1976_Child Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Can anyone remember anytime when any club (inc non-league) was owned by the manager, or in other words 'managed by the owner'. Just wondering is all. Any history buffs out there?
Crab Lungs Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Barry Fry (Peterborough), Graham Turner (Hereford).... the nutter from Chester City? Not quite owners I believe, but chairman-managers...
benjii Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Someone had an owner/player once. Well, I think someone let the owner on the pitch for the last few minutes of the last game.
forever a red and white Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Graham Turner at Hereford or Shrewsbury perhaps
Crab Lungs Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Someone had an owner/player once. Well, I think someone let the owner on the pitch for the last few minutes of the last game. I think that was Chester (again!) possibly? Vaughan's son?
hamster Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Someone had an owner/player once. Well, I think someone let the owner on the pitch for the last few minutes of the last game. Wasn't that the same chanced who tried to buy Aldershot too?
the saint in winchester Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 From reading the OP alone, my first thought was Barry Fry, and I see I'm not the first to name him. Owner, Chairman and Manager at the same time - at Peterborough?
dubai_phil Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Michael Knighton try something daft like that after he failed to buy the mancs? Carlisle I think
krissyboy31 Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Ron Noades as well, at Brentford, IIRC Didn't he do it at Palace as well?
Chez Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Someone had an owner/player once. Well, I think someone let the owner on the pitch for the last few minutes of the last game. it was John Ryan the Donny Rovers Chairman (became oldest footballer) who came on at the end of a game and he richly deserved it having saved them from extinction and just got them back into the football league. Brilliant man and one the Rovers fans will be for ever thankful to.
benjii Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Good knowledge Chez - yes, I think that is what I was thinking of.
tttdcs Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Wasn't that the same chanced who tried to buy Aldershot too? Young bloke (19/20?) giving it the big one on Wogan years ago ?
Crab Lungs Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Young bloke (19/20?) giving it the big one on Wogan years ago ? Spencer Trewethey or something?
ottery st mary Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 Wupert Slowe Player Manager and owner......Well he behaved as he was.... Was it at Saints:)
Kingsland Red Posted 15 May, 2011 Posted 15 May, 2011 (Fat) Jeff King at Canvey island when they won the FA Trophy
alki_in_korea Posted 16 May, 2011 Posted 16 May, 2011 Graham Turner was manager and owner of Hereford for years. Left last summer though to take over shrewsbury.
Fan The Flames Posted 16 May, 2011 Posted 16 May, 2011 Terry Smith a US motivational speaker did it at Chester. Ron Noads got a respectable 40% win ratio at Brentford.+*-
charlie saint Posted 16 May, 2011 Posted 16 May, 2011 Jimmy Hill's bound to come up soon... he's been a player, manager, chairman, linesman, commentator... probably all at the same time at least once. Coventry? Fulham? I'm sure Paul Scally (Gillingham) registered himself as a player.
The9 Posted 16 May, 2011 Posted 16 May, 2011 Spencer Trethewy was the Aldershot kid, I don't remember him being the manager at any point though. Has since changed his name to Spencer Day, been in prison, and is running Chertsey Town. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Trethewy The bit about him mortgaging his house for the benefit of Aldershot seems rather strange, given that he was a 19-year-old property developer and even in the late 80s surely couldn't have accumulated that kind of security that quickly ?
Prince Jazzbo Posted 16 May, 2011 Posted 16 May, 2011 Spencer Trewethey or something? He eventually did a stretch for running up a massive bill at the savoy or somehere whilst claiming to be Whitney Houston's Manager.
jjsaint Posted 16 May, 2011 Posted 16 May, 2011 The only one I as aware of was Niall Quinn's long and fruitful reign at Sunderland...
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