Liam Daish
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| Liam Daish | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Liam Daish | |
| Date of birth | September 23, 1968 | |
| Place of birth | Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | |
| Nickname | Dashy | |
| Position | Defender | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | retired | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| Portsmouth | ||
| Professional clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (goals) |
| -1989 1989-1992 1992-1996 1996-1999 |
Portsmouth Cambridge United Birmingham Coventry |
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| National team** | ||
| 1992-1996 | Ireland | 5 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1999-2004 2004-2005 2005-present |
Havant & Waterlooville Welling Gravesend |
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* Professional club appearances and goals |
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Liam Daish, (born September 23, 1968). is an Irish former football player, he is the current manager of Nationwide Conference team Gravesend. Despite being born in England, Daish, like a number of others, played internationally for the Republic of Ireland; in all he earned a total of five caps for his adopted country.
Daish, a centre-half, began his career with his hometown club: Portsmouth. However, he only made one appearance for the club. He left the club in 1989 in search of first team football, which he found at Cambridge United. Whilst at Cambridge, Daish helped the club the successive promotion from the Fourth to the Second Division. The quality of his performances for the club inspired Birmingham City to purchase him for a fee of £500k in the summer of 1992.
Daish spent four years at St. Andrews, during which time he made his international debut. Barry Fry, who managed him for most of his spell at Birmingham, once said of Daish that if a squadron of F-111s attacked the Birmingham penalty area he would attempt to head them away. This comment accurately sums up Daish's reputation as a defender: very tough and good in the air, but lacking somewhat in subtlety.
In the summer of 1996, Daish joined Coventry City for a fee of £1.5m. In the four seasons that he spent at Coventry, Daish was never a regular in the first team (he played in only 34 games for the Sky Blues). This was the result of a severe knee ligament injury which eventually forced his retirement from the professional game.
He joined non-league Havant & Waterlooville in 1999, serving as both a player and joint-manager alongside Mick Jenkins. He spent three and a half years in this role, during which time he took the club to the semi-final of the FA Trophy in 2003, before being sacked in January 2004 following a string of bad results. Following this, he joined Welling United F.C. as a coach. For a time, following the dismissal of Paul Parker, Daish served as caretaker-manager of Welling but did not get the job full time, despite leading the side to three wins and a draw in his four games in charge.
Daish left Welling in February 2005 to take the manager's job at Gravesend.
[edit] Honours
FA Trophy - 2003 (with Havant & Waterlooville)
