David Webb
David Webb was born in London on April 9th, 1946 and is the Soccer Player. At the age of 78, David Webb biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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David James Webb (born 9 April 1946) is an English former professional footballer who made 555 appearances in the Football League playing for Leyton Orient, Southampton, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Leicester City, Derby County, A.F.C. Bournemouth and Torquay United.
He became a manager, taking charge of A.F.C. Bournemouth, Torquay United, Southend United, Chelsea, Brentford and Yeovil Town.
Personal life
Webb's son Daniel also became a professional footballer. He also two adopted children.
Playing career
David Webb was born in Stratford (then in Essex) and began his career as an amateur with West Ham United but he joined Leyton Orient in May 1963 after struggling to make the grade. His professional debut came in the 1964–65 season, kicking off what would be a long career in league football. After 62 games (3 goals) for Orient, he migrated to Southampton in March 1966, with George O'Brien heading in the opposite direction. He played twice for the Saints, with a goal on his debut to equalize in a crucial 1–1 draw with promotion rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers before joining Chelsea in February 1968.
Webb made his name in football, especially for his role in Chelsea's victory over Leeds United in the 1970 FA Cup final against Old Trafford. Chelsea's first game at Wembley, Webb, where playing right-back, had a nightmare and was tortured throughout the match by the nimble and difficult Leeds winger Eddie Gray. Chelsea were somewhat fortunate to end with a 2–2 draw. Webb was moved to the center by manager Dave Sexton, who was more flexible to Gray, while more compromising Ron Harris was sharp to mark Gray. Webb – and Chelsea – did notably better in the replay, and it was he who became the unlikely hero, winning the winner from an Ian Hutchinson throw-in in extra time.
Chelsea won the European Cup Winners Cup again last year after defeating Real Madrid in another replay. Despite spending much of his Chelsea career as a right back, he also served as a centre defense (his first job) and occasionally as a center forward, winning a hat-trick against Ipswich Town in December 1968. Except number 11, he wore every shirt from 1 to 12 at Chelsea, except number 11. On December 27, 1971, Ipswich demonstrated his versatility once more, retaining a clean sheet in the process, and then scoring two goals in the return match as a center forward in March 1972.
He joined Queens Park Rangers in July 1974 after scoring 21 times in 230 games. After just a few months with his new club in February 1975, Webb announced his retirement from the game in February 1975. However, just a week later, he asked to return to the club after addressing a number of personal business challenges, with the support of close friend Terry Venables. In the 1975–76 season, Webb concentrated on football, assisting Rangers to their runners-up position in the Football League, their highest-ever league position. In 1977, Rangers scored seven goals in 116 games, before a £50,000 transfer to Leicester City. He spent less than a year with Filbert Street, playing 33 games for the Foxes before joining Derby County in December 1978, his Derby debut was on December 23 at home to Aston Villa. After 26 games for the Rams (1 goal), he left the Baseball Ground in May 1980 and joined AFC Bournemouth.
Managerial career
He played only 11 times for Bournemouth in 1981, but he was promoted to the third division in 1980. He served until February 1982, when he was fired after a dispute with the chairman over the club's new ownership.
He was appointed in 1981 by Bruce Rioch as a self-employed salesman after a brief stint out of the game. Torquay finished 9th place in the 1983–84 season and was keen to progress. The following season, they finished last, and Webb himself was forced out of retirement, scoring once in his two league appearances that season. Webb was appointed first John Sims and then Stuart Morgan to lead the Torquay team on August 21, 1985. Torquay finished last season at the bottom of the table. The player's tenure was not fondly remembered; five of United's best players were fired as soon as he took over; others, such as Keith Curle, were sold cheaply and replaced by vastly inferior players, and the team's colours were changed to blue.
On June 17, 1986, Webb left Torquay to lead Southend United. He left Southend in March 1987, just two months before the team's promotion to the Third Division was achieved. He was recalled in November 1988 and failed to save the club from relegation back to the Fourth Division. He led Southend to promotion from the old Fourth Division in 1990 and then the Third Division a year later. They briefly led the Second Division in January 1992 but fell away to mid-table in the final weeks of the season, with Webb resigned in March 1992 and leaving the club at the end of the season.
On a short-term deal to replace Ian Porterfield, Webb returned to Chelsea as interim boss in February 1993. The club was in freefall, without a league win in over two months, and it was threatened with relegation. The team's online work and results gradually improved, and the team eventually finished 11th in the Premiership, earning the team a respectable 11th position. However, the club's board did not renew his deal and instead named Glenn Hoddle.
Webb returned to action within days after being relegated to Division Two in May 1993. Webb bought a majority interest in the club and resigned as manager after two play-off appearances struggled to bring them back to Division One. Following outrage from supporters of the club's transfer to Division Three, Webb sold the club to Ron Noades in June 1998.
He took over as Yeovil Town's manager in March 2000, but resigned in September 2000 to take over at Southend United. He left Southend in October 2001 but in November 2003, he returned as the caretaker boss after Steve Wignall's resignation and Steve Tilson took over.
In December 2005, Webb bought Yeovil Town from Jon Goddard-Watts, taking over the Chief Executive role. He resigned from this position in February 2006 and has since sold his shares to chairman John Fry.
Since taking over from Paul Brush, he was appointed as the assistant to the boss at Southend in March 2010.