Peter Shreeves

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Peter Shreeves
Personal information
Full name	Peter Shreeves
Date of birth	November 30, 1940 (1940-11-30) (age 67)
Place of birth	Neath, Wales
Height	5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m)
Playing position	Inside Forward
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
-1959 1959-1966 1966-1969 1969-1974	Finchley Reading Chelmsford City Wimbledon	113 (17)
Teams managed
1984-1986 1991-1992 1997 2000 2001 2001-2002	Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham Hotspur Sheffield Wednesday (caretaker) Sheffield Wednesday (caretaker) Sheffield Wednesday Barnet
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Peter Shreeves (born November 30, 1940) is an English former football player, manager and coach.

Shreeves was born in Neath in South Wales where his mother had been evacuated to during the early stages of World War II, but was brought up in Islington, London. He began his career with non-league Finchley from where he joined Reading in January 1959. He made over 100 league appearances for Reading over the next seven years, but his professional career was curtailed by a broken leg.^[1] He left Reading in 1959 to join Southern League Chelmsford City.

In the summer of 1969, Shreeves joined Wimbledon where he remained until taking up a coaching post at Charlton Athletic in 1974. Later that year he joined Tottenham Hotspur as youth coach. In 1977, Tottenham manager Keith Burkinshaw promoted him to manager of the reserve team, and then as his assistant in 1980.

In June 1984, Shreeves was promoted to the manager's seat after Burkinshaw's resignation and took Spurs to third place in the league at the end of his first season as manager. This would normally have earned them a UEFA Cup place, but the ban on English clubs in European competition began at this time due to the Heysel Stadium disaster. Tottenham finished 10th the following season and Shreeve was sacked in favour of David Pleat in March 1986.

In August that year Shreeves joined the coaching staff at Queens Park Rangers and in December 1988 was made assistant manager after Trevor Francis had been appointed as player-manager. He then worked as assistant to Steve Perryman at Watford before working as Wales assistant manager under Terry Yorath.

Shreeves returned to Tottenham as manager in July 1991 after Terry Venables had moved upstairs to become Chief Executive. Tottenham had won the FA Cup under Venables, but Shreeves was sacked after just one season with Tottenham finishing 15th in the league.

From 1993 to 1996 he was assistant manager at Chelsea before Glenn Hoddle became England manager and Ruud Gullit did not include Shreeves in his management team.

Shreeves then became assistant manager to David Pleat at Sheffield Wednesday, and worked alongside subsequent managers Ron Atkinson and Danny Wilson before being named caretaker manager in March 2000. By this date, the Owls were struggling at the bottom of the Premiership and was not given the job permanently after the club's relegation was confirmed. But he was retained as assistant manager to Paul Jewell, and got the job permanently when Jewell was sacked in February 2001. The Owls were looking in real danger of a second successive relegation at the time, but Shreeves kept them clear, earning the Manager of the Month award for March 2001 in the process.^[2] However, he resigned in October 2001 with the Owls struggling in the league.^[3]

Shreeves made a return to football as manager of Conference side Barnet in February 2002,^[4] earning the Conference Manager of the Month Award for his first month in charge.^[5] However, he resigned after just one year in charge, with the Bees struggling to make the Conference play-offs.^[6]

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v • d • e Sheffield Wednesday F.C. – Managers Dickinson (1891–1920) • B. Brown (1920–1933) • Walker (1933–1937) • McMullan (1937–1942) • Taylor (1942–1958) • Catterick (1958–1961) • Buckingham (1961–1964) • A. Brown (1964–1968) • Marshall (1968–1969) • Williams (1969–1971) • Dooley (1971–1973) • Burtenshaw (1974–1975) • Ashurst (1975–1977) • Charlton (1977–1983) • Setters (1983c) • Wilkinson (1983–1988) • Eustace (1988–1989) • Atkinson (1989–1991) • Francis (1991–1995) • Pleat (1995–1997) • Shreeves (1997c) • Atkinson (1997–1998) • Wilson (1998–2000) • Shreeves (2000c) • Jewell (2000–2001) • Shreeves (2001) • Yorath (2001–2002) • Green (2002c) • Turner (2002–2004) • Smith (2004c) • Sturrock (2004–2006) • McAuley (2006c) • Laws (2006–) (c) caretaker

v • d • e Barnet F.C. – Managers Fry (1986–93) • Stein (1992–93) • Phillips (1993–94) • Clemence (1994–96) • Bullivant (1996–97) • Still (1997–2000) • Cottee (2000–01) • Still (2001–02) • Shreeves (2002–03) • Allen (2003–04) • Fairclough (2004–)