Bill McGarry

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Bill McGarry
Personnel
Surname William Harry McGarry
birthday June 10, 1927
place of birth Stoke-on-Trent ,  England
date of death March 15, 2005
Place of death South Africa
size 173 cm
position External rotor (right)
Juniors
Years station
Northwood Mission
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1945–1951 Port Vale 148 0(5)
1951-1961 Huddersfield Town 363 (25)
1961-1963 Bournemouth & Boscome Athletic 78 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954 England B 1 0(0)
1954-1955 England 4 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1961-1963 Bournemouth & Boscome Athletic
1963-1964 Watford FC
1964-1968 Ipswich Town
1968-1976 Wolverhampton Wanderers
1977 Saudi Arabia
1977-1980 Newcastle United
Power dynamos
Zambia
1985 Wolverhampton Wanderers
1 Only league games are given.

William Harry "Bill" McGarry (born June 10, 1927 in Stoke-on-Trent , † March 15, 2005 ) was an English football player and coach . As a right wing runner , he was a long-time player from Huddersfield Town in the 1950s . He also played four internationals for the English national team , including two games at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland . As a coach, he was best known for his time at Wolverhampton Wanderers , which he led to the UEFA Cup final (1972) and the league cup (1974) in the early 1970s .

Athletic career

Player career

McGarry began his active football career at the lower class club Northwood Mission, based in the center of his native Stoke-on-Trent in the Hanley district . In April 1945 he finally joined Port Vale and after he was initially committed on an amateur basis, the first professional contract followed in June 1945. Shortly before the end of the year, he made his debut on Boxing Day under coach Billy Frith against FC Walsall (0: 1) in a competitive game for the first team and under Frith's successor Gordon Hodgson he played seven league games in the following season 1946/47 - the first championship season after the interruption due to the war. His sporting breakthrough came from November 1947 and two years after his debut he scored the first goal of his professional career in a 5-0 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion . From then on, McGarry was rarely absent from the starting line-up and in the 1949/50 season he played all 42 league games. Less than a year later, McGarry moved for a transfer fee of 12,000 pounds in March 1951 to the first division club Huddersfield Town .

With the "Terriers" he should form a runner row under coach George Stephenson at the side of Laurie Kelly and McGarry quickly earned a good reputation with a robust and two-way style of play. He played ten games towards the end of the 1950/51 season and in the following year he was a regular in a team that, however , had to go into the second division in 1952 . Under Stephenson's successor Andy Beattie , the direct resurgence succeeded and McGarry was part of a very stable defensive formation, which he formed together with Kelly, Don McEvoy , Len Quested , Ron Staniforth and goalkeeper Jack Wheeler - none of the named players missed a single minute during the season on the field. With his achievements, McGarry played himself in the focus of English national teams and an appearance in the B national team was followed by the nomination in the English squad for the upcoming 1954 World Cup in Switzerland . There he made two appearances as a debutant against Switzerland (2: 0) and Uruguay (2: 4); in the following year 1955 he completed against Denmark (5: 1) and Wales (1: 2) two more (and last) international matches for the "Three Lions" - in 1956 he was still part of a selection team of the English Football Association (FA) on the occasion of a trip to South Africa .

By 1956, McGarry was also active in the top English league at Huddersfield Town, before the previously solid defense showed increasingly holey, which in turn led to relegation to the Second Division in 1956 . He and his team had to admit defeat to their direct competitor Aston Villa due to the poorer goal quotient . In November 1956, Bill Shankly, a new coach came to Leeds Road , who continued to trust McGarry. The return to the English elite class remained out of reach for McGarry in the three years under Shankly and with a twelfth , ninth and fourteenth place only jumped out of midfield. It was only under Eddie Boot , who replaced Shankly who had migrated to Liverpool in December 1959 , that a sporting development up to sixth place was achieved for a short time , to which McGarry contributed 38 of his own missions. The positive trend did not last, however, and in his final season for Huddersfield, McGarry based his men on rank 20 .

After ten years McGarry left Huddersfield Town in the south and in March 1961 he became the first player-manager of Bournemouth Boscome Athletic . With the new club, he played 78 league games in two years before he ended his active career and devoted himself entirely to the coaching career.

Coaching career

From player to head coach: Bournemouth, Watford and Ipswich (1961–1968)

Already at the beginning of his coaching time, McGarry was able to celebrate a respectable success with the third division club and in 1962 he only narrowly failed on the possible rise with three points behind Grimsby Town . The fifth place in the following year was about the same as his team was only six points behind promoted Swindon Town . In July 1963, McGarry moved to third division rivals Watford FC , where he succeeded Ron Burgess as coach . Once again he just failed to climb, now in third place with two points each behind Coventry City and Crystal Palace . Regardless of this, he had meanwhile made a name for himself as a coach, even though his own players respected him more than liked him due to his strictness and discipline fixation.

Shortly after the beginning of the following season 1964/65 he went up to the second division when he hired in October 1964 with the first division relegated Ipswich Town - Jackie Milburn had previously been fired there. Under McGarry, the performances were initially changeable and a fifth place in the first year was followed by the crash to 15th place in the 1965/66 season , before the return of striker Ray Crawford in particular contributed significantly to the fact that the "Blues" 1968 in the First Division rose. Once there, McGarry stayed with the club only briefly, because only a few months later he resigned from his post to become the new coach at first division rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers . The "Wolves" had previously fired McGarry's former teammate Ronnie Allen ; in Ipswich he was even followed by Bobby Robson, who later became the English national coach .

Wolverhampton Wanderers (1968-1976)

Together with his assistant Sammy Chung , who had already worked with McGarry in Ipswich, he formed a powerful team around the fast winger Dave Wagstaffe , the midfield center made up of Mike Bailey and Kenny Hibbitt and the storm duo Derek Dougan and John Richards . The result was a continuous development from a lower midfield position in the 1968/69 season to a fourth place two years later. The first title win was in the same year 1971, the first ever Texaco Cup .

McGarry's side dropped to ninth place the following year , but in the UEFA Cup they also achieved another great success with their entry into the final. The "Wolves" defeated Juventus Turin and Ferencváros Budapest in the quarter and semi-finals before they had to admit defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in the final . Another qualification for the UEFA Cup succeeded McGarry's team on fifth place in the 1972/73 season , when the semifinals were reached in both domestic cup competitions at the same time. The first significant title ("Major Trophy") under his reign followed in the following year, when Manchester City was defeated 2-1 in the 1974 final of the League Cup .

Despite the cup success, the sporting tendency showed in the medium term downwards and after two double-digit places in the table in 1974 and 1975 McGarry rose with Wolverhampton after the end of the 1975/76 season in the second division. He was promptly dismissed as head coach of the "Wolves" after eight years; he was followed by his former "intimate partner" Sammy Chung. The main reason for the decline was that it could not compensate for the departure of the aging Mike Bailey, Derek Dougan and Dave Wagstaffe. The players who were obliged to replace them were difficult to squeeze into McGarry's concept, which was also not very flexible in tactical terms.

Final career stations (1976–1985)

After the time in Wolverhampton, McGarry sought his luck far away and replaced Ferenc Puskás as head coach of the Saudi Arabian national team . There he stayed only briefly and after his return to England Port Vale tried to hire him in October 1977 after the club had previously dismissed Roy Sproson . A month later he was hired by Newcastle United and his aegis included the purchases of Kenny Wharton , Peter Withe , Alan Shoulder and Bobby Shinton . Nevertheless, the balance was mixed in about three years, because after relegation in 1978 McGarry failed in the "mission" return to the first class with two midfield places clearly. A few weeks after the beginning of the 1980/81 season, McGarry was then dismissed after a league cup defeat against third division club FC Bury - he was followed by Arthur Cox .

Without settling down permanently at one of his next stations, he was briefly active as a scout for Brighton & Hove Albion and as a trainer in Zambia for the Power Dynamos and the national team . He returned to Wolverhampton in September 1985 via South Africa, where he worked as an assistant. There he fell out with the owners, the Bhatti brothers, after only 61 days. After a short break, he returned to South Africa. There he worked in Bophuthatswana as a coach.

McGarry lived in his new adopted home for more than two decades before he died in March 2005 at the age of 77 after a long illness.

Title / Awards

literature

  • Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 80 f .
  • Matthews, Tony: Wolverhampton Wanderers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-85983-632-3 , pp. 169 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - International Results B-Team - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ↑ "McGarry dies after long illness" (BBC Sport)
personal data
SURNAME McGarry, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McGarry, William Harry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoke-on-Trent , England
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2005
Place of death South Africa