Maurice Setters
| Maurice Setters | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Maurice Edgar Setters | |
| birthday | December 16, 1936 | |
| place of birth | Honiton , England | |
| position | Outrunner | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1954-1955 | Exeter City | 10 ( 0) |
| 1955-1960 | West Bromwich Albion | 120 (10) |
| 1960-1964 | Manchester United | 159 (12) |
| 1964-1967 | Stoke City | 87 ( 5) |
| 1967 | → Cleveland Stokers (guest) | 9 ( 3) |
| 1967-1970 | Coventry City | 51 ( 3) |
| 1970-1971 | Charlton Athletic | 8 ( 1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1957-1960 | England U-23 | 16 ( 1) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1971-1974 | Doncaster Rovers | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Maurice Edgar Setters (born December 16, 1936 in Honiton ) is a former English football player and coach . As an outside runner , the 16-time England U-23 national player in the top English league was feared because of his tough duel. The club stations included the first division clubs West Bromwich Albion , Manchester United , Stoke City and Coventry City and the greatest success for him was winning the FA Cup with Manchester United in 1963 .
Athletic career
Player career
Born in Devon in the south-west of England , Setters learned to play football at home school and from the age of 15 he initially became involved in amateur football in and around Honiton. His talent did not go unnoticed and so he found his way into the professional field in nearby Exeter City from his 18th birthday . The club from the county capital was active in the third-rate Third Division South and during the 1953/54 season Setters signed the first contract player contract. Before he could fully devote himself to his career, however, he had to do two years of military service with the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA). For this reason, his assignments in Exeter were limited to vacation periods. Much more formative for his further development was his participation in the army team of the RHA, which was equipped with a number of talented first division and national players - including John White , who later won numerous titles with Tottenham Hotspur . During his military service, West Bromwich Albion in particular watched him and after paying a small transfer fee to Exeter City, Setters finally hired at "WBA". At his new club he initially played in the reserve team, but due to his physically robust style of play in midfield, the ball conquering qualities and a good passing game, Setters catapulted himself into the first team from late November 1955. A week after his debut on November 26, 1955 against Huddersfield Town (0-1), he scored two goals for a 4-0 win over Portsmouth FC and alongside prominent team-mates such as Don Howe , Len Millard , Bobby Robson and Jim Dudley , Ray Barlow , Derek Kevan and Ronnie Allen , he developed into a key player in midfield who was mostly responsible for "the rough". His qualities were also in demand in the English national team and in addition to 16 appearances in the U-23 team between 1957 and 1960, he was part of the 22-man squad of the senior national team at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden . There he was not considered as a substitute and he did not even travel to the tournament itself.
A good year and a half after the World Cup, Setters moved to the first division rivals Manchester United in January 1960 for a transfer fee of 30,000 pounds . In Matt Busby's team , he should primarily replace the long-term injured Wilf McGuinness . The personnel in Manchester was noted with a little astonishment, as Setters was considered to be technically unskilled and Stan Crowther, a similar type of player who was signed up immediately after the plane disaster in Munich , was quickly sorted out as inadequate. With his great will, Setters quickly refuted these concerns, and Busby quickly made him captain after the previously chosen Bill Foulkes and Dennis Viollet had shown little leadership. At the end of the first two seasons 1959/60 and 1960/61 , Setters occupied a respectable seventh place in the final table with the "Red Devils". However, his performances on the field often gave rise to controversial discussions and it was not uncommon for a referee to expel him because he was too hard on the field. When "United" slipped to fifteenth place the following year , he also developed further competition with Nobby Stiles and Jimmy Nicholson , which Setters was initially able to fend off. After only two games in the 1962/63 season, Busby reacted to a form weakness of Setters and replaced him briefly by Nobby Lawton ; the captaincy passed to Noel Cantwell . After five more games, however, Setters managed to fight their way back into the regular formation. The season itself ended with variable success and a " near descent " was compared to winning the FA Cup in 1963 . The 3-1 final win against the slightly favored Leicester City gave the club the first trophy after the plane crash and Setters was considered a "water carrier" for players like Pat Crerand , Denis Law , Bobby Charlton and David Herd . In the further development, which reached its climax five years later with the victory in the European Cup , Setters no longer played a significant role. The 1963/64 season brought about a respectable success by winning the runner-up , but the bitter quarter-final defeat in the European Cup Winners' Cup against Sporting Lisbon (with a 5-0 defeat after a 4-1 first-leg win) left a bitter aftertaste. Shortly after the start of the 1964/65 season, Setters lost his regular place permanently to Nobby Stiles and two weeks after a last appearance at the end of October 1964 against Aston Villa (7-0) he was hired at Stoke City - the transfer fee was again £ 30,000.
During the three-year engagement in Stoke-on-Trent Setters remained without a trophy and occupied "only" first division midfield places with the team, but with his style of play he was one of the crowd's favorites. The last active career stations then included Coventry City (from November 1967) and the second division Charlton Athletic (from January 1970) before he devoted himself to the coaching profession.
Coaching activities
From June 1971 to November 1974 Setters was the head coach of the fourth division Doncaster Rovers before he took the position of assistant to Jack Charlton at Sheffield Wednesday in 1977 . After his resignation at the end of May 1983, he looked after the first team for a month on an interim basis, without having to play a competitive game during this time. A good three years later, Setters followed his former boss when he became coach of the Irish national team in 1986 . In the employment that lasted until 1995, Charlton succeeded with Setters as "number two" qualifying for two World Cup finals in a row (1990 and 1994).
Title / Awards
- English Cup (1): 1963
literature
- Ponting, Ivan: Manchester United Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59496-3 , pp. 57 .
Web links
- Profile on mufcinfo.com
- Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League AZ Player's Database
- Profile on playerhistory.com ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ^ "Maurice Setters" (North American Soccer League Players)
- ^ "England - U-23 International Results- Details" (RSSSF)
- ^ West Bromwich Albion, The Complete Record (2007), pp. 288f
- ↑ "United Captains: Maurice Setters" (Redcafe.net)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Setters, Maurice |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Setters, Maurice Edgar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Honiton |