Les Kershaw

Les Kershaw was Chief Scout of the football department of Manchester United and Head of youth department Manchester United Football Academy. At the end of the 2005-06 season he was replaced by his successor, Brian McClair.

Kershaw is a chemist, and originally worked as a scientist at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Self-employed, he was next worked as a talent scout for the Arsenal manager George Graham. In this role, he was lured away from the team manager Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester and adjusted. Kershaw brought some talent to Manchester United, such as Paul Ince, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Roy Keane. When he should look at AS Monaco, at the time played Thierry Henry, for talent and attention was drawn to Henry, he refused that from however. This is widely considered one of the biggest mistakes of Kershaw viewed .. In 2005 he was awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for his activities for the promotion of scientific interest in children and adolescents with the President's Award. In Kershaw's suggestion, a workshop with more than 500 children on the subject of fullerenes ( " buckyball " ) was carried out among others in the stadium of Manchester United, which was led by Nobel laureates and Fullerene explorer Sir Harold Kroto.