Alan Mullery
Alan Patrick Mullery ( born November 23, 1941 in Notting Hill / London, England ) is a former English footballer, who celebrated especially at the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s for Tottenham Hotspur great sporting achievements.
Career as a football player
Mullery was a body hugging and playing, fast central midfielder, who in his youth Fulham FC joined and then came to his debut in 1958. Within a year, has been transferred to him after the injury of Johnny Haynes, the master task, giving as the team captain scored an own goal in his first game.
After 199 appearances for the Cottagers Mullery joined in March 1964 for 72,500 pounds to Tottenham Hotspur and integrated there quickly in the first team. In December of the same year he received the international match against the Netherlands in Amsterdam, which ended 1-1, his first appearance for the England national team.
However, coach Alf Ramsey called Mullery only sporadically in the English team, and cut it in the nomination of the squad for the 1966 World Cup in their own country, when England became World Champion. In Tottenham, however, he continued to evolve into a leader in the midfield.
Tottenham won in 1967 after a 2-1 playoff victory against Chelsea FA Cup and thereby prepared the first goal by Jimmy Robertson. In the same month Mullery came in the 2:3 defeat against Scotland at Wembley Stadium for his second international game and now was part of the team that played out in the qualification for the European Championship in 1968 under the last four teams. Its competitors and world champions Nobby Stiles he pushed it to the bench.
In the semifinals of the European Championship he received after a hard-fought match against Yugoslavia, the first English dismissal in an international match at all. England lost the game 0-1 and due to the following lock for Mullery Stiles represented him in the victory in the match for third place against Italy. However, Ramsey Mullery familiar and continue to put him in the most pre-season games ahead of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
Mullery, who now was Tottenham's captain after the departure of Dave Mackay, completed his 28th international game, as England started with a 1-0 win over Romania in Guadalajara in the World Cup tournament. He was still in the team that initially lost against Brazil and then won against Czechoslovakia, to then meet in the quarterfinals of the German team that they had defeated four years earlier in the final.
Mullery introduced in this game quickly and scored his first goal for England in the first half. Although England was even then a 2-0 forward, the team still lost with 2:3 and was eliminated from the tournament.
Ramsey continued even after the World Cup on Mullery, but after the release of Colin Bell and Peter Storey graduated Mullery 1971, a month after his 30th birthday, in a 3-2 victory against Switzerland, the start of qualifying for the European Championship in 1972, his 35th and last international match. Previously, Mullery had already won in the same year the League Cup with a 2-0 final victory against Aston Villa. The following year, the victory in the UEFA Cup followed, as Tottenham 3-2 on return game won against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the only final two English clubs in the history of the Cup. Mullery, firing shots in the second game in the 1-1 goal for Tottenham.
He then returned to Fulham and scored in an FA Cup match against Leicester City with a volley from 23 meters, the goal of the season. In 1975 Mullery reached with Fulham the final of the same competition, although the association did not play in the First Division, and lost there 0-2 against West Ham United, the former club of Bobby Moore. This was followed in 1975 still Mullerys Award Footballer of the Year and the Order of the British Empire as a MBE.
Career after football career
Mullery finished in 1976 his active career as a football player and then experienced a successful period as manager at the club Brighton & Hove Albion, which he led on two climbs in the First Division. Then he trained nor Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, again Brighton and Barnet FC, before he retired from football daily business.
During his first Trainerära in Brighton he heated it to the already existing rivalry with Crystal Palace in a game between two clubs when he (who was fired in a second embodiment according to previous results of Brighton ) at a controversial penalty charge at the Palace publicly sharp attacked. When he was then appointed as the new manager of Crystal Palace in 1982, many fans protested and remained with its home games away.
Today he works as a football expert for Sky Sports, and took over in September 2005 an advisory role in the amateur club Crawley Town.
Achievements
- FA Cup: 1967
- FA Community Shield: 1968
- League Cup: 1971
- UEFA Cup: 1972