Tony Knapp

Anthony Knapp (born October 13 1936 in Newstead) is a British footballer, a notable defender in the English football league in the 1960s. [Peter Keeling, [http://www.givemefootball.com/display.cfm?area=blast&type=1&area_id=41&article=11698 Blast from the past] (1.3.08)]

He was training with Nottingham Forest before becoming professional, as a player for Leicester City (1955-61, 86 matches), Southampton FC (1961-67, 260 matches, 2 goal), Coventry City (1967-68, 11 matches), Los Angeles Wolves (1968) and Tranmere Rovers (1969-71, 36 matches, 1 goal).

His career as a manager started in Poole Town F.C. (1971-72, also player) and as an assistant coach to Norwich City.He then had success with the amateurs Iceland national football team (1974-77, A, U18, U21) as in their beating the East Germany national football team 2-1 (1975). In Norway he had success with Viking FK (1978-80, winning the double 1979), Fredrikstad FK (1982-83), again Iceland (1984-85),and SK Brann (1986-87, cupfinalist). Since then Knapp has coached lower division clubs around Stavanger, such as SK Vidar, Djerv 1919, Sandnes Ulf, Staal (from Jørpeland, 2003) , Stavanger IF, Hundvåg FK (2004-05) and Lillesand IL (2007-).

Awards

*"Gold achievement" from Iceland

References