Alan Mullery

Alan Mullery
Personnel
Surname	Alan Patrick Mullery
birthday	November 23, 1941
place of birth	Notting Hill / London ,  England
size	175 cm
position	Central midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Fulham FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1964	Fulham FC	199 (13)
1964-1972	Tottenham Hotspur	312 (25)
1972-1976	Fulham FC	165 (24)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1964-1971	England	35 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1976-1981	Brighton & Hove Albion
1981-1982	Charlton Athletic
1982-1984	Crystal Palace
1984	Queens Park Rangers
1986-1987	Brighton & Hove Albion
1996-1997	Barnet FC
1 Only league games are given.

Alan Patrick Mullery (born November 23, 1941 in Notting Hill / London , England ) is a former English football player who celebrated great sporting successes for Tottenham Hotspur , especially in the late 1960s and early 1970s .

Career as a soccer player

Mullery was a body-hugging, fast-paced central midfielder who joined Fulham FC in his youth and then made his debut in 1958. Within a year he was transferred to the captaincy after the injury of Johnny Haynes , where he scored an own goal in his first game as team captain .

After 199 games for the Cottagers , Mullery moved to Tottenham Hotspur in March 1964 for 72,500 pounds, where he quickly integrated into the first team. In December of the same year he received his first appearance for the English national team in the international match against the Netherlands in Amsterdam , which ended 1-1 .

However, coach Alf Ramsey only called Mullery sporadically into the English team and waived him when the squad was nominated for the 1966 World Cup in his own country, in which England became world champions. In Tottenham, however, he continued to develop into a leader in midfield.

Tottenham won the FA Cup in 1967 after beating Chelsea FC 2-1 in the final , preparing Jimmy Robertson's first goal . In the same month Mullery came in the 3-2 defeat against Scotland at Wembley Stadium to his second international match and remained part of the team that played in qualifying for the European Championship 1968 among the last four teams. He pushed his competitor and world champion Nobby Stiles onto the bench.

In the semi-finals of the European Championship he received the first English expulsion in an international match after a tough game against Yugoslavia . England lost the game 1-0 and due to the subsequent suspension for Mullery, Stiles replaced him in the third-place win against Italy . Nevertheless, Ramsey continued to trust Mullery and used him in most of the preparation games leading up to the 1970 World Cup in Mexico .

Mullery, who was now Tottenham's team captain after Dave Mackay's departure , made his 28th international match when England started the World Cup tournament with a 1-0 win against Romania in Guadalajara . He was still in the team that first lost to Brazil and then won against Czechoslovakia , only to meet in the quarter-finals the German team they had beaten in the final four years earlier.

Mullery quickly got used to the game, scoring his first goal for England in the first half. Although England were 2-0 up, the team still lost 3-2 and was eliminated from the tournament.

Ramsey continued even after the World Cup on Mullery, but after the release of Colin Bell and Peter Storey graduated Mullery 1971, a month after his 30th birthday, the 3: 2 win over Switzerland , the start of qualifying for Euro 1972 , to be 35th and last international match. Mullery had previously won the League Cup by beating Aston Villa 2-0 in the final in the same year . The following year they won the UEFA Cup when Tottenham beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-2 on aggregate in the only two English club final in the history of the Cup . Mullery scored the goal for Tottenham in a 1-1 draw in the second game.

He then returned to Fulham and scored the goal of the season with a volley from 23 yards in an FA Cup game against Leicester City . In 1975 Mullery reached the final of the same competition with Fulham, although the club did not play in the First Division , and lost there 2-0 to West Ham United , the former club of Bobby Moore . It was followed in 1975 by Mullery's Footballer of the Year award and the Order of the British Empire as an MBE .

Career after football career

Mullery ended his active career as a football player in 1976 and then experienced a successful time as a coach with the club Brighton & Hove Albion , which he led through two promotions to the First Division. He then coached Charlton Athletic , Crystal Palace , Queens Park Rangers , Brighton again and Barnet FC before he retired from day-to-day football.

During his first coaching era in Brighton, he heated up the already existing rivalry with Crystal Palace in a game between the two clubs when he publicly sharpened Palace officials with a controversial penalty (which was missed on a second execution after a previous goal by Brighton) attacked. When he was appointed the new coach of Crystal Palace in 1982, many supporters protested and stayed away from their own home games.

Today he works as a football expert for Sky Sports and in September 2005 he took on an advisory role at the amateur club Crawley Town .

successes

• FA Cup : 1967
• FA Community Shield : 1968
• League Cup : 1971
• UEFA Cup : 1972

Web links

• Photo by Alan Mullery