Peter Eustace

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Peter Eustace (born Stocksbridge 31 July 1944) is a former football player and manager. Peter played for many seasons with Sheffield Wednesday in the late 1960s, before being sold to West Ham United. As a player he was a classy wing half (right centre midfield) who both made and scored goals.

He moved into management in November 1988 at Sheffield Wednesday, being promoted from assistant manager after Howard Wilkinson moved to Leeds United. Eustace was sacked after just three months and replaced by Ron Atkinson.

In 1991, Eustace returned to football as head coach at Leyton Orient, working under General Manager Frank Clark. He took over full managerial duties when Clark moved to Nottingham Forest, and was known as Useless Eustace during his time at the club, and was sacked a year later in favour of goalkeeper Chris Turner.

Peter Eustace was the one time landlord of the Cheshire Cheese Inn in Hope, Derbyshire, and continued to play football in exhibition and charity matches.

Eustace returned to Sheffield Wednesday as a scout during Chris Turner's brief managerial tenure at Sheffield Wednesday. Sheffield Wednesday have since made Eustace redundant as part of an overhaul of the coaching staff in 2006. AS of April 2008 Eustace was involved in a legal dispute with his former employers with regards to the redundancy. [1]

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