Neil Warnock

Neil Warnock
Neil Warnock coaching the Queens Park Rangers (2011)
Personnel
birthday	December 1, 1948
place of birth	Sheffield ,  England
size	175 cm
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1967-1969	Chesterfield FC	24 0(2)
1969-1971	Rotherham United	52 0(5)
1971-1973	AFC Hartlepool	60 0(5)
1973-1975	Scunthorpe United	72 0(7)
1975-1976	FC Aldershot	37 0(6)
1976-1988	Barnsley FC	57 (10)
1978	York city	4 0(0)
1978-1979	Crewe Alexandra	21 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1980-1981	Gainsborough Trinity
1981-1986	Burton Albion
1986-1989	Scarborough FC
1989-1993	Notts County
1993	Torquay United
1993-1995	Huddersfield Town
1995-1997	Plymouth Argyle
1997-1998	Oldham Athletic
1998-1999	Bury FC
1999-2007	Sheffield United
2007-2010	Crystal Palace
2010–2012	Queens Park Rangers
2012-2013	Leeds United
2014	Crystal Palace
2015	Queens Park Rangers (interim)
2016	Rotherham United
2016-2019	Cardiff City
2020–	Middlesbrough FC
1 Only league games are given.

Neil Warnock (born December 1, 1948 in Sheffield ) is a former English football player and current coach .

Player career

In his eleven-year playing career, Warnock was active for Chesterfield FC , Rotherham United , AFC Hartlepool , Scunthorpe United , Aldershot FC as well as for Barnsley FC , York City and Crewe Alexandra in the lower English leagues. There the midfielder , who mostly played on the outside, played a total of 326 games, but was never able to recommend himself to ambitious clubs in the top division.

Coaching career

Burton Albion & Scarborough FC

From 1981 he coached Burton Albion for the first time a club in the amateur league Northern Premier League . While he was still working as a podiatrist in his trained profession , he became sporting director at Scarborough FC in 1986 and led the club in 1987 through the championship in the Football Conference into the fourth division and thus into professional business. He stayed in Scarborough until November 1988 and then resigned as he sought the vacant coaching post at Notts County in the third-rate Third Division .

Notts County

Just days later, Warnock was named Notts County's new coach. From the former relegation candidate in the third division, he made a team that secured promotion to the second division in its first full coaching season 1989/90 via the play-off games . In the following year they even managed to march straight through to the first-class First Division through another detour via the qualifying games. This foray into the English elite class was only to last a year and Notts County was relegated straight back down, missing the opportunity to become a founding member of the Premier League. After more months of mixed sport, in which the relegation threatened to be more likely than a direct return to the first division, Warnock resigned as a coach, although relegation could ultimately be secured without him.

Torquay United

After his departure from Notts County Warnock was offered an advisory position at the fourth division Torquay United , who was in relegation battle at the time. Just days after Warnock took up his duties, coach Paul Compton resigned and accused the club's management of trying to scrap him. Warnock took over the sporting management for the rest of the season, but resigned the post after relegation was secured.

Huddersfield Town

Warnock's next coaching station was Huddersfield Town . In the first season of the club in the new Alfred McAlpine Stadium (today: "Galpharm Stadium") 1994/95, the club reached the play-off final, there beat the Bristol Rovers and rose to the second division. In his ninth year as coach, Warnock had already led a club into the higher division for the fourth time, three times via play-offs. But only a few days later he surprised the Presidium by resigning.

Plymouth Argyle

It was only a few days before Warnock returned to the coaching business and took the position at Plymouth Argyle , who had just been relegated to the fourth division. Warnock led the club - again through the playoffs - back into the third division, but this was followed by a difficult time. Plymouth Argyle had a good start to the season and temporarily led the table until the sporting performance developed into a crisis. Warnock accused chairman Dan Cauley of not providing enough money for new player transfers in view of the now tense situation and of risking that the level of performance will move to amateur level if nothing changes. McCauley denied this accusation and emphasized his confidence that the existing players were even good enough to realize a further promotion and therefore there was no reason to invest further financial resources. McCauley answered the question of the broadcaster Sky Sports whether the club would be in a crisis (as Warnock had previously suggested): “It was him, yes, but I don't understand. Maybe he's in crisis, but the club is by no means in crisis. ”Warnock was sacked towards the end of the 1996/97 season.

Oldham Athletic

After his resignation in Plymouth, Warnock was offered the coaching post at the second division club Oldham Athletic . After taking up the job, he succeeded in reversing the trend, but was unable to prevent his decline. There followed a good start to the season, which, however, resulted in numerous setbacks. The club was no longer able to pursue its promotion plans and ended up only in midfield. Warnock then ended his activity in Oldham and moved to the second division to Bury.

Bury FC

Warnock rose with FC Bury on the last day of the 1998/99 season after the club had been in the lower half of the table for the entire season. If a rule had not been changed shortly before that, in clubs tied on points, the team with the more goals scored (instead of the better goal difference that was customary up to then) would have been preferred by Bury ahead of the tied club from Port Vale . However, since the club had scored the fewest goals of all second division clubs, Bury had to make the way to the third division. When the club showed poor form in the following season, the Bury supporters increasingly demanded Warnock's dismissal. This he came before, however, when he resigned from his post after he had been offered the coaching position at Sheffield United .

Sheffield United

After a weak start to the 1999/2000 season, Warnock was in danger of relegation with his new club. Warnock was ultimately able to lead the second division side to a midfield position and prevent relegation. This was followed by a steady improvement in the vicinity of the play-off positions, which Sheffield then reached in 2003. Warnock failed there for the first time - after four successful attempts - in his personal coaching career on promotion to the qualifying games after the final defeat against Wolverhampton Wanderers . In the same year Warnock lost with his team in both the FA Cup and the League Cup only in the semifinals.

In the 2005/06 season Sheffield United was under the direction of Warnock always among the best two teams and was one of the favorites for direct promotion to the Premier League. At this time, Warnock received in December 2005 an offer for the coaching successor at Portsmouth FC , which he declined. Instead, he succeeded with Sheffield as runner-up in the top English league. However, Warnock should not be allowed to follow the start of the 2006/07 Premier League season from the dugout, as he was due to the incidents at the game against Leeds United and another dispute with coaching colleague Nigel Worthington for the first two championship and four more Competitive games had been banned. After Sheffield United was relegated at the end of the 2006/07 season by a 2-1 defeat by Wigan Athletic from the Premier League, he took his leave.

Crystal Palace and QPR

Between October 2007 and the end of February 2010, Warnock was the coach of Crystal Palace . From March 1, 2010 to January 8, 2012, he was the coach of the Queens Park Rangers . In the 2010/2011 season he and his team made it to the top English league. After QPR had started successfully in the Premiere League season, the club came close to the relegation zone in winter 2011/12. After a 1-1 draw against third division Milton Keynes Dons in the FA Cup , the club split from Warnock, who described the time at QPR as the best of his life.

Leeds United

On February 18, 2012, he took over the coaching position at the second division Leeds United and finished the Football League Championship 2011/12 with his new team in 14th place in the table. After the season's goal, promotion to the Premier League, had gotten a long way off after a series of winless games, the club separated from Warnock on April 1, 2013.

Return to Crystal Palace

On August 27, 2014, Warnock began his second engagement as coach of Crystal Palace; he signed a two-year contract. In December 2014 he was released for failure.

Cardiff City

On October 5, 2016, Warnock signed a two-year contract with Championship Club Cardiff City . The 69-year-old led the Blue Birds to relegation. As a result, his contract term was extended to 2019. In the following year Cardiff played in the top flight and rose as second in the table with the Wolverhampton Wanderers and Fulham in the Premier League. After just one year in the Premier League, the club immediately relegated in 2019, and Warnock resigned from his coaching position in November 2019.

Middlesbrough FC

On June 23, 2020, Neil Warnock took over Middlesbrough FC, which was threatened with relegation . With his help, the club managed to reach 17th place.

Others

Warnock is a trained referee and is known for his controversial outbursts in the dugout. This resulted in numerous personal feuds with players in the football business and penalties from the Football Association . He is a staunch advocate of Brexit .

Web links

• Neil Warnock in the soccerbase.com database
• Profile on leaguemanagers.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ QPR dismisses promotion coach Neil Warnock (kicker)
2. ↑ Neil Warnock sacked as manager of Queens Park Rangers (BBC Sport)
3. ↑ Neil Warnock appointed Leeds United manager (BBC Sport)
4. ↑ Neil Warnock 'parts company' with Leeds United (BBC Sport)
5. ↑ Crystal Palace appoint Neil Warnock for second spell on two-year contract , Guardian article , August 27, 2014
6. ↑ https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/2017/february/neil-warnock-signs-new-city-deal/
7. ↑ bbc.com: Neil Warnock: Manager leaves Cardiff City after three years (November 11, 2019) , accessed November 12, 2019
8. ↑ bbc.com: Neil Warnock replaces Jonathan Woodgate as Middlesbrough boss (June 23, 2020) , accessed June 23, 2020
9. ↑ Neil Warnock on Brexit: 'I can't wait to leave. To hell with the rest of the world , Guardian, Jan. 12, 2019