Dick Molyneux
Personal information | |||
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Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
Date of death | 1906 | ||
Managerial career | |||
Years | Team | ||
1889–1901 | Everton | ||
1903–1906 | Brentford |
Dick Molyneux was an English football manager. He managed in nearly 400 games in the Football League with Everton from 1889 to 1901[1] and later managed Brentford.
Managerial career
Everton
Molyneux joined Everton in 1878, when the club was founded as St. Domingo FC.[2][3] He became Everton secretary-manager on 23 August 1889.[4] His Toffees side finished as runners-up in the Football League in the 1889/90 season and brought home the Liverpool Senior Cup. Everton went one better in the 1890/91 season, winning the Football League and retaining the Liverpool Senior Cup. In 1892, Molyneux was one of the instigators behind the club's move across Stanley Park from Anfield to Goodison Park.[5] Despite dominating the Liverpool Senior Cup throughout the 1890s, Everton would fail to win any further major silverware during Molyneux's tenure, finishing as runners-up in the Football League First Division in 1894/95 and finalists in the FA Cup in 1892/93 and 1896/97. Everton also twice won the Lancashire Senior Cup under Molyneux, in 1894 and 1897. Molyneux's tenure came to an end on 11 September 1901,[4] when he was suspended by the board of directors for suspected drunkenness.[6]
Brentford
Molyneux became manager of Southern League Division One side Brentford in 1903.[3] Later in the year, Molyneux was suspended from football until the end of the 1903/04 season for attempting to buy goalkeeper John Bishop out of the Scots Guards.[3] Molyneux managed the club to mid-table mediocrity in the following two seasons, the club's best position being 9th in 1905/06. Under Molyneux's reign and due to his nous, Brentford moved from Boston Park cricket ground to a ground of their own in 1905. Serious illness forced Molyneux to resign in 1906 and he died shortly afterwards in Liverpool.[3]
Administrative career
Molyneux sat on the Football League Management Committee from 1893 to 1899.[5]
Managerial statistics
Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
Everton | 23 August 1889 | 11 September 1901 | 386 | 194 | 64 | 128 | 50.26 |
Brentford | May 1903 | June 1906 | 102 | 33 | 25 | 44 | 32.35 |
Total | 488 | 227 | 89 | 172 | 46.52 |
Honours
- Football League First Division (1): 1890/91
- FA Cup runners-up (1): 1892/93, 1896/97
- Liverpool Senior Cup (9): 1890, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1900
- Lancashire Senior Cup (2): 1894, 1897
External links
See also
References
- ^ "Dick Molyneux | Latest Betting Odds". Soccer Base. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
- ^ "Guide". TalkFootball. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
- ^ a b c d Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. ISBN 1 874427 57 7.
- ^ a b "Everton Results". evertonresults.com. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ a b Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920-2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. ISBN 0955294916.
- ^ "Daniel Kirkwood - The Director Years". The Everton Collection. Retrieved 2014-07-09.