Paul Jewell

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Paul Jewell
Personal information
Full name Paul Jewell
Date of birth (1964-09-28) 28 September 1964 (age 59)
Place of birth Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1982–1984 Liverpool
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1988 Wigan Athletic 137 (35)
1988–1998 Bradford City 269 (56)
1995 → Grimsby Town (loan) 5 (1)
Total 411 (92)
Managerial career
1998–2000 Bradford City
2000–2001 Sheffield Wednesday
2001–2007 Wigan Athletic
2007–2008 Derby County
2011–2012 Ipswich Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Paul Jewell (born 28 September 1964) is an English football manager and former player. His last position was as an assistant coach at West Bromwich Albion, to which he was appointed in January 2015,[1] but resigned after only one week.[2]

His playing career started with Liverpool before moving to Wigan Athletic and then a ten-year spell with Bradford City. He had a short loan spell with Grimsby Town but when his playing career ended he became part of the coaching staff at Bradford.

He was appointed manager in 1998 and took City to the Premier League before resigning and becoming manager of Sheffield Wednesday. He returned to Wigan to win a second promotion to the Premier League, but resigned a day after he kept them up in the 2006–07 season. He later joined Derby County on 28 November 2007, before resigning 13 months later.

He was appointed manager of Ipswich Town in January 2011, but departed following an unsuccessful reign in October 2012.[1]


Playing career

Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and educated at De La Salle School, Jewell began his career as an apprentice with home-city club Liverpool, but because of the dominance of Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish he never made a first-team league appearance and pursued his career elsewhere.

In December 1984, Jewell moved to Wigan Athletic for £15,000. He made his league debut for Wigan against Rotherham United in a 3–3 draw. He played a total of 137 league appearances with Wigan, scoring 35 goals before moving to Bradford City in an £80,000 deal.[3] Terry Dolan brought Jewell to Valley Parade in June 1988 as part of a re-building exercise after the club failed to win promotion to Division One in 1987–88 and had lost Stuart McCall and John Hendrie to Everton and Newcastle United respectively. He spent a decade as a player at City scoring 56 league goals in 269 appearances, and forged a successful partnership with Sean McCarthy for four of those seasons—the most successful of which was in 1992–93 when Jewell scored 16 league goals and McCarthy 17 in the first season of new player-manager Frank Stapleton.

Jewell had a brief loan spell at Grimsby Town, before returning to Bradford eventually retiring as a player in 1997–98—although his last game came in the promotion-winning season from Division Two in 1995–96 under manager Chris Kamara.

Managerial career

Bradford City

Jewell had already started his coaching career long before he retired as a player and had become part of City's coaching staff during the successful 1995–96 campaign.[3] The following season City came 21st in Division One avoiding relegation with a 3–0 victory on the final day of the season against Queens Park Rangers. The following season started much better and with 13 points from a possible 15, City were top after five games, but results declined and chairman Geoffrey Richmond sacked Kamara on 6 January 1998 three days after a 2–0 FA Cup defeat to Manchester City.

Richmond turned to Jewell, who was by now Kamara's assistant, and he won his first game 2–1 to Stockport County. In his 21 games in charge, Jewell won six games and drew five to guide City to 13th, their highest position since Jewell had joined the club. He was rewarded with a permanent contract when others expected Richmond to turn to a big name.[3] Richmond wanted to make a promotion challenge and Jewell broke the club's transfer record twice within the first week of the 1998–99 season, first with the £1m acquisition of Lee Mills and then spending £1.3m on Arsenal youngster Isaiah Rankin as well as bringing back Stuart McCall to the club from Rangers. After a poor start to the season, when City won just one of its first seven games, City picked up momentum and were second behind Sunderland for most of the latter half of the season. He added Lee Sharpe on loan and the third £1m signing Dean Windass as City held off Ipswich Town and Birmingham City to Division One runners-up and promotion to the Premier League marking Bradford's return to top-flight football for the first time in 77 years.

Bradford found Premiership life tough in 1999–2000 but their survival was secured on the last day of the season when they beat Liverpool 1–0 against expectation at home and cost their opponents a UEFA Champions League place, while the last relegation place went to Wimbledon. Jewell handed in his notice just a few days later after meeting with the Richmond, who had deemed City's 17th placed Premiership finish "a disappointment". Richmond refused to accept Jewell's resignation from the club, as he contended that Jewell had already lined up a job at Sheffield Wednesday whilst still contracted to City and placed Jewell on gardening leave. After agreeing to a compensation package with City, Jewell was installed as manager at relegated Wednesday.[4]

Sheffield Wednesday

Jewell had been hoping to mount a promotion challenge in 2000–01 with Wednesday but after enduring a torrid eight months in charge was sacked in February 2001 with the debt-ridden Hillsborough club struggling near the foot of Division One. His highlight was the 2–1 League Cup victory over local rivals Sheffield United and victory over Premier League West Ham United.

Wigan Athletic

In June 2001, Jewell made his return to management with ambitious Division Two club Wigan Athletic. In his second season as manager (2002–03) the club won the Division Two championship and entered the upper half of the English professional football league system for the first time ever. They were near the top of Division One throughout the 2003–04 season but were pipped to a playoff place on the final day of the season by Crystal Palace—who went on to win the playoffs.

On the final day of the 2004–05 Championship season, Jewell's Athletic side clinched promotion to the Premiership bringing top-flight football to the Lancashire town for the first time. For the 2005–06 season, Jewell's side lost their first game at home to Chelsea via a last-minute winner from Hernán Crespo but won their first match two games later at home to Sunderland. They contested the League Cup final against Manchester United on 26 February 2006 but went down 4–0.

On the final day of the 2006–07 season, Jewell steered Wigan safe from relegation after a win against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane on 13 May 2007. A day later, Jewell resigned as Wigan manager.[5][6]

On 11 February 2007 during the aftermath of Wigan's defeat at the hands of Arsenal, Jewell accused referee Phil Dowd of failing to award Wigan a penalty and for allowing what appeared to be an offside goal. After the game Jewell was charged by the FA for improper conduct regarding his verbally insulting the referee. For this offence Jewell was fined £2,000 and given a two match touchline ban (suspended for 12 months). A second charge relating to the same referee was brought by the Football Association, and was heard on 16 May 2007 and was found not proven.[7][8][9]

Derby County

After leaving Wigan, Jewell was linked with various vacant managerial positions at the start of the 2007–08 season, including Leicester City twice,[10][11] a return to Wigan after his successor Chris Hutchings was sacked,[12] and the Republic of Ireland job.[13] The rumours ceased on 28 November 2007 after he was unveiled as Derby County's new manager two days after the departure of Billy Davies. Jewell made a couple of signings at Derby, he signed former Birmingham City and Blackburn Rovers midfielder Robbie Savage and former Manchester United and West Ham United goalkeeper Roy Carroll[14] His first win as manager came only on penalties in an FA Cup game against Sheffield Wednesday,[15] four days before they were knocked out of the competition to 22nd-placed Championship side Preston North End.[16] His 16th game as Derby manager came at his former club Wigan Athletic on 23 February 2008 when a 2–0 defeat set a Derby club record of 21 league games without victory.[17] Derby's relegation from the Premier League was confirmed on 29 March 2008 after a 2–2 draw with Fulham. The point gained from the draw was just Derby's 11th of the season.[18] Derby finished the season with a record low of 11 points, and just one win, which was gained under Jewell's predecessor Billy Davies, equalling a 108-year Football League record.[19]

Jewell's first victory as Derby manager came in the second game of the 2008–09 season when a hat-trick from Nathan Ellington helped his side defeat Lincoln City 3–1 after extra time in the first round of the League Cup.[20] He recorded his first league win as Derby manager after 10 months in the job when his side defeated Sheffield United 2–1 on 13 September 2008.[21] Despite leading Derby to their first League Cup semi-final in 40 years by defeating Stoke City,[22] newspapers continued to report Jewell's job was unsafe.[23] He resigned after the final game of the 2008 calendar year after his side lost 1–0 to Ipswich Town, which left Derby in 18th place in the Championship table.[24] For a third time, Jewell was replaced by his assistant manager Chris Hutchings, this time as caretaker manager.[25]

Ipswich Town

Jewell was announced as Ipswich Town manager on 10 January 2011, and took up the post on a permanent basis three days later, replacing caretaker Ian McParland, after the 1–0 League Cup semi final win. His first match was away to Millwall a 2–1 defeat. Seven losses in a row left Ipswich in 21st place, from being in 6th. After this run, Ipswich travelled to Barnsley, in front of the Sky cameras, where they won 5–3, coming from 2–0 down at half time[26][27]

Jewell celebrated his 550th game as manager as Ipswich played his former club Derby County at Portman Road.[citation needed]

On 24 October 2012, Jewell left his post as Ipswich Town's manager by mutual consent.[1]

Personal life

Jewell's family home is in Menston. He is married to Ann-Marie; they have a son, Sam, who is a Yorkshire county golfer, and a teenage daughter called Alex.[28][29] His father was a trade union activist in Liverpool.[30]

Managerial statistics

As of 23 October 2012[31]
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Bradford City England 6 January 1998 18 June 2000 117 46 26 45 39.32
Sheffield Wednesday England 21 June 2000 12 February 2001 38 12 5 21 31.58
Wigan Athletic England 12 June 2001 14 May 2007 291 127 74 90 43.64
Derby County England 28 November 2007 28 December 2008 58 12 15 31 20.69
Ipswich Town England 13 January 2011 24 October 2012 85 29 18 38 34.12
Total 590 227 138 225 38.47

Honours

Bradford City
Wigan Athletic

References

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  9. ↑ Verdict in the Paul Jewell FA disciplinary case: TheFA.com website.
  10. ↑ JEWELL TIPPED FOR CITY JOB, Leicester Mercury 30 August 2007. Retrieved on 5 September 2007.
  11. ↑ Leicester close in on new manager, BBC Sport 5 November 2007. Retrieved on 6 November 2007.
  12. ↑ Jewell 'Open to Wigan Offer', BBC News 16 November 2007. Retrieved on 16 November 2007.
  13. ↑ BBC Sport, Jewell 'rules out' Republic job
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