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

Roy Hodgson

Name: Roy Hodgson
Age: 60
Nationality: English
Current Club: Fulham

Brief Playing history: His football player career isn’t too well known and he hasn’t been a great football player. He played a couple of times for Crystal Palace but he hasn’t made it to the first team there and then he continued to play at non-league teams until he decided to try his luck with coaching.

Brief Management history: In 32 years coaching career we could say that Hodgson was a journeyman as he coached 15 teams. He started coaching in 1976 in Sweden at Halmstads BK and in Sweden he had his biggest successes probably. He managed to win Swedish League 5 times (twice with Halmstads and 3 times with Malmo). He has also spend a lot of time coaching teams from Switzerland and even Switzerland’s team. He managed to qualify the team to Euro ’96 but he left when he had the opportunity to coach Internationale. His latest big success was winning the Danish Superliga with FC Copenhagen in 2001 and from 2007 he was appointed as coach for Fulham.

Previous Clubs Played for:
Crystal Palace, Tonbridge, Gravesend and Northfleet, Maidstone United

Previous Clubs Managed:
1976-1980 – Halmstads BK
1982 – Bristol City
1983-1985 – Orebro SK
1985-1990 – Malmo FF
1990-1992 – Neuchatel Xamax
1992-1995 – Switzerland
1995-1997 – Internationale
1997-1998 – Blackburn Rovers
1999 – Internationale
1999-2000 – Grasshoppers
2000-2001 – FC Copenhagen
2001 – Udinese
2002-2004 – United Arab Emirates
2004-2006 – Viking FK
2006-2007 – Finland
2007 - Fulham

Roy Keane

Name: Roy Maurice Keane
Age: 36
Nationality: Irish
Current Club: Sunderland

Brief Playing history: He started football as a midfielder at the small team Cobh Ramblers in 1989 and soon after, a scout from Nottingham Forest watched him play and he signed with the team one year later. Here he hasn’t done too well from start, but his gameplay improved and in 1993 he moved to Manchester United. He played for Manchester 12 years and he was appointed as captain for the team soon after Cantona left. In this time he has won a lot of trophees and it’s probably one of the players with the biggest number of trophees won. He lead United to win 6 times the English Premier League, the FA Cup 4 times and the Community Shield 4 times but probably his biggest achievement ever as a player is winning the Treble in 1999 with Manchester United. In that year the team managed to win the Premier League, FA Cup, European Champions League and soon after they’ve also won the International Cup. In 2005 his contract with Manchester United ended and he decided to end his career at Celtic where he also won a double in 2006: Scottish premier league and Scottish Cup.

Brief Management history: After ending his footballer career at Celtic he decided to start as a coach for Sunderland, a team that was in England’s Second Division and from his first season here, he managed to win Football League Championship and gain promotion for the team.

Previous Clubs Played for:
1989-1990 – Cobh Ramblers
1990-1993 – Nottingham Forest
1993-2005 – Manchester United
2005-2006 – Celtic

Previous Clubs Managed:
2006-present – Sunderland

Steve Bruce

Name: Stephen Roger Bruce
Age: 47
Nationality: Brittish
Current Club: Wigan Athletic

Brief Playing history: He made his debut as professional football player at Gillingham and he quickly became a first-team player for the team. He remained here for 6 years and in 1984 he signed with Norwich City. The team was relegated in 1985 and soon after he made the big step to Manchester United. Here, he helped the team to win three Premiership Title, three FA Cups, one Football League Cup and one European Cup Winners Cup. He left Manchester United in 1996 for Birmingham City and soon after he moved to Sheffield where he ended his career.

Brief Management history: In 1998 he signed with Sheffield as football-manager for the team and after he quit his football player career he left Sheffield to coach Huddersfield Town for one year. He coached Wigan for 6 weeks in 2001 and in the same year he signed with Birmingham. Birmingham City was a mid-table team in England’s Second Division and from his first year he managed to win promotion with them. He remained as Birmingham’s head coach until 2007, when he signed with Wigan Athletic.

Previous Clubs Played for:
1977-1984 – Gillingham
1984-1987 – Norwich City
1987-1996 – Manchester United
1996-1998 – Birmingham City
1998-1999 – Sheffield United

Previous Clubs Managed:
1998-1999 – Sheffield United
1999-2000 – Huddersfield Town
2001 – Wigan Athletic
2001-2007 – Birmingham City
2007 – Wigan Athletic

Alex McLeish

Name: Alexander McLeish
Age: 48
Nationality: Scottish
Current Club: Birmingham City

Brief Playing history: Almost all his footballer career he played for Aberdeen as a central defender forming a great defence with Willie Miller. He played for Aberdeen when the team had a great success, winning 3 times the Scottish Premier league, 4 times the Scottish Cup, twice the Scottish League Cup and 2 european trophees: European Super Cup and European Cup Winners Cup. He also played for Scotland in three consecutive World Cups and he decided to end his professional football player career at Motherwell.

Brief Management history: In 1994, after leaving Aberdeen he became a player-coach for Motherwell, but one year later he quit playing and remained as a manager until 1998 for the club. In 1998 he moved to Hibernian and won Scottish League First Division and in 2001 he made the big step to Rangers where he won twice the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Cup and 3 times the Scottish League Cup in 5 years coaching the team. In 2007 he tried his luck as Scotland’s manager but soon after, he left the team to sign with Birmingham City.

Previous Clubs Played for:
1978-1994 – Aberdeen
1994-1995 – Motherwell

Previous Clubs Managed:
1994-1998 – Motherwell
1998-2001 – Hibernian
2001-2006 – Rangers
2007 – Scotland
2007-present – Birmingham City

Gary Megson

Name: Gary John Megson
Age: 48
Nationality: Brittish
Current Club: Bolton Wanderers

Brief Playing history: He played football as a midfielder for almost 18 years. During this time, he changed 9 clubs. He started professional football at Plymouth where his play was pretty impressive and that made him sign with Everton two years later. His gameplay wasn’t too well there, and he hasn’t made it to Everton’s first team. In 1981 he moved to Sheffield where he played the for 7 years in total. He also played for Newcastle and Man. City and one of his last clubs was Norwich City. In 1995 he ended his career at Shrewbury Town.

Brief Management history: He started managing in 1995 at Norwich City and each year after he changed his team until 2000, when he was appointed as West Bromwich Albion manager. In 2002 he took WBA to Premier League after beating their local rivals Wolverhampton in the end of the season. West Bromwich didn’t had a great first season in Premier League and were relegated. In 2005 Megson signed with Nottingham Forest and 2 years later he began coaching Bolton Wanderers. He didn’t had any major successes as a manager until today.

Previous Clubs Played for:
1977-1979 – Plymouth Argyle
1979-1981 – Everton
1981-1984 – Sheffield Wednesday
1984-1985 – Newcastle United
1985-1989 – Sheffield Wednesday
1989-1992 – Manchester City
1992-1995 – Norwich City
1995 – Lincoln City
1995 – Shrewsbury Town

Previous Clubs 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-present – Bolton Wanderers