Carl Shutt
Carl Steven Shutt ( born October 10, 1961 in Sheffield ) is a former English footballer. As a striker, attacking midfielder and occasional he came relatively late age of 24, to professional football. This coach Howard Wilkinson was first at Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United later largely responsible for its way into the highest English league. With Leeds Shutt won the 1992 also the English Championship. After the end of his active professional career at the end of the 1990s, he moved temporarily into coaching specialist and supervised in the first half of the following decade with Kettering Town and Bradford Park Avenue semi-professional clubs.
Sports career
The career of Carl Shutt began modestly in the first division club football. as for Spalding United in the 1982 created Northern Counties (East ) League - settled yet beneath Northern Premier League - went hunting for goals. He stormed into the 1984/85 season at the side of Keith Alexander and joined in May 1985 free transfer to the trained by Howard Wilkinson first division club Sheffield Wednesday. There was never actually permanently granted him a regular place in the forward line, but with nine league goals in 19 games of the season 1985/86 as well as seven other gates in the following year he established himself as a reserve player. Among his rivals in attack and teammates was Lee Chapman, to whom he was to meet later with Leeds United again. First Shutts threatened career at the highest national level in October 1987, but again to have come to an end when he signed a new contract at Bristol City for 55,000 pounds in the third division. The " Robins " to Shutt retained his good strike rate at, shot primarily in the season 1987/88 in 22 league games nine goals and, after a total of almost 17 months to the second division Leeds United. There his former coach Wilkinson had now taken over as coach and decided for a player exchange of Shutt for Bob Taylor, who in turn took the course to Bristol.
Making its debut on 1 April 1989, he scored three goals at once to a 3-0 win against AFC Bournemouth and with his fighting spirit and willingness to run, he quickly became an audience favorite. After he had risen with Leeds United in the season 1989 /90 he showed his eye for goal, especially in the subsequent season 1990/91 with a total of ten league goals. He stormed it on the side of Lee Chapman and later Rod Wallace, with his role in the episode was restricted to a Einwechselspielers not rare. Nevertheless, he celebrated in the 1991/92 season the greatest success of his career when he won the English championship and this contributed 14 league bets. His personal "highlight" he experienced shortly thereafter in the Champions League, as he shortly after coming off the bench for Éric Cantona scored the 2-1 victory in the first round playoff against VfB Stuttgart and his club making possible the next round.
Next stop was from the 1993/94 season the second division Birmingham City. There he remained with only four goals in 26 league matches but fell short of expectations and had to end the descent into the third division suffered. In between, he was loaned to and shortly after the turn of the year for a short time to the first division club Manchester City, but there remained in six games without their own hits. In the third division Shutt played the first month of the following 1994/95 season on loan at Bradford City, where he then joined permanently in September 1994 for a transfer fee of £ 75,000. In the meantime, arrived in the twilight of his playing career, he played for his new club mostly as an attacking midfielder and only occasionally " in the forefront ". He he slipped at the latest from January 1996 continuously in the role of supplementing player and landed in March on the transfer list before he worked his way into the starting eleven back in order to achieve the ultimate goal for making the play - off games, which in turn in promotion to the second division resulted. In the last season 1996/97 for Bradford City, he came back for more missions as a substitute before he hired in March 1997 in exchange for Robbie Blake in the fourth division FC Darlington. On the penultimate day he shot by shot against Mansfield Town ( 1:2 ) the first goal for his new Vereinund although he was only 15 starting assignments in his 33 league operations in the 1997/98 season, he was especially apparent in tight matches gradients further in good condition. The season 1998/99 was ultimately Shutts last season as a professional. He was mostly on the right side of the train and shot over the course of the season two goals.
Trainer activities
Shutt led from then on his career outside the Vollprofitums at Kettering Town away and took this in February 2001, initially on an interim basis as coach. Although he was unable to prevent relegation from the Football Conference, the club signed him as a permanent solution for the post. This after only one year managed to return; this he steered in the season 2002/ 03 the fortunes in a difficult situation in which the club was up for sale and was threatened by bankruptcy. As the renewed descent was made, finished the club's management Shutts contract.
In 2004, Shutt took to the next engagement as player-manager of Bradford Park Avenue and jointly managed the club promotion to the Conference North. There, however, the newcomer could not hold and after the re- direct descent Shutts accrued contract was not renewed.
Title / Awards
- English Championship ( 1): 1992