Derek Mountfield
Derek Neal Mountfield ( born November 2, 1962 in Liverpool ) is a former English footballer. The center-back was in the mid -1980s, part of at that time very successful Everton and won next two English championships (1985, 1987) and an FA Cup ( 1984) in the 1984/85 season the European Cup Winners' Cup. Later he was achievers at Aston Villa and won with the club in 1990, the runner-up.
Sports career
About Tranmere to Everton (1980-1988)
Born in Liverpool and raised in Wallesey learned Mountfield playing football at the Prenton Park Rangers. His early idols counted Roy McFarland and this he strove in the way of playing after that, as it was expressed in the head ball game and in a duel in technical skills and a certain " coolness". And how McFarland began Mountfield his professional career at the Tranmere Rovers. The start of the professional football world was a bit bumpy and only one of his first five league games of the season 1980/81 was not lost - the debut had ended for the young central defender on 18 March 1981 against Peterborough United with a 1:4 defeat. In the following season 1981/82 he came frequently to the course and in addition to his 24 missions against Hull City (2-1) on October 3, 1981 he achieved his first goal in the professional business. His talent did not go unnoticed by ultimately more ambitious clubs and so decided with Howard Kendall the coach at League Everton FC in the summer of 1982, to undertake the just 19 -year-old Mountfield.
In the " Toffees " Mount Fields sporting prospects in the 1982/83 season was initially limited to the reserve team, but as Mark Higgins then had to contend with injuries, he made use of the following year the opportunities offered him. Together with Kevin Ratcliffe he made henceforth an effective middle and unlike Ratcliffe to Mountfield showed extremely goal threat in the penalty box. In the 47 official matches, he reached the finals of both the League Cup, which went through a replay against Liverpool lost, and in the FA Cup, which ended with a 2-0 win against Watford FC in the spring of 1984. Five days after the Cup victory, he then played for the English U -21 be some international game and took a 2-0 win in final second leg match against Spain, at the same time the European Championship.
Further significant progress made Mountfield in the 1984/85 season, when he not only superior to the English Championship plus the European Cup Winners' Cup won with Everton FC, but also 14 Goals in official matches, scored what was a very good yield for a defender. The more sobering then ran the following years, had to fight as Mountfield first with injury and his place permanently lost to the newly obligated Dave Watson from mid-1986. Complementing player he came in the 1986/87 season after all 13 missions, which after all gave him after winning another league title an official medal. After nine competitive games in the 1987/88 season, while only four appearances in the starting XI Everton he then left the club in June 1988 towards Aston Villa, which had just returned from the second division in the elite class.
Aston Villa & Wolverhampton Wanderers (1988-1994)
After struggling in him in his first year in Birmingham with some injuries and had almost reached the league, Mountfield formed with the summer of 1989 to purchased Paul McGrath and Kent Nielsen a successful three - man defense in a 3 -5- 2 system of coach Graham Taylor, who led Aston Villa to a runner-up. He qualified with the "Villans " for the UEFA Cup and in the first round, he contributed two goals to progress against Banik Ostrava ( 3:1,2:1 ) before then Inter Milan despite a 2-0 first-leg victory after a 0-3 defeat last stop competing and Mount Fields was the last European Cup opponents. As Nielsen found Mountfield in the 1991/92 season under new manager Ron Atkinson only a little consideration and so he left Aston Villa in the direction of the second division club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The " Wolves " borrowed Mountfield in November 1991 initially and then endowed him in March 1992 with a firm contract from. By the end of the season 1993/94 he graduated at the new Club 91 Official matches, where he came in midfield alongside his preferred defensive position to train. Greater success remained steady from there and after placements in the second division midfielder he moved away in December 1993, more and more back into second place. In August 1994, he went to a free transfer in the fourth division to Carlisle United.
Career ending and short excursions coach (1994-2001)
In Carlisle he made with his experience for great stability in defense, rose with the new club about winning the fourth division championship in the third division, and also reached the finals in the Football League Trophy, which went against Birmingham City lost 0-1 - earlier he had scored an away goal in the semi-final second leg against Rochdale AFC. Injuries then made sure that only Mountfield aground at the start of the 1995/96 season in a League Cup game and in October 1995 he was in the fourth division Northampton Town a new employer. Just once a month and four missions later, he moved on to Walsall FC. Together with the newly committed Adrian Viveash he made the middle " Saddlers " and by the end of the current season he missed because of minor injuries only three encounters. Even in his second year in Walsall to Mountfield proved to be constant on the defensive and was originally designed only to summer 1997 engagement was extended for another season. With a late equalizer for a 1-1 draw against Fulham, his ultimately last goal in a professional game, " thanked " to Mountfield on 16 August 1997, although he had now lost its speed, he stayed in more than half of the games in the team before him then in May 1998 the new coach Ray Graydon screened.
There followed a brief excursion into the semi-professional Southern League to the Bromsgrove Rovers, before he moved shortly after the turn of 1998/99 to FC Scarborough in the fourth league. There he completed a further six league matches and helped after the resignation of Mick Wadsworth briefly as a coach. With the descent as Table in the Football Conference then ended, as it Mount Fields stay for the club as well as his active professional career as a whole. A year later signed him, the Irish first division Cork City, who was shortly after the start of the 2000/01 season before a UEFA Cup match against FC Lausanne-Sport. In addition to the defeat in these qualifiers to Mount Fields first longer coach commitment turbulent and designed by little steady performances of the teams he has been dismissed following a 0-4 home defeat against St Patrick's Athletic in January 2001.