Ian Snodin

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Ian Snodin
Personnel
Surname Ian Snodin
birthday 15th August 1963
place of birth Rotherham ,  England
size 178 cm
position Midfield , full-back (right)
Juniors
Years station
Doncaster Rovers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1985 Doncaster Rovers 188 (25)
1985-1987 Leeds United 51 0(6)
1987-1995 Everton FC 148 0(3)
1994 →  Sunderland AFC  (loan) 6 0(0)
1995-1997 Oldham Athletic 57 0(0)
1997-1998 Scarborough FC 35 0(0)
1998-2000 Doncaster Rovers 13 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984-1985 England U-21 4 0(0)
1987-1990 England B 2 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1998-2000 Doncaster Rovers
1 Only league games are given.

Ian Snodin (born August 15, 1963 in Rotherham ) is a retired English football player . The midfielder and right full-back was initially active for the lower class Doncaster Rovers before he came to Everton FC via Leeds United . There he contributed to winning the English championship in the final stages of the 1986/87 season and accompanied the club to the Premier League, which was newly created in 1992, after an exceptionally long injury break at the beginning of the 1990s .

Athletic career

Doncaster Rovers (1980–1985)

Like his brother Glynn , who was three and a half years older , Ian Snodin initially moved to the Doncaster Rovers , for which he played as a student. After the first team coach, Billy Bremner , became aware of the talent of the then 15-year-old, Snodin was given an official training contract in August 1979 and switched permanently to the professional field in the summer of 1980. He had previously made his fourth division debut against AFC Bournemouth in March 1980 and scored his first goal against FC Aldershot . In the next five years he was a regular in a team that steadily shuttled between the third and fourth highest division when two promotions in 1981 and 1984 faced a relegation in 1983. He mostly formed the midfield of the Rovers with players like David Harle and Alan Little and impressed with all-round skills and passing security. At the age of 19 he took over the captaincy for a while and while still in Doncaster he made his first international matches for the English U-21 team - there should be four at the end.

Via Leeds to Everton (1985–1995)

In May 1985, Snodin moved to second division Leeds United for a fee of £ 200,000 . After coach Eddie Gray was dismissed in October 1985, the well-known Snodin Bremner was hired as his successor. One of his first official acts was to transfer the armband from Peter Lorimer to Snodin. In the almost one and a half years at Leeds United, he continued his positive development and in January 1987 he was moved to the first division club Everton for £ 840,000 .

The "Toffees" were just fighting for the English championship. The coach in charge Howard Kendall put him immediately for the remaining four months of the 1986/87 season in midfield and the 16 league games in which Snodin participated were enough for the official receipt of a championship medal. However, he did not celebrate his sporting breakthrough in Liverpool in midfield, but as a right full-back. There he served in October 1988 as a "stopgap" for Neil McDonald , but from then on he filled this role so well that his performance in February 1989 almost brought him to the English senior team . However, an injury prevented a possible debut in the friendly against Greece and trouble threatened Everton. On March 11, 1988 Snodin was injured against Sheffield Wednesday so badly that he was no longer used in the current season. Although he came back to 25 league appearances in the following season 1989/90, the injuries did not heal despite extensive breaks in recovery and operations. This led to the fact that he only completed one competitive game by October 1992. In the 1992/93 season Snodin celebrated his comeback in the newly created Premier League and in the following years Snodin acted next to occasional excursions into midfield mostly as a central defender , before players like David Unsworth successfully competed for the position in the center of the defense. In January 1995 he then moved to the second division Oldham Athletic , after he had previously collected match practice from October 1994 for two months on loan at Sunderland AFC .

The last career stages (1995-2000)

In Oldham he took over the main position of right full-back almost immediately after his arrival and from then on he was a constant part of the four-man defensive chain before he shared his post more often with Chris Makin towards the end of the 1995/96 season . When Makin left the club afterwards, it was Shaun Garnett who was now preferred over Snodin several times. In addition, there were thighs and back injuries, which meant that the veteran only made 14 appearances in the 1996/97 season. The contract was not renewed in the summer of 1997 and Snodin found a new employer at the fourth division club Scarborough , who had also hired his brother Glynn in the same summer of 1997 as a youth coach. For "Boro" he completed another 38 competitive games and with his physical style of play was at the same time a key player in the promotion battle and a kind of "security risk", as two red cards in the 1997/98 season proved.

After just a year in Scarborough, Snodin returned to the Doncaster Rovers , who had just been relegated to bottom of the fourth division in the Football Conference . In the following two years until 2000 he served the club as a player-coach before ending his career on the sidelines again. He later switched to the media sector and has since worked there mostly for TV coverage of the Football Conference or as a radio commentator.

Title / Awards

literature

  • Hugman, Barry J .: Premier League: The Players - A Complete Guide to Every Player 1992-1993 . Tony Williams Publishing, 1992, ISBN 978-1-869833-15-2 , pp. 314 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "England - U-21 International Results 1976–1985 - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ^ "England - International Results B-Team - Details" (RSSSF)
  3. ^ Richard Sutcliffe: Bremner - The complete Biography (Great Northern Books), Ilkley 2011, ISBN 978-1-905080-91-5 , p. 208
  4. ^ Richard Sutcliffe: Bremner - The Complete Biography , p. 240
  5. ^ Richard Sutcliffe: Bremner - The complete Biography , p. 241
  6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-1996 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-09-180854-9 , pp. 198 .
  7. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-1997 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-85291-571-1 , pp. 227 .
  8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-1998 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1997, ISBN 978-1-85291-581-0 , pp. 253 .
  9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-1999 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85291-588-9 , pp. 281 .
personal data
SURNAME Snodin, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Doncaster , England