Tommy Docherty

Tommy Docherty
Docherty (2017)
Personnel
Surname	Thomas Henderson Docherty
birthday	April 24, 1928
place of birth	Glasgow ,  Scotland
date of death	December 31, 2020
position	External rotor (right)
Juniors
Years	station
	Shettleston Juniors
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1947-1949	Celtic Glasgow	9 (2)
1949-1958	Preston North End	324 (5)
1958-1961	Arsenal FC	83 (1)
1961–1962	Chelsea FC	4 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1951-1959	Scotland	25 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1961-1967	Chelsea FC
1967-1968	Rotherham United
1968	Queens Park Rangers
1968-1970	Aston Villa
1970-1971	FC Porto
1971-1972	Hull City
1972	Scotland
1972-1977	Manchester United
1977-1979	Derby County
1979-1980	Queens Park Rangers
1981	Sydney Olympic
1981-1982	Preston North End
1982-1983	South Melbourne FC
1983	Sydney Olympic
1984-1985	Wolverhampton Wanderers
1987-1988	Altrincham FC
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Henderson Docherty (born April 24, 1928 in Glasgow ; † December 31, 2020 ), better known as Tommy Docherty or by the nickname " The Doc ", was a Scottish football player and football coach .

Player career

Docherty began his career at Shettleston Juniors , a club outside the Scottish professional league system. In 1946 he was called up for military service. While on duty, he played in the selection of the British Army and thus attracted the attention of Celtic Glasgow , who offered him a contract at the end of their military service in 1947.

However, within the next two years he failed to establish himself there and moved to Preston North End . Here he played over 300 times in the league and even reached the final in the FA Cup in 1954 , which was lost, however, in front of 120,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium against West Bromwich Albion by a goal by Frank Griffin shortly before the end with 2: 3.

In 1951, Docherty received his first invitation to the Scottish national football team , for which he played 25 games until 1959.

At the end of the 1957/58 season and after he had driven with Scotland to the 1958 World Cup , Docherty went to Arsenal , where he wanted to end his football career in 1961.

Coaching career

In the spring of 1961, Chelsea offered him the opportunity to become a player-coach for the club. However, he could not avert its descent. Nevertheless, he stayed with the club, now only sitting on the bench during the games. Although he did not have a great understanding of tactics, he was immediately promoted again and the following year the season ended in fifth place. By firing old players and having a good instinct for young talent - he integrated players like Terry Venables , Bobby Tambling , Peter Bonetti and Barry Bridges into the team - he made Chelsea a top team, which almost won the championship triple in 1965 , League Cup and FA Cup. After the team narrowly failed in the semi-finals at Liverpool FC , they defeated Leicester City in the League Cup .

In the years that followed, Chelsea advanced to the semi-finals of the trade fair cup and reached the FA Cup final. However, Docherty fell out with parts of the team and was released in October 1967; he then went to Rotherham United , where he only stayed a year.

After 29 days at Queens Park Rangers , he was hired by Aston Villa . When the club was on January 19, 1970 at the bottom of the Football League Second Division , Docherty was dismissed.

This was followed by a four-month stay at FC Porto before Docherty returned to England as an assistant coach at Hull City in the summer of 1971 .

In September 1972 he was introduced as the new coach of the Scottish national team and took over the coaching post in November. However, his engagement was short-lived, as he replaced Frank O'Farrell, who was sacked at Manchester United , in December . However, the relegation failed and United had to go back to the second division for the first time since 1938. However, the immediate resurgence and they completed the first year in the House of Lords from third in the table and reached the FA Cup final, which was surprisingly lost to Southampton FC . The following year they made it back to the cup final and this time they won the title against Liverpool .

However, a short time later a piquant story came to the public: Docherty had a relationship with the wife of a physiotherapist from the association. He was then dismissed without notice in July of that year and ironically replaced by Dave Sexton , who had already followed him at Chelsea.

Just two months later, Docherty was back in the dugout, this time with Derby County . However, his two-year stint at the club was overshadowed by a lawsuit when he went to court against former United player Willie Morgan for defamation. The process dragged on, until Docherty admitted to having given false information in court and it was closed. A short time later, the commitment to Derby County ended.

In May 1979 he was back with the Queens Park Rangers , who had been relegated from the first division, set, almost immediately released and again after nine days. With him, well-known players such as Clive Allen , Tony Currie and Paul Goddard were signed . The goal of recovery was still missed and Docherty dismissed in October 1980.

This was followed by a brief stay in Australia at Sydney Olympic in 1981 before returning to Preston North End in England. After nine unsuccessful months, he tried again in Australia and took over the management of South Melbourne FC . This was followed by a renewed engagement with Sydney Olympic.

In 1984 he took over the Wolverhampton Wanderers for one season . Docherty's last position was at FC Altrincham from 1987 to 1988 , before he finally retired as a coach. Since then he has been in demand as an expert and has been an irregular speaker at various events.

Web links

• Docherty as a speaker

Individual proof

1. ↑ BREAKING NEWS: Former Manchester United, Chelsea and Scotland boss Tommy Docherty dies aged 92