Everything about Paul Jewell totally explained
Paul Steven Jewell (born
28 September 1964) is a
football manager, having previously had a career as a player. He is manager of
Derby County.
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
2006–07 before joining
Derby County on
28 November 2007.
Playing career
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 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.
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 of 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 hung up his boots and had become part of City's coaching staff during the successful 1995–96 campaign.
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 cruelly lost their first game at home to
Chelsea via a last-minute winner from
Hernán Crespo but won their first match three games later at home to
Sunderland. They contested the
League Cup final against
Manchester United on
26 February 2006 but went down 4–0. Jewell's name was linked to the England manager's job when it was announced that
Sven-Göran Eriksson would quit after the
2006 FIFA World Cup, but the job went to
Steve McClaren instead.
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.
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, a return to Wigan after his successor Chris Hutchings was sacked, and the
Republic of Ireland job. 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. His first win as manager came only on penalties in an
FA Cup game against
Sheffield Wednesday, four days before they were knocked out of the competition to 22nd-placed
Championship side
Preston North End. 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. 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. 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.
Controversies
On
11 February,
2007 during the aftermath of Wigan's defeat at the hands of
Arsenal, he threw blame at referee
Phil Dowd after the referee failed to award Wigan a penalty when
Emile Heskey was felled by Arsenal's
Mathieu Flamini and was also upset at Arsenal's winning goal, which looked offside. Jewell stated Mr. Dowd could cost the club £50 Million. (Which would be the loss in earnings if Wigan Athletic were to be relegated from the Premiership.)
There was further controversy when Jewell was handed an improper conduct charge for verbally insulting Phil Dowd after the Arsenal game. Jewell's reply was to contest the decision made by the Football Association claiming referee Phil Dowd verbally insulted his players on the pitch which went unpunished. Jewell claimed the FA were guilty of 'Double Standards' in charging himself but not Phil Dowd for seemingly the same offence.
Even more allegations were brought up by Jewell during the 2006/7 season against Phil Dowd in which he claimed at least one unnamed Premiership club had asked for referee Phil Dowd not to be put in charge of their game, and also claimed he received support from many of his peers and other referees.
Jewell was initially fined £2,000 and given a two match touchline ban (suspended for 12 months) and has recently denied a second
Football Association charge of improper conduct and bringing the game into disrepute after comments he made about referee Phil Dowd which was heard on the
16 May,
2007.
Personal life
Jewell is married to Ann-Marie, with whom he's a teenage daughter and son. However in March 2008, the
News of the World newspaper revealed Jewell had had an affair which happened in 2002.
He is the son of a
trade union activist and has a pet
tortoise called
Trotsky.
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