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March
2001
Flicking
through an old copy of 'Leeds, Leeds, Leeds' (December
2000) two updates of old Leeds players can be found...
Roy Ellam (Huddersfield Town) Last seen running the Nelson
Inn in Thornton Lees. This was updated in the January
2001 edition of the same magazine, when E.Preston emailed
the to say that Roy is now running the Gate Inn on
Thornhill Road, in Dewsbury.
Chris Galvin (Leeds
United squad)
After leaving Leeds, went to Hull City. Went on to York
City and Stockport County before managing in Hong Kong.
Chris's younger brother, Tony Galvin played for Spurs in
the early '80s.
David Sadler (Manchester United) The 10 February issue of
'The Times Football Handbook' (Issue 5 Volume 1) had it's
'Dream Team' picked by David Sadler. Now he runs David
Sadler Promotions, a corporate hospitality firm, and is
secretary of the Association of Former Manchester United
Players. His team ?
1. Peter
Schmeichel, 2. Denis Irwin, 3. Tony
Dunne, 4. Jaap
Stam, 5. Duncan Edwards, 6. Roy Keane, 7.George
Best, 8. Bryan
Robson, 9. Bobby Charlton, 10. Eric Cantona, 11. Denis
Law.
Phil Parkes (QPR) According to 'The Non League
Paper' (No. 45, 28 January, 2001) Phil has been training
the goalkeepers at Maidenhead United of the Ryman League
Premier Division. he's been doing this for his old West
Ham United buddy, Alan Devonshire, the team's manager
Bryan 'Pop' Robson (Newcastle United) This article appeared in the
Leeds United versus Derby County matchday programme, 10
February, 2001.
"When
'Pop' ruled the goal charts" by Don Waters.
Bryan
Robson at Sunderland
Goals
are what we all like to see and those players
fortunate enough to be blessed with the talent to
find the net with refreshing regularity are rarely
short of adulation from supporters One such player
was Bryan 'Pop' Robson, who is now on United's
Academy coaching staff with special responsibility
for the Under 17 side
Coincidentally,
when I was refreshing my memory of United's 1982
Elland Road meeting with Derby I came across a
newspaper article published on the same day as
United's game, which featured his goalscorlng
exploits When the much travelled Robson, who was 36
years old at the time, netted hls first goal of the
1982-83 season for Carlisle It was his 254th in
league football It put him at Number One In the
goalscorers' hit parade and confirmed him as the most
prolific marksman still playing in league football at
that time
Ted
MacDougall (AFC Bournemouth) had hung up his boots with his total on
256 and Kevin Hector (Derby County) had bowed out with his tally on 263
"When
you are a scorer the public Judge you on how many
goals you get rather than on how well you are playing
and that's just another pressure you have to learn to
live with and cope with," Robson said.
Robson,
who was born in Sunderland, had lived with such
pressures in spells with Newcastle, West Ham (twice)
Sunderland (twice) and Carlisle, when the Cumbrians
were in the top division After his playing career
finished he became assistant manager to Bob Moncur (Newcastle United) at Hartlepool United and
was youth team coach at Sunderland before Joining
Brian Kldd's Academy team of coaches at Thorp Arch
In the
'FourFourTwo' February 2001 edition, the magazine ran a
feature called 'Life After Football', all the following
information on players is from this article.
Martin Buchan (Aberdeen)
A
strong, classy defender and a fine leader, Martin
Buchan graced the Seventies and early Eighties with
Aberdeen and Manchester United, with whom he won most
of his 34 Caps, for Scotland. Buchan made more than
450 appearances for United, captaining them to the
1977 F A Cup, before retiring in 1984 after a season
with Oldham Athletic.
I
wanted to stay in the game, either as a coach or a
manager, and got the manager's job at Burnley in July
1985. Football was my life so it was the natural
progression. Unfortunately it didn't work out. I was
a hit naive in thinking everybody at the club would
be pulling in the same direction. I must havc had my
eyes closed when I was a player, because I just got
on with my own job, but I quickly realised that not
everybody at Burnley had the same aspirations as me.
So after four months I resigned. I felt that having
left my first management job after only four months,
it didn't leave me with a lot of credibility, so I
decided not to apply for another job.I made a future
outsidc the game.
I
moved back to Aberdeen and I had an idea that I would
go to university. I left school at 17 - three davs
into my sixth year at school - and had achieved
university entrance, but I was going back to do an
extra subject when I was invited to play full-time
for Aberdeen. If I hadn't made it by the time I was
21 I could still have gone to university. But when I
went back they told me I had to resit my highers',
because the competition for places at Aberdecn
University was such that they didn't want anybody
with highers more than five years old. It would have
meant at least another year at college and, on top of
that, university, so I ruled that out. I did have an
income from my player's pension, which gave me a bit
of breathing space, so I didn't have to take the
first job that came along.
I was
given a job at Puma, the sportswear company, and
,after three years on the sales team I was given a
free transfer to the promotions department, where I
was football promotions manager for nine years. It
was nice to still be involved with the game, becausc
I would describe myself as a football fan now. I look
for Aberdeen, :Manchester United and Oldham's results
- and Burnley's, it must be said but if they don't
all win it doesn't ruin my weekend.
I left
Puma last year to work at the PFA. My colleague Simon
Barker and I have set up a player management group,
which provides players with contractual and
commercial advice and representation. But the catch
is that we don't charge them anything, whereas agents
will charge 10, I5 or even 20 per cent. Any advice
they get from the PFA is in the player's interest,
it's not to provide us with a living.
I'm 51
now and I haven't played as much recently. I don't
envy the wage players can earn now, because I was
well paid when I played, but I do envy their youth.
They can still run about. The one thing about getting
older is that the mind makes appointments the body
can't keep. I used to play at the Cliff on a Friday
night but that seems to have fallen away since
Manchester United moved to their new training ground
at Carrington.
Well
that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
Don Masson (Notts
County)
Scottish-born
Don Masson began his career with Middlesbrough in
1964 before going on to Notts County, QPR and Derby,
and had a brief.spell in the USA. He won 17 caps for
Scotland, famously missing a penalty in a 3-1 defeat
by Peru in the 1978 World Cup Finals
I
didn't have a clue what I might do when I packed it
in football, because all wanted to do was play. I
left school at 15 and in those days you had to do a
trade as part of your apprenticeship, so I did
painting and decorating. I only did it for six
months, but that was enough. It was the best thing
that ever happened to me, because it makes you
appreciate how easy being a footballer is. I said I'd
never go back to that. When I retired all wanted to
do was pay my house off. After that, I didn't know
what I was going to do.
I
could have gone down the leagues, but it had taken me
long enough to get to the top. So I went to see Jimmy
Sirrel and Howard Wilkinson at Notts County and told
them I was packing it in.
In
1981, I decided to go to America. Jack Dunnett, the
chairman of Notts County, owned the Minnesota Kicks
and when Notts County got promoted to the First
Division, part of my reward was a trip out there with
a view to taking over as player-manager. I'd spend
two years over there then come back to Notts County
and take over from Jimmy Sirrel. But the Minnesota
Kicks folded two months after I joined, so that was
my plans up the spout.
Then
Mr Dunnett got me the manager's job at Kettering with
a view to learning the ropes, then coming back to
Notts County. After six months I saiid 'I'll take
over now.' But Jimmy Sirrel was still there. To cut a
long story short, I finished with Kettering by mutual
consent, I did miss the football a bit, but after the
setbacks of America and Notts County I wasn't too
bothered. I didn't want to be a manager anyhere else,
I always said I wouldn't drag my family all over the
place when I finished playing.
I was
alright for money, I had my. own big, four-bedroom
house paid for, I had money put away and I had
property in Tenerife. The plan was to go out there
and open a bar, and stay there tor six months a year.
Unfortunately, first wife died, so that idea was put
on the back burner. I had a few thousand stashed
away, but it's not like nowadays when you don't have
to work when you retire.
I then
had a property development company and set up a
construction business with my best mate Arthur Mann.
Then I met Brenda my. present wife, I ran the sports
centre at Notts County and coached kids at tennis. I
had a year's lease on that, which was brilliant. But
I gave my notice in because the club wanted me to
sign a five year lease.
Brenda
was a cordon bleu cook and wanted to go into the
hotel and catering business. So, within six weeks
we'd sold two houses, done the deal tor this place
[the Gallery Hotel in Nottingham], got married and
went on honeymoon. I don't really bother with the
game because it's not football any more, it's
business. I talk to the fans and thy're so deflated
by it all because they can't relate to the players
nowaday's.
Bobby Moncur (Newcastle
United) Has now
apparantly sold the yacht business, and now runs a golf
club.
Malcolm MacDonald (Luton Town) Had management
spells at Fulham and Huddersfield Town. Moved to Milan in
1991 and worked for Audiotel, setting up the Italian
equivalent of our 0891 service, until the government made
such lines illeagal.
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