Arthur Cox

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Arthur Cox
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Personnel
birthday December 14, 1939
place of birth Southam , Warwickshire ,  England
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1976-1980 Chesterfield FC
1980-1984 Newcastle United
1984-1993 Derby County

Arthur Cox (born December 14, 1939 in Southam , Warwickshire , England ) is a former English football coach . He coached Chesterfield FC , Newcastle United and Derby County .

Coaching career

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Chesterfield FC

Arthur Cox started his work as a coach in 1976 at the English third division club Chesterfield FC . The club from Chesterfield finished 18th at the end of the season and thus achieved the target relegation. In the following game year 1977/78 the class was secured early and finished with ninth place. The 1978/79 season was therefore disappointing with 20th place. Only four points separated the team from the next-placed team, relegated Peterborough United . From this unsatisfactory season, however, the team recovered quickly and was able to keep up with the top half of the table for the first time under Arthur Cox. However, the successful season was not rewarded, with fourth place the promotion to the Second Division was missed by a narrow margin. One point was missing from third-placed promoted Sheffield Wednesday . By the successful year Cox had noticed the higher class club Newcastle United , which hired him in 1980 as a coach.

Newcastle United

United played since relegation from the First Division in 1977/78 in the English second division. There the club had tried in vain to return to the First Division in the past two years. Arthur Cox's start as a coach did not go as hoped either. Newcastle ended the season only in 11th place. After another year in midfield of the second division, the team found connection to the top group in 1982/83 and finished the championship in fifth place. The following year Cox celebrated the greatest success of his coaching career and led the club from Newcastle as third in the table in the First Division 1984/85 . The team had been continuously strengthened by Cox and had a mixture of young players like Peter Beardsley and Chris Waddle and experienced players like England internationals Kevin Keegan and Terry McDermott . To the surprise of many, Cox did not practice his coaching activity for the first time in the First Division in the coming year, but moved to Derby County after this success .

Derby County

Cox succeeded Peter Taylor in Derby , who had led the club between 1967 and 1973 as an assistant coach with Brian Clough from the second division to the first division. Then the club won the championship in the First Division 1971/72 and under Dave Mackay the title 1974/75 . In the following years, however, the steady decline began and initially culminated in relegation to the second division in 1979/80. In the 1983/84 season even relegation to the third division followed. At this time Arthur Cox took over the coaching activity at County and he should lead the club in the coming years again approximately to its old strength. 1985/86 the team achieved promotion to the Second Division and then the direct march through to the First Division in 1987/88 . Derby had sovereignly taken first place as a newcomer and was thus first class again after seven years.

After relegation had just been retracted in the first season, the team to Peter Shilton , Mark Wright , Dean Saunders and Ted McMinn finished fifth in the First Division in 1988/89 . Due to the international ban against all English clubs in the wake of the Heysel disaster , the club could not start internationally. A lack of investment in new players and a significant reduction in the performance of the top performers led to relegation to the second division in 1990/91. Mark Wright and Dean Saunders then left the club. A successful signing came with Craig Short from Notts County . The hoped-for direct return to the newly introduced Premier League 1992/93 was only just missed. The team finished in third place and met in the first play-off round on the sixth Blackburn Rovers , where Derby failed 2: 4 and 2: 1. After another missed promotion in 1992/93, Arthur Cox ended his work at Derby County in late 1993 due to health problems. In the following years he was assistant coach of his former player Kevin Keegan u. a. worked for Fulham FC , Manchester City and the English national football team.

successes

  • Promotion to the first division in 1984 (with Newcastle United)
  • Promotion to the second division in 1986 (with Derby County)
  • Promotion to the first division in 1987 (with Derby County)

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personal data
SURNAME Cox, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English football coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Southam