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THE FIRST player ever to be sent off in a Premier League game managed Brighton twice.
Fiery Micky Adams saw red playing for Southampton when he decked England international midfielder Ray Wilkins.
“People asked me why I did it. I said I didn’t like him, but I didn’t really know him,” Adams recalls in his autobiography, My Life in Football (Biteback Publishing, 2017).
It was only the second game of the 1992-93 season and Adams was dismissed as Saints lost 3-1 at Queens Park Rangers.
Adams blamed the fact boss Ian Branfoot had played him in midfield that day, where he was never comfortable.
“He (Wilkins) was probably running rings around me. I turned around and thumped him. I was fined two weeks’ wages and hit with a three-match ban.”
It wasn’t the only time he would have cause not to like Wilkins either. The former Chelsea, Manchester United and England midfielder replaced Adams as boss of Fulham when Mohammed Al-Fayed took over.
His previously harmonious relationship with Ray’s younger brother, Dean, turned frosty too. When Adams first took charge at the Albion, he considered youth team boss Dean “one of my best mates”. But the two fell out when Seagulls chairman Dick Knight decided to bring Adams back to the club in 2008 to replace Wilkins, who’d taken over from Mark McGhee as manager.
“He thought I had stitched him up,” said Adams. “I told him that I wanted him to stay. We talked it through and, at the end of the meeting, we seemed to have agreed on the way forward.
“I thought I’d reassured him enough for him to believe he should stay on. But he declined the invitation. He obviously wasn’t happy and attacked me verbally. I did have to remind him about the hypocrisy of a member of the Wilkins family having a dig at me, particularly when his older brother had taken my first job at Fulham.
“We don’t speak now which is a regret because he was a good mate and one of the few people I felt I could talk to and confide in.”
With the benefit of hindsight
12 player-manager pairings who REALLY fell out
When clashes aren't confined to the pitch
It happens in workplaces around the world: even the dream job can be a nightmare when you don’t get on with your boss, and even the most respected manager comes up against a difficult employee every now and again. It’s all the more difficult when every minute is played out in front of millions, particularly in the testosterone-fuelled world of professional football where clashes aren’t always confined to the pitch and those involved are supposed to be on the same side.
We take a look at 12 examples of when things go horribly wrong between player and coach, with foul-mouthed tirades, a five-month exile and players refusing to celebrate with a team-mate – even when he’s just scored against their biggest rivals.
12. Pierre Van Hooijdonk and Dave Bassett
Van Hooijdonk was brought in by Bassett in March 1997 in an attempt to stave off relegation from the Premier League. It didn’t work, with the former Celtic man scoring just once as Forest failed to win in his eight appearances. They bounced back at the first attempt though, winning the First Division title the following season with Van Hooijdonk scoring 29 in the process.
The trouble started when he came back from the World Cup for pre-season training ahead of the 1998/99 season. Despite promises that Forest would strengthen to be able to deal with the demands of being back in the top flight, they’d actually sold Van Hooijdonk’s strike partner Kevin Campbell to Trabzonspor and allowed Colin Cooper to return to Middlesbrough. The Dutchman asked for a transfer, which was turned down. He disappeared until November and was largely shunned by his team-mates when he returned.
11. Carlos Tevez and Roberto Mancini
With City trailing 2-0 in a Champions League match at Bayern Munich, Tevez was summoned from the bench by Mancini – bu
Malcolm Allen (footballer)
Welsh footballer
Malcolm Allen (born 21 March 1967) is a Welsh football coach, former professional footballer and sports pundit and co-commentator.
As a player, Allen was a striker, notably having a brief spell in the Premier League with Newcastle United and a loan spell with Aston Villa, although spells with Watford, Norwich City and Millwall in the Football League brought most of his appearances during his career. He retired having had a brief spell with non-league side Stevenage Borough. He was capped 14 times by Wales, scoring 3 goals.
Since retiring, Allen has worked as a youth team coach for Aberystwyth, but now works in media and is a pundit and commentator for S4C show Sgorio.
Early life
Allen was born in Deiniolen, Gwynedd.
Playing career
Allen began his career with Watford, signing apprentice terms in July 1983, before becoming professional in March 1985. He scored Watford's only goal in 1985 FA Youth Cup final. He played and scored for the Hornets in their FA Cup semi-final defeat against Tottenham Hotspur in 1987, and in 19 cup appearances for Watford scored eight goals. He was loaned to Aston Villa in September 1987 by new Watford manager Dave Bassett, and after Watford were relegated he joined Norwich for a fee of £175,000 in August 1988. Whilst with Norwich he scored four in their club record FA Cup victory, 8–0 against Sutton United in the fourth round. This was one of the most successful seasons in Norwich's history, as they finished fourth in the league and were semi-finalists in the FA Cup.
Allen joined Millwall in March 1990 for £400,000, spending three years there before moving to Newcastle United for £300,000 in August 1993, in time for their first season in the FA Premier League following their promotion as Division One champions. He started off well on Tyneside, scoring seven goals in 12 games, before suffering a serious ankle
Michael Bassett
New Zealand politician
For the British screenwriter and director, see Michael J. Bassett.
Michael Edward Rainton BassettCNZM QSO (born 28 August 1938) is a former Labour Party member of the New Zealand House of Representatives and cabinet minister in the reformist fourth Labour government. He is also a noted New Zealand historian, and has published a number of books on New Zealand politics, including biographies of Prime MinistersPeter Fraser, Gordon Coates and Joseph Ward.
Life before politics
Bassett was born on 28 August 1938 in Auckland, the son of Clare Bassett (née Brown) and Edward Bassett, and educated at Owairaka School, Dilworth School, Mt Albert Grammar, and the University of Auckland. He completed BA and MA degrees in history at the University of Auckland before winning a fellowship to Duke University in the United States in 1961. He completed a PhD in American history there, completing a dissertation entitled The Socialist Party of America, 1912–1919: Years of Decline.
In 1964, Bassett returned to New Zealand and became a senior lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. During this time he was a member of the Princes Street Labour branch.
Political career
Bassett stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in the 1966 election for North Shore and in the 1969 election for Waitemata.
In 1971 Bassett was elected to the Auckland City Council. In the following year, he was elected as a Labour MP for Waitemata in the 1972 election, and the Labour Party became the government for the first time since 1960. Following the death of Prime Minister Norman Kirk in 1974 the party (and Bassett) were defeated in the following (1975) election. In his account of the Third Labour Government, Bassett described it as one of "the most active and socially responsible governments of the twentieth century." He distinguished himself as one of the better performing ba