Peter Barnes (footballer)

Peter Simon Barnes ( born June 10, 1957 in Manchester ) is an English former football player and graduated in the period 1977-1982 a total of 22 caps for the England national team.

Sports career

After Barnes in his hometown in 1972, his first contract signed as a youth player at Manchester City native, he made his debut at the age of 17 years on October 12, the 1974 game against Burnley. In the following season, the left winger won the League Cup, the first and at the same time the only trophy of his career when the final Newcastle United 2-1 could be beaten.

After appointments in the U21 youth team was followed on November 16, 1977 at the age of 20 years, the first international match at Wembley stadium against Italy, which England won this qualifier for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina 2-0.

At the end of the 1978/79 season, when Manchester City with Howard Kendall a new coach installed and Barnes in Kendall's plans did not matter, Barnes moved to 41 goals in 167 games for a fee of 748,000 pounds to the championship Third West Bromwich Albion, what about this time of the most expensive shopping in the club's history of WBA was. Despite a good first season with fifteen goals Barnes was unable to get by and lived in his second season in West Bromwich a footballing crisis, attributed to him by those skilled potential. Since he could not altogether fulfill the high expectations, Barnes was delivered to the league rivals Leeds United.

The 1981/82 season was for Barnes again disappointing and thus continued the negative trend. He scored in the entire first year in Leeds is just a hit and its weak form was the reason for not considering for the 1982 World Cup in Spain. The friendly match recently against the Netherlands on 25 May 1982 at Wembley was also his last game in the dress of the English national team.

Barnes was then loaned out to Spanish club Real Betis and returned after a year to Leeds back in order not to convince there again. He was initially hired in May 1984 at Manchester United and transferred at the end of the season for the relatively low transfer fee of 65,000 pounds to the relegation candidates Coventry City.

After only one year in Coventry Barnes then moved permanently to Manchester United and joined it to the coach Ron Atkinson, who had been six years earlier been responsible for the transfer of Barnes to West Bromwich on. In Manchester, Barnes initially found his form of earlier days and the club sought to start up. After the winning streak was ended, however, and mostly oriented towards Manchester in the middle of the league, also Barnes lost his place. At the turn of 1986/87 season new coach Alex Ferguson Barnes sorted then finally left the team. Barnes then returned for only 30,000 pounds to his former club Manchester City.

After Manchester was relegated to the second division and Barnes could fight also at this time a regular place, he was first to the fourth division Bolton Wanderers and then loaned out to third division side Port Vale. The end of the season 1987/88 he spent then in the second division, the club Hull City.

This was followed by another short both domestic and foreign stations before Barnes then resigned as an active soccer player and continued to work in the coach area.

His coaching career began after an exposure to Dubai in 1993, only a year later in the youth area of Manchester City, where he worked until 1998 youth teams and the youth academy. His first coaching position was in both 1998/ 99 of amateur club FC Runcorn and for a month the National Team of Gibraltar. Since 1999, Barnes worked as an expert for the television stations, Sky TV and MUTV and for BBC Radio GMR, where he mostly the matches of Manchester City commented.

After then in 2002 for a short time in charge of the U16 national team of Malaysia, he took over as director in the organization Kik -Off Limited, which takes care in collaboration with the FA through the establishment of football centers to improve the youth work.

Currently, Barnes is an active committee member of the FA and writes a column on the website www.manchesteronline.co.uk.