Paul Jewell

Infobox Football biography
playername = Paul Jewell


fullname = Paul Steven Jewell
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1964|9|28|df=y
cityofbirth = Liverpool
countryofbirth = England
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
height = height|ft=5|in=8
nickname = Jagger
position = Striker
currentclub = Derby County
youthyears = 1982–1984
youthclubs = Liverpool
years = 1984–1988
1988–1998
1995
clubs = Wigan Athletic
Bradford City
→ Grimsby Town (loan)
Total
caps(goals) = 137 (35)
269 (56)
005 0(1)
411 (92)
manageryears = 1998–2000
2000–2001
2001–2007
2007–
managerclubs = Bradford City
Sheffield Wednesday
Wigan Athletic
Derby County

Paul Steven Jewell (born 28 September 1964) is a football manager, having previously had a career as a player. He is manager of Derby County.

His playing career started with Liverpool before moving to Wigan Athletic and then a ten-year spell with Bradford City. He had a short loan spell with Grimsby Town but when his playing career ended he became part of the coaching staff at Bradford.

He was appointed manager in 1998 and took City to the Premier League before resigning and becoming manager of Sheffield Wednesday. He returned to Wigan to win a second promotion to the Premier League but resigned a day after he kept them up in 2006–07 before joining Derby County on 28 November 2007.

Playing career

Born in Liverpool and educated at De La Salle School, Jewell began his career as an apprentice with home-city club Liverpool, but because of the dominance of Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish he never made a first-team league appearance and pursued his career elsewhere.

In December 1984, Jewell moved to Wigan Athletic for £15,000. He made his league debut for Wigan against Rotherham in a 3–3 draw. He played a total of 137 league appearances with Wigan, scoring 35 goals before moving to Bradford City in an £80,000 deal.cite book
last = Markham
first = David
title = The legends of Bradford City
publisher = Breedon Books Sport
year = 2007
pages = p99
isbn = 978-1-85983-572-2] Terry Dolan brought Jewell to Valley Parade in June 1988 as part of a re-building exercise after the club failed to win promotion to Division One in 1987–88 and had lost Stuart McCall and John Hendrie to Everton and Newcastle United respectively. He spent a decade as a player at City scoring 56 league goals in 269 appearances, and forged a successful partnership with Sean McCarthy for four of those seasons—the most of successful of which was in 1992–93 when Jewell scored 16 league goals and McCarthy 17 in the first season of new player-manager Frank Stapleton.

Jewell had a brief loan spell at Grimsby Town, before returning to Bradford eventually retiring as a player in 1997–98—although his last game came in the promotion-winning season from Division Two in 1995–96 under manager Chris Kamara.

Managerial career

Bradford City

Jewell had already started his coaching career long before he hung up his boots and had become part of City's coaching staff during the successful 1995–96 campaign. The following season City came 21st in Division One avoiding relegation with a 3–0 victory on the final day of the season against Queens Park Rangers. The following season started much better and with 13 points from a possible 15, City were top after five games, but results declined and chairman Geoffrey Richmond sacked Kamara on 6 January 1998 three days after a 2–0 FA Cup defeat to Manchester City.

Richmond turned to Jewell, who was by now Kamara's assistant, and he won his first game 2–1 to Stockport County. In his 21 games in charge, Jewell won six games and drew five to guide City to 13th, their highest position since Jewell had joined the club. He was rewarded with a permanent contract when others expected Richmond to turn to a big name. Richmond wanted to make a promotion challenge and Jewell broke the club's transfer record twice within the first week of the 1998–99 season, first with the £1m acquisition of Lee Mills and then spending £1.3m on Arsenal youngster Isaiah Rankin as well as bringing back Stuart McCall to the club from Rangers. After a poor start to the season, when City won just one of its first seven games, City picked up momentum and were second behind Sunderland for most of the latter half of the season. He added Lee Sharpe on loan and the third £1m signing Dean Windass as City held off Ipswich Town and Birmingham City to Division One runners-up and promotion to the Premier League marking Bradford's return to top flight football for the first time in 77 years.

Bradford found Premiership life tough in 1999–2000 but their survival was secured on the last day of the season when they beat Liverpool 1–0 against expectation at home and cost their opponents a UEFA Champions League place, while the last relegation place went to Wimbledon. Jewell handed in his notice just a few days later after meeting with the Richmond, who had deemed City's 17th placed Premiership finish "a disappointment", despite a widely-held view that it was one of the greatest shocks in English football history to keep City up. Richmond refused to accept Jewell's resignation from the club, as he contended that Jewell had already lined up a job at Sheffield Wednesday whilst still contracted to City and placed Jewell on gardening leave. After agreeing to a compensation package with City, Jewell was installed as manager at relegated Wednesday.cite book | author=David Markham | coauthors=Lindsay Sutton | title=The Bradford City Story: The Pain & the Glory | publisher = Breedon Books | date=2006-02-03 | id=ISBN 1-85983-499-X]

heffield Wednesday

Jewell had been hoping to mount a promotion challenge in 2000–01 with Wednesday but after enduring a torrid eight months in charge was sacked in February 2001 with the debt-ridden Hillsborough club struggling near the foot of Division One. His highlight was the 2–1 League Cup victory over local rivals Sheffield United and victory over Premier League West Ham United.

Wigan Athletic

In June 2001, Jewell made his return to management with ambitious Division Two club Wigan Athletic. In his second season as manager (2002–03) the club won the Division Two championship and entered the upper half of the English professional football league system for the first time ever. They were near the top of Division One throughout the 2003–04 season but were pipped to a playoff place on the final day of the season by Crystal Palace—who went on to win the playoffs.

On the final day of the 2004–05 Championship season, Jewell's Athletic side clinched promotion to the Premiership bringing top flight football to the Lancashire town for the first time. For the 2005–06 season, Jewell's side cruelly lost their first game at home to Chelsea via a last-minute winner from Hernán Crespo but won their first match three games later at home to Sunderland. They contested the League Cup final against Manchester United on 26 February 2006 but went down 4–0. Jewell's name was linked to the England manager's job when it was announced that Sven-Göran Eriksson would quit after the 2006 FIFA World Cup, but the job went to Steve McClaren instead.

On the final day of the 2006–07 season, Jewell steered Wigan safe from relegation after a win against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane on 13 May 2007. A day later, Jewell resigned as Wigan manager. One reason for Jewell's resignation from Wigan was because he was under a lot of stress.cite news
title = Jewell resigns as Wigan manager
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wigan_athletic/6653185.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date = 2007-05-14
accessdate = 2007-05-14] [cite news|url=http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=466601&CPID=8&clid=111&lid=2&title=Jewell+steps+down+at+Wigan&channel=football_home&|title=Jewell steps down at Wigan|publisher=Sky Sports|date=2007-05-14|accessdate=2007-05-14]

Derby County

After leaving Wigan, Jewell was linked with various vacant managerial positions at the start of the 2007–08 season, including Leicester City twice, [ [http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132385&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132378&contentPK=18251781&folderPk=77460&pNodeId=132401 JEWELL TIPPED FOR CITY JOB] , Leicester Mercury 2007-08-30. Retrieved on 2007-09-05.] [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/leicester_city/7079591.stm Leicester close in on new manager] , BBC Sport 2007-11-05. Retrieved on 2007-11-06.] a return to Wigan after his successor Chris Hutchings was sacked, [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wigan_athletic/7082416.stm Jewell 'Open to Wigan Offer'] , BBC News 2007-11-16. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.] and the Republic of Ireland job. [BBC Sport, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7109719.stm Jewell 'rules out' Republic job] ] The rumours ceased on 28 November 2007 after he was unveiled as Derby County's new manager two days after the departure of Billy Davies. [Cite web
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/7113523.stm
title = Jewell named as new Derby manager
publisher = BBC Sport
accessdate = 2007-11-28
date = 28 November, 2007] His first win as manager came only on penalties in an FA Cup game against Sheffield Wednesday, [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/7197858.stm
title=Sheff Wed 1-1 Derby (aet)
publisher=BBC Sport
accessdate=2008-01-26
date=22 January 2008] four days before they were knocked out of the competition to 22nd-placed Championship side Preston North End. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/7197711.stm
title=Derby 1-4 Preston
publisher=BBC Sport
accessdate=2008-01-26
date=26 January 2008] His 16th game as Derby manager came at his former club Wigan Athletic on 23 February 2008 when a 2–0 defeat set a Derby club record of 21 league games without victory. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7248369.stm
title=Wigan 2-0 Derby
date=23 February 2008
accessdate=2008-02-23
publisher=BBC Sport
first=Jonathan
last=Beck] Derby's relegation from the Premier League was confirmed on 29 March 2008 after a 2–2 draw with Fulham. The point gained from the draw was just Derby's 11th of the season. [cite news
url=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/7318360.stm
title=Jewell laments 'terrible season'
date=2008-03-29
accessdate=2008-03-30
publisher=BBC Sport] Derby finished the season with a record low of 11 points, and just one win, which was gained under Jewell's predecessor Billy Davies, equalling a 108-year Football League record. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7381785.stm
title=Derby 0-4 Reading
date=2008-05-11
accessdate=2008-05-11
publisher=BBC Sport]

Jewell's first victory as Derby manager came in the second game of the 2008–09 season when a hat-trick from Nathan Ellington helped his side defeat Lincoln City 3–1 after extra time in the first round of the League Cup. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/7558111.stm
title=Jewell inspired by Pride Park win
date=2008-08-13
accessdate=2008-08-13
publisher=BBC Sport] He recorded his first league win as Derby manager after 10 months in the job when his side defeated Sheffield United 2–1 on 13 September 2008. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/7616234.stm
title=Jewell relief at Rams league win
date=2008-09-15
accessdate=2008-09-18
publisher=BBC Sport]

Controversies

On 11 February, 2007 during the aftermath of Wigan's defeat at the hands of Arsenal, he threw blame at referee Phil Dowd after the referee failed to award Wigan a penalty when Emile Heskey was felled by Arsenal's Mathieu Flamini and was also upset at Arsenal's winning goal, which looked offside. Jewell stated Mr. Dowd could cost the club £50 Million. (Which would be the loss in earnings if Wigan Athletic were to be relegated from the Premiership.)cite news
title = Jewell hits out at referee Dowd
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/6352493.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date = 2007-02-12
accessdate = 2007-05-14]

There was further controversy when Jewell was handed an improper conduct charge for verbally insulting Phil Dowd after the Arsenal game. Jewell's reply was to contest the decision made by the Football Association claiming referee Phil Dowd verbally insulted his players on the pitch which went unpunished. Jewell claimed the FA were guilty of 'Double Standards' in charging himself but not Phil Dowd for seemingly the same offence.cite news
title = Jewell to take on FA after accusing Dowd of ‘F-word’ double standards
url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premiership/wigan/article1377737.ece
publisher = Times Online
date = 2007-02-13
accessdate = 2007-05-14]

Even more allegations were brought up by Jewell during the 2006/7 season against Phil Dowd in which he claimed at least one unnamed Premiership club had asked for referee Phil Dowd not to be put in charge of their game, and also claimed he received support from many of his peers and other referees.cite news
title = Wigan boss makes new Dowd claim
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wigan_athletic/6381931.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date = 2007-02-21
accessdate = 2007-05-14]

Jewell was initially fined £2,000 and given a two match touchline ban (suspended for 12 months) and has recently denied a second Football Association charge of improper conduct and bringing the game into disrepute after comments he made about referee Phil Dowd which was heard on the 16 May, 2007.cite news
title = JEWELL HEARING DATE SET
url = http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/07/04/30/SOCCER_Wigan.html&TEAMHD=soccer
publisher = Sporting Life
accessdate = 2007-05-14]

Personal life

Jewell is married to Ann-Marie, with whom he has a teenage daughter and son. However in March 2008, the "News of the World" newspaper revealed Jewell had had an affair which happened in 2002. [cite news
url=http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/2303_soccer_sex_shame2.shtml
title=Prem boss in sex video shame
date=2008-03-23
accessdate=2008-03-23
publisher=News of the World
first=Keith
last=Gladdis] [cite news
url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/2008/03/24/jewell-backed-in-sex-video-storm-89520-20361123/
title=Jewell backed in sex video storm
date=2008-03-24
accessdate=2008-03-24
publisher=Daily Mirror]

He is the son of a trade union activist and has a pet tortoise called Trotsky. [ [http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2064827,00.html 'Anyone want to play on the left?'] ]

Managerial statistics

:"Includes all competitive games. Updated 11 October 2008." [cite web
url=http://www.soccerbase.com/managers2.sd?managerid=1320
title=Paul Jewell's managerial career
accessdate=2008-10-11
publisher=Soccerbase]

References

External links

*soccerbase|3913|Paul Jewell
*soccerbase (manager)|1320|Paul Jewell