Paul Hince

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Paul Hince
Personnel
Surname Paul Frank Hince
birthday March 2, 1945
place of birth Manchester ,  England
position Winger (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1966 Pinnington Celtic
1966-1968 Manchester City 7 (4)
1968-1969 Charlton Athletic 23 (2)
1969-1970 Bury FC 38 (3)
1970-1971 Crewe Alexandra 26 (2)
from 1971 Macclesfield Town
1 Only league games are given.

Paul Frank Hince (born March 2, 1945 in Manchester ) is a former English football player and sports journalist . In his brief professional career in the late 1960s, he was part of the Manchester City squad . There he contributed in the 1967/68 season on the right wing position six league games and two goals on the way to winning the English championship . He later worked as a journalist for the Manchester Evening News .

Athletic career

There was little evidence of a career as a professional footballer for Hince. Rather, he trained as a journalist and only pursued the sport in the amateur leagues of Manchester. Since he was talented there on the right wing as a winger, Manchester City noticed him. He was initially opposed to the prospect of endangering his secure job for football, but eventually he specifically gave in to the insistence of Kotrainer Malcolm Allison . Hince, who had been with the Citizens since early youth, played six games on trial before he was offered a permanent contract. In his league debut against West Bromwich Albion on March 25, 1967, he scored both goals for a 2-2 draw. It was the only appearance in the 1966/67 season before he was used again in six games in the championship season 1967/68 and scored two goals.

It turned out that the permanent breakthrough at the highest sporting level should be denied him. So he quickly discarded this career option and from then on he only ran in the lower professional leagues for Charlton Athletic (1968–1969, 2nd division), FC Bury (1969–1970, 2nd and 3rd division) and Crewe Alexandra (1970– 1971, 4th division). The last known station was in the amateur area of Macclesfield Town .

After football

After retiring as an active player, Hince returned to journalism and continued working for the Manchester Evening News . There he began as a correspondent for Manchester City. He got caught in a time when his ex-club was going through turbulent times during the power struggle between Peter Swales and his former teammate Francis Lee , often between the front lines. His relationship with Lee deteriorated fundamentally; he was also insulted by coach Alan Ball and made responsible for the club's relegation in 1996 . He then worked as chief sports journalist and England correspondent. In his later years, before retiring in 2006, he wrote a weekly column, remaining notorious among both Manchester City supporters and local rivals Manchester United . In 2009 he wrote a biography with the self-deprecating title "Memories ... Of a Failed Footballer and a Crap Journalist".

literature

  • Paul Hince: Memories ... Of a Failed Footballer and a Crap Journalist . Empire Publications Ltd, 2009, ISBN 978-1-901746-54-9 .

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Individual references / footnotes

  1. ↑ "Malcolm Allison remembered" (Manchester Evening News)
personal data
SURNAME Hince, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hince, Paul Frank (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , England