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Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 8:55 am
by Guller Bull
Just been listening to Joe Hart on MOTD 2 and I felt he shows some good tactical awareness about when players should make runs etc .
Got me thinking, can’t think of many goalkeepers who have gone onto become successful in management. Obviously coaching but not as football managers?
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 8:56 am
by wilks_bfc
Nuno was a keeper and he’s not done/doing too badly
He’s the only one I can think of though
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:03 am
by BurnleyFC
Dino Zoff is the one that springs to mind for me.
Yonks ago, mind.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:06 am
by claretonthecoast1882
Peter Shilton was quite successful as a manager, he helped us get to Wembley and promoted
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:07 am
by Dark Cloud
Shilton managed for quite a while at Plymouth and I THINK he was manager when we beat them in the '94 play off semis. I'm not sure if he managed anywhere else though.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:07 am
by Guller Bull
claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:06 am
Peter Shilton was quite successful as a manager, he helped us get to Wembley and promoted
Forgotten about that!
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:08 am
by Dark Cloud
claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:06 am
Peter Shilton was quite successful as a manager, he helped us get to Wembley and promoted
Ha, you just beat me to it!
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:16 am
by Greenmile
Lopetegui (sp?) was a keeper, I believe.
Walter Zenga.
Don Mackay
Mike Walker
OP is right, though. Not many to choose from and even fewer with any real record of success.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:22 am
by Goliath
Footballers are a bit thick and narrow minded so possibly struggle to accept a goalkeeper trying to instruct and coach them as outfield players. Same with managers who haven't played the game, it makes it nearly impossible when it shouldn't actually make much difference.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:26 am
by Tall Paul
Nigel Adkins
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:49 am
by dougcollins
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Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:23 am
by AlargeClaret
Apart from Nuno can’t think of any of note . Though keepers tend to go into coaching rather than management.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:45 am
by basil6345789
Alan Kelly
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:48 am
by ClaretTony
On this subject, although not a manager, I see that Jelle ten Rouwelaar is now at Leicester but as first team coach and not goalkeeper coach.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:54 am
by NickBFC
Chris Turner and Kevin Blackwell come to mind.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:26 am
by Stonehouse
Alan Knill am sure has been an assistant manager and manager since retiring.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:41 pm
by Somethingfishy
Stonehouse wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:26 am
Alan Knill am sure has been an assistant manager and manager since retiring.
Alan Knill was a central defender. I remember watching him play for Bury.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:42 pm
by elwaclaret
Stonehouse wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:26 am
Alan Knill am sure has been an assistant manager and manager since retiring.
Alan Knill I’m sure was a centre-half. I remember him playing for Halifax, Bury and Scunthorpe in our dark days.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:44 pm
by Stonehouse
elwaclaret wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:42 pm
Alan Knill I’m sure was a centre-half. I remember him playing for Halifax, Bury and Scunthorpe in our dark days.
Sorry about that ,I thought he’d been a keeper.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:47 pm
by Stonehouse
Does this count?
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:47 pm
by elwaclaret
Stonehouse wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:44 pm
Sorry about that ,I thought he’d been a keeper.
Nothing to be sorry about, for years I thought Alex Ferguson was a goalkeeper. Must have misheard a comment and carried the belief for years.
I used to think Alan Knill looked anything but a centre half tall but gangly with bright copper hair lol
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:49 pm
by Rowls
Thinking about it logically … In a 22 league team you’d expect there to be 2 ex keepers if all managers were ex pros and were drawn equally from any position.
Certainly points towards not many of them progressing that way.
Goalkeepers are different.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:50 pm
by Stonehouse
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Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 1:03 pm
by claretfern
Jock Wallace...Leicester & Glasgow Rangers.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 1:08 pm
by fungus_the_bogeyman
Andy Woodman
Rob Elliot
Currently managing in the Football League
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 1:19 pm
by Petersa
Jack Marshall ex Burnley keeper became Blackburn manager in the sixties
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:16 pm
by ClaretTony
Stonehouse wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:26 am
Alan Knill am sure has been an assistant manager and manager since retiring.
as already posted, not a goalkeeper but with a name like that it fits as a defender. He’s Wilder’s no 2 at Sheffield United.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:23 pm
by Fretters
He wasn't successful, but Bryan Gunn managed Norwhich for a while about 15 years ago.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:25 pm
by Goalkeeper
Goliath wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:22 am
Footballers are a bit thick and narrow minded so possibly struggle to accept a goalkeeper trying to instruct and coach them as outfield players. Same with managers who haven't played the game, it makes it nearly impossible when it shouldn't actually make much difference.
Oi!!
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:25 pm
by CharlieinNewMexico
Alan Kelly Preston ??
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 1:01 pm
by ecc
Mervyn Day. West Ham keeper who managed Carlisle.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 1:04 pm
by Rowls
Fretters wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:23 pm
He wasn't successful, but Bryan Gunn managed Norwhich for a while about 15 years ago.
"He wasn't successful" is a hard-working euphemism here.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 1:05 pm
by claretburns
claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:06 am
Peter Shilton was quite successful as a manager, he helped us get to Wembley and promoted
Let's not forget Kevin Blackwell either.
Re: Keepers as managers?
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 1:09 pm
by mdd2
Peter Taylor for a time in sole charge of Brighton and later Derby County but mostly the brains behind Brian Clough. Most certainly Clough's trophies were only won when Taylor was with him.