Joe Kinnear

Joe Kinnear
Personnel
Surname	Joe Kinnear
birthday	December 27, 1946
place of birth	Dublin ,  Ireland
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
	St. Albans City
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1963-1975	Tottenham Hotspur	196 (2)
1975-1976	Brighton & Hove Albion	16 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1967-1975	Ireland	26 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Al-Sharjah
1983	Al Shabab (Assistant Trainer)
1984	India
1987	Nepal
1989	Doncaster Rovers
1992-1999	Wimbledon FC
2001-2003	Luton Town
2004	Nottingham Forest
2008-2009	Newcastle United
1 Only league games are given.

Joe Kinnear (born December 27, 1946 in Dublin ) is a former Irish football player and most recently coach of Newcastle United . After his active career, the long-time Tottenham Hotspur player initially worked in various countries in the Middle and Far East between 1975 and 1987 before he made his breakthrough as a coach at Wimbledon FC .

Club career

Born in Dublin, Joe Kinnear grew up from the age of seven in Watford , England , where his mother raised the five children alone after the early death of his father. Joe Kinnear played youth football for St. Albans City and North Watford FC Youth Football Club before joining Tottenham Hotspur in August 1963 , where he signed his first professional contract 18 months later. Shortly after his first league appearance on April 8, 1966 against West Ham United , the right full-back also made his debut in the Irish national team and lost to Turkey 2-1 on February 22, 1967 . With his tackle strength and speed, the small Kinnear quickly became a constant at the Spurs and formed a good full-back pair, especially with the left defender Cyril Knowles . In addition, he was part of the offensive game as a ball distributor and with cross runs on his right side. The first title win followed after his team defeated FC Chelsea 2-1 in the FA Cup final .

From the 1967/68 season at the latest, Kinnear was a regular on the right defensive side and came in 1971 in the League Cup to his next title win. In the same year, however, he had to struggle with an ankle injury and had to be represented by Ray Evans , who in turn knew how to use his chance and, unlike Kinnear, still had scoring danger. So coach Bill Nicholson decided to leave Evans in the starting lineup. Kinnear remained an integral part of the squad and was an important player, especially during the successful 1971/72 UEFA Cup season , which was reflected in the appeals to the two finals against Wolverhampton Wanderers . There he won his first - and ultimately only - international trophy after a 2-1 away win and a 1-1 in the second leg at White Hart Lane . With a 1-0 final win over Norwich City , Kinnear won his second league cup in 1973. Until 1975, he continued a private duel with Evans for the right-back position, before both left Spurs that year.

His active career let Kinnear, who came up to 1975 on 26 internationals for Ireland, after 16 league games for the third division side Brighton & Hove Albion relatively early in his 30th year of life.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Kinnear spent five years in Dubai , working for Al-Sharjah and alongside Dave Mackay for Al Shabab in the United Arab Emirates . There was also another engagement in Malaysia , as well as three more months for the Indian national team and one year for the Nepalese selection . He later returned to England to again assist Dave Mackay with the Doncaster Rovers .

Wimbledon FC (1992–1999)

After Mackay's departure in 1989, Kinnear briefly took over the post of head coach in Doncaster, before he was inherited by a consortium of Billy Bremner following the takeover of the club . Later in the year, Kinnear joined Wimbledon FC to look after the reserve team. When head coach Peter Withe was dismissed in January 1992 , Kinnear was available as his successor. He led the team to sixth place in the Premier League in the 1993/94 season and - contrary to many expert predictions to the contrary - followed this up with a surprisingly good ninth place (in contrast to most of its competitors in the English elite league, Kinnear had an extremely high low transfer budget).

With these respectable successes, Kinnear drew lasting attention to himself and so he was in the closer selection for the successor to the Irish national coach Jack Charlton in 1996 and allegedly turned down a specific offer. Instead, he continued to work successfully in club football and led Wimbledon FC in the 1996/97 season in addition to the eighth league place to two semi-finals in the FA Cup and in the league cup . In March 1999, Kinnear suffered a heart attack before the championship game against Sheffield Wednesday and resigned in June of that year.

Luton Town (2001-2003)

Before he finally returned to coaching for Luton Town , he had been the successor of Martin O'Neill at Leicester City and as a "firefighter" at the first division relegation candidate Sheffield Wednesday in conversation. Instead, he worked briefly as a sports director at Oxford United during the 2000/01 season and gave up this position in January 2001. Again, health reasons were given for the quick end, but Kinnear's lack of influence on athletic fate was considered more decisive. Only a few weeks later, third division relegation candidate Luton Town offered him a similar position. Shortly after his arrival, Kinnear demoted the then coach Lil Fuccillo and practically hired himself as his successor.

Despite the costly signing of striker Steve Howard for £ 50,000 on the last day of the winter transfer period, Kinnear missed relegation with his new team. He then replaced a large part of the squad with his own new players; including winger Jean-Louis Valois and later captains Kevin Nicholls and Chris Coyne . The newly formed team succeeded in direct recovery with the runner-up, which also meant the first ascent of the "Hatters" in 20 years. The team was also seen in the third-class Second Division in the 2002/03 season as an advanced candidate for promotion and so the ninth place in the final table was a bit disappointing. When the club was sold to a consortium led by John Gurney in May 2003, the new club management dismissed Kinnear and his assistant Mick Harford , the circumstances that Kinnears and Harford's discharge papers were signed by an employee of league rivals Northampton Town as "unfortunate" .

Nottingham Forest (2004)

Kinnear was unemployed until February 2004 before Nottingham Forest made him an offer. As the successor to Paul Hart , Forest was third from bottom at the time, but Kinnear immediately succeeded in turning the trend. The rise to 14th place at the end of the season made the club dream of promotion to the Premier League even before the start of the 2004/05 season, but after only four wins in the first 23 league games the disillusionment followed and after a 0: 3 - Losing to Derby County at Pride Park Stadium , Kinnear resigned from his coaching position on December 16, 2004. Nottingham Forest should not be able to prevent the relegation to the third division under interim coach Mick Harford and later Gary Megson with the 22nd place.

Newcastle United (2008-2009)

After almost four more years without employment and only occasional rumors of a return to the coaching field (for example with the Queens Park Rangers ), the management of Newcastle United committed him on an interim basis after the resignation of Kevin Keegan in October 2008. The one month job was quickly extended for another month until the end of the year. On November 28, 2008, the "Magpies" committed Kinnear until the end of the 2008/09 season.

successes

• UEFA Cup winners: 1972
• FA Cup Winner: 1967
• English league cup winner: 1971, 1973
• Charity Shield Winner: 1967 (title shared)

Web links

• Club career data on sporting-heroes.net
• International match details on sporting-heroes.net
• Joe Kinnear in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MEHSTG Vol. 2 Issue 26 (April 2002)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} "Magpies turn to Kinnear" ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Football365) 
3. ↑ "When Saturday Comes - Division Three 1975-1976" ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (When Saturday Comes) 
4. ↑ "Nepal Remembers Joe Kinnear"  ( 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. (Goal.com)  
5. ^ "Wimbledon set for Scandinavian invasion" (The Guardian)
6. ↑ "What now for Leicester?" (The Guardian)
7. ↑ ^{a b} "Kinnear back where he belongs" (The Guardian)
8. ↑ ^{a b c} "Firefighter Kinnear makes Luton his latest rescue mission" (The Guardian)
9. ↑ ^{a b} "Hatters putting mad spell behind them" (The Guardian)
10. ^ "Luton directors quit as far-fetched merger is mooted" (The Guardian)
11. ↑ ^{a b} "Forest turn to man who narrowly missed out on post in 1999" (The Guardian)
12. ^ "Hurricane Kinnear pulls up the trees" (The Guardian)
13. ↑ "Kinnear wields ax on Reid" (The Guardian)
14. ↑ ^{a b} "Kinnear quits City Ground" (The Guardian)
15. ↑ "Kinnear resigns as Forest manager" (BBC Sport)
16. ^ "QPR set to go for Joe" (Mirror.co.uk)
17. ^ "Magpies name Kinnear interim boss" (BBC Sport)
18. ^ "Kinnear to sign extension with Newcastle" ( Memento of October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Agence France-Presse)
19. ↑ "Kinnear to stay at Newcastle" ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (EuroSport)