Derek Dougan
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alexander Derek Dougan | ||
Date of birth | 20 January 1938 | ||
Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
Date of death | 24 June 2007 | (aged 69)||
Place of death | Wolverhampton, England | ||
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
1951–1953 | Cregagh Boys | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1953–1957 | Distillery | 76 | (17) |
1957–1959 | Portsmouth | 33 | (9) |
1959–1961 | Blackburn Rovers | 59 | (26) |
1961–1963 | Aston Villa | 51 | (19) |
1963–1965 | Peterborough United | 77 | (38) |
1965–1967 | Leicester City | 68 | (35) |
1967–1975 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 258 | (95) |
1967 | → Los Angeles Wolves (loan) | 11 | (3) |
1969 | → Kansas City Spurs (loan) | 6 | (4) |
1975–1977 | Kettering Town | ||
Total | 639 | (246) | |
International career | |||
1952 | Northern Ireland Schoolboys | 3 | (0) |
Northern Ireland Youth | |||
1956 | Northern Ireland Amateurs | 2 | (0) |
1957–1959 |
Northern Ireland B | 2 | (3) |
1958–1973 | Northern Ireland | 43 | (8) |
Managerial career | |||
1975–1977 | Kettering Town (player-manager) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Alexander Derek Dougan (20 January 1938 – 24 June 2007) was a
A strong and physical
He was appointed player-manager at Southern League Premier Division side Kettering Town in 1975, a position he retained for two years. Whilst at the club he negotiated the first shirt sponsorship deal in English football. He chaired the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) from 1970 to 1978, and helped to further players' rights and set up the first PFA player awards in 1974. Also throughout the 1970s he became a football pundit and writer, and became particularly well known for his part in ITV's coverage of the 1970 and 1974 FIFA World Cup. After fronting a consortium that took Wolverhampton Wanderers out of liquidation, he served the club as chairman from August 1982 to January 1985. He stood as an independent politician in the Belfast East constituency in 1997, and later became involved in the UK Independence Party.
Club career
Distillery
Alexander Derek Dougan was born in Belfast on 20 January 1938, the son of Jackie and Josie Dougan.[3] His father worked at Belfast docks.[3] His grandfather, Sandy, had played at half-back for Linfield, and two of Sandy's brothers also played for some of the leading clubs in Belfast.[3] As a child, Dougan would usually spend between four and eight hours a day playing football in the street.[4] His family were poor, and later in life Dougan joked that "on the street where I lived, if you paid your rent three weeks on the trot, the police used to come and see where you got the money from".[5] As a teenager he spent 18 months working at a toy factory whilst playing amateur football for Cregagh Boys.[6] He also trained with Linfield, but could not break into any of their junior teams.[6] He instead joined Distillery in 1953.[7] Manager Jimmy McIntosh handed him his first team debut on 5 February 1955, in a 0–0 Irish Cup first round draw with Glentoran.[8] Maurice Tadman, who succeeded McIntosh as the club's manager in the summer of 1955, preferred to use Dougan as a target man centre-forward, as Dougan's height made him adept at winning and flicking on headers in the opposition penalty area.[9]
Whilst playing part-time for Distillery he also worked at the
Portsmouth
Dougan had trials at Preston North End and Bury, before he was signed by Portsmouth for a fee of £4,000 in August 1957.[14] "Pompey" struggled to a 20th-place finish in the First Division in the 1957–58 season, and some of his teammates resented Dougan for what he himself felt was the constructive criticism he offered in the dressing room.[15] He made his first team debut, providing an assist for Jackie Henderson in a 3–0 victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford.[16] He scored his first senior goal for the club in a 1–1 draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers. New manager Freddie Cox, who succeeded Eddie Lever at Fratton Park in 1958, took the club to relegation with a last place finish in 1958–59 season, though Dougan would miss much of the season with an ankle injury.[17]
Blackburn Rovers
Dougan was sold on to
Aston Villa
Dougan was signed by
Peterborough United
Dougan dropped down to the Third Division to join Peterborough United for a £21,000 fee in the summer of 1963.[30] He later admitted that "I had made a mistake in going to the Third Division when I was a First Division player".[31] The move did though have its benefits, as the club's physiotherapist managed to diagnose and eventually correct an ankle injury that had troubled Dougan for the previous five years.[31] He scored 20 goals in 38 league games in the 1963–64 season, and at the end of the campaign manager Jack Fairbrother was replaced by Gordon Clark, who Dougan said "renewed my sense of vocation".[32] He then scored seven goals in the club's 1964–65 run to the sixth round of the FA Cup, including one in their 2–1 win over top-flight Arsenal at London Road.[33] Peterborough's league promotion campaign failed despite their cup exploits, causing Dougan to remark that "after playing at Stamford Bridge it was not easy to go to places like Gillingham on a cold Tuesday evening, where they are waiting for you with their sleeves rolled up".[34]
Leicester City
Dougan returned to the First Division when he signed for Leicester City in May 1965 for a £26,000 fee.[34] However, he had a difficult relationship with manager Matt Gillies despite being the first choice striker at Filbert Street.[35] He scored 19 goals in 37 league games in the 1965–66 season to help the team to a seventh-place finish.[36] He scored 21 goals in 35 league and cup games in the 1966–67 season, but his 'free spirit' nature frustrated Gillies, who sanctioned Dougan's sale despite his good form.[37]
Wolverhampton Wanderers
In March 1967, Dougan dropped into the Second Division after being signed by Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Ronnie Allen for a £50,000 fee.[14] He marked his home debut on 25 March by scoring a hat-trick against Hull City.[38] He ended the 1966–67 season with nine goals in 11 games for Wolves, and helped the club to secure promotion to the First Division.[39] He spent the summer of 1967 in the United States playing for the Los Angeles Wolves in the United Soccer Association, scoring three goals in eleven games to help Wolves to win the West Division title and then captained the side and scored a goal as they beat the Washington Whips 6–5 in the USA Final at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.[40]
Strike partner
Wolves enjoyed an excellent start to the 1969–70 season, winning seven of their opening eight games, but fell away to a mid-table finish after the shock retirement of 24-year old forward Peter Knowles, who left the game to become a full-time Jehovah's Witness volunteer.[43] Dougan had a poor season, limited to just ten goals in 33 games due to injuries and an eight-week suspension, then the longest ban of the post-war era, for verbally abusing a linesman in a home defeat to Everton.[44][45] The sending off by referee Keith Walker caused upheaval in the stands, occasioning the injury of 84 people.[46] In the return fixture at Goodison Park, he suffered a clash of heads with full-back Keith Newton and had to undergo major re-constructive surgery and was out of action for two months.[47] McGarry did not speak to Dougan during his two-month absence, but Dougan decided against issuing a transfer request as he did not want to further his reputation as a journeyman player.[47]
Wolves finished fourth in the
He scored 19 goals in 51 appearances in the
Kettering Town
Dougan was appointed player-manager at
International career
Dougan represented
An advocate of an All-Ireland soccer team, Dougan was also one of six Northern Ireland internationals to feature in the Shamrock Rovers XI v Brazil exhibition match in July 1973; the "Shamrock Rovers XI" was a pseudonym for an All-Ireland team, which also featured Republic of Ireland internationals.[14][71] He scored one of the goals for Rovers in the 4–3 defeat. Both the Northern Ireland-based Irish Football Association and the Republic of Ireland-based Football Association of Ireland had been "implacably opposed" to the staging of the game, which was why the team had to be called a "Shamrock Rovers XI".[72] Meanwhile, Dougan, who had helped organise the match, subsequently alleged that his involvement meant that he never played for Northern Ireland again.[73] Though it is arguable that it was at least as much a case of his Northern Ireland career having already effectively been ended, since he had been dropped from the team after a 1–0 defeat away to Cyprus the previous season and hadn't been selected for any of Northern Ireland's subsequent five matches before the Shamrock Rovers XI game, by which time he was already 35.[74]
Style of play
Dougan was a combative centre-forward who relied on his speed, strength and awareness to score and create goals.[75] Former Peterborough United teammate Peter Deakin said that "his biggest strength was his ability in the air. If enough balls went into the area he would be on the end of 80 per cent of them".[76] He had an excellent left-foot and was described as "streetwise" and "crafty", but was not a great passer of the ball.[77] Opposition defenders did not like playing against him as he was strong and very difficult to defend against.[78]
Media career
In 1967, Dougan represented Leicester City on the television show Quizball.
In 1974, he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews for an episode of This Is Your Life.[85] Later in the year he published a novel, The Footballer.[84][86] Author Melvyn Bragg wrote that The Footballer was "predictable" with "thinly drawn" characters, but praised the dialogue and the "narrative flair".[87] Dougan reprised his role in ITV's World Cup coverage for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, with Brian Clough and Jack Charlton replacing Crerand and McNab.[85][88] In 1976, Dougan assisted historian Percy M. Young in producing On the Spot: Football as a Profession, a social history book that included anecdotes and insight from Dougan to complement Young's research.[87] He published a third autobiography in 1980, entitled Doog, which revealed his disdain for Bill McGarry.[89] The following year he published How Not to Run Football, which condemned the footballing authorities for what Dougan termed a "Victorian-Edwardian" attitude.[89] In 1983, he co-authored Matches of the Day with Pat Murphy.[90]
Football administration
PFA chairmanship
Dougan succeeded Terry Neill – his future Northern Ireland manager – as chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) in 1970.[91] He advocated the belief that players should control their own destiny and used his position as Chairman of the PFA to further players' rights.[92] He oversaw the inaugural PFA awards in 1973–74, which included the PFA Players' Player of the Year, PFA Young Player of the Year, PFA Team of the Year, and PFA Merit Award.[93] He pushed for freedom of contract for players, and in 1978 accepted a compromise deal that allowed players to switch clubs at the end of their contracts, providing that the player's new club and old club could agree on a transfer fee, with a tribunal agreeing on a fee in cases where clubs could not agree.[94]
[Dougan] led the PFA, along with my predecessor Cliff Lloyd, all through negotiations in establishing a constitution and a collective bargaining agreement which have stood the test of time. at times he was a very controversial character, never frightened of taking on authority, which got him into trouble in his playing career and, needless to say, off the field as well. He led as chairman and brought in the players' right to move, which was the frontrunner of Bosman."
— PFA chairman Gordon Taylor, speaking after Dougan's death.[95]
Chairmanship of Wolves
In August 1982, he fronted a consortium – funded by Saudi brothers Mahmud and Mohammad Bhatti of the company Allied Properties – that took Wolverhampton Wanderers out of liquidation, beating a rival bid from Doug Ellis.[96] The brothers wanted anonymity, and were only revealed to the public after investigation by journalists.[97] He sacked manager Ian Greaves and replaced him with former Wolves teammate Graham Hawkins.[98] However the council rejected planning permission for the club to construct a supermarket, and the Bhattis were unwilling or unable to provide further funding for the club.[99] Wolves won promotion out of the Second Division in 1982–83, but were relegated out of the First Division in last place in 1983–84, and Dougan sacked Hawkins and replaced him with Tommy Docherty.[100] Dougan resigned mid season in January 1985 with Wolves going on to suffer a second successive relegation in the 1984–85 season.[101]
Later life
Dougan stood as an independent 'Former Captain NI Football Team' candidate for the
In December 2005, he was a
Career statistics
Club
Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Distillery | Total[119] | 76 | 17 | |||||||
Portsmouth | 1957–58 | First Division | 26 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 6 |
1958–59 | First Division | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |
Total | 33 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 9 | ||
Blackburn Rovers | 1958–59 | First Division | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
1959–60 | First Division | 33 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 17 | |
1960–61 | First Division | 22 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 16 | |
Total | 59 | 26 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 76 | 34 | ||
Aston Villa | 1961–62 | First Division | 23 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 12 |
1962–63 | First Division | 28 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 14 | |
Total | 51 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 60 | 26 | ||
Peterborough United | 1963–64 | Third Division | 38 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 21 |
1964–65 | Third Division | 39 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 49 | 25 | |
Total | 77 | 38 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 90 | 46 | ||
Leicester City | 1965–66 | First Division | 37 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 20 |
1966–67 | First Division | 31 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 35 | 21 | |
Total | 68 | 35 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 76 | 41 | ||
Wolverhampton Wanderers | 1966–67 | Second Division | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9 |
1967–68 | First Division | 38 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 17 | |
1968–69 | First Division | 39 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 44 | 14 | |
1969–70 | First Division | 26 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 33 | 10 | |
1970–71 | First Division | 25 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 34 | 13 | |
1971–72 | First Division | 38 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 51 | 24 | |
1972–73 | First Division | 37 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 51 | 19 | |
1973–74 | First Division | 38 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 50 | 15 | |
1974–75 | First Division | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 2 | |
Total | 258 | 95 | 12 | 4 | 53 | 24 | 323 | 123 | ||
Los Angeles Wolves (loan) | 1967 | United Soccer Association | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 |
Kansas City Spurs (loan) | 1969 | North American Soccer League |
6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
Career total | 639 | 246 | 49 | 18 | 66 | 39 | 754 | 303 |
International
Northern Ireland[118] | ||
Year | Apps | Goals |
---|---|---|
1958 | 1 | 0 |
1959 | 1 | 0 |
1960 | 1 | 0 |
1961 | 3 | 2 |
1962 | 3 | 1 |
1965 | 3 | 1 |
1966 | 5 | 0 |
1967 | 2 | 0 |
1968 | 4 | 2 |
1969 | 5 | 0 |
1970 | 3 | 0 |
1971 | 7 | 2 |
1972 | 4 | 0 |
1973 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 43 | 8 |
Honours
Distillery[119]
Blackburn Rovers[119]
- 1959–60
Wolverhampton Wanderers[119]
- 1973–74
- Texaco Cup: 1970–71
- 1971–72
- Football League Second Division second-place promotion: 1966–67
Los Angeles Wolves[119]
Kansas City Spurs[119]
- NASL International Cup: 1969
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