Paul Jewell

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Paul Jewell
Personal information
Full name	Paul Steven Jewell
Date of birth	September 28, 1964 (age 42)
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Wigan Athletic
Youth clubs
1982-84	Liverpool
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1984-88 1988-98 1995	Wigan Athletic Bradford City → Grimsby Town (loan)	137 (35) 269 (56) 005 (1)
Teams managed
1998-2000 2000-2001 2001-	Bradford City Sheffield Wednesday Wigan Athletic
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Paul Steven Jewell (born 28 September 1964, Liverpool, England) is a football manager based in the United Kingdom. He is currently the Manager at Wigan Athletic.

Jewell began his career with Liverpool, but due to the dominance of Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish was unable to make a first-team appearance and pursued his career elsewhere at Wigan Athletic. He later joined Bradford City, where he spent almost a decade as a player.

Jewell retired as a player at the end of the 1997-98 season with Bradford City in Division One, and for the final three months of the season had been the team's caretaker manager following the dismissal of Chris Kamara. Jewell was rewarded for steering Bradford to safety with a permanent contract and this paid off in 1998-99 when he guided the club into the Premier League as Division One runners-up - marking Bradford's return to top flight football for the first time in nearly 80 years.

Bradford found Premiership life tough in 1999-2000 but their survival was secured on the last day of the season when they beat Liverpool 1-0 against expectation at home and cost their opponents a UEFA Champions League place, while the last relegation place went to Wimbledon. Jewell handed in his notice just a few days later after meeting with the chairman Geoffrey Richmond, who had deemed City's 17th placed Premiership finish "a disappointment", despite a widely-held view that it was one of the greatest shocks in English football history to keep City up. Richmond refused to accept Jewell's resignation from the club, as he contended that Jewell had already lined up a job at Sheffield Wednesday whilst still contracted to City and placed Jewell on gardening leave. After agreeing to a compensation package with City, Jewell was installed as manager at relegated Wednesday^[1].

Jewell had been hoping to mount a promotion challenge in 2000-01 with Wednesday but after enduring a torrid eight months in charge was sacked in February 2001 with the debt-ridden Hillsborough club struggling near the foot of Division One. He struggled with big-earning players not producing on the pitch with one international guaranteed £5,000 per match whether he played or not and another refusing to go out on loan because he would have no-one to look after his dogs.

In June 2001, Jewell made his return to management with ambitious Division Two club Wigan Athletic. In his second season as manager (2002-03) the club won the Division Two championship and entered the upper half of the English professional football league system for the first time ever. They were near the top of Division One throughout the 2003-04 season but were pipped to a playoff place on the final day of the season by Crystal Palace - who went on to win the playoffs.

On the final day of the 2004-05 Championship season, Jewell's Athletic side clinched promotion to the Premiership bringing top flight football to the Lancashire town for the first time. Jewell's side cruelly lost their first game at home to Chelsea via a last-minute winner from Hernán Crespo but won their first match three games later at home to Sunderland. They contested the League Cup final against Manchester United on 26 February 2006 but went down 4-0. Jewell's name was linked to the England manager's job when it was announced that Sven-Göran Eriksson would quit after the 2006 FIFA World Cup, but the job went to Steve McClaren instead.

Recently, Paul Jewell has denied a second Football Association charge of improper conduct and bringing the game into disrepute after alleged comments he made about referee Phil Dowd, after his team's 2-1 defeat on February 11th 2007.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Bradford City		January 6, 1998	June 18, 2000	117	46	45	26	39.31
Sheffield Wednesday		June 21, 2000	February 12, 2001	38	12	21	5	31.57
Wigan Athletic		June 12, 2001	Present	281	125	85	71	44.48

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Paul Jewell career stats at Soccerbase
• Paul Jewell management career stats at Soccerbase

Preceded by Chris Kamara	Bradford City manager 1998-2000	Succeeded by Chris Hutchings
Preceded by Peter Shreeves (caretaker)	Sheffield Wednesday manager 2000-2001	Succeeded by Peter Shreeves
Preceded by Steve Bruce	Wigan Athletic manager 2001-	Succeeded by Incumbent

Wigan Athletic F.C. - Current Squad
1 Filan | 2 Granqvist | 4 Jackson | 5 Hall | 6 de Zeeuw | 7 Camara | 8 Kilbane | 9 Heskey | 10 McCulloch | 11 Johansson | 12 Pollitt | 13 Kirkland | 14 Landzaat | 15 Aghahowa | 16 Valencia | 17 Boyce | 18 Scharner | 19 Taylor | 20 Folan | 21 Cywka | 22 Cotterill | 24 Skoko | 25 Unsworth | 26 Baines | 28 Nash | 31 Montrose | 32 Owens | 36 Waterhouse | Manager: Jewell