George Burley
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George Burley | ||
Personal information | ||
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Full name | George Elder Burley | |
Date of birth | June 3, 1956 (age 50) | |
Place of birth | Cumnock, Scotland | |
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |
Playing position | Right-back | |
Club information | ||
Current club | Southampton | |
Number | Manager | |
Senior clubs1 | ||
Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
1973-1985 1985-1988 1988-1989 1989-1991 1991-1993 1993 1993-1994 1994 |
Ipswich Town Sunderland Gillingham Motherwell Ayr United Falkirk Motherwell Colchester United |
394 54 (0) 46 (2) 54 (0) 67 (0) 1 (0) 5 (0) 7 (0) |
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National team | ||
1979-1982 | Scotland | 11 (0) |
Teams managed | ||
1991-1993 1994 1994-2002 2003-2005 2005 2005-present |
Ayr United Colchester United Ipswich Town Derby County Heart of Midlothian Southampton |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
George Elder Burley (born June 3, 1956 in Cumnock, Kyle, East Ayrshire) is an ex-footballer. He is currently the manager of Southampton in the Football League Championship. George is uncle to ex-Celtic midfielder Craig Burley.
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[edit] Playing career
Burley started his playing career as an apprentice at Ipswich Town, before moving to Sunderland after 13 years and over 500 appearances for the Suffolk club. Subsequently, he played for Gillingham and Motherwell, before becoming player/manager of Ayr United. In 1993 he moved to Falkirk as a player, before returning to Motherwell.
[edit] Management
[edit] Colchester
In 1994 he returned to East Anglia as player/manager of Colchester United.
[edit] Ipswich
Just six months later he was appointed manager at his former club, Ipswich Town with Dale Roberts as his assistant, having had illegal talks with Town without Colchester United knowing (compensation was duly paid). During an eight-year reign he won promotion to the FA Premier League via the play-offs at Wembley, where he guided the unfancied Ipswich to a fifth place finish and qualification for the UEFA Cup. Relegation the following season saw Burley's side struggling at the foot of Football League First Division and his contract was terminated by mutual agreement in 2002.
[edit] Derby
In 2003, he became interim manager of Derby County while permanent manager John Gregory was suspended. Despite his well-documented drink problem, Burley managed to halt Derby's alarming slide towards the relegation zone of the Football League Championship (just one season after relegation from the FA Premier League) and kept the club up comfortably. Burley was then appointed manager permanently when Gregory was sacked. The following season (2003-2004) was often a struggle, with Derby actually finishing a place lower than the season before, but there were signs of improvement. This showed through in the 2004-2005 season when, despite spending no money on new players, Burley transformed Derby from relegation contenders to a fourth place finish and play-off semi-finalists. However, things were not as happy as they seemed on the surface with Burley's relationship with director of football Murdo Mackay and the club's board (who sold star player Tom Huddlestone without informing Burley) being very strained. After days of speculation and mudslinging, Burley announced his resignation from Derby in June 2005.
[edit] Hearts
He was then appointed manager of Heart of Midlothian on 30 June 2005. A stunning start to his tenure as Hearts manager saw them top the Scottish Premier League after the first ten games, winning eight of these, including a 4-0 trouncing of rivals Hibernian - proving themselves to be genuine title challengers. However, he left the club the day after major shareholder Vladimir Romanov, with whom Burley had a notoriously uneasy relationship, announced a bid to take private control of Hearts.[1] A club statement declared his departure was by mutual consent. He was succeeded by Graham Rix.
[edit] Southampton
George Burley was appointed as Southampton F.C.'s Head Coach on December 22, 2005 following the departure of Harry Redknapp. The club's technical director, Clive Woodward, was moved sideways to a newly created post of director of football as part of restructuring following Burley's appointment, before eventually leaving the club on 31 August 2006. Following the change in control of the club in July 2006, Burley's title was changed to that of "manager".
[edit] Managerial stats
Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
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G | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
Colchester United | June 1, 1994 | November 24, 1994 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 40.00 | |
Ipswich Town | December 28, 1994 | October 11, 2002 | 409 | 185 | 127 | 97 | 45.23 | |
Derby County | March 31, 2003 | June 7, 2005 | 107 | 39 | 43 | 25 | 36.44 | |
Heart of Midlothian | June 30, 2005 | October 21, 2005 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 75.00 | |
Southampton | December 23, 2005 | Present | 67 | 28 | 21 | 18 | 41.79 |
[edit] Notes
- ^ Burley in shock exit from Hearts. BBC Sport. BBC (22 October 2005). Retrieved on 2007-01-21.
[edit] External links
Preceded by Ally MacLeod |
Ayr United F.C. manager 1991-1993 |
Succeeded by Simon Stainrod |
Preceded by Roy McDonough |
Colchester United F.C. manager 1994 |
Succeeded by Steve Wignall |
Preceded by Paul Goddard & John Wark (caretakers) |
Ipswich Town F.C. manager 1994-2002 |
Succeeded by Tony Mowbray (caretaker) |
Preceded by Mark Lillis (caretaker) |
Derby County F.C. manager 2003-2005 |
Succeeded by Phil Brown |
Preceded by John Robertson |
Heart of Midlothian F.C. manager 2005 |
Succeeded by John McGlynn (caretaker) |
Preceded by Dave Bassett & Dennis Wise (caretakers) |
Southampton F.C. manager 2005 - present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
Preceded by Sir Alex Ferguson |
Carling Manager of the Year 2001 |
Succeeded by Arsène Wenger |
Scotland squad - 1982 FIFA World Cup | ||
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1 Rough | 2 McGrain | 3 Gray | 4 Souness | 5 Hansen | 6 Miller | 7 Strachan | 8 Dalglish | 9 Brazil | 10 Wark | 11 Robertson | 12 Wood | 13 McLeish | 14 Narey | 15 Jordan | 16 Hartford | 17 Evans | 18 Archibald | 19 Sturrock | 20 Provan | 21 Burley | 22 Leighton | Coach: Stein |
Southampton F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Davis | 2 Östlund | 3 Pelé | 4 Saganowski | 5 Lundekvam | 6 Powell | 7 Skácel | 8 Wright-Phillips | 9 Rasiak | 10 Wright | 11 Svensson | 12 Lička | 15 Jones | 17 Belmadi | 18 Dyer | 19 Makin | 21 Baird | 22 Bale | 23 Viáfara | 24 Guthrie | 25 Poke | 26 Miller | 27 Best | 28 Białkowski | 29 Surman | 34 James | 41 Lallana | Manager: Burley |
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