Don Revie
Don Revie, the United Kingdom forward, made 66 appearances for Sunderland. He found the net 15 times, averaging 0.23 goals per game. His most prolific season in our data was 1957-58, with 12 goals.
Donald George Revie (10 July 1927 – 26 May 1989) was an English football player and manager. He is best known for managing Leeds United from 1961 until 1974, winning the Football League First Division twice and the FA Cup once, before being the England national football team manager for three years. A forward , he began his career with Leicester City in August 1944, before a £19,000 move to Hull City in November 1949. He was sold on to Manchester City in October 1951 for a fee of £25,000, where he became the main focus of the " Revie Plan " which saw him named as FWA Footballer of the Year in the 1954–55 season, after innovating the role of the first deep-lying centre forward in England. He won the FA Cup in 1956 , having finished on the losing side in the 1955 final. He was bought by Sunderland for £22,000 in October 1956 before moving on to Leeds United in November 1958 for a £14,000 fee. In total, he scored 108 goals in 501 league and cup appearances in an 18-year professional career, also scoring four goals in six England appearances, as well as winning representative honours for the Football League XI and the England B team . In March 1961, Revie was appointed player-manager of Leeds United, then a Second Division club that had never won a major trophy. Under Revie's management, Leeds became a major force in English football, winning the Second Division in the 1963–64 season, the First Division in the 1968–69 and 1973–74 seasons, the FA Cup in 1972 , the League Cup in 1968 , the FA Charity Shield in 1969 , and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971 . Additionally, — Wikipedia
- Position
- FW
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Birthplace
- Middlesbrough
- Born
- 10 Jul 1927
- Height
- 180 cm
In October 1956, Sunderland manager Bill Murray bought Revie for a £22,000 fee. [ 30 ] Poor results left the Rokerites facing relegation towards the end of the 1956–57 campaign , but a late seven-game unbeaten run lifted them to safety, just one place above relegated Cardiff City . [ 31 ] A financial scandal over illegal payments to players resulted in harsh sanctions at Roker Park from The Football Association and forced Murray's resignation. [ 32 ] His replacement, Alan Brown , preferred a more physical style of play that did not suit Revie. [ 33 ] Sunderland suffered relegation from the First Division for the first time in the club's history in the 1957–58 season , and Revie was dropped for the 1958–59 Second Division campaign in favour of a youth policy. [ 34 ] In September 1958, he rejected the opportunity to sign for hometown club Middlesbrough – had he joined the club then he would have played alongside captain Brian Clough and goalkeeper Peter Taylor . [ 35 ] — Wikipedia
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