Peter Eustace
{{Short description|English footballer (born 1944)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Peter Eustace
| image =
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|7|31|df=y}}
| birth_place = Stocksbridge, England
| currentclub =
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}{{cite web |url=http://www.adrianbullock.com/swfc/stats/play0175.htm |title=Peter Eustace |work=The Sheffield Wednesday Archive |publisher=Adrian Bullock |access-date=27 November 2009}}
| position = Midfielder
| youthyears1 = 1960–1962
| youthclubs1 = Sheffield Wednesday
| years1 = 1962–1970 | clubs1 = Sheffield Wednesday | caps1 = 192 | goals1 = 21
| years2 = 1970–1972 | clubs2 = West Ham United | caps2 = 43 | goals2 = 6
| years3 = 1972 | clubs3 = → Rotherham United (loan) | caps3 = 6 | goals3 = 1
| years4 = 1972–1975 | clubs4 = Sheffield Wednesday | caps4 = 56 | goals4 = 4
| years5 = 1975–1976 | clubs5 = Peterborough United | caps5 = 43 | goals5 = 5
| years6 = | clubs6 = Worksop Town | caps6 = | goals6 =
| manageryears1 = 1988–1989 | managerclubs1 = Sheffield Wednesday
| manageryears2 = 1991–1994 | managerclubs2 = Leyton Orient
}}
Peter Eustace (born 31 July 1944) is an English former football player and manager. As a player, he made 340 appearances in the Football League representing Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United, Rotherham United and Peterborough United.{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player1/petereustace.html |title=Peter Eustace |work=UK A–Z Transfers |publisher=Neil Brown |access-date=8 December 2009}} As a manager, he took charge of Sheffield Wednesday and Leyton Orient.
Career
Eustace was born in Stocksbridge, West Riding of Yorkshire, and began his career as a trainee with Sheffield Wednesday. He made his debut in the 1962–63 season, and played more than 200 games in all competitions, before being sold to West Ham United for a club record £90,000 fee.{{cite news |title=Visit To Highbury. Marinello's plans uncertain |first=Norman |last=Fox |newspaper=The Times |date=1 January 1970 |page=13}} He played in midfield, earlier in his career at wing half, later at inside forward, who both made and scored goals. He also played for Rotherham United, Sheffield Wednesday again, and Peterborough United.
He moved into management in November 1988 at Sheffield Wednesday, being promoted from assistant manager after Howard Wilkinson moved to Leeds United. Eustace was sacked after just three months and replaced by Ron Atkinson.{{cite web |url=http://www.swfc.co.uk/page/CompleteHistory/0,,10304~65732,00.html |title=Running Up That Hill |publisher=Sheffield Wednesday F.C |access-date=8 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624193627/http://www.swfc.co.uk/page/CompleteHistory/0,,10304~65732,00.html |archive-date=24 June 2009}} He returned to football at Leyton Orient, working under Frank Clark, who moved from manager to managing director in 1991. Clark moved to Nottingham Forest in 1993, and Eustace was sacked a year later when the club failed to reach the play-offs.{{cite news |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:LTIB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0F9241F6C7CAD134&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB57AB53DF815 |title=Eustace dismissed |newspaper=The Times |format=reprint |publisher=NewsBank |date=8 April 1994 |access-date=8 December 2009}}
Eustace returned to Sheffield Wednesday as a scout during Chris Turner's brief managerial tenure, but was made redundant as part of an overhaul of the coaching staff in 2006. His claim for unfair dismissal was rejected by an industrial tribunal.{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/Owls-chief-scout-cleaner-job.4010267.jp |title=Owls chief scout cleaner job offer |newspaper=Sheffield Star |date=23 April 2008 |access-date=8 December 2009}}{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/Tribunal-upholds-soccer-sacking.4070665.jp |title=Tribunal upholds Owls sacking |first=Nick |last=Ward |newspaper=Sheffield Star |date=10 May 2008 |access-date=8 December 2009}}
He was for a time landlord of The Cheshire Cheese Inn pub in Hope, Derbyshire.{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/restaurants/The-Cheshire-Cheese-Edale-Road.3152089.jp |title=The Cheshire Cheese, Edale Road, Hope |first=Martin |last=Dawes |newspaper=Sheffield Star |date=29 August 2007 |access-date=8 December 2009}}
Honours
References
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External links
- {{NeilBrownPlayers|player1/petereustace}}
- [http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=39810 Stats and photo] at Sporting Heroes
- [http://www.adrianbullock.com/swfc/stats/man0015.htm Sheffield Wednesday managerial profile] at the Sheffield Wednesday Archive
{{Sheffield Wednesday F.C. Player of the Year}}
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{{Leyton Orient F.C. managers}}
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Category:People from Stocksbridge
Category:Footballers from South Yorkshire
Category:English men's footballers
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Category:West Ham United F.C. players
Category:Rotherham United F.C. players
Category:Peterborough United F.C. players
Category:Worksop Town F.C. players
Category:English Football League players
Category:English football managers
Category:Sheffield Wednesday F.C. managers
Category:Leyton Orient F.C. managers