Liam Daish

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Liam Daish
Personal information
Full name Liam Sean Daish
Date of birth September 23, 1968 (1968-09-23) (age 39)
Place of birth    Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Ebbsfleet United (Head Coach)
Youth clubs
1984–1986 Portsmouth
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1986–1988
1988–1994
1988
1994–1996
1996–1999
1999–2003		 Portsmouth
Cambridge United
→ Barnet (loan)
Birmingham City
Coventry City
Havant & Waterlooville		 001 (0)
138 (1)
001 (0)
072 (1)
031 (0)
000 (0)   
National team2
1992–1996
1994		 Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland B		 005 (0)
001 (0)
Teams managed
1999–2004
2004–2005
2005–present		 Havant & Waterlooville
Welling United
Ebbsfleet United

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of August 15, 2006.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of August 15, 2006.
* Appearances (Goals)

Liam Sean Daish (born September 23, 1968) is an Irish former football player, he is the Head Coach of Nationwide Conference team Ebbsfleet United (formerly Gravesend & Northfleet). Despite being born in England, Daish, like many others, played internationally for the Republic of Ireland due to his Irish ancestry. In all he earned a total of five caps for his adopted country.

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[edit] Playing career

[edit] The early years

Daish, a centre-half, began his career with his hometown club: Portsmouth. However, he only made one appearance for the club before he was released in 1988. He went in search of first team football, which he found at Cambridge United. Whilst at Cambridge, Daish helped the club to successive promotions from the Fourth to the Second Division. He also made his international debut, on February 19, 1992 at home to Wales.[1]

[edit] At Birmingham City

The quality of his performances for the club inspired Barry Fry to sign him for Birmingham City for a fee of £50,000 in January 1994.[2]

Daish spent just over two years at St. Andrews, making nearly 100 appearances in all competitions. He captained the side to the Second Division championship in 1994–95 and to victory in the Auto Windscreens Shield final at Wembley. Fry, who managed him throughout 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.[3] This comment accurately sums up Daish's reputation as a defender: very tough and good in the air, but lacking somewhat in subtlety.

[edit] To Coventry City

In February 1996, Daish joined Coventry City for a fee of £1.5m. He made an immediate impact, bolstering Coventrys shaky defence and improving their form overall. However, 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.

[edit] As a manager

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, but only played once (in an FA cup match) 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 become manager of Gravesend & Northfleet F.C., which in May 2007 was renamed Ebbsfleet United F.C.

Daish led Ebbsfleet United to a 1-0 victory in the FA Trophy final on May 10th 2008.[4]

[edit] Honours

[edit] Anecdotes

On December 10, 1994, Daish - then Birmingham City captain under Barry Fry - scored a goal against Chester to make it 0-4. In the ensuing celebrations, some Blues fan threw a toy trumpet onto the pitch, which Daish proceeded to play. Although he wasn't sent off, the referee booked him, taking his season's points tally to 41 and resulting in a three-match ban. Fry was not amused: "I know the referee has directives to adhere to, but to get banned through being booked for that seems a bit harsh."[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Statistics Senior. SoccerScene.ie. Retrieved on 2007-09-14.
  2. ^ Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books, p. 81. ISBN 1-85983-010-2. 
  3. ^ Kelly, Aidan (2007-11-20). Fantasy futbol is a reality. Evening News and Tribune, Jeffersonville, Indiana. Retrieved on 2007-12-27.
  4. ^ "Ebbsfleet 1-0 Torquay", BBC. Retrieved on 2008-05-16. 
  5. ^ Ward, Rupert (2005). World not so wonderful for City ace. ArseWEB. Retrieved on 2008-05-30.

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