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Don Revie |
Manchester
City FC
6 appearances, 4 goals
(1 on his debut)
P 6 W 3
D 1 L 2 F 16:
A
7
58% successful
1954-56
captain: none
minutes played:
540 |
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Timeline |
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Donald George Revie
OBE |
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Birth |
10 July 1927 at 20 Bell Street, Middlesbrough, North
Riding of Yorkshire
[registered in
Middlesbrough, North Riding, September 1927].
To Donald and Margaret Emily (née Haston)
Attended Archibald
Modern Secondary. |
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Marriage |
to Elsie M.L. Duncan
[registered in Leicester, December 1949]. Two children,
Duncan and Kim. |
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Death |
26 May 1989, in
Murrayfield Hospital, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, following a long battle with
motor neuron disease, aged 61 years 320 days. Living
at Broomlea, 17 Broom Road, Kinross, Tayside, at the time.
cremated on 30 May at Warriston
Crematorium, Edinburgh.. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Biographies |
The Unforgiven: The Story of Don
Revie's Leeds United - Rob Bagchi & Paul Rogerson
(Aurum Press, 2003).
Don Revie: Portrait of a
Footballing Enigma - Andrew Mourant (Mainstream
Publishing, 2003).
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Club Career |
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Club(s): |
Started in school
football around Middlesbrough, particularly Newport Boys Club FC and
Middlesbrough Swifts FC. A centre/inside-forward, he signed for Leicester
City FC in August 1944, scoring 25 league goals in 96 league
outings before transferring to Hull City AFC in November 1949 for
a £20,000 fee. Another 76 league appearances followed and
another twelve goals. Revie moved onto Manchester City FC in October 1951 for
£13,000 plus another player, making 162 league appearances,
and scoring 37 goals. Revie then joined Sunderland AFC in November 1956
for £23,000, going on to make 64 league
appearances, and scoring fifteen goals. Joined Leeds United AFC in November 1958 for £14,000,
becoming the club's player-manager on 16 March 1961, retiring
after 76 league appearances in which he scored another eleven
goals, taking his total league goal tally to 100,
in May 1963. |
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Club honours: |
FA
Cup runners-up 1954-55, winners
1955-56; |
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Individual honours: |
Football
Writers' Association Footballer of
the Year winner 1954-55; |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
11", 12st.
9lbs [1957]. |
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Management Career |
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Club(s):
After initially planning on applying for the vacant AFC
Bournemouth managerial position, Revie decided on becoming
Leeds United AFC's player-manager on 16 March 1961, retiring from playing in
May 1963. He would remain manager at Elland Road until April
1974. This, despite in May 1973, Revie agreeing to take over
the vacant managerial post at Everton FC. Became the
England team manager from July 1974 until July 1977 who became the coach of United Arab Emirates, a position held until
July 1980. From which he went to coach Al-Nasr from 1980 to
1984, and Egypt's Al-Ahly in 1984-85. |
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Club honours:
Football League Division Two winners 1963-64;
Football League runners-up 1964-65, 1965-66, 1969-70,
1970-71, 1971-72, Champions 1968-69, 1973-74;
FA Cup runners-up 1964-65, 1969-70, 1972-73,
winners 1971-72; Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
runners-up 1966-67, winners 1967-68, 1970-71;
Football League Cup winners 1967-68;
FA Charity Shield winners 1969; Inter-Cities
Fairs Cup Trophy play-off runners-up 1971;
European Cup Winners Cup runners-up 1972-73; |
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Individual honours:
Awarded CBE
1970; English Manager of the Year
1968-69, 1969-70, 1971-72; |
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Distinctions:
Appeared on ITV's This Is Your Life
24 April 1974; Statue (left) erected
5 May 2012. |
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Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One
of seven who became the 734th players
(738) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-right |
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First match |
No. 291, 2 October 1954, Northern Ireland 0
England 2, a British Championship match at Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged
27 years
84 days. |
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Last match |
No. 307, 6 October 1956, Northern Ireland 1
England 1, a British Championship match at Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast,
aged 29 years 88 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1954-55, 1955-56, 1956-57; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners 1954-55, 1956-57, shared 1955-56; |
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Individual honours |
England B (one appearance, 1954) |
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Distinctions |
The fourteenth North Ridian to represent
England |
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Beyond England |
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Became a successful club manager with Leeds United
AFC, before taking up the tenure with the England national
side. For various reasons, some true, some probably not, Revie
left England to take up a similar position with the United
Arab Emirates, then various club sides in the area. He
returned to retire in Scotland in 1988, where he was diagnosed
with MND, only to die a year later. No Football Association
official attended his funeral and nor were their any marks of
respect in the following weekend's football programme. |
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England
Disgrace |
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Don Revie was guilty of selling his England Team
Manager resignation to the Daily Mail, before he told the
Football Association his intention to resign. The newspaper
article revealed that Revie had in fact been negotiating his
United Arab Emirates contract whilst he was supposed to
be on England scouting missions. It was enough to upset
the Football Association, who had attempted to ban Revie from
football for ten years, only overturned on appeal. But
why was Revie so desperate to leave these shores? Apparently
his rush to leave England was the upcoming revelation that
Revie had a history of match-fixing and bribery. Allegations
witnessed and testified by footballers such as Gary Sprake,
and respected managers such as Bob Stokoe. |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Apps |
comp. apps |
minutes |
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goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
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 |
captain |
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9 |
6 |
4 |
540 |
4 |
135
min |
2 |
1 |
three |
none |
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minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors. |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
|
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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6 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
16 |
7 |
+9 |
0 |
1 |
2.667 |
1.167 |
58.3 |
+1 |
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all his matches were played in a white shirt |
Venue Record
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Venue |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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Home |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
2 |
+5 |
0 |
0 |
7.00 |
2.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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Away |
5 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
9 |
5 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
1.80 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
Competition Record
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Competition |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
|
British Championship |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
11 |
5 |
+6 |
0 |
1 |
2.75 |
1.25 |
62.5 |
+1 |
| Friendly |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
5 |
2 |
+3 |
0 |
0 |
2.50 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
Tournament Record
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British Championship Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC 1954-55 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
2 |
+7 |
0 |
1 |
4.50 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+2 |
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BC 1955-56 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
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BC 1956-57 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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BC
All |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
11 |
5 |
+6 |
0 |
1 |
2.75 |
1.25 |
62.5 |
+1 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
11 |
5 |
+6 |
0 |
1 |
2.75 |
1.25 |
62.5 |
+1 |
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4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
11 |
5 |
+6 |
0 |
1 |
2.75 |
1.25 |
62.5 |
+1 |
Match History
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Club:
Manchester City F.C.
- six full appearances (540 min) 4ᵍ |
manager: Walter
Winterbottom - six full appearances
(540 min) 4ᵍx
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