Kevin Cullis
{{Short description|English football manager}}
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Kevin Cullis (born 1958) is an English former association football manager and convicted fraudster from Brierley Hill.
Managerial career
Cullis' brief managerial career at the professional level came when he was appointed manager of Third Division Swansea City on 8 February 1996 by prospective new chairman Michael Thompson. He had never played nor coached in professional football and his only previous management experience was as the youth coach of non-league club Cradley Town,{{cite news |title=Coventry close to signing Lennon |first=Mark |last=Burton |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/coventryclose-to-signing-lennon-1319145.html | work=Independent.co.uk |date=1996-02-15 |accessdate=2012-04-27}} then of the West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, and based at Cradley in the Black Country.
Cullis managed Swansea City for just one-and-a-half games: a 1–0 home defeat to Swindon Town and 45 minutes of an eventual 4–0 defeat at Blackpool. In the second match, which took place at Bloomfield Road on 13 February 1996, Cullis’ planned half-time team talk was ignored as the players took control. Christian Edwards gave the team talk and game plan instead, and Cullis resigned shortly afterwards. {{cite book|last=Gillatt|first=Peter|title=Blackpool FC on This Day: History, Facts and Figures from Every Day of the Year |publisher=Pitch Publishing Ltd|date=30 November 2009|isbn=1-905411-50-2}}
Personal life
In April 2003, Cullis was jailed for nine months for fraud and deception at Wolverhampton Crown Court after falsely claiming to be a highly paid marketing consultant.{{cite news | url=http://archive.thisistheblackcountry.co.uk/2003/05/01/25833.html | title=Fraudster jailed for credit lies | work=This Is The Black Country | date=2003-05-01 | access-date=27 November 2005 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002014648/http://archive.thisistheblackcountry.co.uk/2003/05/01/25833.html | archive-date=2 October 2008 | url-status=dead }} He was jailed again, for a further nine months, at the same court in September 2004 for handling a stolen insurance certificate and using it with intent to deceive.{{cite news | url=http://archive.thisistheblackcountry.co.uk/2004/9/10/10768.html | title=Nine months for shamed former soccer manager | work=This Is The Black Country | date=2004-09-10 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Managerial statistics
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!rowspan="2"|Nat !rowspan="2"|From !rowspan="2"|To !colspan="5"|Record | ||||
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| Swansea City
|{{flagicon|WAL}} |8 February 1996 |14 February 1996 {{WDL|2|0|0|2}} |
References
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