Famous Coaches from the United Kingdom
Ade Mafe
Age: 58Adeoye "Ade" Mafe (born 12 November 1966) is a retired English sprinter who competed in the 200 metres and 400 metres. At the age of 17, he represented Great Britain at the 1984 Olympic Games, reaching the 200 metres final. Also at 200 meters, he is a three-time World Indoor medallist and the 1989 European Indoor champion. After retiring from athletics, he went on to work as a fitness coach for several football clubs, including Chelsea, Millwall, Milton Keynes Dons, West Bromwich Albion and Watford. On 8 Jan 2019 Ade appeared on The Chase.- Birthplace: Isleworth, London, United Kingdom
- Llewellyn Charles "Alan" Curbishley (born 8 November 1957) is an English former football player and manager. He played as a midfielder for West Ham United, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, Charlton Athletic and Brighton & Hove Albion and has worked in the Premier League in management roles at Charlton Athletic and West Ham United. In December 2013 he was appointed technical director at Fulham only to be removed from the role in February 2014. He again joined Fulham's coaching staff in March 2015.
- Birthplace: Forest Gate, England
- Alan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004 Shearer was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.Shearer scored 283 league goals in his career (all in the first tier of English football), including a record 260 in the Premier League (of which 58 were penalties) with a joint record 11 Premier League hat-tricks, and a total of 422 in all competitions including international at all levels. Until his retirement from international football in 2000, he appeared 63 times for his country and scored 30 goals. Shearer had a goals-to-game ratio of 0.667 throughout his career. Since retiring as a player in 2006, Shearer has worked as a television pundit for the BBC. In 2009, he briefly left his BBC role to become Newcastle United's manager in the last eight games of their 2008–09 season, in an unsuccessful attempt to save them from relegation. Shearer is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), a Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland, a Freeman of Newcastle upon Tyne and an honorary Doctor of Civil Law of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities.
- Birthplace: England
Alan Tait
Age: 60Alan Victor Tait (born 2 November 1964) is a Scottish dual-code rugby footballer, and coach. He was until January 2012, head coach at Newcastle Falcons and a former rugby league and rugby union footballer who played outside centre for Scotland, and the British and Irish Lions. He played club rugby union for Kelso, and the Newcastle Falcons, and club rugby league for Widnes and Leeds. Tait changed codes twice in his life, once going from rugby union to rugby league, and then going the other way after union became professional during the mid-1990s.- Birthplace: Kelso, United Kingdom
- Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is considered one of the greatest managers of all time and he has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football.Ferguson played as a forward for several Scottish clubs, including Dunfermline Athletic and Rangers. While playing for Dunfermline, he was the top goalscorer in the Scottish league in the 1965–66 season. Towards the end of his playing career he also worked as a coach, then started his managerial career with East Stirlingshire and St Mirren. Ferguson then enjoyed a highly successful period as manager of Aberdeen, winning three Scottish league championships, four Scottish Cups and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1983. He briefly managed Scotland following the death of Jock Stein, taking the team to the 1986 World Cup. Ferguson was appointed manager of Manchester United in November 1986. During his 26 years with Manchester United he won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups, and two UEFA Champions League titles. He was knighted in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours list for his services to the game. Ferguson is the longest-serving manager of Manchester United, having overtaken Sir Matt Busby's record on 19 December 2010. He retired from management at the end of the 2012–13 season, having won the Premier League in his final season.
- Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Andrew Armitage
Age: 59Andrew Armitage (born October 9, 1965) is an English-born Finnish cricketer.Ashley Jackson
Age: 37Ashley Jackson (born 27 August 1987) is an English international field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for England and Great Britain.He was a member of the Great Britain squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and finishing 4th at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Jackson also played in the England squad that won Bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.Jackson made his full international debut for Great Britain in 2007 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy and for England in 2009 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy. He was named FIH Young Player of the year 2009 and is the first English player to receive this accolade.He currently plays club hockey for Old Georgians'.Jackson has also played for East Grinstead. Holcombe, HGC in two spells in the Dutch League, as well as for Ranchi Rhinos in the Hockey India League. He started playing hockey for Tunbridge Wells Hockey Club whilst a schoolboy at Sutton Valence, Kent.In December 2014 Jackson began playing ice hockey for Invicta Dynamos, scoring a goal on his debut against London Raiders. In June 2017, together with his brother, Wesley Jackson, he founded Jackson7 coaching.- Birthplace: Chatham, United Kingdom
- Robert Primrose Wilson, OBE (born 30 October 1941) is a former Scotland international football goalkeeper and later broadcaster.As a player, Wilson is most noted for his 11-year playing career at Arsenal where he made over 300 appearances. Wilson as well featured as a youth and senior international for Scotland. After retiring as a player, he turned to coaching and broadcasting, presenting football programmes on television for 28 years until 2002. Wilson has also gone on to create a charity organization known as the Willow Foundation.
- Birthplace: Chesterfield, England
- Sir Robert William Robson (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009) was an English footballer and football manager. His career included periods playing for and later managing the England national team and being a UEFA Cup-winning manager at Ipswich Town F.C. Robson's professional playing career as an inside forward spanned nearly 20 years, during which he played for three clubs: Fulham, West Bromwich Albion, and, briefly, Vancouver Royals. He also made 20 appearances for England, scoring four goals. After his playing career, he found success as both a club and international manager, winning league championships in both the Netherlands and Portugal, earning trophies in England and Spain, and taking England to the semi-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup, which remained the national team's best run in a World Cup since 1966 until they reached the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup. His last management role was as a mentor to the manager of the Republic of Ireland national team. Robson was created a Knight Bachelor in 2002, was inducted as a member of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2003, and was the honorary president of Ipswich Town F.C. From 1991 onwards, he suffered recurrent medical problems with cancer, and in March 2008, put his name and efforts into the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, a cancer research charity which has so far collected over £12 million (March 2018). In August 2008, his lung cancer was confirmed to be terminal; he said, "My condition is described as static and has not altered since my last bout of chemotherapy... I am going to die sooner rather than later. But then everyone has to go sometime and I have enjoyed every minute." He died just under a year later.
- Birthplace: Sacriston, United Kingdom
Brendan Venter
Age: 55Brendan Venter is a South African rugby union coach and former player. He is currently the Defence Coach of Italy and South Africa. Venter played at centre and earned 17 caps for South Africa between 1994 and 1999. He played as a replacement in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in which South Africa beat New Zealand to win their first World Cup.- Birthplace: South Africa
Carl Hester
Age: 57Carl Hester MBE is a British dressage rider competing at Olympic level. As of 8 August 2012 the Fédération Equestre Internationale rank him 12th in the world riding Uthopia.- Birthplace: Barnet, United Kingdom
- Christopher John Adams (born 6 May 1970) is a former English first-class cricketer who briefly represented his nation at Test and One Day International level. He is the current interim head coach of the Dutch national team.
- Birthplace: Whitwell, United Kingdom
- Colin Calderwood (born 20 January 1965) is a Scottish football coach and former player, who is head coach at Cambridge United. Calderwood made over 150 league appearances for Swindon Town and Tottenham Hotspur. He was a regular player for the Scotland national football team during the late 1990s, appearing in two major tournaments. Calderwood retired as a player in 2001. Calderwood became manager of Northampton Town in 2003, guiding the club to promotion in 2006. He then became manager of Nottingham Forest, helping the club win promotion in 2008. Calderwood was sacked by Forest in December 2008 and then moved to Newcastle United, working as first team coach. After a year with the Tyneside club, Calderwood became a manager again by moving to Hibernian, but he was sacked after just over a year in that job. In recent years, Calderwood has been known for his association with Chris Hughton, acting as his assistant manager at Newcastle United, Birmingham City, Norwich City and Brighton & Hove Albion.
- Birthplace: Stranraer, United Kingdom
- Colin Ray Jackson, CBE (born 18 February 1967) is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. During a career in which he represented Great Britain and Wales, he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion twice, World indoor champion once, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and was a two-time Commonwealth champion. His world record of 12.91 seconds for the 110m hurdles stood for over a decade and he remains the 60 metres hurdles world record holder.Jackson won his first major medal, a silver, in the 110 m hurdles, aged nineteen at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. He soon established himself on the global scene, taking bronze at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics and a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. After winning another silver in the 60 metres hurdles at the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships, he won European and Commonwealth gold medals in 1990. The 1993 season saw him reach the pinnacle of his sport: after a silver at the 1993 Indoor Worlds, he went on to set a world record of 12.91 seconds to become the 1993 World Champion. This mark was unbeaten for almost thirteen years and remains the world championship record. Jackson also helped the British 4×100 metres relay team to the world silver medal. This period was perhaps Jackson's most successful – he had a streak of 44 races undefeated between 1993 and 1995. In addition to European and Commonwealth golds outdoors in 1994, he set another world record, running 7.30 seconds in the 60 m hurdles. A double gold at the 1994 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 60 m hurdles and sprint events saw him set a European record of 6.49 seconds over 60 metres. Injury affected his 1995–1996 seasons and he finished only fourth at the 1996 Olympics. He returned to the global podium in 1997 but took silver twice – behind Anier García at the Indoor World Championships and Allen Johnson in the World Outdoors. After winning the European Championships for a third consecutive time in 1998 he became world champion indoors and out in 1999. He finished fifth at the 2000 Summer Olympics and his last major medals came in 2002, taking European indoor and outdoor gold and a Commonwealth silver. After a period of sports management and coaching, he now works as a sports commentator for athletics and television presenter (predominantly for the BBC). He has appeared in Strictly Come Dancing in 2005, as well as a number of other entertainment and factual TV shows, and is a well known face on British television.
- Birthplace: Cardiff, United Kingdom
- David 'Dai' Young (born 26 July 1967) is the Director of Rugby at Wasps RFC in England's Premiership Rugby, a Welsh rugby union coach and former rugby union and rugby league footballer. A prop, he won 51 caps for Wales in rugby union between 1987 and 2002, three caps for the British Lions, and 14 caps for Wales in rugby league.After retiring from playing, he first coached Cardiff Blues, before moving to Wasps in 2011. He has also coached the Barbarians several times from 2008 to 2013.
- Birthplace: Aberdare, United Kingdom
- Darren Stephen Edmondson (born 4 November 1971) is an English football coach and former player, currently working as academy manager at Carlisle United.Edmondson spent around half his professional playing career with Carlisle after signing as a youth player in 1990, later having four years with York City and shorter spells at four other clubs. In 2006, he joined semi-professional Workington, becoming player-manager a year later. He was with Workington until 2013, becoming the club's longest serving manager. He left to join local rivals Barrow as manager, with whom he won the Conference North in 2015. He has been at Carlisle since June 2016, after being sacked by Barrow late in 2015.
- Birthplace: Coniston, United Kingdom
Dave Brailsford
Age: 60Sir David John Brailsford (born 29 February 1964) is a British cycling coach. He was formerly performance director of British Cycling and is currently general manager of Team Ineos.- Birthplace: Shardlow, United Kingdom
- David Lloyd (born 18 March 1947) is an English former cricketer, now a commentator, who played county cricket for Lancashire and Test and One Day International cricket for England. He also played semi-professional football for Accrington Stanley. He is known through the cricketing world as "Bumble" because of the ostensible similarity between his facial profile and those of the Bumblies, characters from Michael Bentine's children's television programmes.A left-handed batsman and left-arm spin bowler, he played nine Tests, with a highest score of 214 not out, and eight One Day International matches. In first-class cricket he was a successful all-rounder, scoring a career aggregate of more than 19,000 runs and taking 237 wickets. He captained his county from 1973 to 1977. Following his retirement as a player, he became a first-class umpire, and subsequently Lancashire and England cricket coach, resigning the latter post following the 1999 Cricket World Cup. He then became a renowned cricket commentator for Test Match Special, and later Sky Sports, with whom he currently broadcasts. He is also an author, journalist and columnist.
- Birthplace: Accrington, United Kingdom
- David William Moyes (born 25 April 1963) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player. He was previously the manager of Preston North End, Everton, Manchester United, Real Sociedad, Sunderland and most recently West Ham United. Moyes was the 2003, 2005 and 2009 League Managers Association Manager of the Year. He is also on the committee for the League Managers Association in an executive capacity. Moyes made over 540 league appearances as a centre-back in a playing career that began with Celtic, where he won a championship medal. He then played for Cambridge United, Bristol City, Shrewsbury Town and Dunfermline Athletic before ending his playing career with Preston North End. He became a coach at Preston, working his way up to assistant manager before eventually taking over as manager in 1998, his first managerial position. Moyes led Preston to the Division Two title in 1999–2000 and the Division One play-off final the following season. Moyes took over from Walter Smith as manager of Everton in March 2002. Under him, the club managed a fourth-place finish in the league in 2004–05, their highest finish since 1988, and played in the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League the following season, the first time they had taken part in the European Cup since 1970–71. They were also runners-up in the 2008–09 FA Cup, their best performance in the competition since winning it in 1995. Everton consistently finished between fifth and eighth in the league under Moyes, and at the time of his departure, he was the longest-serving current manager in the league behind Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger, at 11 years and 3 months. He succeeded Ferguson as manager of Manchester United in June 2013, but with the club in seventh place in the league in April 2014 and unable to qualify for European competition, he was sacked after 10 months in the job. Moyes was appointed manager of Spanish club Real Sociedad in November 2014, but was again sacked after just under a year in charge. In July 2016, Moyes replaced Sam Allardyce as manager of Sunderland, but resigned at the end of the 2016–17 season after the club was relegated to the EFL Championship. He was appointed as manager of West Ham United in November 2017 and led the club out of the relegation zone to a 13th-place finish, but left when his contract expired at the end of the season.
- Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Declan Devine
Age: 51Declan Devine (born 15 September 1973 in Derry) is a Northern Irish football coach and former footballer who is the current manager of Derry City in the League of Ireland Premier Division. Devine previously managed the Candystripes between 2012-2014 but was controversially sacked prior to the 2014 season.- Birthplace: Londonderry, United Kingdom
- Douglas Robert Brown (born 29 October 1969) is a Scottish former cricketer who is the current head coach of the United Arab Emirates national team. Brown represented the Scottish national team as an all-rounder at One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International level, having earlier played One Day International cricket for England in 1997 and 1998. He played English county cricket for Warwickshire.
- Andrzej Edward "Eddie" Niedzwiecki; born 3 May 1959) is a Welsh former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Wrexham and Chelsea. After retiring early due to injury Niedzwiecki became a coach with Chelsea and then Arsenal before working with Mark Hughes with the Wales national team. Since then he has worked with Hughes at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Fulham, Queens Park Rangers and Stoke City. In March 2018, he was appointed assistant first-team coach at Southampton.
- Birthplace: Bangor, United Kingdom
Elena Allen
Age: 52Elena Allen is a British sports shooter. She also represents Wales in the Commonwealth Games having previously represented England.- Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Gavin Love
Age: 46Gavin Love (born 2 June 1978 in Plymouth, England) is a former British professional basketball player and former head coach of Plymouth Raiders. The 6 feet (1.8 m) tall former Point Guard was educated at local college Marjon's and played for his hometown team Plymouth Raiders for 15 years, and the first team since 2000, where he became a permanent feature in the starting five for the Raiders. Love soon rose to prominence as a fans' favourite with the people of Plymouth and a local hero, and was awarded the team captaincy. At the end of the 2006-2007 season, Love earned a call-up to the Great Britain team coached by Chris Finch, only to pull out after badly damaging his Achilles tendon in the final game of the BBL campaign, and had to undergo an operation and lengthy rehabilitation period. Love made a recovery and returned to the team in 2008 but was constantly hampered by further injuries, which eventually prompted him to an early retirement announced on February 6, 2009, at the age of 29. His number 6 jersey has been retired in honour of his dedication to the club. Love was appointed head coach of the Plymouth Raiders during the summer of 2010, replacing his former mentor Gary Stronach who had left the club after 24 years of service.Love was relieved of his job as Head Coach of the Plymouth Raiders two weeks before the start of the 2013/2014 BBL season and replaced by current Head Coach Jay Marriott. On 29th May 2018 he announced that he would be leaving Plymouth Raiders after receiving an offer “too good to refuse”. He went back to Contern to coach the AB Contern.George Allison
Dec. at 73 (1883-1957)George Frederick Allison (24 October 1883 – 13 March 1957) was an English football journalist, broadcaster and manager. He was the BBC's first sports commentator and Arsenal's second longest serving manager.- Birthplace: Hurworth-on-Tees, United Kingdom
George Burley
Age: 68George Elder Burley (born 3 June 1956) is a Scottish former football player and manager. Burley was born in Cumnock, East Ayrshire, and had a professional career spanning 21 years as a player, making 628 league appearances and earning 11 Scotland caps. His most successful spell came while at Ipswich Town making 394 senior appearances, and being part of the squad that won the FA Cup and UEFA Cup in 1978 and 1981 respectively. Burley's managerial career began in 1990 with Ayr United and has since spent spells at seven different clubs, notably an eight-year spell back at Ipswich Town as manager, which included a promotion to the Premier League and guiding the club to a fifth place league finish at that level. On 24 January 2008 he was appointed manager of the Scotland national team. He was sacked on 16 November 2009, following a 3–0 defeat to Wales.His nephew, Craig, was also a Scotland international footballer.- Birthplace: Cumnock, United Kingdom
- Glenn Charles W. Kirkham (born 8 October 1982) is an English field hockey player who played for the English and British national team.
- Birthplace: Grimsby, United Kingdom
- Graham Christopher Rowntree (born 18 April 1971) is a former English rugby union player. He played loosehead prop for Leicester Tigers and England. He was capped 54 times for England, despite having to compete for his position with the world's second most capped forward, Jason Leonard. Rowntree was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He was educated at John Cleveland College, Hinckley, Leicestershire, which has also produced other rugby union players. In 1988 he joined Leicester Tigers from Nuneaton and made his first-team debut against Oxford University in 1990. For much of that time he was in harness with the famous ‘ABC club’ alongside Richard Cockerill and Darren Garforth. At Leicester Rowntree enjoyed great domestic success, and started both the 2001 and 2002 Heineken Cup finals. In 1993 he made his England A, Barbarians and Midlands debuts, and on 18 March 1995 he gained his first full England cap against Scotland in the Five Nations tournament as a temporary replacement for Jason Leonard. He subsequently played in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. He also made the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa, playing 6 games and the 1999 Rugby World Cup. After the 1999 World Cup Graham was not capped for almost 2 years until a series of fine performances for his club forced him back into international contention. He was prominent throughout the pre-2003 Rugby World Cup years. He was selected for the England squad to tour Canada and the US in 2001, participated in all that season's Autumn internationals — being named as man of the match in England's 21–15 Cook Cup victory over Australia — and started in each of the 2002 Six Nations games. He started in England's 15–13 win over New Zealand in Wellington in 2003 and put in a particularly memorable performance against the All Blacks when England's pack was reduced to just 6 men. Despite playing in the 2003 pre-World Cup trial match in France, Rowntree was omitted from Clive Woodward's squad, which won the tournament. Clive Woodward admitted that leaving Rowntree behind was one of the hardest decisions he had to make in his time as England head coach. Rowntree returned to the England side in the 2004 Six Nations and was the first-choice loosehead prop for the 2004 Autumn internationals. He retired from rugby in 2007 after 17 years playing the game, and he joined the Tigers coaching team where he made a rapid rise up the coaching ranks, becoming the Forwards/Scrum coach for the English national team ahead of the 2008 Six Nations Championship. He toured South Africa with the British and Irish Lions acting as Scrum coach, then being named Forwards coach for the winning test series in 2013. On 15 December 2015, following the resignation of head coach Stuart Lancaster on 11 November 2015, newly appointed head coach Eddie Jones sacked the whole coaching team, with Rowntree leaving his post with England after 8 years. At the end of the 2015–16 English Premiership (rugby union), it was announced that Harlequin F.C. had appointed him as the new forwards coach. Rowntree joined the Georgian national team in 2018, though will leave after the 2019 Rugby World Cup to join Irish province Munster as their new forwards coach.
- Birthplace: Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom
Grant Murray
Age: 49Grant Robert Murray (born 29 August 1975 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional football player and manager. His versatility saw him play in several positions during his career, such as a defensive midfielder and at fullback, although he was primarily considered to be a centre back.- Birthplace: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Gregor Peter John Townsend, (born 26 April 1973 in Galashiels) is a Scottish rugby union coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of the Scotland national team having previously been an assistant coach from 2009 to 2012. As a player, he won 82 caps for Scotland and two for the British and Irish Lions. He is a former coach of Glasgow Warriors and was a player-coach for Border Reivers. As well as in Scotland, he played club rugby in Australia, England, France and South Africa. He was awarded an MBE in 1999 for services to rugby.
- Birthplace: Galashiels, United Kingdom
- Hope Patricia Powell, CBE (born 8 December 1966) is an English former international footballer and women's first-team manager of Brighton & Hove Albion. She was the coach of the England women's national football team and the Great Britain women's Olympic football team until August 2013. As a player, Powell won 66 caps for England, mainly as an attacking midfielder, scoring 35 goals. She made her England debut at the age of 16, and went on to play in the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, England's first World Cup appearance. She was also vice-captain of her country. At club level Powell played in four FA Women's Cup finals and captained Croydon to a League and Cup double in 1996. The Football Association (FA) appointed Powell as England's first-ever full-time national coach in 1998. She led the team at the 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship. After failing to qualify in 2003, she guided England to the quarter-finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2007 and 2011. England's best results, reaching the final of the UEFA Women's Championship in 1984 and 2009, both featured Powell. She was a player at the former and coach at the latter. As well as managing the England senior team, Powell oversaw the whole structure from Under-15s to the Under-23s, a coach mentoring scheme and The FA’s National Player Development Centre at Loughborough University. In May 2009 Powell's administration implemented central contracts, to help players focus on full-time training and playing, without having to fit it around full-time employment. Initially 17 players signed contracts. In 2003 Powell became the first woman to achieve the UEFA Pro Licence—the highest coaching qualification available.
- Birthplace: Lewisham, London, United Kingdom
Hugh Robertson
Dec. at 70 (1939-2010)Hugh Robertson (29 November 1939 – 12 March 2010) was a Scottish association football player and manager. He played as a winger for the Dundee team that won the Scottish league championship in 1962, and the Dunfermline side that won the 1968 Scottish Cup. He played 40 games for Arbroath, including their promotion from Division 2 in 1971-2. He later managed Danish club Herfølge.Robertson represented the Scotland national football team once, in a vital 1962 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Czechoslovakia. Injuries to Davie Wilson and Alex Scott meant that Robertson and Ralph Brand were brought in for the match, which Scotland had to win to qualify. Despite two goals by Ian St. John, Scotland lost 4–2 after extra time.Robertson died at his home on 12 March 2010.- Birthplace: Auchinleck, United Kingdom
Ian Crook
Age: 62Ian Stuart Crook, (born 18 January 1963) is a football coach and former professional player, who began his career with Tottenham Hotspur before making 418 appearances for Norwich City. A central midfield player, who won three caps as an England B international, Crook made a lasting impression at Norwich. Notably, he was elected to be a member of the club's Hall of Fame. After his playing career Crook went into coaching, mostly in Australia. He was serving as manager of A-League club Sydney FC in 2012, before joining the Western Sydney Wanderers football club as Assistant Manager.- Birthplace: Romford, London, United Kingdom
- Sir Ian Robert McGeechan, OBE (born 30 October 1946) is a Scottish former rugby union player and coach. His nickname is "Geech".
- Birthplace: Headingley, United Kingdom
Iffy Onuora
Age: 57Ifem "Iffy" Onuora (born 28 July 1967) is a Scottish former professional footballer, manager and coach of the England national under-21 football team. He is also the current equalities coach for the Professional Footballers Association. As a player, he was a forward from 1988 until 2004. He notably had spells with Huddersfield Town, Swindon Town and Gillingham and spent his entire career playing in England. He also played in the Football League for Mansfield Town, Sheffield United, Wycombe Wanderers, Grimsby Town, Tranmere Rovers and Walsall. Having moved into coaching with the latter, he moved back to former clubs Swindon and Gillingham before briefly taking over as caretaker manager of Lincoln City before his move to Ethiopia. He now acts as a Match Delegate for referees in the Premier League. Between 2010 and 2011 Onuora coached the Ethiopian national football team.- Birthplace: Glasgow, United Kingdom
James Massara
James Massara is the Player Performance Manager at the London Broncos and former head coach of Championship One side London Skolars. He is the former coach development manager for the Rugby Football League in London. James is the son of Rooney Massara the former Grand Challenge Cup winner and GB Oarsman who was a semi finalist in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and was a finalist in the 1969 rowing championships in Austria. James's brother, Richard Massara is an actor and model. 2005 - London Broncos foundation academy head coach 2006 - London Skolars assistant coach 2007 - London Skolars assistant coach 2008 - Harlequins Rugby League reserves assistant coach 2009 - South London Storm Head coach 2010 - London Skolars Head coach 2011 -2013 - London Broncos Player Performance Manager- Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom
- Jeremy Davidson may refer to: Jeremy Davidson (actor) (born 1971), American actor, writer and director Jeremy Davidson (rugby union) (born 1974), rugby union lock
- Birthplace: Belfast, United Kingdom
Jim Telfer
Age: 84James Telfer (born 17 March 1940) is a Scottish rugby union coach and a former rugby player. As a player, he gained 21 international caps in the amateur era, also having a career as a headmaster at Hawick High School and Galashiels Academy as a chemistry teacher. He won fame as a Scottish forwards coach who gave punishing training sessions to his players. With Sir Ian McGeechan he has had success with both the Scotland national rugby union team and the British and Irish Lions.- Birthplace: Melrose, United Kingdom
- John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE (born 7 November 1963) is an English former professional footballer and manager, who currently works as a commentator and pundit for ESPN and SuperSport. A fast, skillful left winger, Barnes had successful periods at Watford and Liverpool in the 1980s and 1990s, and won 79 caps for England. Born and initially raised in Jamaica, the son of a military officer from Trinidad and Tobago and a Jamaican mother, Barnes moved to London with his family when he was 12 years old. He joined Port Vale, and then Watford at the age of 17 in 1981, and over the next six years made 296 appearances for the club, scoring 85 goals. He made his debut for England in 1983 and four years later joined Liverpool for £900,000. Between 1987 and 1997 Barnes won the then top-flight First Division twice and the FA Cup twice with Liverpool, scoring 106 goals in 403 matches. By the time of his last appearance for England in 1995, he had played more times than any other black player. After two years with Newcastle United, he ended his playing career at Charlton Athletic in 1999. Barnes moved to Scotland to become head coach of Celtic in 1999 with his former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish as director of football. This was not successful and Barnes was sacked in 2000. Since then Barnes has managed the Jamaica national team in 2008–09 and the English club Tranmere Rovers for four months in 2009. During his playing career Barnes was named the PFA Players' Player of the Year once (in 1987–88) and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year twice (in 1987–88 and 1989–90). In the run-up to England's 1990 FIFA World Cup campaign he recorded a rap for the official team song, New Order's "World in Motion". In 2005, he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame. In 2006, in a poll of Liverpool fans' favourite players, Barnes came fifth; a year later, FourFourTwo magazine named him Liverpool's best player of all time. In 2016, he was voted England's greatest ever left-footed player by readers of The Times.
- Birthplace: Kingston, Jamaica
John Herbert
Age: 62John Herbert (born 20 April 1962) in Meadows, Nottingham is a graduate of Central Art and Design. A retired English sportsperson, who represented Great Britain as both a triple jumper and a bobsledder. Competing in athletics, he won the gold medal for England in the Triple Jump at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. During his career in athletics Herbert also competed in the sport of bobsleigh. He competed in the four-man bobsleigh event at the 1994 Winter Olympics (finishing in eighth place), having previously competed as a triple jumper at the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics when he finished 10th and the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics.- John Lloyd (born 27 August 1954) is a British former professional tennis player. Lloyd reached an ATP world ranking of 21 from 23 July 1978 to 30 July 1978, and was ranked as UK number 1 in 1984 and 1985. He now works as sports commentator. During his career, he reached one Grand Slam singles final and won three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles with tennis partner Wendy Turnbull: the French Open in 1982 and Wimbledon in 1983 and 1984. Also, Lloyd scored 27 wins and 24 losses with the Great Britain Davis Cup team. He was the first husband of the former top woman player Chris Evert and is the younger brother of the former British Davis Cup captain David Lloyd. He served as the British Davis Cup captain himself from August 2006 until March 2010. He is a member of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
- Birthplace: Leigh-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom
John Nicks
Age: 95For the 19th-century New York politician, see John I. Nicks.John Allen Wisden Nicks (born 22 April 1929) is a British figure skating coach and former pair skater. With his sister and pairs partner, Jennifer Nicks, he is the 1953 World champion. As a coach, his skating pupils have included Peggy Fleming, pairs team Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, Kristi Yamaguchi, Sasha Cohen, and Ashley Wagner.- Birthplace: Brighton, United Kingdom
Jonathan Hammond
Age: 44Jonathan Hammond is a British sport shooter.- Birthplace: Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Karen Barber (born 21 June 1961 in Manchester) is an English ice dancer. She is the 1983 European bronze medalist and competed at two Olympics with partner Nicky Slater.
- Birthplace: Manchester, England
- Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former football player and manager. He made over three hundred appearances for both Celtic and Liverpool and earned over one hundred caps for the Scotland national team. Dalglish won the Ballon d'Or Silver Award in 1983, the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 1983, and the FWA Footballer of the Year in 1979 and 1983. In 2009, FourFourTwo named Dalglish the greatest striker in post-war British football, and in 2006, he topped a Liverpool fans' poll of "100 Players Who Shook the Kop". He has been inducted into both the Scottish and English Football Halls of Fame. Dalglish began his career with Celtic in 1971, going on to win four Scottish league championships, four Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup with the club. In 1977, Liverpool manager Bob Paisley paid a British transfer record of £440,000 to bring Dalglish to Liverpool. His years at Liverpool were among the club's most successful periods, as he won six English league championships, the FA Cup, four League Cups, five FA Charity Shields, three European Cups and one European Super Cup. In international football, Dalglish made 102 appearances and scored 30 goals for Scotland between 1971 and 1986, becoming their most capped player and joint-leading goalscorer (with Denis Law). Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 after the resignation of Joe Fagan, winning a further three First Divisions, a FA Cup, and four FA Charity Shields, before resigning in 1991. Eight months later, Dalglish made a return to football management with Blackburn Rovers, whom he led from the Second Division to win the Premier League in 1995. Soon afterwards, he stepped down as manager to become Director of Football at the club, before leaving altogether in 1996. In January 1997, Dalglish took over as manager at Newcastle United. Newcastle finished runners-up in both the Premier League and FA Cup during his first season, but they only finished 13th in 1997–98, which led to his dismissal the following season. Dalglish went on to be appointed Director of Football at Celtic in 1999, and later manager, where he won the Scottish League Cup before an acrimonious departure the following year. Between 2000 and 2010, Dalglish focused on charitable concerns, founding The Marina Dalglish Appeal with his wife to raise money for cancer care. In January 2011, Dalglish returned to Liverpool for a spell as caretaker manager after the dismissal of Roy Hodgson, becoming the permanent manager in May 2011. Despite winning the League Cup which earned them a place in the UEFA Europa League, and reaching the FA Cup Final, Liverpool only finished 8th in the Premier League, and Dalglish was dismissed in May 2012. In October 2013, Dalglish returned to Anfield as a non-executive director, and had Anfield's Centenary Stand renamed after him in May 2017.
- Birthplace: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Kenny Shiels
Age: 68Kenny Shiels (born 27 April 1956 in Magherafelt) is a Northern Irish football player and manager, who is currently the manager of the Northern Ireland women's national team. He spent all of his playing career at different levels in the Irish Football League. Shiels then moved into coaching with the Northern Ireland national football team (under 17s) and English league side Tranmere Rovers (head of youth development). He moved to Scottish Premier League club Kilmarnock in 2010 to assist manager Mixu Paatelainen. Shiels was promoted to manager in 2011, after Paatelainen was appointed manager of Finland. Kilmarnock won the Scottish League Cup in his first season in charge, but he was sacked in June 2013 after he had been frequently punished by the Scottish Football Association for making controversial comments. Shiels was appointed manager of Scottish Championship club Greenock Morton in December 2013, and resigned in May 2014.After a spell with BEC Tero Sasana, Shiels managed League of Ireland club Derry City for three years. He was appointed manager of the Northern Ireland women's national team in May 2019.- Birthplace: Magherafelt, United Kingdom
Kevin Lynch
Kevin Lynch is an English soccer coach.Lee Merrien
Age: 45Lee Merrien (born 26 April 1979) is a British middle distance and long-distance runner. He has been named to the British team for the 2012 Summer Olympics following a Facebook campaign after he was initially not selected to the team. He has won multiple events at the Island Games for his home of Guernsey.- Birthplace: Saint Andrew, Guernsey, Guernsey
- Linford Cicero Christie (born 2 April 1960) is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He was the first European to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m and still holds the British record in the event. He is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres, 100 m and 4 × 100 metres relay. He remains one of the most highly decorated British athletes of all-time. By the end of his track career Christie had won 24 medals overall, more than any other British male athlete before or since. In 1993 he was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Despite first testing positive for a prohibited substance in 1988, it was only following his failed drug testing in 1999 that he was banned from competition by IAAF.
- Birthplace: Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica
- Elizabeth McColgan-Nuttall (née Lynch; born 24 May 1964) is a British former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal over the same distance at the 1988 Olympic Games. She was also a two-time gold medallist over the distance at the Commonwealth Games, as well as winning the 1992 World Half Marathon Championships, 1991 New York City Marathon, 1992 Tokyo Marathon and 1996 London Marathon. Her 10,000 metres best of 30:57.07 set in 1991, made her only the third woman in history to run the distance in under 31 minutes. Both that time and her marathon best of 2:26:52 in 1997, still stand as Scottish records (as of 2018).
- Birthplace: Dundee, United Kingdom
- Louisa Pouli is a competitor in rhythmic gymnastics. Born in Corfu, Greece, Pouli represented Great Britain in the team event at the 2012 London Olympics. Pouli was born in Corfu Greece. She started her Rhythmic gymnastics career at the age of four. She trained and competed in Greece until the age of 15. She then decided to move to Great Britain to peruse her career and become something more than what circumstances in Greece offered her. Louisa soon thrived in England and was chosen to become part of the Group Project which soon became the Team to represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games 2012. She now attends Middlesex university in Hendon, London.
- Birthplace: Corfu, Greece
Malcolm Allen
Age: 63Malcolm Allen, a sport shooter, is the husband of sport shooter Elena Allen.- Birthplace: Newport, United Kingdom
- Mark John Hunter MBE (born 1 July 1978) is a retired British rower. Hunter was born in Forest Gate, London and he attended Havering Sixth Form College. While representing Havering in the London Youth Games, he took part in some of his early rowing competitions. In 2007 he partnered Zac Purchase in the Great Britain Lightweight Men's Double Scull. They won medals at each World Cup Regatta through the season. At the World Rowing Championships in Munich-Oberschleissheim they won a Bronze medal. The following year, their double dominated the lightweight event, winning all of their races, and finishing the season as Olympic champions. After a year off in 2009, they took Gold at the 2010 World Championships at Lake Karapiro in New Zealand. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of East London (UEL) in November 2009.During his year off after the 2008 Olympics, he was an assistant coach of UCLA Women's rowing program.In 2009, Hunter was inducted into the London Youth Games Hall of Fame, and he was also granted an MBE for his services to rowing. In 2013, Hunter announced his retirement from competitive rowing.
- Birthplace: London Borough of Newham, United Kingdom
Mark Jones
Mark Jones is a football manager.- Birthplace: Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Mark Rodney James Petchey (born 1 August 1970) is a former tennis player from England, who turned professional in 1988.He works for Sky Sports, ITV and the BBC providing commentary and analysis for ATP Tour tennis.
- Birthplace: United Kingdom
Mark Rowland
Age: 61Mark Robert Rowland (born 7 March 1963 in Watersfield, West Sussex, England) is a retired British track and field athlete, who was a bronze medallist at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Rowland came third in the men's men's 3000 m Steeplechase behind the Kenyan competitors Julius Kariuki (gold) and Peter Koech (silver). His time was 8:07.96 minutes which remains a British record. Rowland became the eighth and, thus far, final British athlete to pick up a medal in the steeplechase event at the Olympics. His post-race interview at the track-side was famous for his quote: Two years later, Rowland was beaten to the gold in a sprint finish in the same event at the European Championships in Split by the Italian athlete Francesco Panetta. Rowland's career didn't hit such heights again and, after retiring, he became a coach to many promising young British steeplechasers and was steeplechase and middle-distance coach for UK Athletics. He is now training athletes, including British middle-distance runner Jemma Simpson and American Lauren Fleshman in the USA for the Oregon Track Club Elite.He also coached Mike East, British 1500m runner to his 6th place at the 2004 Athens Olympics.- Birthplace: Horsham, United Kingdom
Michael Hughes
Age: 53Michael Eamon Hughes (born 2 August 1971) is a retired Northern Irish footballer who currently is a majority shareholder and co-owner of NIFL Premiership side Carrick Rangers.- Birthplace: Larne, United Kingdom
Michael McFarlane
Age: 64Michael "Mike" Anthony McFarlane OBE (born 2 May 1960) is a retired British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres and 200 metres. He won an Olympic silver medal in the 4×100 metres relay at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. He was the 200 m gold medallist at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and a 60 metres gold medallist at the 1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships. McFarlane won two further sprint medals at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.- Birthplace: England
- Mike A. Ford (born 18 November 1965) is an English rugby union coach, and former professional rugby league footballer. He was named as the Director of Rugby for Dallas Griffins in Major League Rugby, which is planned to begin in 2020. In March 2019 he joined Leicester Tigers as a temporary assistant coach for the remained of the 2018–2019 Premiership Rugby season.
- Birthplace: Oldham, United Kingdom
- Miles Maclagan (born 23 September 1974) is a British tennis coach and former professional tennis player. He formerly coached British No.1s Laura Robson and Andy Murray. Maclagan partnered Tim Henman successfully in the Davis Cup against Thailand, a match he called the moment of his life, and helping Great Britain into the World Group.
- Birthplace: Zambia
- Neil Jenkins, (born 8 July 1971) is a former rugby union player and current coach. He played fly-half, centre, or full back for Pontypridd, Cardiff, Celtic Warriors, Wales and the British and Irish Lions. Jenkins is Wales' highest ever points-scorer and is the third highest on the List of leading Rugby union Test point scorers. He was the first player to score 1,000 points in international matches. In 2004 Jenkins joined the coaching staff of the Wales national rugby union team and is the kicking skills coach.
- Birthplace: Church Village, United Kingdom
Neil MacRae
Age: 52Neil John MacRae, born 25 March 1972 in Liverpool, is a Scottish cricketer who played two One Day Internationals in 2006. He has also played in first-class and List A cricket matches for Scotland.MacRae was appointed coach of the Jersey national cricket team in December 2013 (with his contract beginning in January 2014), with an additional role as high performance coach with the Jersey Cricket Board.- Birthplace: Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Nigel Graham Pearson (born 21 August 1963) is an English football manager and former professional player who was most recently manager of OH Leuven. He previously managed Hull City, Southampton, Carlisle United, Leicester City and Derby County and was assistant manager for England Under-21s and Newcastle United. During his playing career, he was a defender and played for Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough.
- Birthplace: Nottingham, United Kingdom
Nigel Worthington
Age: 63Nigel Worthington (born 4 November 1961) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who was most recently the manager of York City. He played a defender and a midfielder, playing his club football for Ballymena United, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United, Stoke City and Blackpool. With Sheffield Wednesday he won the League Cup in 1991. As an international player, he was capped 66 times for Northern Ireland, and appeared for them at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Worthington began his managerial career as player-manager of Blackpool in 1997 before he took over as manager of Norwich City in 2000. He guided Norwich into the Premier League in the 2003–04 season as First Division title winners. He left just over two years afterwards, having failed to keep them in the top-flight in 2005. He was briefly caretaker manager of Leicester City in 2007 prior to starting as manager of Northern Ireland, from which he stepped down in 2011.- Birthplace: Ballymena, United Kingdom
- Olivia Federici is an athlete.
- Birthplace: Plymouth, United Kingdom
Patrick Sweeney
Age: 72Patrick John Sweeney (born 12 August 1952) is a coxswain for Great Britain's rowing team. Sweeney won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics with Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes, and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics as part of the British men's eight team. In addition, Sweeney won gold medals at the 1977 and 1986 World Rowing Championships and silver medals at the 1974 and 1986 World Championships. Sweeney is also a rowing coach. He has coached at the Burnaby Lake Aquatic Center in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He also has served as head coach and director of training for the Belgian National Rowing team. In addition, he has coached several United States collegiate women's teams and has won four national collegiate titles. Sweeney currently coaches the Kansas State University women's team.Paul Crarey
Paul Crarey, also known by the nickname of "Cresta", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. He played at club level for Dalton ARLFC [1], Barrow (1987-1995, 172 appearances, 20+ tries), and Carlisle, as a hooker, i.e. number 9, and coached at representative level for Cumbria and British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA) Great Britain Lions, and at club level for Barrow (2005–07, 2014–present), and Whitehaven (?-2008). He won a Shooting Star award in 1988.- Birthplace: Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom
Paul Grayson
Age: 53Paul James Grayson, (born 30 May 1971 in Chorley, Lancashire) is the former assistant head coach of Northampton Saints rugby union club. He formerly played at fly-half for Northampton, for whom he was the all-time leading points scorer, and England. He is known as "Larry" or "Grase". Prior to Northampton, he played for Preston Grasshoppers and Waterloo. Paul also had a spell at Accrington Stanley as a youth team player. Whilst at Northampton he started in the victorious 2000 Heineken Cup Final, kicking all 9 of Northampton's points as they defeated Munster.Grayson made his international debut against Western Samoa in December 1995. He was part of the 2003 Rugby World Cup winning England squad. Northampton announced on 20 November 2012 that Grayson would be leaving the club by mutual consent. Paul has three sons called James Joel and Ethan. James plays for Northampton Saints and both Joel and Ethan are in the Northampton Saints EPDG youth setup.- Birthplace: Chorley, United Kingdom
- Sean Pero MacPherson Cameron (born 5 June 1974) is a New Zealand former professional basketball player and coach. A FIBA Hall of Fame member, he captained the senior New Zealand national basketball team from 2000 to 2010. Cameron helped lead New Zealand to the semifinal of the 2002 FIBA World Championship, earning an All-Tournament Team selection in the process.
- Birthplace: Tokoroa, New Zealand
Peter Scantlebury
Age: 61Peter Scantlebury MBE (born 21 November 1963 in Camberwell, London, England) is a former international professional basketball player who was capped 131 times for England.Scantlebury began his playing career in 1981 with Guildford. He scored 9,502 points and won nine British Basketball League winners' medals in his National League career. He made his debut for England in 1986 and scored 1,069 points in an international career that lasted until 2002. He was appointed an MBE in 2002 for his services to basketball.He was appointed head coach of Sheffield Sharks in 2003, leading them to the Haribo Cup trophy and BBL Championship play-off title in 2004, and was appointed head coach of England's men's basketball team in 2004, coaching them to a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006.- Birthplace: England
Phil Simkin
Age: 71Phil Simkin is a football manager.- Birthplace: Dorchester, United Kingdom
- Raymond Wilfred Hudson (born 24 March 1955) is an English retired professional footballer and former manager who currently works as an English-language football commentator on beIN Sports and radio host for SiriusXM FC 157. He started playing professionally at 17, in 1973, with Newcastle United. Fans nicknamed him Rocky and he stayed with the Football League First Division side for four years before moving to the U.S. and playing with various teams for about 15 years. When he finished his playing career, he started coaching. He was named the head coach in the middle of the 2000 season of the Miami Fusion and was then hired by D.C. United on 8 January 2002 to be their head coach. He was replaced in 2004. Hudson then began commentating for GolTV. In 2012, he joined Sirius XM Radio as the morning show host of The Football Show on SiriusXM FC 157, SiriusXM's all soccer channel.
- Birthplace: Gateshead, United Kingdom
Rob Howley
Age: 54Robert Howley (born 13 October 1970 in Bridgend) is a former Welsh rugby union player. He gained 59 caps for Wales, 22 of them as captain. Howley made his Wales debut in February 1996. He was selected for the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa, prompting speculation of a match-up with the Springboks' Joost van der Westhuizen, but Howley was injured. Howley did make the 2001 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia and played in the first two tests before succumbing to injury. Howley moved from Cardiff to Wasps and retired from international rugby. A wrist injury saw Howley announce his retirement from the game in 2004.- Birthplace: Bridgend, United Kingdom
Scott Neil
Age: 62Andrew Scott Neil, known as Scott Neil, (born 1 August 1962 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) is a retired British ice hockey player who played in the United Kingdom between 1985 and 2002. He also played for the Great Britain national team between 1989 and 1994. He was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. Neil is currently the owner of the Edinburgh Capitals in the British Elite Ice Hockey League.- Birthplace: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Scott Young
Age: 49Scott Young (born 14 January 1976) is a Welsh former professional footballer.- Birthplace: Tonypandy, United Kingdom
Skouson Harker
Age: 47Skouson Harker (born 1977) is a Canadian former professional basketball player of the FIBA European Leagues. Harker is from Raymond, Alberta, Canada. After five seasons as a Head Coach in the British Basketball League, Harker most recently coached the Edmonton Energy of the International Basketball League.Stephen Baggaley
Sterling Davis
Age: 47Sterling Davis (born October 27, 1977 in Dallas, Texas, USA) was head coach of British Basketball League club Glasgow Rocks from 2007-2017 and is a retired basketball player.A forward, Davis signed for the Rocks in 2006, after spells with fellow British sides Sheffield Sharks (2004–2006), London Towers (2003) and Brighton Bears (2001–2003), where he was a BBL All Star in 2002 and named to the All-League team in 2002 and 2003. He scored a career-high 42 points on March 1, 2011 in a game against the Guildford Heat. He spent the 2000-1 season with Argentine club Central Entrerriano. Originally appointed as player-coach in Glasgow in 2007, Davis retired from playing in 2015 to focus solely on coaching. He left the Rocks in May 2017 after reaching four major finals during his tenure. Davis played NCAA college basketball at Tulane University., finishing his four years with averages of 7.7 points and 3.6 rebounds. He holds UK and USA citizenship.- Steve Thornton (born March 8, 1973) is a Canadian-born British former professional ice hockey player. He is currently the Director of Hockey Operations for the Belfast Giants of the Elite Ice Hockey League.
- Birthplace: Gloucester, Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
- Stuart William Baxter (born 16 August 1953) is a football manager and former player who was the head coach of the South African national football team. Born in England of Scottish parentage, and brought up in both countries, Baxter played professionally for a number of clubs in England, Scotland, Australia, Sweden and in the United States. He has previously managed clubs in Sweden, Norway, Portugal, Japan and South Africa. In international football, he has managed South Africa twice as well as Finland and the England under-19 team.
- Birthplace: Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
- Stuart Pearce, MBE (born 24 April 1962) is an English football manager and player. Pearce was the manager of the England national under-21 team from 2007 to 2013 and also managed the Great Britain Olympic football team at the 2012 Olympics.As a player, Pearce played as a defender and appeared for Wealdstone, Coventry City, Newcastle United, West Ham United and Manchester City, but is best known for his spell at Nottingham Forest, where he regularly captained the team and became the club's most capped International, making 76 of his 78 appearances for England while with the club and captaining the national side on nine occasions. He retired as a player in 2002 while at Manchester City. He remained with Manchester City as a coach under Kevin Keegan's managership until being promoted to the manager's job, which he held from 2005 to 2007. In 2016, he briefly came out of retirement, signing a one-match deal with Longford, a team dubbed "The worst in Great Britain", in order to support the grassroots game.
- Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom
- Anthony Hand MBE (born 15 August 1967) is a Scottish former ice hockey player and coach. He was the first British player to be drafted by an NHL team when he was picked by the Edmonton Oilers in 1986. Nicknamed Two point Tony, he holds several national records, and scored over 4000 points in his career, more than any professional hockey player at any level. Still over a point-per-game scorer deep into his forties, Hand retired after the 2015 EPIHL league finals, after his Manchester Phoenix team lost.Hand served as the head coach of the Great Britain national team, a position he assumed in 2011 and resigned from in 2013. Until the franchise folded in January 2017, he was the coach of the Manchester Phoenix. In 2017, Hand was honored by the International Ice Hockey Federation with the Torriani Award. As of 2018, Tony Hand's brother David Hand is the owner of the Murrayfield Racers.
- Birthplace: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Winston Gordon
Age: 48Winston Alanzo Gordon (born 9 November 1976) is a British judoka, and Sensei at the EB Phoenix Judo Club in Tooting, London. He is also British Open Champion 2009. He was born Lambeth, London. Winston competed in his third Olympic games in London 2012.- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
