Brian Marwood

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Brian Marwood
Personnel
Surname Brian Marwood
birthday 5th February 1960
place of birth Seaham ,  England
size 170 cm
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
1976-1988 Hull City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1984 Hull City 158 (51)
1984-1988 Sheffield Wednesday 128 (27)
1988-1990 Arsenal FC 52 (16)
1990-1992 Sheffield United 22 0(3)
1991 Middlesbrough FC 3 0(0)
1992-1993 Swindon Town 11 0(1)
1993-1994 Barnet FC 23 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1988 England 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Brian Marwood (born February 5, 1960 in Seaham ) is a retired English football player . The winger , who played mostly on the right and sporadically on the left, won the English championship with Arsenal in 1989 . Subsequently, however, he increasingly struggled with injuries and acted as chairman of the PFA players' union from 1990 to 1993. He then worked as a commentator for Radio 5 Live, Sky Sports and STAR Sports and as a marketing manager for the sporting goods manufacturer Nike . In 2011 he followed Garry Cook as football administrator at Manchester City .

Athletic career

As a "home grown" of the youth department of Hull City and after initial experience in the reserve team, the fast and tricky Marwood came to the first third division appearances for the "Tigers" in the 1979/80 season. Although he rose with the club after the end of the 1980/81 season in the fourth division, but he was henceforth a key player in the team that was preparing to march up to the second division within the next four years. In the first promotion season 1982/83 Marwood contributed 19 goals and in the following season 1983/84 the next promotion was within reach. On the last day of the match he scored both goals for a 2-0 win, which was not enough in view of the required victory with three goals difference. Although Hull City did not have to grieve for a long time due to the only one year postponed promotion, but Marwood had already left the club in August 1984 in the direction of first division promoters Sheffield Wednesday .

Marwood was an ideal fit for coach Howard Wilkinson's team , with numerous crosses from the right on strikers like Lee Chapman and Garry Thompson for great danger in the opposing penalty areas. In addition, he continued to be dangerous and with the 13 league goals in the 1985/86 season he was the most accurate scorer of the "Owls", who ended up in the top half of the table in two years after returning to the First Division and also an FA Cup semi-finals achieved - Marwood's absence was ultimately not insignificant for the defeat against Everton . During this time he was also considered a possible candidate for the English senior team , but the international debut was still a long time coming, only on November 16, 1988 against Saudi Arabia under coach Bobby Robson instead - the nine-minute appearance for Chris Waddle however, there was no second appearance.

In March 1988, Marwood moved to Arsenal and in the remaining games of the 1987/88 season, the newcomer played four league games. After the somewhat subdued start, the following season in 1988/89 was extremely successful and Marwood quickly gained a regular place on the left side of midfield. He started particularly spectacularly in the first four league games, in which he scored one goal each. He quickly became a key player in the team that had been rebuilt by coach George Graham and with his crosses he made a significant contribution to the fact that center forward Alan Smith was the top scorer in the First Division at the end and the "Gunners" won the English championship . Marwoods most important of the total of nine league goals was the 1-0 winner on April 15, 1989 against Newcastle United . This laid the foundation for the “last minute title” that Arsenal won on the last day of the match in Liverpool, but Marwood was injured after his goal was no longer in appearance. In the following season 1989/90 Marwood completed comparatively few 18 competitive games, in which he did get six goals, but the wounds now increased so much that the arrival of Anders Limpar at the beginning of the season 1990/91 announced an early end of Marwood's engagement . In October 1990 he finally returned to Sheffield to join Wednesday's local rivals United .

At Sheffield United it was hoped that Marwood's signing would provide crosses to strikers like Brian Deane and Tony Agana . Although Marwood was in only 17 league games on the field, but together the club managed to stay up. Marwoods commitment as the new chairman of the players' union PFA had to be taken into account and in October 1991 a return to the north-east of England seemed imminent. A loan deal with the second division club Middlesbrough FC was not continued and so he returned to Sheffield after only three league games for "Boro" before he moved to the second division Swindon Town and completed eleven league games there towards the end of the 1992/93 season. At the beginning of his last professional season in 1993/94 he went to third division club FC Barnet and ended there after 18 games in the starting eleven until the end of the year and five appearances as a substitute in the second half of his active career.

Title / Awards

literature

  • Brodie, John & Dickinson, Jason: Sheffield Wednesday - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-973-7 , pp. 188-189 .
  • Hugman, Barry J .: Premier League: The Players - A Complete Guide to Every Player 1992-93 . Tony Williams Publishing, 1992, ISBN 978-1-869833-15-2 , pp. 243-244 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Brian Marwood" (Hull City Mad)
  2. ^ "Brian Marwood: England 1988" (Sporting Heroes)
  3. ^ "Brian Marwood: Arsenal FC 1988-1990" (Sporting Heroes)
personal data
SURNAME Marwood, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Seaham , England