Fred Eyre

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Fred Eyre
Personal information
Full name Stanley Frederick Eyre [1]
Date of birth (1944-02-03) 3 February 1944 (age 80)
Place of birth Manchester, England
Position(s) Wing half
Youth career
1959–1961 Manchester City
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1961–1963 Manchester City 0 (0)
1963–1964 Lincoln City 0 (0)
1964–1965 Crewe Alexandra 0 (0)
Oswestry Town
Rossendale United
New Brighton
Ellesmere Port
Radcliffe Borough
Chadderton
1969–1970 Bradford Park Avenue 1 (0)
Oswestry Town
Wigan Athletic
Managerial career
1981 Wigan Athletic (caretaker)
1998 Sheffield United (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stanley Frederick Eyre (born 3 February 1944) is an English former professional football player and coach. After retiring from the sport, Eyre became a successful businessman, author, after-dinner speaker and radio pundit. He is the father of former Rochdale manager Steve Eyre.

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Career

Playing career

Born in Manchester, Eyre played as a wing half and began his early career as an apprentice at Football League club Manchester City, where he cleaned boots for players including Bert Trautmann and Denis Law, his playing heroes. [2] Eyre was Manchester City's first ever apprentice. [3] Failing to make the grade at Manchester City, he signed with Lincoln City in 1963 and then had a trial with Huddersfield Town before signing for Crewe Alexandra at the start of the 1964–65 season, but he never made a first-team appearance for either team. After leaving Crewe Alexandra in 1965, Eyre played in the English non-League system with a total of twenty clubs, including Oswestry Town, Rossendale United, New Brighton, Ellesmere Port, Radcliffe Borough and Chadderton. [2] Eyre returned to League football briefly during the 1969–70 season with Bradford Park Avenue, making one appearance, before returning to Oswestry Town; he later played for Wigan Athletic. [4]

Coaching career

Eyre worked on the coaching staff of both Bradford Park Avenue and Southport, [5] and had a brief spell as caretaker manager of Wigan Athletic in 1981, winning one game and drawing a second. [2] He was also Assistant Manager of Sheffield United in 1998, [2] as well as being Chief Scout at the same club. [3]

After football

Eyre started his own office supply company, became an after-dinner speaker, and published a book called Kicked into Touch, which had sold over a million copies as of April 2005. [2] One story that Eyre told involved Hungarian player Ferenc Puskás; on holiday in Australia, Eyre found himself on the same pitch as Puskás, who was coaching South Melbourne at the time:

Then came a masterstroke, a touch of genius, a lifetime spent playing, studying and reading about the game all came together in the next glorious second. Ocsi! I shouted, the nickname meaning 'Little Brother' he'd been given as a child in Hungary. He spun round with a look of astonishment as I fired a peach of a pass which he sizzled into the roof of the net with that trusty old left foot. Scorer Ferenc Puskas, assist Fred Eyre, the stuff of dreams. We walked off the pitch arm in arm. [6]

— Fred Eyre

As of 2009, Eyre co-commentated on Manchester City matches for BBC Radio Manchester. [7] He was still in the role as of 2011, when he suffered from a 'mystery illness'. [8]

Books

After retiring as a player he became a writer, publishing books including:

Kicked Into Touch [9]
Another Breath Of Fred Eyre [10]
What A Game! (with Roy Cavanagh) [11]
Star Games [12]
Taking The Mike [13]

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  1. ↑ "Fred Eyre". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Robert Philip (20 April 2005). "Eyre's life short on graces". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  3. 1 2 "Football: Sidelines". The Independent. 21 March 1998. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  4. ↑ Neil Barker (12 October 2009). "Old-boy Eyre warns City to expect a backlash". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  5. ↑ "Eyre picks his pen up again". Manchester Evening News. 20 May 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
  6. ↑ Robert Philip (22 December 2006). "The day Fred Eyre laid on a goal for mighty Puskas". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  7. ↑ Patrick Barclay (14 December 2009). "Idea of British players cheating is foreign to domestic fans". The Times. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  8. ↑ Spencer, Peter (24 August 2011). "I feel great, says Fred Eyre after recovering from mystery illness". Manchester Evening News.
  9. ↑ Eyre, Fred (1981), Kicked Into Touch, A Senior Publication, ISBN   9780751506365
  10. ↑ Eyre, Fred (1982), Another Breath Of Fred Eyre, A Senior Publication, ISBN   9780903839853
  11. ↑ Eyre, Fred (1983), What A Game!, A Senior Publication, ISBN   9780863171017
  12. ↑ Eyre, Fred (1984), Star Games, A Senior Publication, ISBN   9780863171123
  13. ↑ Eyre, Fred (1991), Taking The Mike, Futura, ISBN   9780751503746
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