05-11-2017, 08:41
(04-11-2017, 20:33)drewks Wrote:(04-11-2017, 14:09)Salopbaggie Wrote: Johnny Giles jumps to mind, Dalglish had a good run at Liverpool and didn't Captain Marvel manage and play at Boro. I can not think of one in the premiership though.
Not sure whether Kenny was playing when he was manager??
He played for a good five years or so after becoming manager.
A quick glance at Wikipedia suggests that Gianluca Vialli was the last permanent Premier League player-manager, at Chelsea in 1999 (having replaced Ruud Gullitt, who was also a p-m). In the years since, there have been three caretaker player-managers in the Prem: Stuart McCall at Bradford in 2000 until Jim Jefferies was appointed, Garry Monk at Swansea in 2014 until he retired from playing and took the job full-time, and Ryan Giggs at Man Utd in 2014 until Louis Van Gaal was appointed.
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