Howard Kendall
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Howard Kendall (22 May 1946 – 17 October 2015) was an English footballer and manager. Kendall joined Preston North End as an apprentice and stayed with the club when he turned professional.
He was a runner-up in the 1964 FA Cup with Preston, and at 17 years 345 days was the youngest player to play in a Wembley final.
In 1967 he joined Everton, where he played in midfield with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey, the trio gaining the nickname "The Holy Trinity".
With Everton, Kendall won the First Division title, the Charity Shield, and was again an FA Cup runner-up.
He became Everton captain for three years before being sold to Birmingham City in 1974.
Kendall joined Stoke City in 1977, where he became a player-coach and helped the club achieve promotion from the Second Division. Kendall's managerial career began as a player-manager with Blackburn Rovers in 1979.
He returned to Everton in 1981, again as a player-manager, but retired from playing after four games.
With Everton he won two Football League titles, an FA Cup, three Charity Shields, and the 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup, as well as a league runners-up place and reached two further FA Cup finals and a League Cup final.
Frustrated by the ban from UEFA competitions imposed on English clubs, Kendall left to manage Spanish club Athletic Bilbao in 1987.
He was sacked in 1989, but quickly returned to management with Manchester City.
After less than a year in Manchester he rejoined Everton but, after three middling seasons he resigned and spent a short time managing Greek side Xanthi.
After a few months spent as manager of Notts County, Kendall joined Sheffield United, saving the club from relegation and then taking them to the 1997 play-off final.
He returned to Everton for third time as manager in August 1997, but left the club by mutual consent having only managed to avoid relegation on the final day of the season.
His final managerial position was a four-month spell back in Greece, where he took charge of Ethnikos Piraeus and was sacked with the team at the bottom of the table.
A member of the League Managers Association's "Hall of Fame", the English Football Hall of Fame, and listed as an "Everton Giant", Kendall remains the last English manager to win a UEFA competition with an English club.
Playing career
Kendall, a born in Ryton, County Durham, joined Preston North End as an apprentice in 1961. He became a professional in May 1963 and competed in the 1964 FA Cup Final against West Ham United. At the time, he was the youngest player to play in a Wembley final, and his place in the squad was based on the club's regular left-half Ian Davidson's suspension for an unauthorised trip to Scotland. He was 17 years old, 345 days old, and was the youngest finalist since James Prinsep played for Clapham Rovers in the 1879 final, aged 17 years 245 days. In the last minute, Preston lost the final.
Kendall was originally a defender for Liverpool, but after Liverpool was unable to provide the funds, he ended up joining Everton for £85,000, where the trio, along with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey, earned the nickname "The Holy Trinity." They were a key piece of the Everton team's 1968 FA Cup Final, with Kendall losing to the losing side and the team winning the First Division title in 1969–70. Kendall captained Everton in the first three seasons as the team continued to grow on winning the league with a 17th-place finish in 1972-73. He was sold to Birmingham City in February 1974 and spent four seasons at St Andrew's helping Birmingham make it to the First Division and the FA Cup semi-finals in 1975.
Kendall joined Stoke City in August 1977 for £40,000. Stoke's current owner, George Eastham, had the challenge of regaining their position in the top flight after relegation. However, Eastham was fired and replaced by Alan Durban in 1978 after poor results in the first half of the 1977–78 season. One of the first things Durban did was naming Kendall as player-coach, and he excelled in the position, winning him the club's inaugural player of the year award. When Stoke finished third in third place, Durban built the team around Kendall for the 1978–79 season. However, despite Kendall's desire to play in the First Division, Kendall decided to join the Third Division Blackburn Rovers as player-manager.
Kendall did not play for England at senior level, despite being included in several squads, but he did win caps at Schoolboy, Youth, and Under-23 level, captaining the England Youth team to victory in the 1964 Little World Cup Final.
Managerial career
Kendall was named as player-manager at Blackburn Rovers in June 1979, assisting them in winning promotion back to the Second Division of the 1979–80 season and barely missing out on promotion to the top tier in 1981 on goal difference.
Kendall returned to Everton in May 1981 in the hopes of rebuilding the club's glory, but he only played four games before finally retiring as a player in December 1981. On his return to Goodison Park as manager, he made seven signings, including goalkeeper Neville Southall from Bury, who would play for 17 years at the club and appear in five major trophy successes. Trevor Stevenson, winger, and midfielder Peter Reid all made further signings over the next two seasons, including winger Trevor Steven and midfielder Peter Reid. Everton finished eighth in Kendall's first season as boss and soared to seventh a year later, but the 1983–84 season was rough, winning only six of their first 21 league games and straddling the relegation zone.
Kendall was reportedly on the verge of being fired, but the second half of the season was quite different. Everton's form improved after being helped by the £50,000 signing of Wolves striker Andy Gray in November. They reached the League Cup final (losing to Liverpool in a replay) and then went on to win the FA Cup (beating Watford 2–0) at the end of the season. Everton gained the League Championship in 1984–85, finishing 13 points ahead of runners-up Liverpool and the European Cup-Winners' Cup, defeating Austrian side Rapid Vienna and the FA Cup final. Everton barely managed to win both the League and the FA Cup in 1985-86, runners-up in both the league and the FA Cup, but the Merseyside clubs retained their English game, with nine points ahead of their local rivals.
He conceived a virtually new staff during his first time at Goodison Park, which was one of the best of the entire decade. He brought in younger players such as Peter Reid and Trevor Steven from smaller clubs to give them the opportunity to prove that they could compete at the highest level, which was largely fruitful. Andy Gray, who was instrumental in a season and a half before joining them in late 1983, has been involved in the transformation of a struggling team into FA Cup champions and then European Cup Winners' Cup winners. Gray later sold Gray to Aston Villa, who scored 38 goals in the 1985–86 season, although barely winning the major trophies.
Kendall moved from Everton in 1987, after being dissatisfied with Europe's bans, to Spain's Athletic Bilbao. The ban on English clubs in European competitions, as well as the ostensible continuation of Everton in England, was a major factor in the departure of some of England's top players from abroad this season, including Gary Lineker, who joined Barcelona after just one season at Goodison Park.
Kendall's stay in Bilbao was not a success, with restrictions on the players he could sign for the Basque club, but his popularity among the followers was enhanced by his promises that he would not seek to change their traditions. In his first season, he did manage to lead Athletic to fourth position in La Liga, as well as preparations for the forthcoming UEFA Cup, resulting in eventual elimination by Juventus. He turned down an invitation to lead Newcastle United in November 1988 in order to remain in Spain, but was fired on November 15 1989 after a poor run of results, and rumors started immediately about what his next job would be. When Bobby Robson eventually departed, there were frequent rumors that he would be the next England boss. He returned to England as the boss of Manchester City on December 7th, 1989, with a solid 14th-place finish. Kendall's name had already been linked to Manchester United's poor form that season had prompted media coverage – as well as calls from fans – for manager Alex Ferguson to be fired. Ferguson retained his position and continued to lead United Kingdom to many trophies until his retirement 23 years later.
Kendall's name was invariably mentioned by the press as a potential successor after the 1990 FIFA World Cup. However, he quickly dismissed the rumors and turned down an invitation from The Football Association to interview for the job, which ultimately went to Graham Taylor. After Taylor resigned in November 1993, Kendall was again considered a potential replacement for the England job, but Terry Venables was promoted.
Following Colin Harvey's dismissal as a manager, he returned to Everton for a second time as boss on November 7, 1990. This was despite the fact that he had built a strong Manchester City team that was near the top of the First Division table and that they had only recently held their cross-city rivals Manchester United to a thrilling 3–3 draw at Maine Road. Everton denied the change by claiming that Manchester City was simply an affair, but Everton was his marriage. Everton were fighting relegation to the Second Division by this point, but they turned their seasons around and finished ninth and also qualified for the FA Cup quarter-finals against Liverpool in the fifth round.
He signed 30-year-old striker Peter Beardsley from Liverpool for £1 million in what was a fruitful transfer as the ageing striker excelled at Goodison Park, scoring 32 goals in two seasons before moving to Newcastle United. He signed Mo Johnston, a Rangers striker, for £1.5 million, but the player was released for free transfer two years later after struggling to attract buyers when he was put on the transfer list three months later.
Everton's only successful in mid-table league finishes in 1992 and 1993, and Kendall resigned on December 4, 1993 after a disappointing run of form in the league, following a board of directors controversy that had blocked his bid for Manchester United striker Dion Dublin.
Kendall took over Greek club Xanthi for a brief and unsuccessful period after leaving Everton for the second time. Kendall returned to English football in January 1995, taking over at First Division Notts County, who were struggling badly after a slow start to the season, but county won their first two games under his leadership. Kendall was fired in April 1995 after a string of disagreements with chairman Derek Pavis, but the team was relegated to Division Two at the end of the season. Kendall joined Sheffield United in December 1995, saving the club from relegation and then taking them to the 1997 play-off final, which was lost to Crystal Palace. Kendall returned to Everton for the third time as boss in August 1997, but the club was left by mutual consent at the end of the season, with only able to avoid relegation on the final day of the season. Chaos within the club beset his third spell, beginning with Peter Johnson, then chairman, was defiant.
Kendall was transferred to Ethnikos Piraeus, but was fired in March 1999 after just four months as boss, and with the club's eight points adrift at the bottom of the Greek First Division. It was Kendall's last stint in football management, but he admitted that he had "had offers" from a number of English clubs that he turned down, as well as expressing an interest in the Republic of Ireland's job, which was eventually given to Giovanni Tratoni. He is the last English manager to win a European competition with an English club. Kendall was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005 in honor of his service as a coach to the English team.