Paul Warhurst

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Paul Warhurst
Personnel
Surname Paul Warhurst
birthday 26th September 1969
place of birth Stockport ,  England
size 186 cm
position Defense , midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988 Manchester City 0 (0)
1989-1991 Oldham Athletic 67 (2)
1991-1993 Sheffield Wednesday 66 (6)
1993-1997 Blackburn Rovers 57 (4)
1997-1998 Crystal Palace 27 (4)
1998 →  Bolton Wanderers  (loan) 6 (0)
1998-2003 Bolton Wanderers 89 (0)
2003 →  Stoke City  (loan) 5 (1)
2003 Chesterfield FC 4 (0)
2003 Barnsley FC 4 (0)
2004 Carlisle United 1 (0)
2004 Grimsby Town 7 (0)
2004 Blackpool FC 4 (0)
2005 Forest Green Rovers 6 (2)
2005 Wrexham AFC 11 (1)
2006-2007 Barnet FC 28 (0)
2007 Northwich Victoria 2 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990-1991 England U-21 8 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2007 Northwich Victoria (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Paul Warhurst (born September 26, 1969 in Stockport ) is a retired English football player . Mainly used in central defense, at times also in midfield and especially later also sporadically acting as a striker , he won the English championship with the Blackburn Rovers in 1995 . Especially in his last active years he was considered a "wanderer" and played for a total of 16 different clubs. For international matches in the English senior team , it was not enough after eight appearances for the U-21 selection .

Professional career

First stations (1988–1993)

Paul Warhurst, whose father Roy was a successful footballer in the 1940s and 1950s, began his own career as a youth player for Manchester City . The leap into the adult area in the summer of 1988 was provided with a lack of perspective and so he hired in October 1988 for just 10,000 pounds a league lower at the second-rate Oldham Athletic . There he made his league debut on October 29, 1988 against Portsmouth FC (1: 1) and played three more games by the end of the 1988/89 season - but only one was over the full 90 minutes. The sporting breakthrough came in the following season 1989/90 and in addition to the 30 championship games, the entry into the FA Cup semi-finals , which ended with a narrow defeat against Manchester United , was a great success for the 20-year-old as a player in a second division Clubs. His failure in the 1990 league cup final against Nottingham Forest (0-1) was just as close . After another year in the second division, he moved in July 1991 for 750,000 pounds to the higher class Sheffield Wednesday and established himself there straight away. In the second year in particular, when the Premier League started its first season , as a trained defensive player, he drew attention to himself with offensive qualities and six goals. In addition, he reached the FA Cup final against Arsenal , in which he only failed in the replay at Arsenal with 1: 2 after extra time.

Blackburn Rovers (1993-1997)

Shortly after the beginning of the 1993/94 season, Warhurst moved for a transfer fee of 2.7 million pounds to the up-and-coming Blackburn Rovers , who had finished fourth as a promoted under coach Kenny Dalglish the year before and developed into a serious championship contender. Warhurst made his debut on September 12, 1993 in a 1-0 win against Liverpool for the new club, but was injured shortly afterwards after 25 minutes in the game against Swindon Town . Because of his broken leg, he then found it difficult to fight his way back to the team on the way to the runner-up and came late in the 1993/94 season only sporadically through substitutions for the course.

It was not until the 1994/95 season that he was given more consideration again, with his versatility in various midfield and defense positions benefiting him. He benefited from the long-term injury of regular David Batty , represented him in midfield, but then occasionally acted as a right-back or center-back and after the injury of Jason Wilcox temporarily on the left wing . In the end he won the English championship with the Rovers , had been present in 27 games, but had to take another break in the closing stages after he broke his other leg.

He returned to the squad at the end of September 1995, but was then thrown back further due to minor injuries and illnesses and was mainly in the starting line-up in Champions League games - the main reason for this was that the Rovers had too few players eligible to play. Here he was also in the team in the only win against Rosenborg Trondheim (4-1), but later had to leave the pitch prematurely after being suspended. Another misfortune befell him in his only Premier League appearance in the season from the start, which ended in March 1996 against Leeds United (1-0) with a broken rib. The 1996/97 season was Warhurst's last season at Blackburn. He completed the first four games as a striker , tore a muscle in the last game, which meant a new break until February 1997 was necessary. His few sporting highlights took place in the meetings with Manchester United , in which Warhurst scored his only two goals of the season. In August 1997, he finally moved to league rivals Crystal Palace for 1.25 million pounds .

Crystal Palace (1997-1998)

The fresh start turned out to be promising at Crystal Palace with three goals in the first six games before Warhurst broke his leg for the third time in an FA Cup game in January 1998. At the end of the 1997/98 season he returned to the team and mostly held the role of the cleaner . In addition to the wounds, the Warhurst family was plagued by homesickness and so he asked at the beginning of the new 1998/99 season to move to the north of England. An agreement was finally reached in November 1998 and agreed on a loan deal with the second division side Bolton Wanderers .

Bolton Wanderers (1998-2003)

The Trotters experienced a shortage of suitable defenders in late 1998 and Warhurst was most welcome there. Together with Jon Newsome , who had also been loaned out, he formed the central defense of Sam Allardyce's team , which ultimately did not lose any of the initial six games. The two parties then decided on a permanent transfer and so Warhurst moved permanently to Bolton for 800,000 pounds at the end of December, where he from then on demonstrated his versatility and also helped out as a center forward. Furthermore, he was plagued by constant injury breaks and the longest uninterrupted series in the 1999/2000 season consisted of only six games. Regardless of these problems, he fought his way back into the team again and again and due to his game overview and pass security he was increasingly an important element in midfield center. In the decisive game in the fight for a play-off place against Norwich City (1-0), he showed such a good performance that he was named the best player ("Man of the Match"), but in the playoffs himself he failed already in the semifinals at Ipswich Town (2: 2, 3: 5). Also in the 2000/01 season he was missing two months early due to thigh problems, but by the end of the round at the latest he was a key player in the defensive and midfield center in the ultimately successful promotion battle, but without later in the decisive play-off victories himself to have been.

Back in the top English league, Warhurst was 25 times in the Premier League in the starting line-up of Bolton and there he was used both in defensive midfield and in the back four. With his experience and consistency, he was a not unimportant factor in the positive going struggle for relegation . The subsequent 2002/03 season was Warhursts last year at the highest level. The injuries were just as responsible as increasingly tougher competition in the squad, such as in midfield by the French world champion Youri Djorkaeff . By the end of 2002 he came only to seven first division appearances and in March 2003 his club loaned him to the second division side Stoke City for the remaining games of the season . After his return to Bolton, he found no further consideration at the Trotters at the beginning of the 2003/04 season and so an agreement was reached in October 2003 on a transfer to third division FC Chesterfield , with which Warhurst signed a short-term contract.

Career end (2003-2007)

The one-month stay in Chesterfield was the start of a little "odyssey" with English third division teams and so Warhurst was under contract for a short time at Barnsley FC (December 2003 to January 2004), after which he was for Carlisle United (February to March 2004) before hiring him in Grimsby Town in March 2004 . The next stop was from November 2004 Blackpool FC , also based in the third division, which was now called Football League One . There he completed four championship games by the end of March 2005 and played the final stages of the 2004/05 season outside of the Football League with the fifth-rate Forest Green Rovers . In August 2005, Warhurst hired the fourth division AFC Wrexham . There Warhurst was supposed to give the young team experience and stability and scored a goal in his second league appearance. Nevertheless, he did not succeed in making a permanent jump into the starting lineup and so he left the club shortly after the turn of the year.

At the end of March 2005 he found a new employer in the league rivals FC Barnet , established himself there after the injury of Ismail Yakubu in the defense center at the side of Simon King and was not insignificantly responsible for the fact that the club prevented relegation. So he “earned” another year as a professional in Barnet and once again demonstrated his versatility in Paul Fairclough's team, from the center of defense to the top of the attack. Still, he struggled to deliver a consistent streak of good performances and it was little surprise that the club and players agreed to end their time together at the end of the 2006/07 season.

The last stop in Warhurst's professional career was the five-class Northwich Victoria . He joined the club in September 2007 and after the resignation of trainer Neil Redfearn he took over his successor on an interim basis. At the same time he was used twice more himself. Although he was also scheduled as a permanent coach, he left the club before the final decision and resigned completely from the professional football business.

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  1. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-09-180854-9 , pp. 225 .
  2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-85291-571-1 , pp. 254 .
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1997, ISBN 978-1-85291-581-0 , pp. 283 .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85291-588-9 , pp. 318 .
  5. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1999, ISBN 978-1-85291-607-7 , pp. 311 .
  6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2000, ISBN 978-1-85291-626-8 , pp. 331 .
  7. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2001-2002 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-946531-34-9 , pp. 318 .
  8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/2003 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-85291-648-0 , pp. 429 .
  9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-85291-651-0 , pp. 442 .
  10. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-85291-660-2 , pp. 425 f .
  11. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-85291-662-6 , pp. 425 .
  12. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2006-07 . Mainstream Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84596-111-4 , pp. 424 .
  13. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2007-08 . Mainstream Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84596-246-3 , pp. 424 .
personal data
SURNAME Warhurst, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 26th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockport , England