Neil Webb

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Neil Webb
Personnel
Surname Neil John Webb
birthday July 30, 1963
place of birth Reading ,  England
size 183 cm
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1982 Reading FC 72 (22)
1982-1985 Portsmouth FC 123 (34)
1985-1989 Nottingham Forest 146 (47)
1989-1992 Manchester United 75 0(8)
1992-1996 Nottingham Forest 30 0(3)
1994 →  Swindon Town  (loan) 6 0(0)
1996 Grimsby Town 4 0(1)
1996-1997 Aldershot Town 36 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1985-1986 England U-21 3 0(0)
1987-1992 England 26 0(4)
1990-1992 England B 4 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1997 Weymouth FC
1 Only league games are given.

Neil Webb (born July 30, 1963 in Reading ) is a retired English football player . He played for Reading FC , Portsmouth FC , Nottingham Forest and Manchester United and took the England team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and UEFA EURO 1992 in part.

Career

Webb joined Reading in 1979 and made his debut for the club in February 1980 at the age of only 16. Reading FC was playing in the English third division at this time and remained in this division after the 1981/82 season. Neil Webb, however, had already indicated that he had greater potential and moved to Portsmouth FC in July 1982 at the age of 19 .

Portsmouth FC

In Portsmouth he also played in the third division in the 1982/83 season. His new team quickly revealed the greater potential compared to Reading and rose to the top of the league as leaders in the second division at the end of the season. After a place in the lower third of the table in the first second division season, Webb and his team just barely missed promotion to the First Division in 1984/85 . Equal on points with Manchester City , the worse goal difference was decisive in the end. Neil Webb had now played his way into the notebooks of the first division clubs. Coach Brian Clough signed him for £ 250,000 in 1985 and made the 22-year-old a national player in the years to come .

Nottingham Forest

Webb began his time in the premier division at the start of the five-year international ban for all English clubs. After various escapades by English hooligans, the trigger was the Heysel disaster . Neil Webb got off to a great start for his new club, scoring 14 league goals each in his first two years. Forest ranked 8th in 1985/86 and 1986/87, playing two average series. But already in the Football League First Division 1987/88 the team only had to give way to Liverpool FC and Manchester United and ended the season in third place. After another third place in the 1988/89 season , Webb moved to Manchester United. In his last year for Forest, he was finally able to celebrate his first title win. In the final of the League Cup against Luton Town , he scored the 1-1 equalizer before Nigel Clough made the win with two goals. Forest also played successfully in the FA Cup in 1988/89 and, as in the previous year, reached the semi-finals against Liverpool. The game went down in English football history as the Hillsborough disaster . The replay lost Nottingham with 1: 3 and was eliminated.

Manchester United

Neil Webb had made a name for himself as one of England's most dangerous midfielders over the past four years and therefore caught the interest of United manager Alex Ferguson . He bought it in July 1989 for £ 1,500,000. After a short time in Manchester , Webb injured his Achilles tendon in an international match and never returned to his previous form afterwards. In the First Division 1989/90 United finished only a disappointing thirteenth place, but made by triumphing in the FA Cup 1989/90 against Crystal Palace for the second title in Webb's career. 1990/91 was a sixth place in the table at the end of the season and also won the European Cup Winners' Cup 1990/91 . Manchester United defeated in the final in Rotterdam to FC Barcelona after two goals from Mark Hughes and a goal of Ronald Koeman with 2: 1. In 1991/92 Webb and his team were runner-up behind champions Leeds United and won the League Cup in the final against his old club Nottingham Forest 1-0. He moved back to Nottingham for £ 800,000 after just one game at the start of the newly established Premier League in 1992/93 . All in all, the 3+ years in Manchester had not gone well for Webb, despite the title. Due to injuries and strong competition in the team, he missed many games and only got eight league goals.

Nottingham Forest

Webb returned to Nottingham in late November 1992 . The coach there was still Brian Clough . However, this ended after a completely disappointing season that led to relegation, his coaching career. Forest rose after 15 years of first class from bottom of the table in the second division. Webb was only used in nine games and scored no goal. Under the new coach Frank Clark , he was promoted directly back to second place behind Crystal Palace. Webb was used more often this time (19 games / 3 goals), but was thrown back again in the coming year due to injuries and did not play a league game. In early January 1995 he was substituted on in the 3rd round of the FA Cup against Plymouth Argyle , making his last competitive game for Nottingham Forest.

In the summer of 1996 he moved to the English second division club Grimsby Town before he was transferred to Aldershot Town . There he played again 36 games in an amateur league and scored 6 goals before he went to Weymouth FC as a player- coach and finally ended his career there.

English national team

Neil Webb made 1,000 in a 3-1 draw against Germany on September 9, 1987. England international his first international match. He was in the squad of the English national team at the 1990 World Cup in Italy , but was not used. When in Sweden held UEFA EURO 1992 were going better for him. In the first game against Denmark he was substituted on and the third game against hosts Sweden he played the full distance. However, England dropped out after the preliminary round and had to travel home. It was Webb's last international match. He came to a total of 26 internationals in which he scored three goals.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fifa.com: "Top stars, triumphs and scoring records"
  2. ↑ eu-football.info: "MATCHES → all internationals of Neil Webb"

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personal data
SURNAME Webb, Neil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading