Norman Lees

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Norman Lees
Personal information
Full name Norman Lees[1]
Date of birth (1948-11-17)17 November 1948[2]
Place of birth Newcastle upon Tyne,[3] England
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
– Hull City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1971 Hull City 5 (0)
1970–1971 → Hartlepool United (loan) 20 (1)
1971–1977 Darlington 120 (5)
198?–198? Beograd-Woodville
Managerial career
1986 Parafield Gardens
1986–1987 Beograd-Woodville
1988–1989 Modbury
1990–1992 Cumberland United
1998–1999 White City Woodville
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Norman Lees (born 18 November 1948) is an English former footballer who made 145 appearances in the Football League playing as a defender for Hull City, Hartlepool United and Darlington in the 1960s and 1970s.[4] He continued his career in Australia as player and coach.

Life and career

Lees was born in Newcastle upon Tyne.[3] He began his football career as an apprentice with Hull City, and made his first-team debut for the club on the last day of the 1966–67 Football League season, in a 4–1 defeat away to Crystal Palace in the Second Division. Over the next three-and-a-half years, he made just five more senior appearances for Hull,[5] and in December 1970, he joined Fourth Division club Hartlepool United on loan. He scored Hartlepool's first goal in his debut match, a 2–1 win at home to York City, and played regularly for the remainder of the season, finishing with 20 appearances, all in league competition.[3]

In the 1971 close season, Lees moved on to Darlington, also a Fourth Division club. He was involved in one potentially disastrous incident while playing in a floodlit match at the Darlington's Feethams ground. While retrieving the ball, which had gone out of play, he noticed that rubbish beneath a wooden stand had caught fire. Fortunately the fire had not taken hold and was quickly extinguished.[6] Over six seasons he scored 5 goals from 120 league appearances.[4]

Lees continued his football career with 15 years in Australia, first as a player and later,[6] after taking courses under the auspices both of the Australian Soccer Federation[7] and the English Football Association, as a coach. After coaching amateur team Parafield Gardens, he was appointed head coach of South Australia State League team Beograd-Woodville in December 1986,[8] but was dismissed in mid-season after the club committee disagreed with his selection policy.[9]

After his successor resigned early the following season, Lees was offered an apology and his old job back. He was by then committed to a junior coaching role at West Adelaide Hellas,[10] but a couple of months later was appointed head coach of Modbury, newly promoted to the State League.[11] Ahead of the 1990 season, he was appointed assistant to Arthur Ruttley at Port Adelaide;[12] three months later, Ruttley was sacked and Lees "resigned in protest", again over a matter of team selection.[13] Appointed head coach of Cumberland United ahead of the 1991 season,[14] Lees resigned his post in March 1992[15] and returned to England.

He remained in England for a six-year period, then resumed his coaching career in 1998 with a year as head coach of White City Woodville.[16][17] After making a final return to England, he worked for a printing firm on Tyneside.[6]

References

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