Paul Jewell

Name: Paul Steven Jewell
Age: 43
Nationality: Brittish
Current Club: Derby County

Brief Playing history: He started playing football at professional level as a strker in 1984 when he signed with Wigan Athletic. Even though he was playing as youth for Liverpool he couldn’t gain a place there and that’s why he decided to start his career at Wigan. Here, he played for 4 years, starting in 137 games and scoring 35 goals for them. In 1988 he moved to Bradford City where he played 10 years and where he decided to end his career in 1998. For Bradford he appeared in 269 games and he scored 56 goals.

Brief Management history: After ending his footballer career he remained at Bradford as head coach for the next two years where he made magic things and he managed to win promotion for Bradford in the Premier League for the first time in 77 years. In 2000 he moved to Sheffield Wednesday where he wanted to repeat the things done with Bradford and help Wednesday to gain promotion too, but he was sacked after low performances. In june 2001 he was appointed as Winan Athletic manager. The team was in English Second Division and from his first season he took the team to English Division One. In 2006, with his help, Wigan Athletic gained promotion in England’s Premier League and one year later, he signed with Derby County.

Previous Clubs Played for:
1984-1988 – Wigan Athletic
1988-1998 – Bradford City

Previous Clubs Managed:
1998-2000 – Bradford City
2000-2001 – Sheffield Wednesday
2001-2007 – Wigan Athletic
2007-present – Derby County

Derby County

Derby County Football Club
Nicknames: The Rams
Founded: 1884
Stadium: Pride Park
Capacity: 33,597
Owner: Adam Pearson
Chairman: Adam Pearson
Manager: Paul Jewell

Derby County were founding members of English Football League when it was launched in 1888. They’ve had a couple of bad periods and they were relegated a couple of times, but they’re also one of the teams that won major trophies in England.

In 1946 they’ve won the FA Cup and in the 70s they managed to win twice the English premier League, once in 1972 and once in 1975. This season the team is not doing too well and it’s close to be relegated, but there is still hope for the team from Derby. After a really bad start this season, the former team owner, Peter Gadsby, decided to step down from the team and sold the club to former Hull City owner, Adam Pearson. They changed their coach and now they are looking for talent from North America that would hopefully save them from relegation. In January they’ve signed four new players, and they still want to buy new talent soon.

Derby’s main rivals are Nottingham Forest, a club based in Nottingham, located at a few miles from Derby. Also, there are other local teams like Notts County or Leicester City which are Derby’s rivals, but all these teams are in the lower English divisions.

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