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zagatoes30

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OK nice easy one for the football fans out there.

[Delete]Who was the last English manager to win the Premiership title with which team and when ?[Delete]

EDIT - QM Cock Up

The question should be

Who was the highest finishing English Manager in the Premiership ever, with which team and when. I think there are two answers?
 
MrMickS

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I'm not sure of the year but was it Howard Wilkinson with Leeds United in the 1991/2 season? Though it might have been the last title before the Premiership started so I might be confused there.
 
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Oops cock up on the QM scene, question should have read

Who was the highest finishing English Manager in the Premiership ever, with which team and when. I think there are two answers?
 
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zagatoes30 said:
Oops cock up on the QM scene, question should have read

Who was the highest finishing English Manager in the Premiership ever, with which team and when. I think there are two answers?
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Aha - I was thinking I was confused, as there are only 6 teams to have won the premiership, and none of them had English managers (Man U and Blackburn had Scots...)

Will have a think.....
 
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I think Keegan was definitely one - he'd have "loved it" had they beaten ManU. But didn't so will guess 2nd with Newcastle. Was it 95/96? Again in 96/97 but with Robson after Keegan left for England.



Edit: Robson didn't replace Keegan. Can't remember who did.
 
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Keegan is a great call - that must be one of the answers... My other guess would be Roy Evans, who I think got Liverpool into 3rd in 1997 (or 98?)
 
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How about the legend that is Frank Clark who got the mighty Nottingham Forest to the heady heights of a third place PL finish back in the day, we all had nose bleeds that season ...
 
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Have been searching an old hard drive for a particular picture and have stumbled across the answer. It's another 2nd place finish - but won't say who as had to Google to check. I definitely can't post the picture either as it is "slightly" inappropriate today.
 
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Navcorr said:
Have been searching an old hard drive for a particular picture and have stumbled across the answer. It's another 2nd place finish - but won't say who as had to Google to check. I definitely can't post the picture either as it is "slightly" inappropriate today.
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Another 2nd place finish? That is confusing me as it is largely the same 4/5 teams who have always been in or around the top of the Premiership, and none of them have had an English manager.

I reckon it must be really early in the life of the Premiership, and is probably someone else like Nottingham Forrest who are now no longer a top team (no offence Stuart!)... when you start to think about it, there are quite a few of these, and brings in teams like Leeds, Villa, Norwich, Sheffield United, Wimbledon, etc...

Based on this, and your comment that it's an inappropriate picture, I'm guessing Wimbledon, but have no clue who the manager was...
 
MrMickS

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The other team I can think of that were close early in the Premiership were Norwich. Would have been 93/94 season maybe. No idea who the manager was, or if he was English.
 
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The picture was a spoof of the manager. In case you're thinking of Vinnie Jones performing his version of the Nutcracker Suite on Gazza. :smile:
 
zagatoes30

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Ok so we have one answer Keegan did in fact lead Newcastle to 2nd position in 95/96 but there is one other who finished 2nd with a different team
 
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