Dave Bassett
David "Dave" Bassett ( born September 4, 1944 in London Borough of Harrow, England ) is an English former football player and coach. He coached including the Wimbledon FC, Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest.
Coaching career
FC Wimbledon
After a few successful playing career, Dave Bassett took over as coach in early 1981 with the English fourth division FC Wimbledon. His work was soon crowned with success and led to the rise in the third league. After re- direct descent in the 1981/82 season, the team managed under Bassett an excellent year that led to the championship in the fourth division. The restart in the third division was considerably more successful this time and led to direct walkover in the second division with a second place behind Oxford United. Also in the second division, the club was able to hold and placed at the end of the season 1984/85 in mid-table. In the season 1985/86 the highlight so far followed in the coaching career of Dave Bassett. With a third place behind Norwich City and Charlton Athletic, Wimbledon is secured promotion to the first English league. The flight of the association also continued in the Football League First Division 1986/87 and led the team to sixth place. After this excellent season, Bassett presented a new challenge and took over the coaching job at Premier League rivals FC Watford. The Wimbledon FC took under Bassets successor Bobby Gould in 1988 the title in the FA Cup against Liverpool. Key players like Dave Beasant, Vinnie Jones, John Fashanu and Dennis Wise had been doing already fetched from Bassett. His activity in Watford was very successful and led to the dismissal Bassett in January 1988.
Sheffield United
During the season 1987/88 he took over the coaching job with the English second division club Sheffield United. He also could not avoid relegation to the third tier. But already in the following year his work bore fruit and led to the direct promotion back to the Second Division. In the 1989/90 season, this success was even increased by the rise in the First Division. Sheffield secured by a second behind Leeds United, the rise of ticket. The club played with it in 14 years and first class celebrated their return to the Football League First Division in 1990/91 by a thirteenth place in the table. In the season 1991/92 Bassett led his team even on the ninth. In the newly introduced Premier League to United established in the first year before in 1993 /94 down by a third from bottom in the Premier League. After a failed comeback in 1994/95 and a false start in the 1995/96 season his work ended in Sheffield in December 1995.
In February 1996 he took over as coach at Crystal Palace. However, he finished his career at second division in March 1997 at the first division relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest to train.
Nottingham Forest
Forest had to after an excellent third place gracefully than climbers in the Premier League 1994/95 the departure of striker Stan Collymore. The committed by coach Frank Clark Kevin Campbell from Arsenal proved not to be the hoped spare. The season in the Premier League in 1996/97 went badly from the start. Even after the dismissal Clark and the acquisition of the coach post players by coach Stuart Pearce, the success was only short term. It followed the descent and parting with Stuart Pearce after 12 years in Nottingham. The following season Bassett once again proved his skill as a climbing coach and led the team as champions back in the Premier League. The strike duo Pierre van Hooijdonk (29 goals) and finally unerring Kevin Campbell (23 goals) contributed a significant contribution to the rise in. However, the return to the Premier League in 1998/99 was under no good sign. Bassett elementary sold players like Campbell (Trabzonspor ) and Colin Cooper ( Middlesbrough FC ) and thus drew the ire of star players van Hooijdonk to. This refused aground early in the season for Forest and only came on 12 Matchday his first appearance. The team quickly found himself at the bottom of the table again, which led to the dismissal of Bassett's early 1999.
From May 1999 to December 2000, he coached the second division FC Barnsley and missed with his new team in the 1999/2000 season promotion to the Premier League by a play-off defeat against Ipswich Town narrowly.
In October 2001, Bassett took over the coaching job at relegation-threatened first division club Leicester City. After relegation to the second division, he took a position in the management of the association. End of October 2007, he took over the position as assistant coach of his former player Dennis Wise at Leeds United. After the dismissal of Wise end of January 2008 ended the last coach activity by Dave Bassett.
Social Commitment
Bassett is engaged as ambassador to Show Racism the Red Card.