Brian Laws
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| Brian Laws | ||
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Brian Laws | |
| Date of birth | October 14, 1961 (age 45) | |
| Place of birth | Wallsend, England | |
| Height | 5' 10" (1.78 m) | |
| Playing position | Manager (former Right Back) |
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| Club information | ||
| Current club | Sheffield Wednesday | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1979-83 1983-85 1985-88 1988-94 1994-96 1996-97 1997-98 |
Burnley Huddersfield Town Middlesbrough Nottingham Forest Grimsby Town Darlington Scunthorpe United |
152 (12) 56 (1) 108 (12) 147 (4) 46 (2) 9 (0) 17 (0) |
| National team | ||
| 1991 | England B | 1 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1994-96 1997-2004 2004-2006 2006-present |
Grimsby Town Scunthorpe United Scunthorpe United Sheffield Wednesday |
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Brian Laws (born 14 October 1961 in Wallsend, England) is manager of Sheffield Wednesday football club and a former professional footballer.
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[edit] Playing career
Laws was part of Brian Clough's successful Nottingham Forest team for six seasons, playing mainly as right back. During this time he won the League Cup twice and was runner up in the League Cup and FA Cup. Clough's first words to his new signing were "I've never seen you play, son, I'm going on the recommendation of Ronnie Fenton. So if you're crap, Ronnie signed you. If you're good, I signed you."[1]
Forest were relegated from the First Division at the end of the 1992-1993 season and Clough retired, a year and a half later and with reduced first team opportunities, Laws left on a free transfer to become player-manager at Grimsby Town.
[edit] Management
Laws spent just under two years as manager of Grimsby, but his relationship with the club turned sour after Laws reportedly threw a plate of frozen prawns at veteran Italian winger Ivano Bonetti, which fractured his cheekbone, after a 3-2 defeat away to Luton Town in February 1996.[2] At the time, Grimsby were in a good league position, but results afterwards were poor and a bad start to the next season lead to Laws being sacked.
After a short period as a player with Darlington, Laws joined Scunthorpe United, less than a month later Mick Buxton was sacked as manager and Laws took over. He hung up his boots after one season. During his time with Scunthorpe, Laws lead them to twice to promotion from bottom division of the Football League, in 1998-99 and 2004-05.
Laws was sacked[3] in March 2004 due to the club's poor league position, after a run of only three wins in 17 games. However, after a boardroom struggle[4] he was reinstated less than a month later and led them to promotion the following season.
On 6 November 2006 Laws was appointed manager of Sheffield Wednesday, with assistant Russ Wilcox also following from Glanford Park.[5]
[edit] Trivia
Laws' post-match interviews on BBC Radio Humberside generated a cult local following. His favourite phrase was "90 percent", such as "we had 90 percent of the chances but we just couldn't score".
During a television interview in 2004, BBC Look North presenter Peter Levy made a comment regarding Laws' apparent physical resemblance to Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell, much to Laws' annoyance.
[edit] Honours
[edit] Nottingham Forest (player)
- League Cup Winner: 1989, 1990
- League Cup Runner Up: 1992
- FA Cup Runner Up: 1991
[edit] Scunthorpe United (manager)
- Division Three play-off winners (fourth tier): 1998-99.
- League Two runners-up (fourth tier): 2004-05.
- Football League One Manager of the Month: April 2005, September 2006
[edit] Managerial stats
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
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| G | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Grimsby Town |  |
November 29, 1994 | November 1, 1996 | 99 | 30 | 41 | 28 | 30.30 |
| Scunthorpe United | |
February 24, 1997 | March 25, 2004 | 389 | 147 | 141 | 101 | 37.78 |
| Scunthorpe United | |
April 15, 2004 | November 6, 2006 | 131 | 55 | 39 | 37 | 41.98 |
| Sheffield Wednesday | |
November 6, 2006 | Present | 25 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 36.00 |
[edit] References
[edit] Notes
- ^ LookSmart's FindArticles - Football: Folk lore man Laws picks up pieces and repays faith - Independent, The (London), Jan 28, 2001, by Simon Turnbull
- ^ When managers attack - BBC Sport
- ^ Scunthorpe sack Laws - BBC Sport
- ^ Laws back at Scunthorpe - BBC Sport
- ^ Laws takes over as Sheff Wed boss
[edit] External links
| Preceded by John Cockerill (caretaker) |
Grimsby Town Manager 1994 - 1996 |
Succeeded by John Cockerill (caretaker) |
| Preceded by Mick Buxton |
Scunthorpe United F.C. manager 1997-2004 |
Succeeded by Russ Wilcox (caretaker) |
| Preceded by Russ Wilcox (caretaker) |
Scunthorpe United F.C. manager 2004-2006 |
Succeeded by Nigel Adkins |
| Preceded by Sean McAuley (caretaker) |
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. manager 2006- |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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