Carl Shutt

Carl Shutt
Personnel
Surname	Carl Steven Shutt
birthday	October 10, 1961
place of birth	Sheffield ,  England
size	178 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
until 1985	Spalding United
1985-1987	Sheffield Wednesday	40 (16)
1987-1989	Bristol City	46 (10)
1989-1993	Leeds United	79 (17)
1990	→  Malmö FF  (loan)
1993-1994	Birmingham City	26 0(4)
1993-1994	→  Manchester City  (loan)	6 0(0)
1994-1997	Bradford City	88 (15)
1997-1999	Darlington FC	53 0(9)
1999-2003	Kettering Town	69 0(5)
2004-2005	Bradford Park Avenue
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2001-2003	Kettering Town (player-coach)
2004-2005	Bradford Park Avenue (player-manager)
1 Only league games are given.

Carl Steven Shutt (born October 10, 1961 in Sheffield ) is a former English football player . As a striker and occasional attacking midfielder, he came to professional football relatively late at the age of 24. Coach Howard Wilkinson was first at Sheffield Wednesday and later Leeds United largely responsible for his path to the top English division. With Leeds, Shutt also won the English championship in 1992 . After the end of his active professional career in the late 1990s, he temporarily switched to coaching and in the first half of the following decade looked after semi-professional clubs with Kettering Town and Bradford Park Avenue .

Athletic career

Carl Shutt's career began modestly in lower-class football. when for Spalding United in the Northern Counties (East) League created in 1982 - still below the Northern Premier League - went on the hunt for goals. He stormed in the 1984/85 season on the side of Keith Alexander and moved in May 1985 free transfer to the first division club Sheffield Wednesday, trained by Howard Wilkinson . There he was never granted a permanent place in the storm row, but with nine league goals in 19 games in the 1985/86 season and seven more goals the following year, he established himself as a substitute player. Among his opponents in attack and teammates was Lee Chapman , who he would later meet again at Leeds United . Initially, Shutts career at the highest national level threatened to have come to an end in October 1987 when he signed a new contract for 55,000 pounds in the third division with Bristol City . With the "Robins" Shutt retained his good goal rate, scored nine goals in 22 league games, especially in the 1987/88 season, and moved to the second division Leeds United after a total of just 17 months. There, his ex-coach Wilkinson had now taken over the coaching office and decided to swap Shutt players for Bob Taylor , who in turn went to Bristol.

On his debut on April 1, 1989, he immediately scored three goals in a 3-0 win against AFC Bournemouth and with his combative attitude and willingness to run, he quickly became a crowd favorite. After he was promoted with Leeds United in the 1989/90 season, he showed his scoring danger especially in the subsequent 1990/91 season with a total of ten league goals. He stormed it on the side of Lee Chapman and later Rod Wallace , where his role in the episode was often limited to that of a substitute. Nevertheless, he celebrated the greatest success of his career in the 1991/92 season, when he won the English championship and contributed 14 league appearances. He experienced his personal "highlight" shortly afterwards in the Champions League when he scored the 2-1 winner in the first-round playoff against VfB Stuttgart shortly after being substituted for Éric Cantona and thus enabled his club to advance.

The next stop was the second division Birmingham City from the 1993/94 season . There he fell short of expectations with just four goals in 26 league encounters and had to accept relegation to the third division in the end. In between he was loaned to the first division club Manchester City for a short time at and shortly after the turn of the year , but remained there in six games without his own hits. In the third division Shutt denied the first month of the following season 1994/95 on loan for Bradford City , which he then joined permanently in September 1994 for a transfer fee of 75,000 pounds. Having meanwhile arrived in the autumn of his playing career, he mostly played in the attacking midfield for his new club and only occasionally “in the front line”. He slipped steadily into the role of supplementary player from January 1996 at the latest and landed on the transfer list in March before he worked his way back to the starting eleven to score the decisive goal for a place in the play-off games, which in turn went into lead to promotion to the second division. In the last season 1996/97 for Bradford City he came back to more missions as a substitute before he hired in March 1997 in exchange for Robbie Blake at the fourth division FC Darlington . On the penultimate game day he scored the first goal for his new club with a long-range shot against Mansfield Town (1: 2) and although he only made 15 starts in his 33 league appearances in the 1997/98 season, he continued to show himself above all when the game was close in good condition. The 1998/99 season was Shutts last professional season. He mostly came to the train on the right side and scored two goals during the season.

Coaching activities

From then on, Shutt continued his active career outside of the full profit position at Kettering Town and initially took over as an interim coach in February 2001. Although he could not prevent relegation from the Football Conference , the club signed him as a permanent solution to the post. He managed to return after only a year; in addition, he steered the fortunes of the 2002/03 season in a difficult situation in which the club was for sale and threatened with bankruptcy. When the renewed relegation was certain, the club management ended Shutts contract.

In 2004 Shutt took on the next engagement as player-coach of Bradford Park Avenue and together the club managed to rise to the Conference North . There, however, the newcomer could not hold and after the direct relegation, Shutts accruing contract was not extended.

Title / Awards

• English Championship (1): 1992

Web links

• Carl Shutt in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
• Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database
• Profile at ozwhitelufc.net.au

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 0-09-180854-5 , pp. 193 f .
2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 1-85291-571-4 , pp. 223 .
3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1997, ISBN 1-85291-581-1 , pp. 248 f .
4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 275 .
5. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 274 .
6. ^ "Shutt agrees new Kettering deal" (BBC Sport)
7. ^ "Shutt in command" (Daily Telegraph)
8. ↑ "Shutt is given the chop by Avenue"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Bradford Telegraph & Argus)