Mick Wadsworth

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Mick Wadsworth
Personal information
Full name	Michael Wadsworth
Date of birth	November 3, 1950 (1950-11-03) (age 57)
Place of birth	Yorkshire, England
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1976–1977	Scunthorpe United	28 (3)
Teams managed
1993–1996 1996–1999 1999 2001–2002 2002–2003 2003–2004 2004 2008	Carlisle United Scarborough Colchester United Oldham Athletic Huddersfield Town DR Congo Beira-Mar Gretna (Caretaker)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Michael "Mick" Wadsworth (born 3 November 1950 in Yorkshire, England) is an English football coach and former player, who most recently had the role of caretaker manager and Director of Football at Scottish club Gretna.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching career 2.1 The FA 2.2 Post-FA Positions 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Playing career

Wadsworth was, for a very short time, a player. But with his league playing experience limited to around 20 appearances for Scunthorpe United in the 1976–77 season, it is for coaching that he is best known.

A non-league playing career with clubs including Gainsborough Trinity and Mossley ended at Frickley Athletic, where Wadsworth was player-manager. Wadsworth was then employed by the FA until commencing his club management career in 1993.

[edit] Coaching career

[edit] The FA

In 1985, Wadsworth was appointed as an FA regional coach in the north-west region of England, a position he would hold until 1991, when he became a Technical Co-ordinator on the FA's Excellence Programme, working on the futures of promising youngsters. Between 1988 and 1992, he was also an official match observer for the England national team under Bobby Robson and then Graham Taylor.

Wadsworth also coached some of the FA's representative teams during his time in their employ, including a coaching role with the national team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He spent two years as manager of the England non-league team, five years as manager of the England youth team and had a coaching role with the England U-21 team.

[edit] Post-FA Positions

In 1993 Wadsworth was offered a coaching role at PSV Eindhoven, but couldn't accept due to a lack of Dutch coaching credentials. In August, however he was appointed Carlisle United manager. Carlisle finished 7th in Division Three and made the playoffs, but lost in the semi-final. The following season Carlisle reached the Auto Windscreens Trophy final but lost to to Birmingham City. In the league the club finished 1st in Division Three, winning promotion.

After a poor start to 1995–96 in Division Two, Wadsworth resigned. In January 1996 Wadsworth became the assistant to the inexperienced Gary Megson at Norwich City. Norwich were to finish the season 16th of 24 in Division One. At the end of the season he moved to Scarborough as manager and took the club to the play-off semi-finals in his second season.

In January 1999 Wadsworth left Scarborough to manage Colchester United, who finished 18th in Division Two that May. In the close-season, Wadsworth held a short-term coaching role with St. Kitts & Nevis. Not long afterwards, however, Wadsworth resigned from Colchester, on August 25, 1999 and spends two weeks working with Steve Coppell at Crystal Palace before becoming assistant manager to Bobby Robson at Newcastle United.

In May 2000 Newcastle finished 11th in the Premier League, a position they would repeat in 2001. Wadsworth was to leave Newcastle in June 2001, without telling Robson, to become assistant manager to Stuart Gray at Southampton. In November the duo were sacked after a very poor start to the season. The following month he was appointed manager of Oldham Athletic but was fired at the end of the season after finishing ninth in Division Two.

He was appointed manager of Huddersfield Town in July 2002, but by January 2003 he was sacked but as Wadsworth and the club could not agree a severance package, he was reinstated until March. Despite nearly single handedly killing "The Terriers", in November 2003 he was appointed manager of Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of African Nations Cup, for which they had qualified. He was sacked from "The Simbas" on 2 February 2004, the day after the team had lost their third of three matches in the tournament.

In June 2004 he was appointed manager of Portuguese club Beira-Mar, but left in September amid claims of boardroom interference. Wadsworth re-surfaced at Shrewsbury Town in January 2005 as assistant manager to Gary Peters and remained with the club until March 2006. Wadsworth was appointed Director of Club Development at Scottish side Gretna in July 2006, and he later took on his current dual role as Director of Football and assistant manager when David Irons was appointed as Gretna's new manager in July 2007.^[1]

On 19 May 2008, forty members of staff at Gretna, including Wadsworth, were laid off due to financial difficulties and after relegation.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mick Wadsworth management career stats at Soccerbase
• League Managers Association profile
• Profile on www.angelfire.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mitch Cook	Scarborough F.C. manager 1996–1999	Succeeded by Colin Addison

v • d • e Colchester United F.C. – Managers T. Fenton (1946–48) • Allen (1948–53) • Butler (1953–55) • B. Fenton (1955–63) • Franklin (1963–68) • Graham (1968–72) • Mocham (1972) • Smith (1972–75) • Roberts (1975–82) • Hunter (1982–83) • Lea (1983–86) • Walker (1986–87) • Brown (1987–88) • Wallace, Jr. (1989–89) • Foley (1989–90) • Mills (1990) • Atkins (1990–91) • McDonough (1991–94) • Burley (1994) • Wignall (1995–99) • Cook (1999) • Whitton (1999) • Wadsworth (1999) • Whitton (1999–2003) • Williams (2003) • Parkinson (2003–06) • Williams (2006–)

v • d • e Carlisle United F.C. – Managers Kirkbride (1904–05s) • McCumiskey (1905–06s) • Houston (1906–08s) • Stansfield (1908–10) • Houston (1910–12) • Graham (1912–13) • Bistow (1913–30) • Hampson (1930–33) • Clarke (1933–35) • Kelly (1935–36) • Westgarth (1936–38) • Talyor (1938–40) • Harkness (1940–45) • Clarke (1945–46s) • Broadis (1946–49) • Shankly (1949–51) • Emery (1951–58) • Beattie (1958–60) • Powell (1960–63) • Ashman (1963–67) • T. Ward (1967–68) • Stokoe (1968–70) • MacFarlane (1970–72) • Ashhman (1972–75) • Young (1975–76) • Moncur (1976–80) • Harvey (1980) • Stokoe (1980–85) • Robson (1985) • Stokoe (1985–86) • Gregg (1986–87) • Middlemass (1987–91) • McCaffrey (1991–92) • McCreery (1992–93) • Wadsworth (1993–96d) • Day (1996–97) • Knighton (1997–98) • Pearson (1998–99) • Mincher (1999) • Wilkinson (1999–2000) • Atkins (2000–2001) • Collins (2001–2002) • Barr (2002c) • Collins (2002–03) • Simpson (2003–06) • McDonald (2006–07) • Abbott (2007c) • J. Ward (2007–) (c) caretaker (d) director of coaching (s) secretary-manager

v • d • e Huddersfield Town F.C. – Managers Walker (1908–10) • Pudan (1910–12) • Knighton (1912) • Fairclough (1912–19) • Langley (1919–21) • Coaching Staff (1921) • Chapman (1921–25) • Potter (1925–26) • Chaplin (1926–29) • C. Stephenson (1929–42) • Magner (1942–43) • Steele (1943–47) • G. Stephenson (1947–52) • Board Of Directors (1952) • Beattie (1952–56) • Shankly (1956–60) • Boot (1960–64) • Greaves (1964) • Johnston (1964–68) • Greaves (1968–74) • Collins (1974–75) • Johnston (1975–77) • Haselden (1977) • Johnston (1977–78) • Buxton (1978–86) • Smith (1986–87) • Coaching Staff (1987) • Macdonald (1987–88) • Hand (1988–92) • Ross (1992–93) • Warnock (1993–95) • Horton (1995–97) • Jackson (1997–99) • Bruce (1999–2000) • Macari (2000–02) • Wadsworth (2002–03) • Machin (2003) • Jackson (2003–07) • Murphy (2007) • Ritchie (2007–08) • Murphy (2008) • Ternent (2008–)

v • d • e Oldham Athletic A.F.C. – Managers Ashworth (1906–14) • Bamlett (1914–21) • Roberts (1921–22) • Ashworth (1923–24) • Mellor (1924–27) • Wilson (1927–32) • McMullan (1933–34) • Mellor (1934–45) • Womack (1945–47) • Wootton (1947–50) • Hardwick (1950–56) • Goodier (1956–58) • Dodgin (1958–60) • Rowley (1960–63) • McDowall (1963–65) • Hurst (1965–66) • McIlroy (1966–68) • Rowley (1968–69) • Frizzell (1970–82) • Royle (1982–94) • Sharp (1994–97) • Warnock (1997–98) • Ritchie (1998–2001) • Sheridan (2001) • Urmson (2001) • Wadsworth (2001–02) • Dowie (2002–03) • Eyres (2003–04) • Sheridan (2003–04) • Talbot (2004–05) • Philliskirk (2005) • Moore (2005–06) • Sheridan (2006–)

v • d • e Gretna F.C. – Managers Alexander (2002–07) • Irons (2007–2008) • Wadsworth (2008) •

Persondata
NAME	Wadsworth, Mick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wadsworth, Michael
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Football (soccer) coach
DATE OF BIRTH	1950-11-03
PLACE OF BIRTH	Yorkshire, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH