Mike Newell (footballer)

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Mike Newell
Personal information
Full name	Michael Colin Newell
Date of birth	January 27, 1965 (1965-01-27) (age 43)
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Grimsby Town (Manager)
Youth clubs
1982	Liverpool
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1982–1983 1983–1986 1986–1987 1987–1989 1989–1991 1991–1996 1996–1997 1997 1997 1997–1999 1999 1999–2000 2000–2001	Crewe Alexandra Wigan Athletic Luton Town Leicester City Everton Blackburn Rovers Birmingham City → West Ham United (loan) → Bradford City (loan) Aberdeen Crewe Alexandra Doncaster Rovers Blackpool Total	003 00(0) 072 0(25) 063 0(18) 081 0(21) 068 0(15) 130 0(28) 015 00(1) 007 00(0) 007 00(0) 044 00(6) 004 00(0) 016 00(3) 018 00(2) 528 (119)
National team
1986 1989	England U21 England B	004 00(0) 002 00(1)
Teams managed
2002–2003 2003–2007 2008–	Hartlepool United Luton Town Grimsby Town
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Michael Colin "Mike" Newell (born January 27, 1965) is an English football manager and former player. He was one of the Blackburn Rovers team which won the Premier League in 1995, and totalled £3,585,000 in transfer fees over the duration of his career.^[1] He is a self-confessed Liverpool fan, despite spending two years of his career at their fierce local rivals Everton. On October 6, 2008, he was appointed manager of League Two team Grimsby Town.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 2.1 Hartlepool United 2.2 Luton Town 2.3 Grimsby Town 3 Controversies 3.1 Corruption allegations 3.2 Female match officials 3.3 Foreign players 4 Honours 5 Managerial statistics 6 Trivia 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Playing career

Newell represented 13 different clubs in his career, playing a total of 530 league games and scoring 120 goals. While playing for Blackburn against Rosenborg in the 1995–96 season, Newell scored the fastest-ever hat-trick in the UEFA Champions League, netting his three goals in a spell of only nine minutes. This was a "Perfect Hat-Trick", meaning he scored the goals with his right foot, left foot and head.

Newell was released by both Liverpool and Crewe Alexandra as a youngster, finally finding found form at Wigan Athletic. After a brief period at Wigan, Newell went to Luton Town. After another successful time he moved on to Leicester City in 1987. He established himself as a highly competent goalscorer at Filbert Street, but was unable to secure promotion to the First Division and joined Everton for £1.1million in 1989.

In just over two years at Everton, he made 68 appearances, scoring 15 goals. He was on the move again in 1991 to Blackburn Rovers. He missed much of the season due to a broken leg, but recovered in time for the Second Division playoff final, scoring the only goal of the game (a penalty) to beat his old club Leicester City and secure a place in the new Premier League, ending Blackburn's 26-year exile from the top flight.

Newell enjoyed two good seasons in the Premier League before the arrival of Chris Sutton restricted him to just two Premier League games in 1994–95, when Blackburn were league champions for the first time in 81 years. Newell also scored the 1,000th goal of the Premier League era during Blackburn's 3–1 win at Nottingham Forest in April 1993. He had five years at Blackburn before his move to Birmingham City in 1996.

However, this spell proved to be unsuccessful, and was the beginning of a five year spell at seven different clubs. Newell left Birmingham to join West Ham United on loan in December 1996, before a similar spell at Bradford City in March 1997. Before he was loaned to West Ham, Birmingham had accepted a £750,000 bid from Bolton Wanderers for Newell, but he was unable to agree a contract and the transfer fell through.

In the summer of 1997, Newell moved to Aberdeen before drifting back into the English leagues with Crewe, Doncaster Rovers and finally Blackpool. He retired from playing in May 2001, going out on a high as Blackpool celebrated promotion as Division Three playoff winners.

[edit] Managerial career

[edit] Hartlepool United

Newell replaced Chris Turner as manager of Hartlepool United during the 2002–03 season, when Hartlepool were top of Division Three. After horrendous away form, the club lost a 16 point lead it held, though promotion as runners-up was still sealed. After this, and many personal differences between Newell and the board at Hartlepool, Newell's contract was not renewed in the summer of 2003, and he was replaced by Neale Cooper.

[edit] Luton Town

Shortly after leaving Hartlepool, he was appointed manager of Luton Town by controversial chairman John Gurney, who, having just purchased the club, sacked the popular management team of Joe Kinnear and Mick Harford. It was reported that Newell won a Pop Idol-style poll to become manager^[2] but he was offered and signed a contract before the "results" were announced. Shortly after taking over, the club went into administrative receivership which saw a several players leave the club. Despite this, Newell succeeded in taking the club near the play-offs of Division Two.

The following season, Luton became the first ever champions of the newly-named League One, winning 98 points and gaining promotion to the Championship. Newell guided Luton to further success in the 2005–06 season, which saw Luton finish 10th in the Championship – their highest finish since they relegated from the top flight in 1992. Luton also became one of only two clubs to defeat runaway champions Reading. Newell was linked with jobs at several larger clubs, such as Leicester City,^[3] but remained at Luton and later signed a four-year contract.^[4]

Newell's relationship with Luton turned sour after a poor start to the 2006–07 season, in which he criticised chairman Bill Tomlins' running of the club.^[5] After a number of players departed in the summer of 2006, and then more in January 2007, the club was in a relegation battle. Newell was sacked by Luton in March 2007 after criticising the club's board for not investing enough money into the club.^[6]

[edit] Grimsby Town

Mike Newell was unveiled as the new manager of Grimsby Town at a press conference on October 6, 2008, signing a three and a half year contract at Blundell Park. Grimsby were just two places above the League Two relegation zone at the time and one of only two senior clubs in England without a victory, with only the three sides who had been docked points below them in the table.^[7] Newell's first game was a league game against top of the table Wycombe Wanderers, which ended in a 1–1 draw after Grimsby had led for most of the match.^[8] He recorded his first victory and Grimsby's first of the season in his ninth game in charge, with a 2–0 victory against Bury on 15 November.^[9]

[edit] Controversies

[edit] Corruption allegations

Main article: 2006 allegations of corruption in English football

Newell caused a huge stir in the footballing world, when he claimed that corruption was rife in transfer deals. In particular, he claimed that he had been offered "bungs" or bribes by football agents and agreed to name the offending parties when called upon by the FA. ^[10] As a result, an enquiry was launched by the FA and was headed by Lord Stevens, a former Metropolitan Police commissioner^[11]. On 20 December 2006, Stevens presented his preliminary report, which found that, although the level of corruption within English football was not a high as had been anticipated, there were several causes for concern.^[12] 17 transfer deals were still subject to further scrutiny.

[edit] Female match officials

Following a match against Queens Park Rangers on 11 November 2006 Newell criticised female assistant referee, Amy Rayner, using sexist comments, and later apologised. He also criticised the chairman of Luton Town FC, Bill Tomlins. For this he was reprimanded by his club, which publicly dissociated itself from the comments concerning Rayner.^[13]

[edit] Foreign players

Following a match against West Bromwich Albion on 12 January 2007 Newell criticised the influence of foreign players in English game, stating that it was "going soft."^[14] This was after an incident in which Luton midfielder David Bell appeared to be fouled, play continued and West Brom went on to not only equalize minutes before the end, but to claim a last gasp winner to leave Luton empty handed.

[edit] Honours

As a player

Blackburn Rovers

• Football League Second Division play off winner 1991-92
• FA Premier League winner 1994-95

Wigan Athletic

• Freight Rover Trophy: Winners Medal
  • 1984/85

As a manager

Luton Town

• Football League One: Championship, promoted
  • 2004/05

Hartlepool United

• Football League Two: Runners-up, promoted
  • 2002/03

[edit] Managerial statistics

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Hartlepool United		21 November 2002	30 May 2003	29	13	7	9	44.82
Luton Town		23 June 2003	15 March 2007	200	83	68	49	41.50
Grimsby Town		6 October 2008	Present	10	1	5	4	10.00

[edit] Trivia

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• Newell scored the 1,000th Premier League goal in April 1993, in Blackburn's 3-1 win at Nottingham Forest.
• Newell scored the fastest-ever hat-trick in the UEFA Champions League, netting his three goals in a spell of only nine minutes.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mike Newell career stats at Soccerbase
• Mike Newell management career stats at Soccerbase
• The Story of the board that sacked Newell and it's fall from grace

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