Colin Gibson (soccer player)

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Colin Gibson
Personnel
Surname Colin John Gibson
birthday April 6, 1960
place of birth Bridport ,  England
size 173 cm
position Full-back (left), midfield
Juniors
Years station
1976-1988 Aston Villa
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1985 Aston Villa 185 (10)
1985-1990 Manchester United 79 0(9)
1990 →  Port Vale  (loan) 6 0(2)
1990-1994 Leicester City 59 0(4)
1994 Blackpool FC 2 0(0)
1994-1995 Walsall FC 33 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1981 England U-21 1 ( 00)
1984 England B 1 ( 00)
1 Only league games are given.

Colin John Gibson (born April 6, 1960 in Bridport ) is a retired English football player . The left full-back won the English championship with Aston Villa early in his career . In the pecking order, however, he was mostly behind Gary Williams and in 1985 he made another attempt at Manchester United . He stayed there for five years, but fell behind Lee Martin in the favor of coach Alex Ferguson at the end of the decade . At Leicester City and most recently at FC Walsall , he let his active career expire until 1995.

Athletic career

Aston Villa (1978–1985)

After learning to play football as a schoolboy in Portsmouth, Gibson signed a training contract with Aston Villa in 1976 in distant Birmingham . Two years later he was promoted to the professional squad and in his first season 1978/79 he made twelve league appearances. He was substituted on on his debut on November 18, 1978 against Bristol City (2-0) and after Gary Williams, his later competitor, had meanwhile regularly acted in the left-back position, Gibson took over his role for the last eleven games of the season. While he became a regular player the following year and "profited" from a serious - ultimately leading to the end of his career - injury to his new competitor Mike Pejic and he was able to assert himself against Eamon Deacy at the beginning of the 1980/81 season , he lost his position November 1980 to his original rival Williams. In the end, both came up with about the same number of bets (Gibson: 21, Williams: 22, Deacy: 10) and thus had an approximately identical share in winning the English championship .

The 1981/82 season was similar, when Gibson first played 23 league games in a row and four European Cup games before he stopped playing after the coaching change from Ron Saunders to Tony Barton and instead took over Williams. He also had to take a seat on the bench when he won the European Cup final against FC Bayern Munich (1-0) and was only allowed to warm up for a short while when Williams suffered a blow. Only after the turn of the year 1982/83 did it come back regularly and in the two Supercup games against FC Barcelona , which ended with a success (0: 1, 3: 0 a.s.), he was after the first 45 Minutes in the first leg on the bench the rest of the time on the field - Williams dodged to the right side in the second leg. Without being able to oust Williams in the following years, Gibson remained mostly a fixture in the team for a good two years and occasionally also acted in midfield. For the transfer fee of 275,000 pounds, Gibson then moved to Manchester United, then coached by Ron Atkinson , at the end of November 1985 .

Manchester United (1985–1990)

Gibson introduced himself well to "United" as an attacking and powerful left full-back. He exceeded it in the remaining games of the 1984/85 season with five league goals his yields in the previous years. When Alex Ferguson became the new coach in Manchester in November 1986, Gibson initially retained his regular seat, but lost it in 1988 to Lee Martin, who was eight years his junior . Between mid-1988 and December 1990 he only played a total of eleven competitive games and he made only a marginal contribution to winning the FA Cup in 1990 when he played in the semifinals against Oldham Athletic (3: 3, replay: 2: 1), in the second game by substitution. After a short loan period from the end of September 1990 at the second division Port Vale , he moved to Leicester City, also operating in the second division, shortly before the end of the year .

Final career stations (1990–1995)

At the time, Leicester was fighting for relegation and coach David Pleat's team had particular problems in the defense that resulted in a large number of goals conceded. Ultimately, Gibson helped the team to a little more stability on the left back, but without the help of competitor West Bromwich Albion , who failed to win against Bristol Rovers on the final day of the game , the club would have been relegated. So, with luck, the league's whereabouts could be secured and with Brian Little under new sporting leadership, the former almost relegated suddenly became a promotion aspirant. Gibson remained behind the new regular Mike Whitlow only the role of the supplementary player and in the three years up to the summer of 1994 he completed just 41 league games. Leicester reached the playoff final for promotion to the first division and in the first two defeats (1992 against Blackburn Rovers (0: 1) and 1993 against Swindon Town (3: 4)) he was missing in the formations. Only at the end of the 1993/94 promotion season did he find his place in defensive midfield and in the third playoff final against Derby County , which was won 2-1 and brought the longed-for access to the Premier League , he completed the entire season. In the new "premier class" of English football, however, he was no longer represented, since he had moved to Blackpool FC after the end of his contract in Leicester in August 1994 .

Gibson's stay at the Seasiders coached by Sam Allardyce lasted less than a month before he was drawn another league lower to Walsall FC . There he met Chris Nicholl , a coach who had known him since his early years at Aston Villa. In the midst of a very young team that eventually made it to the third division, he provided the necessary experience. He then ended his professional career.

His post-career activities included reporting games from his ex-Leicester club on the radio for BBC Radio Leicester .

Title / Awards

literature

  • Rob Bishop / Frank Holt: Aston Villa - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby, 2010, ISBN 978-1-85983-805-1 , pp. 220 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "England - U-21 International Results 1976–1985 - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ^ "England - International Results B-Team - Details" (RSSSF)
  3. ↑ "Colin John Gibson" (MUFCInfo)
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 0-09-180854-5 , pp. 83 .
personal data
SURNAME Gibson, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gibson, Colin John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridport , England