Jon Newsome

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Jon Newsome
Personnel
Surname Jonathan Newsome
birthday September 6, 1970
place of birth Sheffield ,  England
size 188 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
Sheffield Wednesday
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1991 Sheffield Wednesday 7 (0)
1991-1994 Leeds United 76 (3)
1994-1996 Norwich City 62 (7)
1996-2000 Sheffield Wednesday 54 (4)
1998 →  Bolton Wanderers  (loan) 6 (0)
2002-2003 Gresley Rovers
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2002-2003 Gresley Rovers (player-manager)
1 Only league games are given.

Jonathan "Jon" Newsome (born September 6, 1970 in Sheffield ) is a former English football player . The central defender , who was occasionally used in the outside positions, was considered one of the most promising talents in English football. At the age of just 20 he won the English championship with Leeds United before injuries later always prevented him from developing permanently. This ensured an early retirement at the age of only 29.

Athletic career

Newsome comes from the youth academy of his home club Sheffield Wednesday and his professional career also got off to a promising start when he made his debut in the English top division against Arsenal FC shortly after his 19th birthday . After the first substitution against the "Gunners" followed six more league appearances in the starting lineup, but this was followed by a 1990/91 season without use in the senior team. So it came as a bit of a surprise when he and his teammate David Wetherall suddenly moved to up and coming league rivals Leeds United for a total of £ 275,000 . The background was that in Leeds, Howard Wilkinson, a former coach from Sheffield Wednesday, was primarily responsible, who knew both center-back talents well and hired them as perspective players.

During the 1991/92 championship season , Newsome played his way into the team, especially in the decisive phase, and won an official championship medal with ten league appearances. He scored a goal for a 3-2 win over Sheffield United , the local rivals of his ex-club, which in turn secured the league title. Newsome was two more years in the service of the club before he was sold to Norwich City in June 1994 after another 66 league appearances . With the "Canaries" he signed a three-year contract and the transfer fee of one million pounds ultimately meant a substantial profit in view of the original purchase price - it was also the highest transfer fee for a new purchase for Norwich to date.

Newsome quickly found its way into the new environment. He impressed not only with his tough but fair duel in central defense, but also represented a frequently used alternative in the outer positions. The direct transfer of the captaincy and the award of the club's internal player of the year after the debut season in 1994 was an expression of his high status / 95, which unfortunately ended with relegation to the second division . With two goals at the start of the season in the 3-1 opening success against Luton Town , he showed himself combative in the declared battle for promotion, but after numerous speculations about a possible return to Newsome in the Premier League, he went in March 1996 for 1.6 million pounds Sheffield Wednesday back, which in turn in the top division for the relegation fight.

At the side of Des Walker , he gave the previously somewhat shaky defensive more stability and made sure that the crash into the second division could be avoided. Constant injury problems plagued him in the subsequent 1996/97 season and a serious ankle injury from the FA Cup quarter-finals against FC Wimbledon (0: 2) ensured the premature end this season. Overall, his sporting prospects in the fight with the Serb Dejan Stefanović for the place in central defense next to Des Walker seemed to deteriorate. Nevertheless, he fought his way back into the regular formation in the following year, completed 29 competitive games when a knee injury meant the season out again in relation to the last eight games. So he fell behind the new central defense formation with Walker and Emerson Thome and his club loaned him from mid-November 1998 to the end of the year to the second division Bolton Wanderers . A permanent obligation was then discussed there, but could not be realized. Instead, he remained part of the Sheffield Wednesday squad. The problems of the injury-prone Newsome worsened in the following time so that the club management officially offered him on the transfer list in May 1999, but aimed at a transfer fee of 1.5 million pounds. Such a desired deal did not materialize and so almost an entire year passed in which Newsome played a few more games and then announced his retirement from active sport in May 2000 at the age of 29.

After the active career

Following his playing career, Newsome coached the Sheffield Wednesday youth academy; later he was also involved in the youth sector for Grimsby Town . In April 2002 he took over the head coach for the lower class Gresley Rovers and in order to be able to jump in in case of injuries in an emergency, he continued to register as a player. The job lasted until June 2003 before he stopped for family reasons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-09-180854-9 , pp. 154 .
  2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-85291-571-1 , pp. 177 .
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1997, ISBN 978-1-85291-581-0 , pp. 198 .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85291-588-9 , pp. 218 .
  5. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1999, ISBN 978-1-85291-607-7 , pp. 222 .
  6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2000, ISBN 978-1-85291-626-8 , pp. 234 .
personal data
SURNAME Newsome, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newsome, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield , England