Peter Davenport

Nottingham Forest

Davenport was born in Birkenhead and was spotted by scouts from Nottingham Forest while playing for Cammell Laird in the West Cheshire league. In the 1983–84 and 1984–85 seasons, Davenport was Forest's leading goalscorer. Davenport also played in the UEFA Cup semi-final clash with Anderlecht in 1984, which Forest lost 3–2 on aggregate. While a Forest player, Davenport won his only senior cap for England in a 2–1 friendly win over the Republic of Ireland on 26 March 1985.

Manchester United

Davenport completed a transfer to Manchester United on 12 March 1986 for a fee of £750,000. By this stage of the season, United were falling behind Everton and Liverpool in the league title race after a 10-match winning start to the season. A hectic fixture schedule followed, with 10 games being played between Davenport's arrival on 12 March leading up to his first goal in a 4–0 win over Leicester City on 26 April. By then, however, the impressive win was too late to revive United's title challenge as it had become a three-horse race between Everton, Liverpool and West Ham United, with Liverpool eventually winning. United manager Ron Atkinson had signed Davenport as a successor to Mark Hughes, who would be signing for Barcelona at the end of the season. Davenport started 11 league games for United at the end of the 1985–86 season, but only scored once and United finished fourth. Davenport himself did not have a poor start to the 1986–87 season, but…

He finished his playing career with spells at several lower division and Scottish League clubs including Airdrieonians, St Johnstone, Stockport County and Southport, where he also held post as caretaker manager, during which time Southport were unbeaten. After leaving Southport he joined Macclesfield as a player scoring his 100th league goal at Exeter City in May 1998.

After progressing as a coach and assistant manager he was appointed as manager after Sammy McIlroy left to become Northern Ireland manager in January 2000. Davenport was dismissed in December 2000 after refusing to work alongside newly appointed joint manager Gil Prescott. In June 2001, Davenport was appointed as manager of Bangor City in the Welsh Premiership, where he took the team to three third-place finishes in four years qualifying for European competition three times. Davenport resigned from his post in December 2005 citing a lack of progress in the Welsh premier league and Bangor's unsuccessful application to build a new stadium as his reasons. He was appointed manager of Colwyn Bay on 24 May 2006, resigning on 15 January 2007 to once again become manager of Southport. However, in April 2008 he was dismissed as manager despite vying for a place in the Conference North playoff positions. His dismissal was an acrimonious one, with Davenport blaming the chief executive Haydn Preece personally for his demise, stating that he felt he was "stabbed in the back". On 11 May 2010, returned to management after being appointed as the assistant manager at Bradford Park Avenue, only to find himself without a job by August the same year due to a change in personal circumstances.

Sunderland

FA Cup runner-up: 1991–92