Neil Webb

Neil Webb ( born July 30, 1963 in Reading) is a former English footballer. He played for FC Reading, Portsmouth, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United and the England team took part in the World Cup 1990 and the European Football Championship 1992.

Career

Webb began in 1979 at Reading and was in February 1980 at the age of only 16 years, his debut for the club. Reading FC played at this time in the third English League and remained even after the 1981/82 season in this league. Neil Webb, however, had already indicated to have greater potential and moved in July 1982 at age 19 for Portsmouth.

Portsmouth

In Portsmouth he played in the 1982/83 season also in the third division. However, his new team revealed the greater potential against Reading quickly and rose at the end of season sovereign as the leader in the second league. After a space in the bottom third of the table in the first second division season, Webb missed with his team in 1984/85 only about promotion to the First Division. On points with Manchester City, was in the end the goal difference worse the rash. At least now Neil Webb had played in the first division of the Notitzbücher. Coach Brian Clough signed him for £ 250,000 in 1985 and formed the 22 -year-old in the coming years an international player.

Nottingham Forest

Webb began his time in the premier league at the beginning of the five-year international ban on all English clubs. This was triggered by various escapades English hooligans the disaster of Heysel. Neil Webb started excellently for his new club, scoring in his first two years during the 14 league goals. Forest finished 1985/86 and 1986/87 8th place and played two series average. But already in the Football League First Division 1987/88 the team had only Liverpool and Manchester United to defer and finished the season in third place. After another third place in the 1988/89 season, Webb moved to Manchester United. In his last year for Forest he could finally celebrate his first title win. In the final of the League Cup against Luton Town, he scored the 1-1 equalizer before Nigel Clough with two goals victory made perfect. Also successfully played Forest in the FA Cup 1988/89 and reached as in the previous semi-final against Liverpool. The game went down in English football history as the Hillsborough disaster. The replay Nottingham lost with 1:3 and thus retired.

Manchester United

Neil Webb had distinguished himself in the last four years as one of the highest-scoring midfielder in England and therefore aroused the interest of United manager Alex Ferguson. This bought him in July 1989 for 1.5 million pounds. After a short time in Manchester Webb injured in an international match at the Achilles tendon and should never afterwards able to return to his earlier form. In the First Division in 1989/90 United finished only a disappointing thirteenth place, but caused by the triumph in the FA Cup in 1989/90 against Crystal Palace for the second title in Webb's career. 1990/91 stood at the end of the season, a sixth place in the table to the beech and in addition won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1990/91. Manchester United beat in the final in Rotterdam FC Barcelona to two goals from Mark Hughes and a goal by Ronald Koeman 2-1. 1991/92 Webb was with his team's runner-up behind champions Leeds United and won the League Cup in the final against his old club Nottingham Forest 1-0. After just one game at the beginning of the newly introduced Premier League 1992/93 he moved back to Nottingham for £ 800,000. In total, over 3 years were in Manchester not been a happy one, despite the title for Webb. Because of injuries and the strong competition in the team, he missed many games and came on just eight league goals.

Nottingham Forest

End of November 1992 Webb went back to Nottingham. Trainer was there as before Brian Clough. However, this ended after a completely disappointing season that led to the descent, his coaching career. Forest rose after 15 years of excellence as a Table in the second division from. Webb came in only nine games for, scoring no goals. Under the new coach Frank Clark, the direct back in the Bundesliga by the second rank behind Crystal Palace. Webb came this time more frequently used (19 games / 3 goals ), but was thrown back once again by injuries in the coming year and denied not a league game. In early January 1995, he came on in the third round of the FA Cup against Plymouth Argyle and thus played his last competitive game for Nottingham Forest.

In the summer of 1996 he moved to the English second division club Grimsby Town before he was transferred to Aldershot Town. There he played in an amateur league again 36 games and scored 6 goals, before he went as player-coach for FC Weymouth and there finally ended his career.

England national team

Neil Webb made on September 9, 1987 at 1:3 against Germany than 1,000. National Player of England his first international match. He stood in the squad of the English national team at the World Cup in Italy in 1990, but did not play. When held in Sweden European Football Championship in 1992 was better for him. In the first game against Denmark, he came off the bench and the third game against hosts Sweden, he played over the full distance. However, England was eliminated in the first round and had to go home. For Webb it was the last international match. Overall, he came up with 26 matches in which he scored three goals.

Title

League Cup: 1989 and 1992
FA Cup: 1990
European Cup Winners' Cup: 1991

Reading F.C. Portsmouth F.C. Nottingham Forest F.C. Manchester United F.C. Swindon Town F.C. Aldershot Town F.C. 1987–88 in English football 1988–89 in English football 1988–89 FA Cup 1989–90 Football League First Division 1989–90 FA Cup 1990–91 European Cup Winners' Cup 1991–92 Football League First Division 1992–93 FA Premier League Plymouth Argyle F.C.

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