Tommy Docherty
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Thomas Henderson Docherty | ||
| Date of birth | 24 April 1928 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Playing position | Right half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1947–1949 | Celtic | 9 | (3) |
| 1949–1958 | Preston North End | 323 | (5) |
| 1958–1961 | Arsenal | 83 | (1) |
| 1961–1962 | Chelsea | 4 | (0) |
| 1965 | → Sydney Prague (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1951–1959 | Scotland | 25 | (1) |
| 1952–1953 | Scotland B | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1961–1967 | Chelsea | ||
| 1967–1968 | Rotherham United | ||
| 1968 | Queens Park Rangers | ||
| 1968–1970 | Aston Villa | ||
| 1970–1971 | Porto | ||
| 1971 | Scotland (caretaker) | ||
| 1971–1972 | Scotland | ||
| 1972–1977 | Manchester United | ||
| 1977–1979 | Derby County | ||
| 1979–1980 | Queens Park Rangers | ||
| 1981 | Sydney Olympic | ||
| 1981 | Preston North End | ||
| 1982–1983 | South Melbourne | ||
| 1983 | Sydney Olympic | ||
| 1984–1985 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
| 1987–1988 | Altrincham | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Thomas Henderson "Tommy" Docherty (born 24 April 1928 in Gorbals, Glasgow), commonly known as "The Doc", is a Scottish former footballer and football manager, who managed a total of 13 clubs between 1961 and 1988 as well as managing the Scottish national side.
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[edit] Playing career
Docherty's football career began when he joined non-League Shettleston Juniors. The turning point in his playing career came in 1946 when he was called up for National service in the Highland Light Infantry.[1] While completing his National service, Docherty represented the British Army at football. On demobilisation, Docherty was offered a contract with Celtic in 1947. He would later say that Jimmy Hogan, the coach, was his greatest influence.[2]
However, Docherty found first team places hard to come by at Celtic. In November 1949, after spending just over two years with the club he'd supported as a boy, he joined Preston North End. It was at Preston where he enjoyed the most successful period of his playing career, making over 300 League appearances, and appearing in an FA Cup Final in 1954. At Preston he received the first of his 25 full Scotland international caps. After defying Preston and travelling to the World Cup finals with Scotland, in Sweden in 1958, he left Deepdale that year to join Arsenal. It was at Arsenal where Docherty would make his last regular appearances as a professional footballer, although he subsequently played a few games for Chelsea, retiring in 1962.
[edit] Managerial career
In February 1961, he was offered the post of player-coach of Chelsea. Less than twelve months later, upon Ted Drake's departure and with the club facing relegation from the top flight, Docherty took over as manager. However, he was unable to keep the club in the First Division and the team was relegated at the end of the 1961–62 season.
Docherty's skill was his ability to spot talented players and to act as a motivator. During his first year in charge he sold many of the club's older players and put together an exciting team of youngsters such as Terry Venables, Bobby Tambling, Peter Bonetti and Barry Bridges. He also changed the club's home colours, switching from white shorts to blue shorts, the combination which remains to this day. The team, nicknamed "Docherty's Diamonds", achieved promotion back to Division One at the first attempt and finished fifth the following year. In 1964–65, Chelsea won the League Cup in April with an aggregate win over Leicester City, but were beaten 2–0 by eventual winner Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final.
He sent home eight players for breaking a curfew before a crucial match at Burnley with the team two points behind League leaders Manchester United. The team that remained lost the match, which all but ended their title chances. He led Chelsea to the FA and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup semi-finals a year later, before reaching the FA Cup Final in 1967, though they lost to Tottenham Hotspur. He resigned in October 1967. The core of the team Docherty had put together, including the likes of Peter Osgood, Charlie Cooke, Ron Harris, Bonetti and John Hollins, went on to win the FA Cup and Cup Winners' Cup under his successor, Dave Sexton. Sexton succeeded Docherty as manager of Manchester United a decade later.
The month following his departure from Chelsea, Docherty became manager of Rotherham United. He left the club the following year and was appointed manager at Queens Park Rangers, only to leave 29 days later. He then became Doug Ellis' first manager at Aston Villa in December 1968, for 13 months.
On 19 January 1970, with Aston Villa bottom of the Second Division, Docherty was sacked. From there he went to FC Porto but lasted just four months. On 2 July 1971, he was appointed by Hull City as assistant manager to Terry Neill, but on 12 September he was appointed as caretaker manager of Scotland, with the position becoming permanent in November.
In December 1972, when Frank O'Farrell was sacked as manager of Manchester United, Docherty was poached by Manchester United and quit his job with Scotland to become manager. His first game in charge was against Leeds United at Old Trafford. The game finished 1–1 with Ted MacDougall scoring one of his few goals for United. His reputation immediately endeared him to the Stretford Enders and although United were in serious trouble when he took them over because of an aging squad, he managed to keep them in the First Division in 1972–73. However, the 1973–74 season saw United continue to struggle, and their relegation was confirmed in the penultimate game of the season when they lost 1–0 at home to local rivals Manchester City with the goal coming from former United striker Denis Law, who had left Old Trafford when given a free transfer by Docherty a year earlier.
In the following season, United returned as champions, and in 1975–76 they finished in third place in the First Division, also reaching the FA Cup final which lost to Lawrie McMenemy's Southampton. Docherty led them to the final again a year later, in 1976–77, this time as underdogs to a Liverpool team seeking the second trophy of what would have been a unique Treble of League, FA Cup and European Cup. United won 2–1, denying Liverpool the honour that Manchester United would earn in 1999.
Shortly afterwards, news that Docherty was having an extramarital affair with the wife of a United physiotherapist, Laurie Brown, had become public. He was sacked in a blaze of publicity in July 1977. Docherty was replaced at Old Trafford by the same man who had replaced him at Chelsea, Dave Sexton.
He became manager at Derby County in September 1977, where he stayed for two seasons before resigning in May 1979.
His next appointment was at Queens Park Rangers in May 1979. On taking over at Loftus Road, Rangers had been relegated to the Second Division (three years after almost winning the league title) and Docherty had to lift the team spirits to start the new season. New players such as Clive Allen, Tony Currie and Paul Goddard were brought in. Despite this, Docherty had a quick fallout with Queens Park Rangers's star player, Stan Bowles. Docherty made Bowles train with the reserves for several months, before selling him on to Nottingham Forest in December 1979. Although money was spent, Queens Park Rangers finished the season four points short of promotion to the First Division. In May 1980, Docherty was surprisingly sacked by chairman, Jim Gregory, then reinstated after just nine days away. In October 1980, Docherty was sacked for the second time in five months.
After a short spell in Australia coaching Sydney Olympic in 1981, he returned to England in July that year to manage Preston North End, where he had spent nine years as a player. He left after a few months, returning to Australia to manage South Melbourne until the following year. He also managed Sydney Olympic again in 1983, but returned to England once more with Wolverhampton Wanderers just after their relegation from the First Division in 1984. However, he was sacked within a year as Wolves headed for a second successive relegation, eventually going on to suffer three relegations in a row. Their dismal 1984–85 season had included a 21-match winless run in the league.[3]
Docherty took up his final managerial position at Altrincham on 28 September 1987. He finally retired from management at the end of the 1987–88 season.
He has earned a living for the past 20 years as a media pundit and after-dinner speaker.
[edit] Statistics
| Club | Season | Domestic League | FA Cup | Other Cups | Total | ||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Celtic | 1948–49 | 9 | 3 | – | – | 21 | 01 | 11 | 3 |
| Total | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | |
| Preston North End | 1949–50 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| 1950–51 | 42 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0 | |
| 1951–52 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | |
| 1952–53 | 41 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0 | |
| 1953–54 | 26 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 | |
| 1954–55 | 39 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 3 | |
| 1955–56 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 1 | |
| 1956–57 | 37 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | |
| 1957–58 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 1 | |
| Total | 323 | 5 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 349 | 5 | |
| Arsenal | 1958–59 | 38 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 1 |
| 1959–60 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | |
| 1960–61 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | |
| Total | 83 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 1 | |
| Chelsea | 1961–62 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Total | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| Career Totals | 419 | 9 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 454 | 9 | |
- 1Glasgow Charity Cup
[edit] Honours
[edit] As a player
- Glasgow Cup (1): 1949
- Second Division (1): 1950–51
[edit] As a manager
- Second Division (1): 1974–75
- FA Cup (1): 1976–77
- Victorian Ampol Night Soccer Cup (1): 1982
[edit] Managerial statistics
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
 Chelsea |
October 1961 | October 1967 | 247 | 121 | 53 | 73 | 48.99 |
| Rotherham United |
November 1967 | November 1968 | 47 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 29.79 |
| Queens Park Rangers |
November 1968 | December 1968 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25.00 |
| Aston Villa |
December 1968 | January 1970 | 46 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 28.26 |
 Porto |
28 January 1970 | 3 May 1971 | — | ||||
 Scotland (caretaker) |
12 September 1971 | 11 November 1971 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Scotland |
11 November 1971 | 22 December 1972 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 50.00 |
| Manchester United |
22 December 1972 | 4 July 1977 | 215 | 99 | 54 | 62 | 46.05 |
| Derby County |
17 September 1977 | 10 May 1979 | 78 | 24 | 21 | 33 | 30.77 |
| Queens Park Rangers |
11 May 1979 | 1 October 1980 | 51 | 20 | 16 | 15 | 39.22 |
 Sydney Olympic |
15 February 1981 | 14 June 1981 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 35.29 |
| Preston North End |
15 June 1981 | 3 December 1981 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17.65 |
| South Melbourne |
16 May 1982 | 5 September 1982 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 46.15 |
| Sydney Olympic |
13 March 1983 | 21 August 1983 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 38.10 |
| Wolverhampton Wanderers |
8 June 1984 | 4 July 1985 | 48 | 9 | 12 | 27 | 18.75 |
| Altrincham |
28 September 1987 | 4 February 1988 | — | ||||
| Total | 816 | 331 | 216 | 269 | 40.56 | ||
[edit] References
- ^ Wolves Fan Site
- ^ "How total football inventor was lost to Hungary". The Guardian. 22 November 2003. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2003/nov/22/sport.comment2. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
- ^ [1]
[edit] External links
Tommy Docherty career stats at Soccerbase Tommy Docherty management career stats at Soccerbase
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