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Howard Kendall
Personal information
Full name	Howard Kendall
Date of birth	22 May 1946 (1946-05-22) (age 61)
Place of birth	Ryton-on-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England
Playing position	Midfielder (retired)
Youth clubs
1961–1963	Preston North End
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1963–1967 1967–1974 1974–1977 1977–1979 1979–1981 1981	Preston North End Everton Birmingham City Stoke City Blackburn Rovers Everton Total	104 (13) 229 (21) 115 (16) 082 0(9) 079 0(6) 004 0(0) 613 (65)
Teams managed
1979–1981 1981–1987 1987–1989 1989–1990 1990–1993 1995 1995–1997 1997–1998 1998–1999	Blackburn Rovers Everton Athletic Bilbao Manchester City Everton Notts County Sheffield United Everton Ethnikos Piraeus
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Howard Kendall (born 22 May 1946 in Ryton, Tyne and Wear) is an English football manager and former player. He is most famous for his connection to Everton, a club that he both played for and managed. His uncle Harry Taylor played for Newcastle United and Fulham in the 1950s.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Career in management 3 Honours 3.1 Player 3.2 Manager 3.3 Other 4 External links

Kendall joined Preston North End as an apprentice in 1961. He turned professional in May 1963 and played in the 1964 FA Cup Final against West Ham United. At the time the youngest player to appear in the final, his place in the side coming due to the regular left-half Ian Davidson being suspended by the club for an unauthorised trip to Scotland.

Originally a defender, Kendall joined Everton for £80,000 in March 1967 where he was moved into midfield with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey. This famous trio (given the nickname The Holy Trinity) were a major component of the Everton team that won the Football League First Division in the 1969–70 season. In the next three seasons, Kendall captained Everton. He was transferred to Birmingham City in February 1974 and later to Stoke City in August 1977 for a fee of £40,000. Kendall was made player-coach at Stoke City in February 1978 and played a pivotal role in the 1978–79 season when Stoke won promotion to the First Division.

To the amazement of many, Kendall never played for England at senior level, but won caps at Schoolboy, Youth and Under-23 level, captaining the England Youth side to victory in the 1964 Little World Cup Final.

In June 1979 Kendall was appointed player-manager of Blackburn Rovers and took the team into the Second Division in 1980 and missing out on promotion to the First Division on goal difference the following season.

In May 1981 Kendall returned to Everton as player-manager, although he only played four games before finally retiring as a player. Initially he struggled and was on the verge of being sacked in January 1984 when results began to pick up with Everton reaching the League Cup final (losing to Liverpool) and winning the FA Cup (beating Watford) at the end of the season. In the 1984–85 season, Everton won the League Championship, finishing 13 points clear of runners-up Liverpool, and the European Cup-Winners' Cup, defeating Austrian side Rapied Vienna, and reached the final of the FA Cup. Everton narrowly failed to win both the League and the FA Cup in 1985–86 – second in both to Liverpool – but in 1986–87 won the League again, nine points clear of Liverpool, as the Merseyside clubs continued their stranglehold on the English game.

Kendall left Everton in 1987, frustrated by the ban from Europe of English clubs, to manage Athletic Bilbao in Spain. He was not a great success at Bilbao (4th in 1988, 7th in 1989) not helped by limitations on the players he could sign for the Basque club. He turned down an offer to manage Newcastle United to remain in Spain, but was sacked in November 1989 after a poor run of results.

The following month he returned to England as manager of Manchester City, before returning to Everton in November 1990. He was less successful the second time around, resigning in December 1993 after a row about money for a signing. He was appointed manager of Notts County in 1995 but was sacked after less than three months. He then joined Sheffield United in December 1995, saving the club from relegation and then taking it to the 1997 play-off final, which was lost to Crystal Palace.

Kendall then returned to Everton for third time as manager in August 1997, but resigned at the end of the season having only managed to avoid relegation on the final day of the season. Kendall moved to Greek side Ethnikos Piraeus, but was sacked in March 1999 after only four months in charge and with the club eight points adrift at the bottom of the Greek First Division. As of 2007, this was Kendall's last role in football managment. He remains the last English manager to win a European competition.

• England Schoolboy International
• England Youth International
• England Under-23 International (6 caps)
• Football League Representative
• Little World Cup: 1964 (with England Youth Team)
• Football League Champion: 1969-70 (with Everton)

• Football League 1984-85 and 1986-87 (as Everton manager)
• Football League Runner-up: 1985-86 (as Everton manager)
• FA Cup: 1984 (as Everton manager)
• FA Cup Runner-up: 1964 (with Preston North End), 1968 (with Everton), 1985 and 1986 (as Everton manager)
• Football League Cup Runner-up: 1984 (as Everton manager)
• European Cup Winners' Cup: 1985 (as Everton manager)
• Zenith Data Systems Cup Runner-up: 1991 (as Everton manager)

• Kendall was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of his contribution as a manager to the English game.
• A petition was created to ask the Prime Minister to knight Kendall as a result of his achievements with Everton.

• English football Hall of Fame 2005 inductees
• Howard Kendall managerial statistics at soccerbase.com
• http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/KnightKendall/ - A fan's petition requesting for Kendall to be instated into the order of the empire.

Sporting positions
Preceded by José Ángel Iribar	Athletic Bilbao manager 1987–1989	Succeeded by Txetxu Rojo
Preceded by '	Ethnikos Piraeus manager 1998-1999	Succeeded by '

v • d • e Blackburn Rovers F.C. – Managers

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v • d • e Everton F.C. – Managers

Barclay (1888–89) • Molyneux (1889–1901) • Cuff (1901–18) • Sawyer (1918–19) • McIntosh (1919–35) • Kelly (1936–48) • Britton (1948–56) • Buchan (1956–58) • Carey (1958–61) • Catterick (1961–73) • Eggleston (1973) • Bingham (1973–77) • Burtenshaw (1977) • Lee (1977–81) • Kendall (1981–87) • Harvey (1987–90) • Gabriel (1990) • Kendall (1990–93) • Gabriel (1993–94) • Walker (1994) • Royle (1994–97) • Watson (1997) • Kendall (1997–98) • Smith (1998–2002) • Moyes (2002–)

v • d • e Manchester City F.C. – Managers

Furniss (1889–93) • Parlby (1893–95) • Ormerod (1895–1902) • Maley (1902–06) • Newbould (1906–12) • Magnall (1912–24) • Ashworth (1924–25) • Hodge (1926–32) • Wild (1932–46) • Cowan (1946–47) • Thomson (1947–50) • McDowall (1950–63) • Poyser (1963–65) • Mercer (1965–71) • Allison (1972–73) • Hart (1973) • Saunders (1973–74) • Book (1974–79) • Allison (1979–80) • Bond (1980–83) • Benson (1983) • McNeill (1983–86) • Frizzell (1986–87) • Machin (1987–89) • Kendall (1989–90) • Reid (1990–93) • Horton (1993–95) • Ball (1995–96) • Coppell (1996) • Clark (1996–98) • Royle (1998–2001) • Keegan (2001–05) • Pearce (2005–07) • Eriksson (2007–)

v • d • e Notts County F.C. – Managers

Browne (1883–93) • Featherstone (1893) • Harris (1893–1913) • Fisher (1913–27) • Henshall (1927–34) • Jones (1934–35) • Pratt (1935) • Smith (1935–36) • McMullan (1936–39) • Parkes (1938–39) • Towers (1939–42) • Womack (1942–43) • Buckley (1944–46) • Stollery (1946–49) • Houghton (1949–53) • Poyser (1953–57) • Lawton (1957–58) • Hill (1958–61) • Coleman (1961–63) • Lowe (1963–65) • Coleman (1965–66) • Burkitt (1966–67) • Beattie (1967) • Gray (1967–78) • Sirrel (1969–75) • Fenton (1975–77) • Sirrel (1978–82) • Wilkinson (1982–83) • Lloyd (1983–84) • Barker (1984–85) • Sirrel (1985–87) • Barnwell (1987–88) • Warnock (1989–93) • Walker (1993–94) • Slade (1994–95) • Kendall (1995) • Nicol (1995) • Murphy (1995–96) • Allardyce (1997–99) • Scott (1999–2001) • Brazil (2001–02) • Dearden (2002–04) • Mills (2004–05) • Thordarson (2005–06) • Thompson (2006–2007) • McParland (2007–)

v • d • e Sheffield United F.C. – Managers

Wostinholm (1889–99s) • Nicholson (1899–1932s) • Davison (1932–52) • Freeman (1952–55) • Mercer (1955–58) • Clark (1958–59c) • Harris (1959–68) • Rowley (1968–69) • Harris (1969–73) • Furphy (1973–75) • Coldwell (1975c) • Sirrel (1975–77) • Coldwell (1977–78c) • Haslam (1978–81) • Peters (1981) • Porterfield (1981–86) • McEwan (1986–88) • Bassett (1988–95) • Kendall (1995–97) • Spackman (1997–98) • Thompson (1998c) • Bruce (1998–99) • Heath (1999) • Warnock (1999–2007) • Robson (2007–) (s) secretary (c) caretaker