Brian Laws

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Brian Laws
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Personnel
Surname Brian Simon Laws
birthday October 14, 1961
place of birth WallsendEngland
position Defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1983 Burnley FC 125 (12)
1983-1985 Huddersfield Town 56 0(1)
1985-1988 Middlesbrough FC 108 (12)
1988-1994 Nottingham Forest 147 0(4)
1994-1996 Grimsby Town 46 0(2)
1996-1997 Darlington FC 10 0(0)
1997-1998 Scunthorpe United 18 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1994-1996 Grimsby Town
1997-2006 Scunthorpe United
2006-2009 Sheffield Wednesday
2010 Burnley FC
2012-2013 Scunthorpe United
1 Only league games are given.

Brian Simon Laws (born October 14, 1961 in Wallsend , England ) is a former English football player and current coach . Most recently he coached the fourth division Scunthorpe United .

Career

Player career

At the age of 17 Laws signed his first professional contract with the English second division club Burnley FC . At the beginning of his playing career he had to accept relegation to the third English division. In the 1981/82 season he managed with his team to return to the Football League Second Division . After another relegation in the following season Laws left the club and joined the second division promoted Huddersfield Town . After two years in the second division, he moved to Middlesbrough FC .

Middlesbrough FC

However, his new club had to relegate to the third division in his first year. Already in the following season the direct rise was achieved by a second place in the table behind the AFC Bournemouth . This success was increased by the direct march through to the Football League First Division in 1988/89 . Middlesbrough achieved this promotion by a third place in the table behind Millwall FC and Aston Villa and a subsequent play-off game against first division club Chelsea . Middlesbrough FC struggled with considerable financial difficulties during this time and was temporarily facing bankruptcy. Since the club's financial situation had not improved even after promotion to the first division, Brian Laws was sold to the first division club Nottingham Forest for £ 120,000 after the season .

Nottingham Forest

Nottingham had celebrated great successes in the championship and the European Cup in the late 1970s and early 1980s . Since then there were no other titles. Law's first season in the First Division in 1988/89 ended with a third place in the table. In addition, the team reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup against Liverpool which ended in the Hillsborough disaster . The later rescheduled game lost Nottingham Forest and thus missed the leap into the first final since 1959. But he managed with his club the first title win of his career through the success in the League Cup against Luton Town . Due to the international ban against all English clubs after the Heysel disaster , the team was unable to participate in the 1989/90 UEFA Cup . From the lifting of the suspension in the following season, the club could not benefit, as Forest spent the next three years in the middle of the table. After all, the team managed to defend their title in the League Cup in 1990 through a success over Oldham Athletic .

In the 1990/91 season, Nottingham made it to the FA Cup final in 1991 by beating West Ham United 4-0 in the semifinals . However, Forest lost the final 2-1 after extra time against Tottenham Hotspur around Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker . Many of Laws' teammates, such as Des Walker , Steve Hodge and Teddy Sheringham , left the club during this time. The legendary coach Brian Clough no longer had the same feeling for new signings as in previous years and so Nottingham rose to the second division in the newly created Premier League in 1992/93 . Brian Clough then ended his successful coaching career. After relegation, Roy Keane and Nigel Clough also left the club, but the commitment of 22-year-old Stan Collymore in particular ensured the direct resurgence in the 1993/94 season. The now 33-year-old Brian Laws decided after this success to change as player-coach to Grimsby Town .

Coaching career

Laws started his coaching career at the second division Grimsby Town . In the first season 1994/95 succeeded with the tenth place a placement in the secured midfield. The following season was much worse with 17th place, but it was enough to stay in the league. Laws was also a regular player in these two years, before the bad start in the 1996/97 season brought the end at Grimsby Town.

After an interim period as a player at fourth division FC Darlington , he moved to league rivals Scunthorpe United in 1997 . There he spent his last year as a player-coach in the 1997/98 season and finally ended his playing career.

Scunthorpe United

In the 1998/99 season Scunthorpe reached after a fourth place the play-off final at Wembley Stadium and made a 1-0 win over Leyton Orient to promotion to the third division. In the following year, the team could not keep the class and rose as the table penultimate again. Two years later Laws and his team missed eighth place in the table only because of the poorer goal difference the play-off round and the following year (2002/03) Scunthorpe failed after a fifth place in the play-off games. After a whole bad 2003/04 season and a long threat of relegation, the following year the surprising promotion to the third division, as second behind Yeovil Town . There Brian Laws met in 2005/06 on his former club Nottingham Forest, which has now crashed into the third division . A twelfth place in the table secured relegation. A curiosity in his time in Scunthorpe occurred in March 2004 when Laws was dismissed from the club, but was reinstated in his office after only three weeks.

Sheffield Wednesday

After nearly ten years in the service of Scunthorpe United, Brian Laws took over the coaching position at the second division club Sheffield Wednesday in November 2006 and replaced the dismissed Paul Sturrock. At the end of the season there was a decent ninth place in the Football League Championship . The following year brought after a very bad start and six defeats in a row, with a table position 16 a less satisfactory season. It was not until the last day of the match that Sheffield managed to stay up through a win. In the 2008/09 season there was a twelfth place and in the 2009/10 game series, the club was again in danger of relegation and this time parted with the coach in mid-December 2009.

Burnley FC

In January 2010, Brian Laws signed a contract with the first division club Burnley FC , where he began his playing career over 30 years ago. Laws replaced Owen Coyle who had moved to league rival Bolton Wanderers . Taken in mid-table, fifteen defeats in the following eighteen games put the club in serious danger of relegation, which was sealed two games later. Despite the negative statistics at his new club, Brian Laws held the post of coach in Burnley in the coming second division season before he was dismissed on December 29, 2010.

Scunthorpe United

On October 29, 2012 Laws returned to Scunthorpe United as coach , replacing the sacked Alan Knill. With his new team he rose at the end of the season from Football League One 2012/13 to the fourth division. After a false start in Football League Two , Brian Laws was released on November 20, 2013.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Boss Brian Laws shown door by Burnley . BBC Sports. December 29, 2010. Retrieved December 29, 2010.
  2. Scunthorpe United: Brian Laws replaces Alan Knill as manager (BBC Sport)
  3. Brian Laws: Scunthorpe United sack boss after FA Cup exit (BBC Sport)