Alan Oakes

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Alan Oakes
Personnel
Surname Alan Arthur Oakes
birthday September 7, 1942
place of birth Winsford ,  England
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
Manchester City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959-1976 Manchester City 564 (26)
1976-1982 Chester FC 211 (15)
1982 Northwich Victoria 0 0(0)
1983-1984 Port Vale 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1976-1982 Chester City
1 Only league games are given.

Alan Arthur Oakes (born September 7, 1942 in Winsford ) is a retired English football player . Mostly acting in central midfield, he celebrated his greatest successes with Manchester City , for which he was in the professional squad for many years between 1959 and 1976. With the "Citizens" he won the English championship in 1968 , the FA Cup in 1969 , the League Cup in 1970 and 1976 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1970 .

Athletic career

Manchester City

After Oakes signed an amateur contract with Manchester City in 1958 as a 15-year-old, he switched to professional life in 1959. His debut in the senior team followed on November 14, 1959 on the occasion of a first division game against Chelsea . The game ended 1-1 and ultimately he completed 18 championship games in the 1959/60 season under coach Les McDowall . At the beginning of the 1960s, when the "Citizens" maneuvered themselves into a crisis and even relegated to the second division in 1963, Oakes was one of the few constant performers in the team in the midfield center. In his first two second division seasons until 1965 he was also a constant under McDowall's successor George Poyser with 41 league appearances each time, but the longed-for promotion was denied. It was only under the new coaching team of Joe Mercer and his assistant Malcolm Allison that things turned for the better.

Under the new leadership, Manchester City won the second division championship and the associated promotion to the first division in the 1965/66 season . Oakes acted alongside players such as his cousin Glyn Pardoe , Mike Summerbee , Neil Young and later Colin Bell and came to a total of 51 compulsory games. After a certain relegation in the 1966/67 season, Oakes experienced the most successful period of his career with Manchester City until 1970. On the way to winning the English championship in 1968 Oakes only missed a single game and in the 1969 FA Cup triumph he was in the victorious final team against Leicester City (1-0). The next successes could also be found in the cup competitions. While the club only occupied a midfield position in the 1969/70 championship season, Oakes led the team in both the League Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup to 2-1 final wins against West Bromwich Albion and Górnik Zabrze .

In the League Cup, Manchester City reached the final twice in 1974 and 1976 with Oakes in the ranks , where he was absent in the first-mentioned final game against Wolverhampton Wanderers (1: 2). Two years later, however, Oakes played the full 90 minutes against Newcastle United and won the last title with a 2-1 win. The 1975/76 season was the last of his career for Manchester City and he completed the final of 50 missions in the Manchester Derby on May 4, 1976 by substituting for Mike Doyle . He then said goodbye to the club and with 564 league appearances, he had set a new record at Manchester City.

Chester FC & End of career

At the beginning of the 1976/77 season, Oakes moved to the third division for Chester FC . There he not only continued his active career, but also took over as head coach from Ken Roberts after a weak start for the team . Under Oakes' leadership of FC Chester finished in the 1977-78 season with the fifth placement that could never be reached again in the other club's history. Two years later, Chester and Oakes moved into the round of 16 of the FA Cup against the then top club Ipswich Town , which played in midfield against Oakes with the Dutch internationals Arnold Mühren and Frans Thijssen and only narrowly retained the upper hand 2-1. Although he was further certified to have done good coaching work, his engagement ended with a sporting decline, which in 1982 led to the club's relegation to fourth division. Oakes had left Chester in March 1982 and has not taken on another head coach role since then.

Last known engagements were in December 1982 a single FA Cup appearance for Northwich Victoria against Scunthorpe United and then for Port Vale . At Port Vale he worked from January 1983 as a coach of the reserve team and in the 1983/84 season he helped the first team in a third division game against Plymouth Argyle (0-1) - this was his 776th and last league game. After a brief resignation, he returned to Port Vale in August 1984. He worked there until the end of 1987, before he resigned as a youth coach in protest due to his planned “demotion”. In 1992 he returned to Chester's coaching staff and as an assistant to Graham Barrow and Joe Hinnigan he was involved in the club's third division promotion . At the beginning of the 1990s, his son Michael also started his own professional career as a goalkeeper.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Alan Oakes" (mcivta.com)
  2. ^ Jeff Kent: Port Vale Personalities: A Biographical Dictionary of Players, Officials and Supporters . Witan Books, 1996, ISBN 0-9529152-0-0 , pp. 71 .
personal data
SURNAME Oakes, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oakes, Alan Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Winsford , England