Dave Jones

Jones started his professional career with Everton in his home city of Liverpool. He played as a defender with the team for seven years, during which time he represented England at youth and under-21 level. He left Everton to play for Coventry City in 1979 for a transfer fee of £250,000 – after three seasons he picked up a knee injury which threatened to end his football career. After recovering from this injury, he played two further seasons for Seiko in Hong Kong and one season for Preston North End before retiring. Jones first went to Hong Kong on 2 April 1981 on loan from Coventry City for the remainder of the season, teammate Jim Hagan had already settled in the squad. At the end of the season, Seiko won the league championship for the third time in a row as well as the Hong Kong FA Cup. After his release from Coventry City, Jones joined Seiko on a permanent basis at the start of the 1982–83 season, playing 22 games for Seiko during the season, including a friendly with a "Brazil Stars Team" on 12 December 1982, the game ended 0–0 and was decided by penalties. Jones took and scored a penalty, but Seiko went on to lose 3–2. He was also selected in the squad of Hong Kong League XI, led by Dutch coach George Knobel, to face French side Monaco on 9 January 1982, which ended in a 1–0 win for the Hong Kong League XI. After retiring from professional football he went on to become assistant manager to Bryan Griffiths at Southport, where he also made two appearances as a player,…

Stockport County

In July 1990, he joined Stockport County as a manager for their youth team and took over as first-team manager from Danny Bergara in March 1995. He took the team into the First Division from an automatic promotion place in 1997. He also took the club to the semi-finals of the League Cup where they were narrowly defeated 2–1 on aggregate by Middlesbrough despite an impressive win at the Riverside Stadium. During the same cup run, Stockport also defeated Sheffield United, Blackburn Rovers, Southampton and West Ham United, all of whom were in higher divisions than the club at the time.

Southampton

This promotion brought him to the attention of Southampton, who offered him a contract to manage their Premier League team. His reign during the 1999–2000 season was rocked by his arrest on charges of child abuse during his employment as a care worker in the late 1980s. The case put tremendous strain on Jones, who was forced to defend his case on Merseyside whilst managing a team based over 200 miles away on the south coast. In January 2000, Southampton decided to suspend him on full pay until the case was resolved, with Glenn Hoddle taking over his managerial duties. When the case eventually came to court, it was thrown out in its first week, with the judge recording a not guilty verdict and commenting that the case "should have never reached the trial stage". Southampton paid off the remainder of Jones' contract and he left the club. Jones…

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As a player

Everton

Football League Cup runner-up: 1976–77 Seiko SA

Hong Kong First Division League: 1980–81, 1982–83 Hong Kong FA Cup: 1980–81

As a manager

Stockport County

Football League Second Division second-place promotion: 1996–97 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Football League First Division play-offs: 2003 Cardiff City

FA Cup runner-up: 2007–08 Sheffield Wednesday

Football League One second-place promotion: 2011–12 Individual

LMA Manager of the Year: 1998 Football League First Division Manager of the Month: September 2001, February 2002 Football League Championship Manager of the Month: August 2006, January 2008, October 2008, October 2009, October 2010 Football League One Manager of the Month: March 2012, April 2012