Peter Doherty (footballer)
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Peter Dermot Doherty[1] | ||
Date of birth | 5 June 1913 | ||
Place of birth | Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Ireland | ||
Date of death | 6 April 1990 | (aged 76)||
Place of death | Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) |
Inside-left | ||
Youth career | |||
1926–1930 | Station United | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1930–1931 | Coleraine | ||
1931–1933 | Glentoran | ||
1933–1936 | Blackpool | 82 | (28) |
1936–1945 | Manchester City | 119 | (74) |
1945–1946 | Derby County | 15 | (7) |
1946–1949 | Huddersfield Town | 83 | (33) |
1949–1953 | Doncaster Rovers | 103 | (56) |
Total | 402 | (198) | |
International career | |||
1935–1950 | Ireland (IFA) | 16 | (3) |
Managerial career | |||
1949–1958 | Doncaster Rovers | ||
1951–1962 | Northern Ireland | ||
1958–1960 | Bristol City | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Peter Dermot Doherty (5 June 1913 – 6 April 1990) was a Northern Irish international footballer and manager.
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In April 1949, he was appointed player-manager of Doncaster Rovers and was also top-scorer as the club won the Third Division North title during the 1949–50 season. The club then spent the next seven seasons in the Second Division, before he resigned in January 1958. He also worked as Northern Ireland's first national team manager from October 1951 to May 1962. He used his position to help Doncaster to sign talented Irish players, whilst helping his nation to qualify for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, where they reached the quarter-finals. He spent 1958 to 1960 as manager of Bristol City. He later scouted for Liverpool and was in the first group of 22 players to be inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.
Playing career
Born in
Manchester City started the 1936–37 season poorly, and were in the bottom half of the table until December.[6] Occasional big wins, including a 6–2 defeat of West Bromwich Albion and a 4–1 defeat of Everton, were mixed with extended barren runs; at one point the club gained just one win in twelve matches.[8] However, Doherty was scoring goals regularly. A goal in a 5–3 Christmas day loss to Grimsby Town was his twelfth of the season. Christmas proved to be a turning point for the club, as a win against Middlesbrough the following day was the start of a long unbeaten run.[6] By April, Manchester City were second in the table, and faced a fixture against Arsenal, league leaders and the dominant club of the period.[9] Doherty scored the first goal in a 2–0 win, and City reached the top of the table.[6] The unbeaten run continued until the end of the season, and City secured their first league championship with a 4–1 win over Sheffield Wednesday. Doherty, with 30 league goals, was the club's leading scorer, helped by a run of eleven goals in seven games as the season drew to a close.[8]
Doherty scored 79 goals in 130 appearances during his time at Maine Road. During the Second World War years of 1939–1945, Doherty served in the RAF. He remained registered as a Manchester City player, scoring 60 goals in 89 wartime matches,[4] though wartime games are not generally included in official records. He also guested for numerous clubs across the country: Port Vale, Blackburn Rovers, Derby County, Birmingham, Brentford, Grimsby Town, Lincoln City, Liverpool, Manchester United, West Bromwich Albion and Walsall.[10] During a guest appearance for Port Vale in 1945, he famously went to take a penalty but instead of shooting he laid it off to a teammate who scored.[11]
After the conclusion of the war, he transferred to Derby County, with whom he won the FA Cup, scoring a goal in the final itself as Derby beat Charlton Athletic 4–1 at Wembley Stadium.[12] In December 1946, Doherty moved to David Steele's Huddersfield Town for a fee of over £9,000 after requesting a transfer. Doherty was unhappy with the directors who opposed his plan to secure his future by taking over the Arboretum Hotel and an earlier dispute over FA Cup final tickets.[13] The "Terriers" boasted a powerful front five of Albert Bateman, Jimmy Glazzard, Alf Whittingham, Doherty and Vic Metcalfe.[14] However, a weak defence saw them struggle in the lower reaches of the First Division throughout the 1946–47 season, 1947–48 and 1948–49 seasons.[14] At Leeds Road he scored 33 goals in 83 league appearances, finishing as the "Terriers" top-scorer in his final two seasons under George Stephenson.
In his autobiography, Len Shackleton wrote of Doherty:
- "Peter Doherty was surely the genius among geniuses. Possessor of the most baffling body swerve in football, able to perform all the tricks with the ball, owning a shot like the kick of a mule, and, with all this, having such tremendous enthusiasm for the game that he would work like a horse for ninety minutes. That was pipe-smoking Peter Doherty, the Irish redhead who, I am convinced, had enough football skill to stroll through a game smoking that pipe-and still make the other twenty-one players appear second-raters. But of course Peter never strolled through anything. His energy had to be seen to be appreciated."[15]
Management career
Doncaster Rovers
He made his final move to
Northern Ireland
He became manager of Northern Ireland between 1951 and 1962, for whom he had 16 caps as a player. He led the country at the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden after they topped their qualification group ahead of Italy and Portugal.[17] At the tournament itself, Northern Ireland qualified for the knockout stages after finishing second in their group, having beaten Czechoslovakia, lost to Argentina and drew with West Germany.[18][19][20] Having finished level on points with Czechoslovakia, they then beat the Czechs 2–1 in a play-off game, with Peter McParland scoring a brace at the Malmö Stadion.[21] They were then eliminated after losing 4–0 against France in the quarter-finals.[22]
Bristol City
He also managed Bristol City from 1958 to 1960. The "Robins" finished tenth in the Second Division at the end of the 1958–59 season and were relegated at the end of the 1959–60 campaign.
Preston North End (assistant)
From October 1970 to January 1973 he held the position of assistant-manager at
Style of management
His coaching techniques were revolutionary at the time. He emphasised ball practice and instead of endless laps of the pitch, Doherty suggested volleyball, "to promote jumping, timing and judgement"; basketball, "to encourage split-second decision-making and finding space"; and walking football, "to build up calf muscles".[24]
Later life and death
In later life he became a scout for Liverpool, helping to unearth such talents as Kevin Keegan.[24] He and Andy Beattie also served Notts County as 'professional advisers' from December 1965 to March 1966, providing council to first-team manager Ernie Coleman.[25] Following his death in 1990, there is a plaque to mark his birthplace in Magherafelt.[2]
Statistics
Club statistics
Source:[26]
Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Total | |||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Blackpool | 1933–34 | Second Division | 19 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 5 |
1934–35 | Second Division | 35 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 13 | |
1935–36 | Second Division | 28 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 11 | |
Total | 82 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 87 | 29 | ||
Manchester City | 1935–36 | First Division | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 |
1936–37 | First Division | 41 | 30 | 4 | 2 | 45 | 32 | |
1937–38 | First Division | 41 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 46 | 25 | |
1938–39 | Second Division | 28 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 18 | |
Total | 119 | 74 | 11 | 5 | 130 | 79 | ||
Derby County | 1945–46 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
1946–47 | First Division | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 7 | |
Total | 15 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 27 | 17 | ||
Huddersfield Town | 1946–47 | First Division | 19 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 9 |
1947–48 | First Division | 38 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 13 | |
1948–49 | First Division | 26 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 14 | |
Total | 83 | 33 | 4 | 3 | 87 | 36 | ||
Doncaster Rovers | 1949–50 | Third Division North | 35 | 27 | 4 | 3 | 39 | 30 |
1950–51 | Second Division | 23 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 14 | |
1951–52 | Second Division | 16 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 6 | |
1952–53 | Second Division | 29 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 9 | |
Total | 103 | 56 | 6 | 3 | 109 | 59 | ||
Career total | 402 | 198 | 38 | 22 | 440 | 220 |
International statistics
Ireland national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
1935 | 4 | 0 |
1936 | 1 | 0 |
1937 | 3 | 1 |
1938 | 1 | 0 |
1939 | 1 | 0 |
1946 | 1 | 0 |
1947 | 2 | 3 |
1948 | 2 | 0 |
1949 | 0 | 0 |
1950 | 1 | 0 |
Total[27] | 16 | 4 |
Managerial statistics
Team | From | To | Record | Ref. | ||||
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G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
Doncaster Rovers | 18 May 1949 | 17 January 1958 | 388 | 133 | 108 | 147 | 34.28 | [28] |
Northern Ireland | 6 October 1951 | 9 May 1962 | 51 | 9 | 14 | 28 | 17.65 | |
Bristol City | 17 January 1958 | 1 March 1960 | 95 | 33 | 14 | 48 | 34.74 | [28] |
Career total | 534 | 175 | 136 | 223 | 32.77 | — |
Honours
Awards
- English Football Hall of Fame: inducted 2002
- Manchester City F.C. Hall of Fame: inducted 2004
Glentoran
Manchester City
Derby County
Doncaster Rovers player-manager
References
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- ^ a b c Welton, Blake (27 November 2016). "Peter Doherty - Huddersfield Town's proclaimed 'genius among geniuses'". YorkshireLive. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-9538244-0-3.
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- ^ "World Cup 1958 qualifications". RSSSF. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
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- ^ "Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats". nifootball.blogspot.com.
- ^ a b "Football Hall of Fame - Peter Doherty". Archived from the original on 20 May 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
- ^ "Register" – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Peter Doherty at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
- ^ "Peter Doherty". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ^ a b "Managers: Manager search: Doherty, PD (Peter)". English National Football Archive. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ News, Manchester Evening (29 December 2011). "Great-granddaughter of Manchester City 1937 title-winner Peter Doherty runs out as club mascot". men. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
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