Dave Jones

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Dave Jones (born August 17, 1956 in Liverpool) is an English football manager currently in charge of Cardiff City F.C.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 2.1 Southampton 2.2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2.3 Cardiff City 3 Managerial stats 4 External links

[edit] Playing career

Like most professional managers in the game, Dave Jones enjoyed a career as a player in his early years. He started his professional career with Everton F.C. in his home town of Liverpool. He played as a defender with the team for seven years, during which time he represented the English national team at youth and under-21 level.

He left Everton to play for Coventry City F.C. in 1981 for a transfer fee of £275,000 - after three seasons, he picked up a knee injury which threatened to end his football career.

After recovering from this injury, he played two further seasons for Seiko F.C. and one season for Preston North End F.C. before retiring.

[edit] Managerial career

In July 1990, he joined Stockport County F.C. as a manager for their youth team and took over as first-team manager from Danny Bergara in March 1995. He took the team into the First Division (now the Championship) from an automatic promotion place in 1997.

[edit] Southampton

This promotion brought him to the attention of Southampton F.C., who offered him a contract to manage their Premiership team. His reign during the 1999/2000 season was rocked by his arrest on charges of child abuse during his employment as a care worker in the late 1980s.

The case put tremendous strain on the manager, who was forced to defend his case back on Merseyside whilst managing a team based several hundred miles away on the south coast. In January 2000, Southampton decided to suspend him on full pay until the case was resolved, Glenn Hoddle taking over his managerial duties.

When the case eventually came to court, it was thrown out in its first week - the judge recording a not guilty verdict and commenting that the case should have never reached the trial stage.

Southampton paid off the remainder of Jones' contract and he was free to leave the club - Jones contended that this amounted to unfair dismissal and took the case to industrial tribunal but their decision was upheld.

[edit] Wolverhampton Wanderers

He took over at Wolves in January 2001 and finished 12th. In the 2001/2 season took them to a clear 11 point lead over their arch-rivals West Bromwich Albion F.C. but managed to lose their promotion place by the end of the season. He took the team to a playoff in the 2002/3 season - from which Wolves won a place in the Premiership, returning to top level play for the first time in 19 years. However, the team did not prove strong enough to stay at that level of play and were relegated to the Championship just one season later.

Following a poor run of form at the start of their first season back in the Championship, Dave Jones was sacked by Wolves on November 1, 2004 and the following year took up the position at Cardiff City.

[edit] Cardiff City

During Jones first season in charge of Cardiff they achieved a respectable mid-table placing in the Championship. However following a period of re-building over the summer of 2006 Jones has forged a talented side, lacking in many big-name players but finding themselves at the top of the Championship, something attributed to Jones excellent Man-management skills.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Stockport County		August 1, 1995	June 23, 1997	117	57	28	32	48.71
Southampton		June 23, 1997	January 27, 2000	113	37	54	22	32.74
Wolverhampton Wanderers		January 3, 2001	November 1, 2004	187	75	60	52	40.10
Cardiff City		May 25, 2005	Present	73	29	26	8	39.72

[edit] External links

• Dave Jones management career stats at Soccerbase

Preceded by Danny Bergara	Stockport County F.C. Manager 1995-1997	Succeeded by Gary Megson
Preceded by Graeme Souness	Southampton F.C. Manager 1997-2000	Succeeded by Glenn Hoddle
Preceded by John Ward (caretaker)	Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. Manager 2001-2004	Succeeded by Stuart Gray (caretaker)
Preceded by Lennie Lawrence	Cardiff City F.C. Manager 2005-	Succeeded by Incumbent

Cardiff City F.C. - Current Squad
1 Alexander | 2 Gilbert | 3 McNaughton | 5 Purse | 6 Loovens | 8 Chopra | 9 Thompson | 10 McPhail | 11 Parry | 12 Johnson | 13 Howard | 14 Flood | 16 Ledley | 18 Glombard | 19 Scimeca | 20 Campbell | 22 Wright | 23 Margetson | 24 McKoy | 25 Kamara | 26 Ferretti | 31 Allison | 32 Corcoran | 33 Coombes | 34 McCoubrey | 40 Blake | 44 Gunter | 45 Forde | Manager: Jones