Colin Harvey
James Colin Harvey ( born November 16, 1944 in Liverpool ) is an English former football player and coach. Mostly used in central midfield he was in the late 1960s and early 1970s, part of the successful team of Everton FC, the 1966 FA Cup and four years later won the English championship. With Alan Ball and Howard Kendall he made during this time a playful axis which became a " Holy Trinity " ( Holy Trinity) celebrity. After his playing career, he served the " Toffees " in various functions and coach during the next period of success of Everton FC in the 1980s he was assistant to the now ascended to head coach Kendall. After its retirement in 1987 Harvey was then working for Everton until 1990 even in sporting primary responsibility.
- 2.1 as a player
- 2.2 as coach
Sports career
Playing career
Although Harvey was born into a family that had always passionately appended Everton, he tries to play a trial at first when rivals Liverpool before but then found its way in October 1962 to the " Evertonians ". As suddenly as he came unexpectedly on September 25, 1963 his debut in the European Cup of Champions, as the young talent " was thrown into the deep end " in front of 90,000 spectators at San Siro against Inter Milan. This was due to the loss of defender Jimmy Gabriel, who was represented by the attacking midfielder Dennis Stevens and Stevens ' vacant position was filled in Harvey. Although the game ended with a 0-1 defeat and departure from the current competition, he showed a confident and mature performance that should distinguish him in later years as a key player in the " Toffees ".
After Harvey had continued to prove it directly in the reserve team, he acquired in the season 1964/65 successively a regular place in the A- team. His contribution in midfield Everton was initially somewhat overlooked in the own supporters, as he often stood in the shadow of Alan Ball and Howard Kendall. With its strengths, which were in addition to technical skills, especially in endurance, speed and a good duel behavior, but he developed rapidly the necessary recognition and the midfield trio was later known as " Holy Trinity " ( Holy Trinity) celebrated. Harvey was clearly defensive oriented and distinguished himself more by qualities as a ball distributor and with a good positional play. As a major weakness, however, was its low scoring prowess and associated below-average rate of only 18 league goals in twelve years. Even his crucial goal for a 1-0 victory in the FA Cup semi-final in 1966 against Manchester United was happy and unintentionally in the emergence of form. Shortly thereafter, he won with his men in the English Cup against Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 and thus the first major trophy of his playing career finals. In the following years, Everton developed with the help of Kendall -Ball - Harvey - axis to a top team that counted increasingly on advanced championship contenders. About the fifth in the 1967/68 season and third in the following year, winning the league title finally succeeded in the season 1969/70. To the success of Harvey contributed 35 league games and scored three goals in and especially his 1-0 hit by shot on the third last match against West Bromwich Albion ( Full 2-0) stayed with the fans of Everton FC in memory.
Harvey was in 1970 on his career peak and the experts showed surprise that he was not taken in the England team. Having him coach Alf Ramsey was nominated for the 1969 tour to South America, he was missing in the England squad for the World Cup 1970 in Mexico. Substantially responsible for this was an eye injury, where he suffered for three months from Christmas 1969. Although he missed by only a few games at the club duty, but his fitness levels corresponded to the end of the season not Ramsey's requirements. It was only on February 3, 1971 Harvey played against Malta (1-0 ) his first and only 'A' game. In the middle of the 1970s had Harvey then in club football his grueling play obviously pay tribute to and shortly after the beginning of the season 1974/75 he left in September 1974 Everton in the direction of the second division club Sheffield Wednesday.
The " Owls " Harvey played in nearly 14 months 45 league games and rose in 1975 in the third division from before 1976 ended his career due to injury.
Coaching career
Immediately after the end of his career moved into Harvey coaching. To this end, he returned at the invitation of Billy Bingham to Everton, in which Harvey henceforth took over the care of the youth department. With a Nachwuchself, which was peppered with players like Kevin Ratcliffe and Steve McMahon, Harvey won the 1977 FA Youth Cup. When Howard Kendall 1981, the head coach role had been transferred, promoted him to the first coach of the reserve team, and in 1983 his immediate assistants. In its role as "Number 2" in the coaching staff at Kendall Harvey won with Everton 1984 FA Cup a year later the European Cup Winners' Cup twice and the English Championship (1985 and 1987). In this case, quite a few Everton players signed at that time the great successes very stressed Harvey to and so they marveled little that he inherited the Spanish for Athletic Bilbao migrated Kendall in June 1987.
Although similar successes as stayed away recently, the Everton FC placed under Harvey in the three seasons until 1990, always in the top third of the table and reached to the final of the 1989 FA Cup, which was lost with 2:3 against Liverpool. On the last day of October 1990 his term ended as head coach after Everton as tables - 18th had done a very poor start to the season. Shortly after returning Kendall took over again the sporting management and Harvey arranged another time under as his assistant in the hierarchy. The second period of the coach -trailer combination lasted until the end of 1993 and almost a year later hired Harvey as the "second man " behind player-manager Graeme Sharp at Oldham Athletic on - in return for Sharp's commitment was Joe Royle of Oldham changed at Everton. After Sharp's resignation in March 1997, Harvey, who was assistant to Adrian Heath FC Burnley found a short time later went next employer. However, when only a few months later, Kendall for a third time in Everton made representations, Harvey went there back to its roots and once again took over the leadership of the youth team. After 21 years, he won with a new junior team again the FA Youth Cup and with young talent such as Francis Jeffers and Wayne Rooney in 2002, he moved again to the final.
Due to persistent hip problems ended his coach Harvey 2003 commitment.
Title / Awards
As a player
- English Championship ( 1): 1970
- English Cup ( 1): 1966
- Charity Shield ( 1): 1970
As coach
- Charity Shield ( 1): 1987
- FA Youth Cup ( 1): 1977, 1998