Kevin Langley
Kevin James Langley ( born May 24, 1964 in St Helens ) is a former English footballer. The defensive midfielder was active in the 1980s and 1990s for Wigan Athletic and has completed club house most duty and league games. His greatest success came in the 1986/87 season, when he won the English championship with FC Everton.
Sports career
Langley worked as a painter and decorator, when he asked in writing at Wigan Athletic to a trial. The responsible there coach Ian McNeill offered him a training contract and under his successor, Larry Lloyd denied Langley in September 1981 against Northampton Town his league debut in the fourth- highest division. By the end of the subsequent 1982/83 season, the first season of " Latics " in the third division, he then conquered as a defensive midfielder successively a regular place. Few games he missed in the next three years until the end of the 1985/86 season and in addition to a tight non- promotion to the Second Division in 1985, he won a 3-1 final win against FC Brentford Football League the Trophy. For the transfer fee in the amount of 120,000 pounds, he then left the club in the summer of 1986 in the direction of the first division club FC Everton, where shortly before his teammate Warren Aspinall had been transferred.
Since the set in the center of midfield Everton Peter Reid and Paul Bracewell were injured at the beginning of the 1986/87 season, he came earlier than expected durable for use. These included his appearance in the Charity Shield match against Liverpool (1-1) and 16 Erstligapartien until the end of November 1986, in which him to two goals against Sheffield Wednesday ( 2-2) and Oxford United ( 3:1) reach. But when returning the ancestral forces in the team, he could make no further contribution to winning the English Championship in 1987, although he had qualified for his initial appearances for an official medal. Just nine months after his arrival at Everton, he moved further in the direction of Erstligakonkurrenten Manchester City. There he graduated in the ongoing season nine games, but then came to the descent into second-rate no longer to the course. Instead, lent him the "Citizens" in the following season 1987/88 briefly to the third division of Chester City before moving to the trained by Gerry Pendry second division Birmingham City in March 1988.
In Birmingham, you expected a lot from the elegant-looking and tall ball Conqueror in defensive midfield and the sporty line saw him as a possible key player on the way back to the highest English league. However, these expectations he was not fair. Langley had problems adjusting to the game, the " Blues" and the end of the 1988/89 season he joined with Birmingham City even to the third tier from. The following year, he missed his team the play-off games for the possible re-emergence scarce and he then went after a total of 76 league games for the club back to Wigan Athletic, which four years earlier played as he said goodbye in the third division. In the following four years now Langley garnered further 157 league games and became the record player for Wigan Athletic. Sporty but ended its involvement disappointing and after the descent into the fourth division in 1993, he completed his final year there in Wigan on the fourth last rank from.
He was drawn in the 1994/95 season first in the Football Conference to Halifax Town and later to Bangor City. In the Welsh club latter he won the 1995 championship, then sniffed even in the UEFA Cup again on European football and collected between October 1996 and his resignation in May 1997 first coach experience. There were other engagements in the top Welsh League for Flint Town United, Rhyl FC and Holywell Town and coach activities for smaller clubs like Congleton Town, Kidsgrove Athletic and Witton Albion, and from July 2011 for Northwich Villa.