George Burley

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George Burley
Personal information
Full name	George Elder Burley
Date of birth	June 3, 1948 (1948-06-03) (age 60)
Place of birth	Cumnock, Scotland
Height	5 ft 9.5 in (1.77 m)
Playing position	Right-back
Club information
Current club	Scotland (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 0(6) 054 0(0) 046 0(2) 054 0(0) 067 0(0) 001 0(0) 005 0(0) 007 0(0)
National team
1979–1982	Scotland U21 Scotland U23 Scotland	005 0(0) 002 0(0) 011 0(0)
Teams managed
1991–1993 1994 1994–2002 2003–2005 2005 2005–2008 2008–	Ayr United Colchester United Ipswich Town Derby County Heart of Midlothian Southampton Scotland
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

George Elder Burley (born June 3, 1948 in Cumnock, Kyle, East Ayrshire) is a Scottish football manager and former player. On 24 January 2008 he was appointed manager of the Scotland national team. His nephew, Craig, is also a former footballer.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Management 2.1 Ayr United 2.2 Colchester United 2.3 Ipswich Town 2.4 Derby County 2.5 Heart of Midlothian 2.6 Southampton 2.7 Scotland 3 Managerial stats 4 Honours 4.1 As a player 4.2 As a manager 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing career

Burley started his playing career as an apprentice at Ipswich Town, and after 13 years and exactly 500 appearances for the Suffolk club he moved to Sunderland. He subsequently 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.

He had won an FA Cup winner's medal with Ipswich in 1978 and had the further distinction of receiving eleven Scotland caps.

In 1972 he joined Ipswich as an apprentice and made his senior debut against Manchester United at Old Trafford in 1973, being given the job of marking George Best. In 1978 he was a member of the Ipswich side which upset the odds to defeat Arsenal 1-0 in FA Cup final. However, in 1981 and injury forced him out of Ipswich's Uefa Cup final triumph over AZ Alkmaar. With Town missed out on First Division title on last day, finishing runners-up to Aston Villa

In 1982 he learnt to play the spoons, shortley after this he ate his own head.

In 1985 he joined Sunderland after making 500 appearances for Ipswich joining Gillingham in 1988. He moved back to Scotland in 1989 to play for Motherwell.

[edit] Management

[edit] Ayr United

He joined Ayr United as a player-manager in 1991, succeeding Ally MacLeod. In his first season he took United to the B&Q Centenary Cup Final and again reached the final of the competition (by then renamed the B&Q Challenge Cup) the following season. However, he did not succeed in taking Ayr back to the Premier League and was dismissed in 1993 for adverse results with the side's place in the First Division in serious jeopardy.

[edit] Colchester United

He moved briefly to Falkirk in 1993 as a player before returning to Motherwell as player-coach.

In June 1994 he returned to East Anglia as player-manager of Colchester United. He played seven first team games and managed the club for 20 matches, 8 of which they won, before returning to Ipswich Town the following November.

[edit] Ipswich Town

He was appointed manager at his former club, with Dale Roberts as his assistant, having had illegal talks with Town without Colchester knowing and so compensation was duly paid. During an eight-year reign he took Ipswich to three play-offs and finally won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs at Wembley beating Barnsley 4–2. The following season he guided the club to fifth place and qualification for the UEFA Cup. This earned him the 2000–01 Manager of the Year award. 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 County

In 2003, he became interim manager of Derby County while permanent manager John Gregory was suspended. Burley managed to halt Derby's alarming slide towards the relegation zone of the First Division (just one season after relegation from the Premier League) and kept the club up comfortably. Burley was then appointed manager permanently when Gregory was sacked. The following season (2003–04) 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 2004–05 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] Heart of Midlothian

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.

[edit] Southampton

Burley was appointed as Head Coach of Southampton on 23 December 2005 following the departure of Harry Redknapp.^[2] 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 in August 2006. Following the change in control of the club in July 2006, Burley's title was changed to that of "manager". He guided Southampton to the 2006–07 play-offs but lost on penalties in the second-leg of the semi-final after drawing 4–4 on aggregate against his former club Derby County, who went on to win the final.

[edit] Scotland

It was announced on 24 January 2008 that Burley had taken over the position of Scotland manager.^[3] It was announced during a press conference with Burley and the Scotland board that he had signed a contract until 2012. He became the third former Ipswich manager to manage his country, as Alf Ramsey and Bobby Robson had before him. Since being appointed, Burley has attended many matches in the SPL monitoring players for the upcoming Scotland friendlies. In his first match in charge, Scotland drew 1-1 with Croatia.

[edit] Managerial stats

All competitive games included; League and Cups (FA,Carling,European comps)

As of 27 March 2008.

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Colchester United		June 1, 1994	November 24, 1994	20	8	5	7	40.00
Ipswich Town		December 28, 1994	October 11, 2002	409	185	97	127	45.23
Derby County		March 31, 2003	June 7, 2005	107	39	25	43	36.44
Heart of Midlothian		June 30, 2005	October 21, 2005	12	9	2	1	75.00
Southampton		December 23, 2005	January 23, 2008	109	45	25	39	41.28
Scotland		January 24, 2008	Present	1	0	1	0	0.00

[edit] Honours

[edit] As a player

Ipswich Town

• FA Cup winner 1978
• UEFA Cup winner 1981

[edit] As a manager

Ipswich Town

• FA Premier League Manager of the Year: 2000-01
• FA Premier League Manager of the Month: November 2000
• LMA Manager of the Year: 2000-01

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• George Burley management career stats at Soccerbase
• Goal.com profile

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