career at Linwood Rangers Boys' Club in 1980 in his hometown of Linwood, before entering the professional game with St. Mirren in 1985. With St Mirren the 17 year old Lambert won his first senior winner's medal courtesy of the 1987 Scottish Cup Final. Saints beat favourites and that season's UEFA Cup Finalists, Jim McLean's Dundee Utd, in what turned out to be the last time the Scottish Cup was won by a team composed entirely of Scottish players. Lambert played with St Mirren for eight years.

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Paul Sturrock
Paul Whitehead Sturrock (born 10 October 1956 in Ellon, Aberdeenshire) is a Scottish football manager who, since July 2010, is the manager of Southend United. Until this appointment, Sturrock had most recently been at English League 1 club Plymouth Argyle in a business support role, having been relieved of his managerial duties, until he quit the club. His former posts included spells as manager of Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton, Plymouth Argyle, Dundee United, Swindon and St. Johnstone. He was also a Scotland international footballer. He is known by fans as Luggy (from the Scots language word lugs, Eng: ears). Sturrock announced in July 2008 that he was suffering from a mild form of Parkinson's disease.
His son, Blair, is also a professional footballer.
A boyhood Hearts fan, Sturrock was educated at Pitlochry primary and secondary schools and played for junior side Grandtully Vale. In 1972 he joined Vale of Atholl of the Perthshire Amateur First Division (where he returned as coach in his latter days with Dundee United), and in the 1972–73 season he scored approximately 100 goals. He then moved on to Bankfoot Athletic, and in the 1973–74 season he scored 53 goals as they finished 2nd in the Scottish Junior FA First Division.

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Paulo Sousa
Paulo Manuel Carvalho de Sousa, CavIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpawlu ˈsowzɐ]; born 30 August 1970) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and a current manager.
He was a member of the “Portuguese Golden Generation”. Starting his career at Benfica, he also represented Sporting in his country, in a five-year career, and appeared with the national team in one World Cup and two European Championships, gaining more than 50 caps in 11 years.
From there onwards, Sousa namely played in Italy and in Germany, twice winning the UEFA Champions League, with Juventus and Borussia Dortmund, his later career being severely hindered by injuries.
In the late 2000s, he took up coaching, managing several clubs in England and Wales.
Born in Viseu, Sousa started playing professionally for S.L. Benfica, being a starter from an early age, winning the national championship in 1991 and the domestic cup two seasons later.
Later that summer, Sousa signed, together with teammate António Pacheco, for Lisbon neighbours Sporting Clube de Portugal. After a single season where he partnered Luís Figo and Bulgarian Krassimir Balakov in midfield, as the Lions came out empty in silverware, he moved to Juventus FC.

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Peter Atherton
Peter Atherton (born 6 April 1970 in Wigan, Lancashire), is an English former professional English footballer who plays as both a defender and a midfielder. He is presently assistant manager at Halifax Town, although on 16 October 2007, he came out of playing retirement to appear for the Shaymen.
Most famous for captaining Sheffield Wednesday, Atherton started his career at hometown club Wigan Athletic as a trainee and spent three years there before attracting the attention of Coventry City. Atherton was lured away from Wednesday by Bradford City after relegation on the Bosman ruling where he also spent a spell on loan at Birmingham City. After being released by Bradford on a free transfer he finished his career at Halifax Town, where injury forced him to retire from professional football after playing only 14 games for the club, but came out of retirement because of Halifax's injury crisis and was named as a substitute for their home game against Grays Athletic on 16 October 2007.
In June 2007, Atherton was appointed assistant manager of Halifax Town, replacing Wayne Jacobs. He had previously been coaching in Wigan Athletic's youth set-up.

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Peter Eustace
Peter Eustace (born 31 July 1944) is an English former football player and manager. As a player, he made 340 appearances in the Football League representing Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United, Rotherham United and Peterborough United. As a manager, he took charge of Sheffield Wednesday and Leyton Orient.
Eustace was born in Stocksbridge, Yorkshire, and began his career as a trainee with Sheffield Wednesday. He made his debut in the 1962–63 season, and played more than 200 games in all competitions, before being sold to West Ham United for a club record £90,000 fee. He played in midfield, earlier in his career at wing half, later at inside forward, who both made and scored goals. He also played for Rotherham United, Sheffield Wednesday again, and Peterborough United.
He moved into management in November 1988 at Sheffield Wednesday, being promoted from assistant manager after Howard Wilkinson moved to Leeds United. Eustace was sacked after just three months and replaced by Ron Atkinson. He returned to football at Leyton Orient, working under Frank Clark, who moved from manager to managing director in 1991. Clark moved to Nottingham Forest in 1993, and Eustace was sacked a year later when the club failed to reach the play-offs.

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Peter Grummitt
Peter Grummitt (born 19 August 1942) is an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League during the 1960s and 1970s, most notably with Nottingham Forest.
He made 352 senior appearances for Forest before transferring to Sheffield Wednesday in 1970.
During his time with Wednesday he made 130 senior appearances, and missed just one game during the 1970-71 season. In April 1973 he played his last game for Wednesday, and he then moved to Brighton and Hove Albion and made over 100 league appearances for them before joining Worthing F.C..
He was capped on three occasions by England under-23 between 1961 and 1963.

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Peter Hodge
Peter Hodge (18 June 1871–18 August 1934) was a Scottish football manager who managed Raith Rovers, Stoke City, Manchester City and most notably Leicester City (over two spells). He earnt promotion while in charge of all four clubs.
Hodge began his career playing for a local youth team in 1890 then soon became secretary of Dunfermline Athletic's junior side whom he took to the final of the Scottish junior cup in 1897. He then became a fully qualified referee and spent a 10 year stint refereeing matches in the Scottish league and also became honorary secretary of Dunfemline in 1906."
He was hired Raith Rovers' first manager in 1907 and led them to the Second Division title in his first season in charge. Raith were then elected to the First Division in 1910, he was ousted by an "ambitious director" in October 1912.
In June 1914, Stoke hired him as a replacement for Alfred Barker. He guided the club to the Southern League Second Division title and successful re-admission to the Football League, but his chance of management in the higher sphere vanished with the outbreak of World War One and the suspension of fixtures. Hodge returned to Scotland where he combined a job as a military recruiting officer with managing Raith. He never returned to the Potters, instead becoming manager of Leicester City in 1919.

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Peter Shreeves
Peter Shreeves (born 30 November 1940) is a Welsh former football player, manager and coach.
Shreeves was born in Neath in South Wales where his mother had been evacuated to during the early stages of World War II, but was brought up in Islington, London. He began his career with non-league Finchley from where he joined Reading in January 1959. He made over 100 league appearances for Reading over the next seven years, but his professional career was curtailed by a broken leg. He left Reading in 1966 to join Southern League club Chelmsford City.
In the summer of 1969, Shreeves joined Wimbledon where he remained until taking up a coaching post at Charlton Athletic in 1974. Later that year he joined Tottenham Hotspur as youth coach. In 1977, Tottenham manager Keith Burkinshaw promoted him to manager of the reserve team, and then as his assistant in 1980.
In June 1984, Shreeves was promoted to the manager's seat after Burkinshaw's resignation and took Spurs to third place in the league at the end of his first season as manager. This would normally have earned them a UEFA Cup place, but the ban on English clubs in European competition began at this time due to the Heysel Stadium disaster. Tottenham finished 10th the following season and Shreeves was sacked in favour of David Pleat in March 1986.

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Phil Gartside
Philip 'Phil' Gartside (born April 1952) is a businessman and the current chairman of Bolton Wanderers Football Club.
He joined the board of Bolton Wanderers Football Club in April 1989, having been a fan of the club since his days as a pupil at Leigh Grammar School.
He became chairman of Bolton Wanderers in October 1999 and within weeks appointed Sam Allardyce as manager. While Gartside has been Chairman, the club has consolidated its position in the Premier League and reached the UEFA Cup for the first time in their history. He has seen a number of high-profile footballers arrive at the club including Nicolas Anelka, Youri Djorkaeff, Jay-Jay Okocha, Fernando Hierro and Iván Campo. He is a prominent football administrator, a Football Association Board Member and an executive director of the new Wembley Stadium.
On 23 April 2009, Gartside proposed a plan to his fellow Premier League chairmen about spliting the Premier League into two divisions of eighteen teams in each and allowing Scottish Premier League clubs Celtic and Rangers to join.UEFA have said they will not veto the proposed move.

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Phil Neal
Philip George "Phil" Neal (born 20 February 1951 in Irchester, Northamptonshire, England) is a former footballer who was, at one time, the most successful player in English football history. He played for Liverpool 650 times over an eleven year period and is the only player to have appeared in the first five of their European Cup finals, winning four of them. He was a dependable full back. His son, Ashley Neal, also had a footballing career, albeit short-lived.
Neal also had a seven year career with England, winning 50 caps and playing in the 1982 World Cup.
Neal began his career at Wellingborough Town F.C. before he joined Northampton Town.
A full back who joined the club on 9 October 1974 for £66,000 after making his name in English football's lower divisions with Northampton, Neal was the first signing to be made by manager Bob Paisley, snapped up as a replacement for the ageing Chris Lawler. Although he played a few games on the left side of the defence, it was as an industrious, energetic right back that he made his name.

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Ray Harford
Raymond Thomas "Ray" Harford (1 June 1945 — 9 August 2003) was an English footballer, better known for his successes as a coach and manager than as a player. He is considered to have been one of the top coaches of his generation.
During his playing days he was a centre-half, and made 347 league appearances in an eleven year career in the Football League. He began at Charlton Athletic as a youth player in 1960, though only managed three league appearances before hie departure in 1966, when he joined Exeter City. He then moved on to Lincoln City, making 161 league appearances for the club before his departure to Mansfield Town. He was bought by Port Vale for a £5,000 fee in December 1971, who then sold him on to Colchester United in February 1973 for £1,750. He helped Colchester to promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1973–74, before he moved into non-League football with Romford in 1975, before retiring due to a knee injury.
He was appointed as Fulham manager in April 1984, though he resigned in June 1986 after a financial crisis led to his team suffering relegation. He took charge at Luton Town in June 1987, and led the club to the final of the League Cup in 1988 and 1989, as Luton won the cup in 1988 before tasting defeat in 1989. Sacked in January 1990, he was appointed Wimbledon manager in the summer, before he resigned in October 1991. After spending four years as Kenny Dalglish's assistant, he was promoted to manager at Blackburn Rovers in June 1995, though he resigned in October 1996 following the sale of star striker Alan Shearer. Taking charge at West Bromwich Albion in February 1997, he switched clubs to Queens Park Rangers ten months later. He was sacked in September 1998, and subsequently became a coach at Millwall; he was still on the coaching staff at the club at the time of his death.

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Ray Mathias
Raymond "Ray" Mathias (born 13 December 1946) is an English football coach and former player. He has spent most of his career in the lower leagues of English football. He was appointed interim manager of Stockport County on the 9 March 2011 until the end of the season, when County were relegated from the Football League for the first time in 106 years. Owing in part to an impressive home record, Mathias was appointed full-time County manager in May 2011, but departed just two weeks later following the takeover of the club by Tony Evans.
Born in Liverpool, Mathias spent his entire playing career with Tranmere Rovers from 1964 to 1985 and earning two testimonials in the process; a true one-club man, making 567 Football League appearances. His most notable achievement being winning promotion from the Fourth Division in the 1975–76 season. He made 637 appearances for Tranmere in all competitions, a club record.
After retiring from playing, Mathias joined the coaching staff at Wigan Athletic and spent three years in charge of the Latics from 1986–89. The highlight of this spell was leading Wigan to the FA Cup quarter-finals in 1987. He later returned to Tranmere as a coach but then returned to Wigan as manager for the 1998–99 season; despite leading the club to victory in the Football League Trophy final at Wembley and the Second Division play-offs he lost his job shortly afterwards.

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Reg Flewin
Reginald "Reg" Flewin (28 November 1920 – 24 May 2008) was an English footballer who played as a central defender for his hometown club Portsmouth.
Flewin signed a professional contract with Pompey on his 17th birthday in 1937, and made his senior debut for the club against Grimsby Town in April 1939. Following the outbreak of World War II, Flewing's football career came to a halt. He served in the Royal Marines during hostilities, and occasionally turned out for Portsmouth in wartime football, winning an England wartime cap against Wales on 16 September 1944.
When football resumed at the end of the war, Flewin became a regular in Portsmouth's defence, and was also named the team's captain. He was a member of the Pompey sides that won consecutive league titles in 1948–49 and 1949–50. Flewin retired in 1953, having played 163 first-team matches for Portsmouth. In 1949 his Portsmouth side was tipped to become the first team to win the double but lost to Leicester City at Highbury. If Portsmouth won the Double he would have been the first skipper since John Devey to win it.

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Rob Kelly
Robert Anthony "Rob" Kelly (born 21 December 1964) is an English former footballer and manager. Recently caretaker manager at Nottingham Forest, after Steve McClaren's departure and prior to the appointment of Steve Cotterill. He has previously been manager of Leicester City, and caretaker manager at Preston North End, Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest.
Kelly began his career at Leicester City, making his debut as a 19-year-old in a home game against Sunderland at the end of the 1983/84 season. After making 18 starts for the Foxes (plus nine substitute appearances) and scoring one goal, he joined Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1986. As a youngster, he also received a call up to represent the Republic of Ireland at youth level.
In 1989, Kelly was forced to retire aged just 24 after sustaining a back injury, and initially took the job of youth team coach at Wolves. He then trained as a journalist at the Wolverhampton Express & Star, before returning to football, first back in the Wolves coaching set-up, then moving to Watford as youth team coach, Blackburn Rovers as Academy Director, and then Leicester City.

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Roberto Di Matteo
Roberto Di Matteo (Italian pronunciation: [roˈbɛrto di matˈtɛo]; born 29 May 1970) is an Italian former footballer and the interim manager of Chelsea for the remainder of the 2011–12 season. During his playing career as a midfielder, he played for Swiss clubs Schaffhausen, Zürich and Aarau before joining Lazio of Italy and Chelsea of England. He was capped 34 times for Italy, scoring two goals, and played in Euro 1996 and the 1998 World Cup. He retired as a player in February 2002 at the age of 31 following injury problems. He has since managed Milton Keynes Dons, West Bromwich Albion, and Chelsea. As manager of Chelsea, he has won the 2012 FA Cup and the club's first UEFA Champions League.
Born in Switzerland to Italian parents from Paglieta, Chieti, Abruzzo, Di Matteo began his career with Swiss club Schaffhausen, before joining Aarau in 1991. He won the Swiss Nationalliga A with Aarau in 1993 and in the same season achieved Switzerland's Player of the Year award. He signed for Lazio in the summer of 1993 on a free^{[citation needed]} transfer. Di Matteo became a regular in the Lazio side and made his debut for Italy during his three seasons with the Rome club. However, a falling out with coach Zdeněk Zeman over a defensive error which resulted in a loss to Internazionale, ended his career with the Lazio. As a result he was signed by Ruud Gullit for English side Chelsea for a then club record fee of £4.9 million.

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Ron Ashman
Ronald George Ashman (19 May 1926 – 21 June 2004) was an English professional footballer and football manager. Born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, he spent his entire playing career with Norwich City F.C. and was later their manager. He went on to manage Scunthorpe United and Grimsby Town.
Ashman played 662 games for Norwich, scoring 56 goals. 590 of those games were league appearances – a club record. He made his debut at Carrow Road against Aldershot F.C. on 4 October 1947. Ashman was a centre-forward at that early stage of his career, but went on to play at full-back for many years. He was the captain of the Norwich team that reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup in 1959 as a third division side, won promotion to the second division in 1960 and won the Football League Cup for the first time in 1962. He was selected to play for the Third Division South team against the North in 1955/56. When George Swindin resigned as manager in November 1962, Ashman was appointed acting manager and was eventually given the job on a permanent basis on Boxing Day 1963. By then, he had played his last game for the club on 19 October 1963. Ashman remained manager until the end of the 1965-66 season, when his departure ended twenty years of service to the club.

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Ron Atkinson
Ronald Ernest Atkinson, (born 18 March 1939) commonly known as "Big Ron" and (earlier in his managerial career) "Bojangles" is an English former football player and manager. In recent years he has become one of Britain's best-known football pundits. He is perhaps most famous for his idiosyncratic turn of phrase: his utterances have become known as "Big-Ronisms" or "Ronglish".
Ron Atkinson, who was born in Liverpool but moved to Birmingham a few weeks after his birth, did not achieve great heights in his playing career. He was originally signed by Aston Villa at the age of 17, but never played a first-team match for them. He still refers to then Villa coach Jimmy Hogan as his biggest influence.
He transferred to Oxford United (then called Headington United) in the close season of 1959 on a free transfer. There he played with his younger brother Graham Atkinson. He went on to make over 500 appearances in all competitions as a wing-half for the club, earning the nickname "The Tank", and scoring a total of 14 goals. He was United's captain through their rise from the Southern League to the Second Division, achieved in only six years from 1962 to 1968, an impressive achievement. He was the first ever footballer to captain a club from the Southern League through three divisions of the Football League.

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Ron Saunders
Ron Saunders (born 6 November 1932 in Birkenhead, Cheshire) is a retired English football player and former successful manager. He remains the only manager to have taken charge of Aston Villa, Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion, normally bitter rivals.
As a player, he was a hard-shooting centre forward. He scored over 200 goals in 13 years as a centre-forward for Everton, Gillingham, Portsmouth, Watford and Charlton Athletic. Saunders was leading goalscorer for six consecutive seasons at Portsmouth and his goals were a key factor in helping Pompey win the Third Division title in 1962. He remains their third highest goalscorer.^{[citation needed]} He retired from full time playing in 1967, when with Charlton, and became player-manager at non-league Yeovil Town.
As a manager Saunders first tasted success at Norwich City, guiding them to the Second Division title in 1972, which saw them promoted to the First Division for the first time in their history. Saunders steered Norwich City to survival in their first season in the top flight. They also reached the Football League Cup final, losing 1–0 to Tottenham Hotspur. He resigned as Norwich manager on 17 November 1973 following a boardroom row after a 3–1 home defeat to Everton.

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Ron Suart
Ronald Suart (born 18 November 1920 in Barrow-in-Furness) is an English former football player and manager.
Suart was a full-back at Blackpool, playing alongside fellow defenders George Farrow and Harry Johnston in a team which also included Stanley Matthews and Stan Mortensen. Blackpool reached the 1948 FA Cup Final, but Suart missed it through injury. He transferred to Blackburn Rovers in 1949, before retiring in 1955. An August 29, 1953 issue of 'Soccer Star' magazine described Suart as "capable at right and left-back as he is when taking over the centre-half position. A fine man to have in any defence."
He took over at Wigan Athletic as player-manager and then went to Scunthorpe & Lindsey United in 1956. After leading the club to promotion as Division Three North champions in 1957-58 he returned to Blackpool, the first ex-Seasider to return to the club as manager, who were then in the First Division. "I intend to work really hard at Blackpool," he said. "I have my own plans and, with the co-operation of the directors, players, staff and public, I am sure they will work out to the good. Following a man like Joe Smith, with his wonderful record, will not be easy, but I feel confident, and the thought of managing the club I once played for gives me a great thrill."

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Ron Wylie
Ronald M. Wylie (born 6 August 1933) is a Scottish former football player, coach and manager. He played as a right half or inside forward for Notts County, Aston Villa and Birmingham City, making more than 550 appearances in the Football League, and more than 700 in all competitions. As a manager, he took charge of West Bromwich Albion between 1982 and 1984.
An inside-forward, Wylie made his name at Notts County before transferring to Aston Villa in 1958. Wylie spent seven years at Aston Villa, establishing himself as the midfield schemer in the side, which won the Second Division title and promotion to the First Division in the 1959–60 season and achieved League Cup success a year later. Highly regarded by the club's fans, he was not capped by Scotland, likely due to the abundance of quality midfielders available at the time. In 1965, he transferred to Birmingham City. Considered past his best when he made the move, he went on to play nearly 150 games for the club, was appointed club captain, and retired in 1970 at the age of 37.

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Ronnie Allen
Ronald "Ronnie" Allen (15 January 1929 – 9 June 2001) was an English international football player and manager. He was a professional footballer for nineteen years, between 1946 and 1964, making 638 appearances in the Football League, and scoring 276 goals. He also won five caps for England national team. He later became a manager at clubs in England, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. His son, Russell, also played professional football throughout the 1970s.
Starting his career in 1946 with Port Vale, he spent four years with the club, before making a record breaking transfer to West Bromwich Albion. He was one of the best strikers of the 1950s, playing over 400 games, with a ratio of a goal every two games. He lifted the FA Cup in 1954, and helped the club to the FA Charity Shield in 1954, and a second place finish in the First Division in 1953–54. In 1961 he signed with Crystal Palace, where he spent the final four years of his playing career. He helped Palace win promotion out of the Third Division in 1963–64.

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Roy Chapman
Roy Chapman (18 March 1934 – 21 March 1983) was an English professional footballer and manager, born in Birmingham. He was the father of former Arsenal and Leeds United striker Lee Chapman.
An inside-forward, he started his career at Aston Villa in 1952, before he moved on to Lincoln City five years later in order to find first team football. In 1961 he was sold to Mansfield Town, where he remained for the next four years, before he returned to Lincoln as the club's player-manager in 1965. He gave up his management duties the following year, before moving on to Port Vale in 1967. In all he scored 200 goals in 415 games in the Football League.
In 1969 he joined Stafford Rangers via Chester City. He was also given the management job at Rangers, and held this position until 1975, at which point he was made manager of Stockport County. His reign at Stockport was brief, and he became a coach before returning to Stafford for a second spell as manager in 1977, before he left for a second time in 1980. As Stafford manager he led the club to a Northern Premier League, FA Trophy, and Staffordshire Senior Cup treble in 1972; as well as another Staffs Cup victory in 1973 and another FA Trophy success in 1979.

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Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson (born 9 August 1947) is an English former footballer, who is the current manager of the England national football team.
Hodgson, who has managed sixteen different teams in eight countries, guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996; Switzerland had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1960s. From 2006 to 2007, he managed the Finland national team, guiding them to their highest ever FIFA ranking of 33rd place, and coming close to qualifying for a major tournament for the first time in their history. He has been the beaten finalist in the UEFA Cup and the Europa League. Hodgson has also coached many notable club sides, including Internazionale, Blackburn Rovers, Grasshoppers, FC Copenhagen, Udinese, Fulham, Liverpool and West Brom. Hodgson served several times as a member of UEFA's technical study group at the European Championships, and was also a member of the FIFA technical study group at the 2006 World Cup. Hodgson speaks five languages and has worked as a television pundit in several of the countries in which he has coached.

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Roy McFarland
Roy Leslie McFarland (born 5 April 1948) is an English football manager who was also a player, notably at Derby County where he played 434 league games helping him to earn 28 caps for England.
Born in Liverpool, McFarland was a player for Tranmere Rovers, Derby County and Bradford City. He represented England at full international level. Brian Clough and Peter Taylor signed him for Derby on 25 August 1967, when they were a Second Division side preparing for a challenge to win promotion to the First Division.
He was famous during the late 1960s and 1970s as a central defender in the Derby side which won promotion to the First Division in 1969 and followed this success with two league titles; the first under Clough in 1972 and the second under Dave Mackay in 1975. In addition, he also won 28 caps for England.
He is noted for having the earliest known booking for time wasting when he humorously kicked the ball out of play after Derby had taken the lead against Liverpool in a game Derby were very unlikely to win.

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Sam Allardyce
Samuel "Sam" Allardyce (born 19 October 1954), nicknamed "Big Sam", is an English football manager and former professional player. In June 2011 he was appointed as manager of West Ham United.
As a footballer he made over 400 appearances and played for Bolton Wanderers, Sunderland, Millwall, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Coventry City, Huddersfield Town, Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion and Limerick. Moving into management he took charge of Limerick, Blackpool and Notts County before managing Bolton Wanderers from 1999 to 2007. Commonly known as Big Sam, he led Bolton to a League Cup final as well as guiding them to UEFA Cup qualification for the first time in their history.
Following a spell at Newcastle United from 2007 to 2008, Allardyce managed Blackburn Rovers from 2008 until 13 December 2010.
Allardyce was born in 1954 at a recently built council house in Ash Green on the Old Park Farm Estate in Dudley. He was the son of Robert Allardyce (1916–1989) and Mary Agnes Allardyce (1918–1991). He has an older brother, Robert junior, who was born in 1951.

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Sam Ellis
Samuel "Sam" Ellis (born 12 September 1946 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester) is an English football coach and former player. He left his post as assistant manager of Sheffield United on December 30, 2010.
In his younger days, Ellis played as a centre-half for Sheffield Wednesday in the 1960s. As a teenager he made his debut in the 1966 FA Cup final against Everton, in which his team lost 3–2.[1]. He then moved on to play for Mansfield Town, Lincoln City, and Watford. It was at Vicarage Road that he became coach and assistant manager to future England boss Graham Taylor. With Ellis' help, Watford climbed the divisions before turning down a new contract in favour of trying his hand at management. When the Blackpool job was advertised, Ellis applied and was given the job on 1 June 1982.
Ellis was manager at the seaside for seven years, from 1982 to 1989, with no prior managerial experience under his belt, but the new board at Bloomfield Road were confident in his ability. Despite finishing in the bottom four of the Fourth Division in his first season, thus forcing the club to apply for re-election to the Football League, Ellis managed to turn the side around and gain promotion two years later with only limited funds handed to him. Although he kept the Tangerines in the Third Division, they were unable to make further progress and Ellis' contract was terminated on 28 March 1989, with relegation looking a possibility.

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Sam Ricketts
Samuel Derek "Sam" Ricketts (born 11 October 1981) is a Welsh international footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers. His favoured position is full-back. Although he usually played on the right for previous club Hull City, he is equally comfortable on the left.
Ricketts was born 11 October 1981 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Ricketts began his career at Oxford United, making 35 first team appearances (with a further 13 as substitute) in all competitions and scoring one goal. During his time at Oxford United he had a brief spell on loan at Nuneaton Borough before being released from his professional contract to sign for Conference National side Telford United in the summer of 2003. His form for Telford led him to be selected for the England non-League XI that season.
Telford went out of business at the end of the 2003–04 season, and Swansea manager Kenny Jackett swooped for Ricketts, offering him a return to the Football League. Ricketts joined Swansea City on 27 May 2004.
Ricketts made such an impact in his first season with Swansea that John Toshack handed him his first Welsh cap on 9 February 2005 in a match against Hungary. Although born in England, Ricketts is qualified to play for Wales through his Welsh grandma.

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Sammy McIlroy
Samuel Baxter "Sammy" McIlroy (born 2 August 1954) is a former Northern Ireland international footballer whose clubs included Manchester United.
After playing, he managed several English football teams and the Northern Ireland national team, gaining most success with Macclesfield Town. He was most recently the manager of Football League Two side Morecambe.
From East Belfast, McIlroy played from 1971 to 1982 at Manchester United. He was the last youth player signed by Matt Busby, therefore making him the last of the Busby Babes. He was dubbed 'The next George Best', and in his first-team debut match in 1971 at the age of 17 he scored, in a 3–3 draw in the Manchester derby against Manchester City at Maine Road on 6 November, but was not able to win a regular first-team place until the 1974–75 season.
This was shortly after United slipped out of the top flight, but he helped them shoot straight back up again, finished third in the top flight a year later and also reach an FA Cup final – which they surprisingly lost to Southampton. A year later, McIlroy picked up a winner's medal as United triumphed 2–1 against Liverpool. A runners-up medal in the FA Cup followed two years after that as United were defeated 3–2 by Arsenal, with McIlroy equalising for United having been 2–0 down, only for Alan Sunderland to dramatically win it for Arsenal minutes afterwards.

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Sandy MacFarlane
Alexander "Sandy" MacFarlane (born 1878 - d. 19??) was a Scottish professional football player and manager.
A Scotland international inside-forward, he played domestically for Airdrie before moving south to join Woolwich Arsenal in 1896. He only made seven appearances for Arsenal, his debut coming against Grimsby Town on November 28, 1896, and returned to Airdrie the following year. His second move, south of the border, was more successful, joining Newcastle and becoming their first-choice inside-left. In four seasons in the north-east McFarlane made eighty-four First Division appearances, scoring seventeen goals in three consecutive top six finishes, as well as two FA Cup appearances.
He returned to Scotland to play for Dundee in 1901. During his twelve years there he won a Scottish Cup in 1909-10 and made five appearances for Scotland between 1904 and 1911, scoring once in a 5-0 victory over Ireland on 15 March 1909 in the British Home Championship. He moved to Chelsea in 1913, but only played sporadically and retired from playing in 1914.

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Sean McAuley
Sean McAuley (born 23 June 1972) is an English former professional footballer. He is currently the Academy head coach at Sheffield Wednesday.
Sheffield-born McAuley began his football career with Manchester United, signing on with the club as an apprentice in July 1988. He turned professional on 21 June 1990, but was sold to St. Johnstone for £80,000 two years later, without having made a single appearance for the United first team.
McAuley was appointed Sheffield Wednesday's Academy head coach in January 2006.
He became caretaker manager of Sheffield Wednesday between the sacking of Paul Sturrock and the appointment of Brian Laws in late October and early November 2006 respectively. McAuley was in charge for four first-team games, winning three and drawing one. The victories were over Queens Park Rangers, Crystal Palace and Leicester City. The draw was a 2–2 scoreline at Wolverhampton Wanderers. Following the appointments of both Laws and Alan Irvine, he returned to his career as the Owls' Academy head coach.

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Simon Grayson
Simon Nicholas Grayson (born 16 December 1969) is an English former professional footballer and manager of Football League One side Huddersfield Town.
As a player he was a right back, but he was also utilised in midfield in a career that lasted from 1988 until 2006. Having started his career with Leeds United he went on to notably played in the Premier League for Leicester City, Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers, before moving into the Football League with Sheffield Wednesday, Stockport County, Notts County, Bradford City and Blackpool. He was appointed as player/manager of Blackpool in 2005, and a year later retired from playing to concentrate on the managerial side of his job. In 2008 he was appointed manager of Leeds United where he remained until being sacked in 2012.

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Stan Anderson
Stanley Anderson (born 27 February 1933, in Horden) is a former English football player and manager. An England international who earned two caps while at Sunderland, he also played for Newcastle and Middlesbrough, becoming the first player to captain all three big north-east clubs. He succeeded Raich Carter as Middlesbrough manager in April 1966 and remained at the club until resigning in April 1973 to be replaced by Jack Charlton. In his time the club were relegated from and promoted to the Football League second division. After leaving Middlesbrough he managed in Greece for AEK Athens FC and Panathinaikos FC and in England, where he became boss at QPR, Doncaster Rovers and Bolton Wanderers before giving up management after resigning in 1981.

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Stan Mortensen
Stanley Harding "Stan" Mortensen (26 May 1921 — 22 May 1991) was an English professional footballer, most famous for his part in the 1953 FA Cup Final (subsequently known as "The Matthews Final"), in which he became the only player ever to score a hat-trick in a Wembley FA Cup Final. He was also both the first player to score for England in a FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign and the first England player to score in the tournament proper.
South Shields-born Mortensen went to war in 1939 as a wireless operator and overcame an injury – sustained when his RAF bomber crashed, leaving him as the only survivor – to become one of England's best post-war players.
During the war, he scored dozens of goals before making a strange piece of history by switching teams to play for Wales when they needed a reserve during a game against England on 25 September 1943. Wales' Ivor Powell was injured and had to leave the field and, as England's reserve, Mortensen took his place in the Welsh side. Wales lost 8–3, and Stanley Matthews later wrote of the game: "Nobody in the 80,000 crowd had any idea that Mortensen was going to change. When, a quarter of an hour later, the player in the red jersey returned to the field, a cheer went up from the crowd, who — not knowing the seriousness of Powell's injury — were under the impression the injured Welsh wing half was returning. Even when "Powell" went to inside-left, the onlookers did not suspect anything unusual, as team switches are often necessary after a player has been injured. Even some of the England players did not know that Mortensen was playing on the other side, and the football reporters, whose headquarters at Wembley are at the top of the main stand, did not know of the change until after half-time."

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Stan Ternent
Francis Stanley "Stan" Ternent (born 16 June 1946) is an English former footballer and manager. He managed Blackpool, Hull City, Bury, Burnley, Gillingham and Huddersfield Town. He is currently a scout for Sunderland.
In his playing days, Ternent donned the colours of Burnley and Carlisle United. Upon retiring, he became a coach at Sunderland, firstly, then Blackpool, assisting Bob Stokoe. Ternent himself became manager of the Tangerines in 1979, his first such role, and Blackpool's sixth manager in a decade.
Immediately upon his appointment at Bloomfield Road, Ternent began to reshape the team, spending large sums on new players. Jack Ashurst was purchased from Sunderland for a then-club-record £132,400. Fellow newcomers included Dave Bamber, Colin Morris, Peter Noble and Tom McAlister. Despite the fresh faces, the Seasiders' fortunes didn't improve, and by early 1980 they were in the bottom half of the Third Division. Ternent was sacked on 1 February 1980.
He was part of the coaching staff at Bradford City and served as assistant manager to Steve Coppell at Crystal Palace before his next role as manager came nine years later, at Hull City from 1989 to 1991. He lost his job in January 1991, a few months before the club suffered relegation from the Second Division. From 1991 to 1993 he was assistant manager to Ian Porterfield and then David Webb at Chelsea before again being made redundant.

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Steve Bruce
Stephen Roger "Steve" Bruce (born 31 December 1960) is an English football manager and former player. Born in Corbridge, Northumberland, he was a promising schoolboy footballer but was rejected by a number of professional clubs. He was on the verge of quitting the game altogether when he was offered a trial with Gillingham. Bruce was offered an apprenticeship and went on to play more than 200 games for the club before joining Norwich City in 1984.
In 1987, he moved to Manchester United, with whom he achieved great success, winning the Premier League, FA Cup, Football League Cup and European Cup Winner's Cup. He also became the first English player of the twentieth century to captain a team to The Double. Despite his success on the field, he was never selected to play for the England national team. Commentators and contemporaries have described him as one of the best English players of the 1980s and 1990s never to play for his country at full international level.
Bruce began his managerial career with Sheffield United, and spent short periods of time managing Huddersfield Town, Wigan Athletic and Crystal Palace before joining Birmingham City in 2001. He twice led Birmingham to promotion to the Premier League during his tenure of nearly six years, but resigned in 2007 to begin a second spell as manager of Wigan. At the end of the 2008–09 season he resigned to take over as manager of Sunderland, a post he held until he was dismissed in November 2011.

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Steve Burtenshaw
Steve Burtenshaw (born 23 November 1935 in Portslade) is an English former football player and manager. As a player, he made more than 200 appearances in the Football League as a wing half for Brighton & Hove Albion. As a manager, he took charge of several Football League clubs.
Burtenshaw was a one club man as a player, playing 237 matches in the Football League as a wing half for Brighton & Hove Albion between 1952 and 1966.
After retiring, Burtenshaw became a coach at Brighton; amongst the players he took under his wing was Howard Wilkinson, the future Premier League-winning Leeds United manager.
Burtenshaw joined Arsenal as a coach in 1971, succeeding Don Howe after his departure to West Bromwich Albion. Burtenshaw stayed for two years before resigning, despite the club reaching an FA Cup final and coming second in the First Division.
Soon after, he moved to Sheffield Wednesday and spent two years there as manager. He later became a coach at Everton, managing the side in a caretaker capacity for three games in January 1977 after the club sacked Billy Bingham. He went on to manage Queens Park Rangers from 1978 to 1979.

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Steve Cotterill
Stephen "Steve" Cotterill (born 20 July 1964) is an English former footballer who is manager of Nottingham Forest.
Cotterill started his playing career in the non-leagues as a forward who could play centrally or in wide positions, playing semi-professionally at clubs like Cheltenham Town, Alvechurch and Burton Albion. He then signed his first professional contract, with Wimbledon, after a £120,000 deal was done with Burton. He made 44 appearances in four years at Wimbledon and went out on loan to Brighton & Hove Albion to recapture his fitness following a serious cruciate knee-ligament injury. This led to further games at the Dons and he turned down a £500,000 bid from Southampton before finally moving on again to Bournemouth.
Cotterill signed for Bournemouth in the summer of 1993 for the fee of £120,000. He was out of contract and this fee was set by the then Transfer Tribunal. In three years at Bournemouth he got his career back in good shape scoring 15 goals in 45 league starts for the club. While at the club he picked up three player of the season awards but had to finish his career in 1995 after another bad knee injury from which he was unable to fully recover.

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Steve McClaren
Stephen "Steve" McClaren (born 3 May 1961) is an English football manager and former player, currently manager of Dutch team FC Twente.
His managerial career began at Middlesbrough in the Premier League, who won the League Cup in 2004 and finished as runners-up in the 2006 UEFA Cup. McClaren then served as manager of England from August 2006 to December 2007. He was sacked after England failed to qualify for the 2008 European Championship. In 2008 McClaren became manager of FC Twente, with whom he won the club's first Eredivisie championship in the 2009–10 season. He then worked as manager of VfL Wolfsburg in Germany between May 2010 and February 2011. After a short spell as manager of Nottingham Forest, he returned to Twente in January 2012.
Despite his successes at Manchester United, where he had been assistant manager to Alex Ferguson from 1999 to 2001, and Middlesbrough, he was vilified by the English media following England's failure to qualify for Euro 2008. He was dubbed 'the wally with a brolly', after his use of an umbrella to protect himself from rain during his final game in charge. McClaren's time in charge at FC Twente saw his professional reputation recover somewhat after he managed them to the Eredivisie title.

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Steve McMahon
Stephen Joseph "Steve" McMahon (born 20 August 1961) is an English former professional footballer, manager and sports television pundit.
As a player he was a midfielder from 1979 to 1998, most notably played for Liverpool in the late 1980s. McMahon was placed in 42nd position in the 100 Players Who Shook The Kop poll, which asked Red supporters to name the best 100 players of all time. He also played for Everton, Aston Villa and Manchester City. After his playing career ended, he began his coaching and managing carrer with the Swindon Town F.C., then finished his career at Blackpool F.C.. He is currently a football pundit for the Asia-based sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports.
Halewood-born McMahon started his career at Everton, the club he supported as a boy, playing for them as a teenager after appearing at Goodison Park as a ball boy. He made his league debut on 16 August 1980 in the 3–1 defeat to Sunderland at Roker Park, he went on to be voted the supporters player of the year by the end of the 1980/81 season. His commanding presence in the Toffees midfield earned him the captaincy of the club but Everton's lack of success couldn't quench his thirst for honours, so after 4 seasons which included 100 league appearances and 11 league goals McMahon was on the move.

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Stuart Pearce
Stuart Pearce MBE (born 24 April 1962) is an English football manager and former player. He is currently manager of the England national under-21 team and most recently been made manager of the Great Britain Olympic football team. As a player, Pearce captained both the England national football team and Nottingham Forest, turning out 78 times for England between 1987 and 1999.
He retired as a player in 2002 while at Manchester City. He remained with the club as a coach under Kevin Keegan's managership until being promoted to the manager's job in 2005. He was manager of the club for two years before being dismissed. He is now full-time manager of the England U-21 team, a position he previously held part-time while still Manchester City manager.
Born in Shepherds Bush, London, Pearce first attended Fryent Primary School in Kingsbury, North West London before attending Claremont High School in Kenton. He failed a trial at Queens Park Rangers and then rejected an offer from Hull City, instead settling into a career in the non-league game with his local side, Wealdstone, while training and working as an electrician and plumber. For almost five years, he was the first choice full back for the team, then amongst the biggest names of non-league football in the Alliance Premier League.

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Stuart Pearson
James Stuart Pearson (born 21 June 1949 in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire) is an English former football player. He was a skilful forward who played in three FA Cup finals.
Pearson started his career with Hull City. As a young player and replacement for local hero Chris Chilton he was not given an easy time by the Hull City fans.^{[citation needed]} He did, however, soon win them over with skill and clinical finishing.^{[citation needed]} During his time at Hull City his efforts, on one occasion, earned him the memorable headline "Onion Stu Lands City In A Pickle": this headline came about after Pearson was sent off against Sheffield Wednesday for calling the linesman "a bloody onion".^{[citation needed]} City lost that game at Hillsborough 4–2 with Pearson having scored both Hull goals before his dismissal. He later joined Manchester United in 1974 for £200,000.
Pearson was bought by Manchester United after they were relegated to the Second Division and was instrumental in getting the club promoted back to the First Division the very next season by scoring 17 goals. Every time he scored a goal he would celebrate with an upraised right fist. He was in the team that lost 1–0 to Southampton in the 1976 FA Cup Final. The next year Pearson helped Manchester United win the 1977 FA Cup against Liverpool, scoring the first of Manchester United's goals in their 2–1 win. He was sidelined for most of the 1978–79 season due to a knee injury but made a full recovery before leaving Manchester United for West Ham United in August 1979.

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Sydney Beaumont
Sydney Beaumont (8 October 1884–1939) was an English professional footballer and football manager. He played at both half-back and left-wing during his career.
Beaumont was born in Wrestlingworth, Bedfordshire, and began his career with Colchester Town. He moved on to Lincoln City, making his league debut in the 1904-05 season. However, he made just five league appearances for the Imps before joining Bedfordshire side Biggleswade & District.
He joined Watford in 1909, playing in the Southern League. He played 25 times for Watford before joining Preston North End in 1911, but made just one league appearance before joining Merthyr Town in the 1912 close season. He spent just one season with Merthyr, making fifteen appearances, before joining Troedyrhiw in the summer of 1913. He later finished his playing career with Llanelli.
In the summer of 1923, Beaumont was appointed as manager of Third Division South side Aberdare Athletic. Aberdare finished 9th in the 1925/26 season, but a combination of circumstances, including industrial action amongst the local mining community which affected attendances and the burning down of a wooden grandstand, meant that Aberdare's poor financial situation deteriorated. At the end of the 1926/27, Aberdare failed to gain re-election to the league and were replaced by Torquay United.

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Terry Yorath
Terence Charles Yorath (born 27 March 1950 in Grangetown, Wales^{[citation needed]}) is a former footballer and has been a manager at both club and international level. He is also the father of television presenter Gabby Logan.
He represented Leeds United, Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur, Bradford City, Swansea City and the Welsh national team. He later became a football manager for Bradford City, Swansea City, Cardiff City and Sheffield Wednesday as well as assistant at Huddersfield Town, and also internationally managed Wales and Lebanon.
Yorath was an apprentice at Leeds United signing professional forms at the age of 17. Along with other Leeds midfield players of the time, such as Mick Bates and Terry Hibbitt, he found it difficult to establish himself ahead of Don Revie's preferred pairing of Billy Bremner and Johnny Giles. Between 1967 and 1972 he made just 14 League appearances for Leeds.
In the 1972–73 season, injuries and suspensions allowed Yorath to establish himself as a first team regular. However, his first season ended with two cup final runners-up medals; he was a substitute in the 1973 FA Cup Final, which Leeds lost 1–0 to Sunderland, and also appeared in the 1973 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final, which Leeds lost in controversial circumstances to AC Milan.

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Thomas Slaney
Thomas "Tom" Slaney (1852 – 1935) was an English footballer and manager who was the first manager of Stoke.
Slaney trained as a teacher at Saltley Collage until 1874 and was appointed Stoke's Secretary-Manager in the summer of 1874 holding the position until his resignation in 1883. He continued to play during his time in office and was club captain for seven years from 1875. Described as a "fine and dashing" player, he stopped playing to become a referee in 1885. Slanley also helped form the Staffordshire Football Association.

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Tom Bromilow
Thomas "Tom" George Bromilow (7 October 1894 — 4 March 1959) was an English international left half footballer who played for Liverpool between 1919 and 1930. He was virtually ever-present during the back-to-back League title triumphs of the early 1920s.
Born in West Derby, Liverpool, England, Bromilow was signed by Liverpool after the 24 year old turned up at Anfield one afternoon in 1919 asking for a trial. He had only recently been demobilised from the army. George Patterson, the then Liverpool assistant manager, agreed to give him a trial and was impressed by his skill. Bromilow was signed and a legend was made.
Bromilow made his debut on 25 October 1919 at Turf Moor in a Division 1 match against Burnley, a game that the Reds won 2–1; his first goal came in the 57th minute of a 3–0 league victory at Burnden Park over Bolton Wanderers on 24 January 1920. Bromilow soon became an established member of the side that was to win back-to-back League titles in 1921–22 and 1922–23. A fine tackler and distributor of the ball, Bromilow was regarded as the brains of the team and blossomed into a full England international within three years of turning professional. He continued to be an influential first team regular until the latter part of the decade, serving the club with distinction and leading by example as team captain.

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Tom Mather
Tom Mather (1888 in Chorley, Lancashire - 1957), was a football player and manager.
Mather was assistant secretary of both Manchester City and Bolton Wanderers before taking the manager's job at Bolton at the beginning of the First World War, remaining at the club until 1915 when he was called up by the Royal Navy. He remained as manager, in name only, until July 1919, his duties being taken on, and then over, by his assistant Charles Foweraker. After his national service he moved to Southend United as manager.
Mather moved to Stoke City as manager and spent twelve years at Stoke winning the Third Division North title in 1927 and Second Division title in 1932. Mather is also notable as the man who gave Stanley Matthews his debut.
Mather left in 1935 to join Newcastle United as manager.
After World War 2 Mather managed Leicester City and Kilmarnock before returning to Stoke on Trent to work for a catering company.

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Tommy Craig
Thomas "Tommy" Craig (born 21 November 1950 in Glasgow) is a Scottish football coach and former player who is currently the assistant manager of Scottish club St. Mirren. Craig had an 18 year playing career as a midfielder, playing over 100 league games for English clubs Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle United. Towards the end of his playing career he became a coach, and he has worked for clubs including Hibernian, Celtic, Aberdeen and Newcastle.
Craig was a talented midfielder who started his playing career at Aberdeen. In 1969 Sheffield Wednesday paid £100,000 for his services, a club record transfer fee at the time, as well as a British record for a teenager. Craig was a favourite with the fans during his time at Hillsborough and was seen by many as the highlight of what was a poor Sheffield Wednesday team. Craig scored 37 league goals for Wednesday, including many from the penalty spot. During his time at the club, Wednesday were relegated from the top flight following Craig's first full season, and they continued to struggle in Division Two, finally being relegated again shortly after he left for Newcastle United in 1974.

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Tommy Tynan
Tommy Tynan (born 17 November 1955, in Liverpool) is a retired English professional footballer.
A hard working striker with flowing blonde hair, Tynan was signed as an apprentice for Liverpool by manager Bill Shankly after winning a talent contest run by the Liverpool Echo newspaper, but he never made a first-team appearance for the Reds and was transferred to Sheffield Wednesday in 1976, where he spent two years and scored 31 goals.
After just nine appearances for Lincoln City in 1978, Tynan moved on to Newport County where he formed a dynamic striking partnership with John Aldridge as the Newport team gained promotion from Division 4, won the Welsh Cup and reached the quarter finals of the European Cup Winners Cup. Tynan scored both goals in the away leg against Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany, the equalising goal being in the 90th minute but Newport lost the home leg 1–0. In total Tynan scored 66 goals in 183 matches during the most successful period in the club's history.
In 1983, Tynan moved on to Plymouth Argyle where he became a cult figure during the 1980s and is frequently named by Argyle fans as one of the club's all time greatest players. He was a member of the side which reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup in 1984, scoring the goal which beat then top flight West Bromwich Albion in the fifth round of the competition. Argyle went on to beat Derby County in the quarter finals before losing to Watford in the penultimate stage of the competition.

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Tony Grealish
Tony Grealish (born 21 September 1956) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He represented the Republic of Ireland 45 times, through his Irish ancestry.
Grealish was born in Paddington, London.
He made his international debut on 24 March 1976 in a 3-0 win against Norway and his final appearance came in a 4-1 World Cup qualifier defeat against Denmark on 13 November 1985.
Having played both soccer and Gaelic football as a teenager, he made his league debut for Leyton Orient in 1974 and finished his playing career at Walsall in 1992.
In between he also played for Luton Town, Brighton & Hove Albion, West Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Rotherham United.
He captained Brighton in the 1983 FA Cup Final. The opponents were Manchester United and, after a drawn final at Wembley, Brighton lost the replay 4-0.
Since hanging up his boots, Grealish has dabbled in management at non-league level with Bromsgrove Rovers and Atherstone United.

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Tony Lacey
Anthony John "Tony" Lacey (born 18 March 1944) is a former English footballer.
Lacey played for Leek C.S.O.B., St. Luke's College (in Exeter) and Stoke City before joining Port Vale on loan in February 1970. He was an ever-present for the rest of the season and was signed permanently in April 1970 for £2,500. At the age of 31, having passed his peak, he was handed a free transfer in May 1975 and moved on to Rochdale, then Stafford Rangers.
After retiring from the field he became the youth coach at Stoke City in 1980, rising through the ranks of Reserve team coach, caretaker manager and finally youth development officer. He left the Victoria Ground in 1996, and later worked at the Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy.

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Tony Mowbray
Anthony Mark "Tony" Mowbray (born 22 November 1963) is an English former professional football player, who is currently the manager of Middlesbrough. Mowbray played for Middlesbrough, Celtic and Ipswich Town as a defender.
The son of a steel worker and scaffolder, he began his coaching career with Ipswich Town and took his first managerial job at Scottish Premier League side Hibernian, where he won the Scottish Football Writers' Association Manager of the Year award in his first season. He moved on to West Bromwich Albion in 2006, where he won the Football League Championship in 2008, but then suffered relegation from the Premier League the following year. Mowbray was then appointed as manager of Celtic, but was dismissed after nine months. Mowbray subsequently took the manager's role at another of his former clubs, Middlesbrough.
After playing his first match for the club in 1982, Mowbray became captain of Middlesbrough in 1986 when he was just 22 years old. Affectionately known to Boro fans as "Mogga", Mowbray became a legend in Middlesbrough for being a local lad who led the club from liquidation back into the top league of English football within two seasons.

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Tony Pulis
Anthony Richard "Tony" Pulis (born 16 January 1958) is a Welsh football manager and former footballer currently managing Stoke City. Pulis obtained his FA coaching badge at the age of 19, followed by his UEFA 'A' licence aged 21 – making him one of the youngest professional players ever to have obtained the qualification. His son, Anthony, is a professional footballer and played under Pulis at Stoke. Pulis had a seventeen year career as a defender where he played for Bristol Rovers, Newport County, Bournemouth and Gillingham. He did also have a short spell in Hong Kong with Happy Valley.
Pulis took his first steps into management at Bournemouth, where he was a player/coach and then Harry Redknapp's assistant. He then took control when Redknapp left the club. He then went on to Gillingham before leaving in 1999 after a dispute with chairman Paul Scally. Pulis then had unsuccessful spells at Bristol City and Portsmouth before being appointed manager of Stoke City in 2002. He guided Stoke through a tough 2002–03 season avoiding relegation to Division Two on the final day of the season. He spent two more seasons with Stoke before being sacked by Stoke's Icelandic board for 'failing to exploit the foreign market'. He spent the 2005–06 season at Plymouth Argyle before returning to Stoke along with Peter Coates. After narrowly missing out on a play-off spot in the 2006–07 season he guided Stoke City to the Premier League in the 2007–08 season by finishing runners-up in the Football League Championship.

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Tony Waddington
Anthony Waddington (9 November 1924 - 21 January 1994) was an English football player and manager. He managed Stoke City F.C. from 1960 until 1977 and guided them to their only major trophy - the League Cup in 1972. He later managed his only playing club, Crewe Alexandra, from June 1979 to July 1981. His son, Steve, was also a footballer.
Manchester-born Waddington was an amateur with Manchester United before playing over 200 games for Crewe Alexandra. His career was ended after he suffered a knee injury while serving with the Royal Navy in World War II.
Waddington became Stoke City's manager in 1960. His initial task was to stop the declining fortunes of the club, and to prevent relegation from Division Two.
Within three years he had the club back in Division One, collecting the Second Division title in the club's centenary season of 1962/63, after enticing Stanley Matthews back from Blackpool. On 7 October 1961, the two had met in the Russell Hotel in London, where both Blackpool and Stoke City had played that day. Three weeks later, a transfer deal was completed. Waddington then established Stoke in Division One, reached two FA Cup semi-finals, and won the League Cup in 1972.

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Trevor Francis
Trevor John Francis (born 19 April 1954 in Plymouth, England), is a former footballer who won the European Cup with Nottingham Forest and played for England 52 times. He was England's first £1 million player. Former England manager Fabio Capello considered Francis the best English player ever to have played in Serie A.^{[citation needed]}
Between 1988 and 2003 he was a football manager, most notably with Sheffield Wednesday and then Birmingham City. Francis is currently working as a pundit with Al Jazeera Sports and Sky Sports.

Francis was educated at Plymouth's Public Secondary School for Boys. He was an agile and skilful forward and joined Birmingham City as a schoolboy. He quickly rose in status, making his debut for its first team in 1970, aged just 16. His talent was noted when, before his 17th birthday, he scored four goals in one game. He ended his first season with 15 goals from just 22 games.
In the 1970s, Birmingham City reached the occasional domestic semi-final but failed to make a great impact in the First Division championship, so the ability and achievements of Francis were made more noticeable as a result.

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Trevor Porteous
Trevor Porteous (9 October 1933 – 1997) was an English association football player and coach.
Born in Hull, Porteous played for Hull City and Stockport County. He was also player-manager of Stockport between 1963 and 1965.

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Vic Buckingham
Victor Frederick Buckingham (23 October 1915 – 26 January 1995) was an English footballer whose approach as a manager was a precursor of the Total Football philosophy.
Buckingham joined Tottenham Hotspur in 1934 and played the first season (1934–35) for Tottenham Hotspur nursery club Northfleet United. After that single season he returned to Tottenham and played 230 games as a defensive midfielder before leaving in 1949. He started his managerial career with amateur team Pegasus followed by Bradford Park Avenue, then a Football League side, before taking over at West Bromwich Albion in 1953. He became the club's longest serving post-war manager, almost leading them to an elusive 'double' in 1954 when they won the FA Cup and finished second in the league.
During his management of Ajax, he spotted the young Johan Cruijff who was to go on to develop Buckingham's ideas into the mature concept of Total Football. Buckingham's ideas were radically ahead of his time - engendering total football philosophies and youth systems - and earned him a continental reputation (especially in Spain where he was appointed coach of Sevilla FC and then FC Barcelona) that more often than not, overshadowed his talent back home.

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Walter Galbraith
Walter Galbraith (26 May 1918 — 1995) was a Scottish association football player and manager. He played as a defender for Queen's Park, Clyde, New Brighton and Grimsby Town. He then managed Accrington Stanley, Bradford Park Avenue, New Brighton, Tranmere Rovers, Hibernian, Stockport County and Berwick Rangers.
Like most players of his generation, Galbraith's league career was delayed by the Second World War, which meant that league football in both England and Scotland was not held from 1939 until the start of the 1946–47 season. Galbraith played for Clyde for two seasons before moving to Merseyside club New Brighton, for who he made over 100 league appearances in three seasons. He then moved to Grimsby Town, where he stayed for two seasons.
Galbraith was then appointed as player-manager of Accrington Stanley in 1953, making 21 league appearances in the 1953–1954 season before ending his playing career. As manager, Galbraith took Accrington to their highest ever finishing position in the Football League, as they narrowly missed out on promotion to Division Two. He once selected a team of eleven Scots for Accrington in a Football League match, and fans joked that players wouldn't be selected unless they were Scottish. Galbraith resigned in August 1958 after the club's directors advised him that they would be cutting his budget for players.

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Walter Rowley
Walter James Rowley (14 April 1891 - 22 March 1976) was an English footballer around World War I and a manager during and after World War II.
Rowley played village football before joining Oldham Athletic of the Football League First Division. He moved on to Bolton Wanderers in 1913. During the war he played for Port Vale for two 1919 games in the war league before returning to Bolton.
Rowley became a coach with Bolton before he took over as manager at the latter end of World War II, before the League proper started, during his reign the club won the Football League North War Cup. Rowley remained as manager until 1950 but had to resign due to ill health. He was made a life member of the club for his 37 years of service as player, coach and manager.
Fully recovered he took over at Middlesbrough in 1952 but ill health again forced him to resign in March 1954. Fully fit again he returned to management at Shrewsbury Town in 1955 and remained there until 1957 before leaving the game.

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Will Settle
Will Settle was an English football manager, serving in that capactity for five years at Bolton Wanderers.
He was initially a director at the club, taking over his father's position on the board in 1899, remaining so until he replaced John Somerville in January 1910. Unable to prevent relegation to the Second Division that season, he immediately gained promotion at the first time of asking. During his time at the club he signed players like Ted Vizard and Alf Bentley and his sale of Tom Barber ensured the club could pay for the roof of the Great Lever Stand at Burnden Park. He left the club during the First World War.

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Willie Moir
William Moir, (born 19 April 1922, died 1988), better known as Willie Moir, was a Scottish footballer who played for the majority of his career at Bolton Wanderers. He played mostly as an inside-right.
Born in Aberdeen, he signed for Bolton during the war years and made his professional league debut when regular league football re started in 1946. Playing alongside Nat Lofthouse he was the Championship's top scorer in 1948–49 with 25 goals and continued good goal scoring form in the next few years, although always coming behind the more prolific Lofthouse.
Moir was captain when Bolton gave away a 3–1 lead to Blackpool in the Matthews Cup Final, scoring in the game. Two years later he left the club to join Stockport County where he spent a further two years as player manager before retiring from playing. He left Stockport County in 1960.
He died in 1988 at the age of 66.

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Willie Orr
William "Willie" Orr was a Scottish football player and manager.
Willie Orr began his career at Airdrieonians before moving to Preston North End in 1894. It was at Celtic though were he made his name. He made his debut in a 4-1 victory over Hibernian in 1897 and helped lead Celtic to the Scottish title in his first season there. A strong, assured left-back, Orr's influence as a leader shone after he became Celtic captain in 1902 and captained the club to 3 league titles and 2 Scottish cups, including a double in 1906-07.
Orr began his career as manager where he also began his playing career, at Airdrieonians in 1921. His leadership qualities showing again, Airdrie surprised many by finishing runners-up in Scotland in his second season, the club's highest ever league finish and a placement he would achieve for each of the following four seasons, narrowly missing out on the title each time. He also led Aidrie to the club's only ever major honour, the: 1924 Scottish Cup.
His success at Airdrie, prompted the interest of English side Leicester City to replace the outgoing Peter Hodge. Orr continued Hodge's passing style and in only the club's third ever season in the top flight finished in a respectable 7th position, to that point the club's highest ever finish. The side only continued to improve under Orr and the following season in 1927-28 the club finished 3rd in the league and the following season again, they finished runners-up, losing the title to Sheffield Wednesday by a single point (and with Leicester having a superior goal average), these still remain the club's highest ever league finishes. Leicester began to fall though, after the loss of inspirational captain Johnny Duncan who was deemed to have terminated his own contract after breaking the club rules in taking over the license of a local public house. and in January 1932 he resigned on the back of six straight league defeats.

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Zat Knight
Zatyiah "Zat" Knight (born 2 May 1980 in Solihull) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Bolton Wanderers. Knight has two caps for England.
Fulham signed Knight from Rushall Olympic on a free transfer in 1999. As Knight was not a professionally contracted player to Olympic, Fulham were not obliged to pay a fee for him, but sent the club 30 tracksuits as a gesture of thanks.^{[citation needed]}
Knight scored four goals for Fulham, two in the 2004–05 season and two in the 2006–07 season. The first in a FA Cup match against Watford in a 1–1 draw, his second a Premier League goal against Norwich City in a 6–0 win. His last goal for Fulham came against Bolton Wanderers in a 2–1 loss. He was arguably Fulham's most consistent player in the 2006–07 season, a reward for this being given temporary captaincy of the club while regular skipper Luís Boa Morte was out injured.
Before the game against West Ham United it was announced that he had broken his jaw in two places while messing around with his brother. Chris Coleman has been quoted as saying that it takes more than horseplay to break one's jaw in two places, but Knight insists there was "nothing sinister" about the incident.

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Personal information
Full name	Gary John Megson
Date of birth	(1959-05-02) 2 May 1959 (age 53)
Place of birth	Manchester, England
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1977–1979	Plymouth Argyle	78	(10)
1979–1981	Everton	22	(2)
1981–1984	Sheffield Wednesday	123	(13)
1984	Nottingham Forest	0	(0)
1984–1985	Newcastle United	24	(1)
1985–1989	Sheffield Wednesday	110	(12)
1989–1992	Manchester City	82	(2)
1992–1995	Norwich City	46	(1)
1995	Lincoln City	2	(0)
1995	Shrewsbury Town	2	(0)
Total		499	(41)
Teams managed
1995–1996	Norwich City
1996–1997	Blackpool
1997–1999	Stockport County
1999	Stoke City
2000–2004	West Bromwich Albion
2005–2006	Nottingham Forest
2007	Leicester City
2007–2009	Bolton Wanderers
2011–2012	Sheffield Wednesday
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Norwich City		21 December 1995	31 July 1996	&1000000000000002700000027	&100000000000000050000005	&100000000000000090000009	&1000000000000001300000013	&1000000000000001851999918.52
Blackpool		5 July 1996	1 July 1997	&1000000000000005200000052	&1000000000000002100000021	&1000000000000001500000015	&1000000000000001600000016	&1000000000000004038000040.38
Stockport County		1 July 1997	25 June 1999	&10000000000000102000000102	&1000000000000003500000035	&1000000000000002700000027	&1000000000000004000000040	&1000000000000003431000034.31
Stoke City		14 July 1999	15 November 1999	&1000000000000002200000022	&100000000000000090000009	&100000000000000070000007	&100000000000000060000006	&1000000000000004090999940.91
West Bromwich Albion		9 March 2000	26 October 2004	&10000000000000221000000221	&1000000000000009400000094	&1000000000000005000000050	&1000000000000007700000077	&1000000000000004253000042.53
Nottingham Forest		10 January 2005	16 February 2006	&1000000000000005900000059	&1000000000000001700000017	&1000000000000001800000018	&1000000000000002400000024	&1000000000000002880999928.81
Leicester City		13 September 2007	24 October 2007	&100000000000000090000009	&100000000000000030000003	&100000000000000040000004	&100000000000000020000002	&1000000000000003332999933.33
Bolton Wanderers		25 October 2007	30 December 2009	&1000000000000009800000098	&1000000000000002700000027	&1000000000000002600000026	&1000000000000004500000045	&1000000000000002755000027.55
Sheffield Wednesday		4 February 2011	29 February 2012	&1000000000000006200000062	&1000000000000002800000028	&1000000000000001200000012	&1000000000000002200000022	&1000000000000004515999945.16
Total				&10000000000000648000000648	&10000000000000226000000226	&10000000000000179000000179	&10000000000000241000000241	&1000000000000003488000034.88

Persondata
Name	Megson, Gary
Alternative names
Short description	Footballer; Football manager
Date of birth	December, 1955
Place of birth	Manchester, England
Date of death
Place of death

Phil Gartside
Gartside pictured in 2008
Born	Philip Andrew Gartside 1952 (age 59–60) Leigh, England^[1]
Occupation	Chairman of Bolton Wanderers, FA board member
Years active	1999–

Persondata
Name	Gartside, Philip
Alternative names
Short description	Businessman
Date of birth	23 August 1941
Place of birth	Leigh, England
Date of death
Place of death

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