Maurice Setters
Edgar Maurice Setters ( born December 16, 1936 in Honiton ) is a former English football player and coach. As the external rotor 16 times English U-23 national team was feared in the English top flight because of his duel hardness. Among the stations were the first division club West Bromwich Albion, Manchester United, Stoke City and Coventry City and the biggest success for him was in 1963 winning the FA Cup with Manchester United.
Sports career
Playing career
Born in the South West of England in Devon, Setters learned to play football in the local school and from the age of 15, he became involved first in amateur football in and around Honiton around. His talent did not go unrecognized and he was still on his 18th birthday the way in the professional market at the nearby Exeter City. The club from the capital of the county was active in the third class Third Division South and during the 1953/54 season, signed the first contract Setters player contract. Before he could devote himself to his career, he had two years of his military service in the Royal Horse Artillery ( RHA ) serve. For this reason, its use in Exeter were confined to vacation time. Far more formative for its further development was the participation in the army team of RHA, which was equipped with a number of talented premier league and national team players - including John White, who later won numerous titles with Tottenham Hotspur. During his military service time watching him especially West Bromwich Albion and after paying a small transfer fee to Exeter City Setters eventually was hired by " WBA " to. With his new club, he served first in the reserve team, but by his physically robust style of play in midfield, the ball-winning qualities and a good passing game, Setters 1955 catapulted from the end of November to the first team. A week after its debut on 26 November 1955, Huddersfield Town (0-1 ), he scored two goals in the 4-0 win against Portsmouth and on the side of prominent teammates like Don Howe, Len Millard, Bobby Robson, Jim Dudley, Ray Barlow, Derek Kevan and Ronnie Allen in midfield, he developed into a key player who was mostly " strongman " responsible. His qualities were also in demand in the English national team and in addition to 16 missions in the U -23 1957-1960 he was part of the 22- man squad of the national team at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. He remained there as a substitute, however, disregarded and the tournament itself, he was not even mitgereist.
Good one and a half years after the World Cup changed Setters in January 1960 for the transfer fee of £ 30,000 for Erstligakonkurrenten Manchester United. In the team of Matt Busby, he should primarily replace the long -term injury Wilf McGuinness. The Personnel was taken in Manchester with a bit baffled to discover, as Setters was considered technically less gifted and Stan Crowther, a similar, immediately after the air disaster in Munich Obligated type of player had been sorted out quickly as inadequate. With its great will Setters refuted these concerns quickly and Busby gave him after a short time the captain's office after the previously chosen to Bill Foulkes and Dennis Viollet had shown little leadership qualities. At the end of the first two seasons 1959/60 and 1960/61, Setters occupied with the "Red Devils " received a respectable seventh place in the table completion. But his performances on the pitch frequently gave rise to controversial discussions and not infrequently an arbitrator referred him because of a too hard use of the field. As a "United" it slipped in to the fifteenth rank, also grew him with Nobby Stiles and Jimmy Nicholson more competition, which itself Setters but initially could resist. After only two games in the season 1962/63 Busby responded to a form of weakness Setters and replaced him briefly by Nobby Lawton; the captaincy passed to Noel Cantwell. After five more games succeeded Setters but to fight their way back into the starting line- back. The season ended even with changing success and a "fast- descent " was offset by the gain of the FA Cup in 1963. The 3-1 final victory against the slightly favored Leicester City earned the club the first trophy after the plane crash and Setters was considered a " water carrier " for players like Pat Crerand, Denis Law, Bobby Charlton and David Herd. In the further development, with the victory in the European Cup of Champions culminated five years later, Setters but played any role. The season 1963/64, brought by winning the runner-up, although a moderate success, but especially the bitter quarter-final defeat in the European Cup winner against Sporting Lisbon ( with a 0:5 defeat after a 4-1 first leg victory ) caused a bitter aftertaste. Shortly after the beginning of the season 1964/65 Setters lost his starting place to sustainably Nobby Stiles and two weeks after the end of the last race in October 1964 against Aston Villa (7:0), he signed on at Stoke City on - the transfer fee was £ 30,000 again.
During the three- year commitment in Stoke -on-Trent Setters remained without trophy and finished with the team "only" top-flight midfielder places but with his game, he was one of the crowd favorites. The last active career positions included after Coventry City ( from November 1967) and the second division side Charlton Athletic (from January 1970), before he devoted himself to the coaching profession.
Trainer activities
From June 1971 to November 1974 was Setters head coach at fourth division club Doncaster Rovers, before joining Sheffield Wednesday the office of the assistant of Jack Charlton took in 1977. After his resignation in late May 1983, he supervised the first team for a month on an interim basis, without that at this time a competitive match was to deny. Well three years later Setters followed his former boss, as this 1986 coach of the Irish national team was. In the constant output until 1995 employment Charlton succeeded with Setters as " Number Two " qualifying for two FIFA World Cup tournaments in a row (1990 and 1994).
Title / Awards
- English Cup ( 1): 1963