Neil McDonald

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Neil McDONALD
Personal information
Full name	Neil McDonald
Date of birth	November 2, 1965
Place of birth	Wallsend, England
Height	5ft 11in
Position	Manager (Right Back as a player)
Club information
Current club	Carlisle United
Youth clubs
?  ?	Wallsend BC Carlisle United
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1983–1988 1988–1991 1991–1994 1994–1995 1995–1998	Newcastle United Everton Oldham Athletic Bolton Wanderers Preston North End	180 (24) 90 (4) 21 (1) 4 (0) 34 (0)
National team
1986–1987	England U21	5 (0)
Teams managed
2006–present	Carlisle United
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Neil McDonald (born on 2nd November, 1965 in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear) is a former football player he played in the right back position before becoming coach/manager. He is currently managing Carlisle United F.C. During his playing career he played for the England under 21 team.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching career 3 Trivia 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Playing career

McDonald started his playing career at his local youth team Wallsend Boys Club, before joining Carlisle United F.C. as a apprentice. Then he joined Newcastle United F.C. after his Carlisle apprenticeship expried where, he went on to play over 200 league and cup games for "The Magpies", he also was an England under 21 international while at St. James'. He then went on to join Everton F.C. for £525,000 in the summer of 1988. At Everton he played in the 1989 FA Cup Final against local rivals Liverpool F.C. Everton lost the game 3-2 his Everton career lasted 3 years with McDonald playing over 100 league and cup games scoring 4 goals. On October 1991 he joined the then 2nd Divison team Oldham Athletic A.F.C. for £500,000 in their promotion season he stayed there for the next 3 season in the 1st Divison and Premiership (both highest tier) after "The Latics" relegation from the Premiership in 1994 he decided to join 1st Divison (this time 2nd tier) team Bolton Wanderers F.C. on a free transfer he didn't play much only 4 league matches in 1½ seasons maybe because of this he decided to move to Preston North End F.C. for £40,000 in November 1995 here he played in 35 league and cup games scoring 1 goal in 3½ years he retired in 1998.

[edit] Coaching career

Before joining Carlisle, McDonald was a coach at several teams. His first coaching job was with Preston North End F.C. he started this in 1997 as a player/coach and taking the coaching role on a full time basis in 1998. Then in the year 2000 he joined Sam Allardyce's backroom staff at Bolton Wanderers F.C. as first-team coach and earning his UEFA Pro Licence while at The Reebok, before joining Crystal Palace F.C. in 2005 to become Iain Dowie's assistant, replacing the popular Kit Symons. He was not so popular at Selhurst Park, as the fans saw the style of football and the players' attitude change, since his arrival. After Palace's play-off defeat to Watford F.C., he was released from his contract, with Palace chairman Simon Jordan preferring to have an all-new backroom set-up (apart from Symons and Director of Football Bob Dowie, who stayed) to assist the new manager. Left without a club, he chose Carlisle United F.C.^[1]in Summer 2006, following Paul Simpson's departure to Preston North End F.C. McDonald had a winning start in his first competitive match as manager, beating Doncaster Rovers F.C. 1-0 on the 5th August, 2006 at Brunton Park in Football League One, with the goal coming from Paul Murray, in the 3rd minute.

[edit] Trivia

• In the press conference unveiling McDonald as manager Carlisle chairman Andrew Jenkins called McDonald Neale Cooper (the former Gillingham F.C. manager) by mistake.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Neil McDonald's career stats at Soccerbase
• Neil McDonald's managerial stats at Soccerbase
• Everton Sporting heores profile with a picture of Neil

Preceded by: Paul Simpson

Carlisle United F.C. Manager 2006–present

Succeeded by: Incumbent

Carlisle United F.C. - Current Squad
1 Williams | 2 Raven | 3 Murphy | 4 Billy | 5 Livesey | 6 Gray | 7 Murray | 8 Lumsdon | 9 Holmes | 10 Hawley | 12 Joyce | 13 Bradley | 14 Grand | 15 Arnison | 17 McDermott | 18 Hackney | 19 Harper | 20 Westwood | 21 Aranalde | 23 Kirkup | 25 Gall | 26 Ferris | 27 Earl | 28 Hindmarch | 35 Krause | Manager: McDonald