Steve Perryman

Steve Perryman
Personal information
Full nameStephen John Perryman
Date of birth21 December 1951
Place of birthEaling, Middlesex England
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Playing positionDefender, Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Exeter City (Director of Football)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1969–1986Tottenham Hotspur655(31)
1986–1987Oxford United17(0)
1987–1990Brentford53(0)
National team
1982England1(0)
Teams managed
1987–1990Brentford (player manager)
1990–1993Watford
1993–1994Tottenham Hotspur (caretaker)
1995Start
1999–2001Shimizu S-Pulse
2001–2002Kashiwa Reysol
2003Exeter City
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Stephen John "Steve" Perryman MBE (born 21 December 1951 in Ealing, Middlesex) is a former English international football player who is best remembered for his successes with Tottenham Hotspur during the 1970s and early 1980s. Perryman was voted Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year in 1982 and made a club record 854 first team appearances for Tottenham.[1] He is now the director of football at Exeter City.[2]

Playing career

A midfielder and later defender, Perryman played in a club record 866 first team appearances, in all competitions for Tottenham Hotspur between 1969 and 1986 and was their longest serving player. During his seventeen-year career with the north London club, Perryman collected many medals, winning the UEFA Cup in 1972 and 1984 (playing in both legs of the 1972 final and just the first leg of the 1984 final), the FA Cup in 1981 and 1982 and the League Cup in 1971 and 1973.

After leaving White Hart Lane Perryman moved to Oxford United in 1986, then Brentford as player-manager in the same year, before retiring in 1990.[1]

Coaching career

Perryman became manager of Watford from 1990–93 saving them from relegation in the early years, before managing Start in Norway (1995),[3] Shimizu S-Pulse, (1996–2000) and Kashiwa Reysol in Japan (2001–2002). He also served as caretaker manager for Spurs in November 1994. As a coach he has won the J.League stage championship (1999 2nd Stage) and the Asian Cup Winners Cup (2000), both with Shimizu S-Pulse. He then worked at Exeter City with no official title to help them stay in the then football Division 3. After this he returned to Japan to manage J.League side Kashiwa Reysol.

Perryman lent his name to a brand of Sports stores in the 1980s which were concentrated in the West London area and sported the Tottenham Hotspur cockerel. There were stores in Ruislip, Greenford and Hayes (Middlesex). A store in Bergen, Norway, also opened in the early 1980s, and that is still running.[4]

Perryman now works as the director of football for Exeter City. On 5 May 2012, while watching Exeter's final game of the 2011-12 season against Sheffield United at St James Park he became unwell and was taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where he underwent successful heart surgery.[5] A month later he revealed that he might have died if it had not been for the instant medical support available at the ground, and he spent three weeks in a coma on life support. He said he wanted to resume his job with Exeter City as soon as he was fit enough.[6]

International career

Perryman made a solitary appearance for England, appearing as a 70th minute substitute against Iceland on 2 June 1982.

Career statistics

[7]

Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental[nb 1] Other[nb 2] Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
England League FA Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
1969–70Tottenham HotspurFirst Division2314000––271
1970–714235061–30564
1971–72391506112320644
1972–7341230101100–643
1973–743911010120–531
1974–754262010––456
1975–764062160––487
1976–774211020––451
1977–78Second Division4212020––461
1978–79First Division4217120––512
1979–804016020––481
1980–814229060––572
1981–8242170808010661
1982–8333130203010421
1983–844114030110–591
1984–85421305080–581
1985–862315140–50372
1985–86Oxford UnitedFirst Division900000–0090
1986–87800000–0080
1986–87BrentfordThird Division2403000–00270
1987–882101020–30270
1988–89502010–1090
1989–90300000–1040
Total Tottenham Hotspur 6553169266364312086639
Oxford United 1700000—00170
Brentford 5306030—50670
Career total 7253175269364317095039

Honours

Player

Tottenham Hotspur

Manager

Shimizu S-Pulse

Individual

Notes

  1. ↑ Includes UEFA Cup and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1981–82 and 1982–83).
  2. ↑ Includes appearances in Texaco Cup (3 in 1970–71), Anglo-Italian League Cup (2 in 1971), Charity Shield (1981, 1982), ScreenSport Super Cup (5 in 1985-86) and Football League Trophy (Associate Members' Cup) (3 in 1987-88, 1 in 1988-89 and 1 in 1989-90).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Steve Perryman – fact file". Mehstg.com. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
  2. ↑ "Who's Who". Exeter City. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Historisk oversikt: Trenere" at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 October 2012) (in Norwegian). IK Start. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Steve Perryman Sport". Steve Perryman Sport. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
  5. ↑ "Steve Perryman undergoes emergency heart surgery". BBC News. 6 May 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  6. ↑ "I'll be back as soon as I'm fit, says Perryman". This is Exeter. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  7. ↑ Perryman career stats at the Wayback Machine (archived 12 May 2012). Steve Perryman.com. Retrieved 20 March 2013.

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