Viv Busby

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Viv Busby
Personal information
Full name	Vivian Dennis Busby
Date of birth	19 June 1949 (1949-06-19) (age 60)
Place of birth	Slough, England
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Workington (Assistant Manager)
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1966–1970 1970–1973 1971–1972 1973–1976 1976–1977 1977–1980 1980 1980–1981 1981–1982 1982–1983	Wycombe Wanderers Luton Town → Newcastle United (loan) Fulham Norwich City Stoke City → Sheffield United (loan) Tulsa Roughnecks Blackburn Rovers York City	048 (19) 077 (16) 004 0(2) 118 (29) 022 (11) 050 0(9) 003 0(1) 019 0(1) 008 0(1) 019 0(4)
Teams managed
1993 2004–2005	Hartlepool United York City
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Vivian Dennis "Viv" Busby (born 19 June 1949 in Slough, England) is an English former footballer and manager.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Playing 1.2 Managerial 2 Managerial stats 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Playing

Busby started his playing career at Wycombe Wanderers in 1966. He couldn't hold down a regular place in their team despite his emmerging talent. He moved to Luton Town in January 1970.^[1]

He played for the Fulham team beaten in the 1975 FA Cup Final, 2-0 by West Ham United. He is the older brother of former QPR midfielder Martyn Busby.^[2]

[edit] Managerial

Busby worked as a coach at York City between 1982 and 1987.^[3] Busby became manager of Hartlepool United on 15 February 1993 and left the position on 24 November 1993.^[4] Busby had been youth-team coach at Swindon Town, where he suffered a six-month battle against leukaemia.^[5] He was named as assistant manager at York City in September 2004.^[6] Busby was placed as caretaker manager at York City in November 2004 following the sacking of Chris Brass.^[7] He left his position as caretaker manager at York City by mutual consent in February 2005.^[8] Busby worked as Youth Academy Manager at Gretna,^[9] but left after a change to the backroom staff.^[10] He was appointed as assistant manager at Workington in September 2007.^[10]

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Hartlepool United		February 15, 1993	November 24, 1993	40	9	22	9	22.50
York City		November 8, 2004	February 11, 2005	14	4	8	2	28.57

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Viv Busby management career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Hartlepool United F.C. – Managers Priest (1908–12) · Humphreys (1912–13) · Manners (1913–20) · Potter (1920–22) · Gordon (1922–24) · Manners (1924–27) · Norman (1927–31) · Carr (1932–35) · Hamilton (1935–40) · Westgarth (1943–57) · Middleton (1957–59) · Robinson (1959–62) · Chilton (1962–63) · Gurney (1963–64) · Williams (1964–65) · Twentyman (1965) · Clough (1965–67) · McLean (1967–70) · Simpson (1970–71) · Ashurst (1971–74) · Hale (1974–76) · Horner (1976–83) · Duncan (1983) · Docherty (1983) · Horner (1983–86) · Bird (1986–88) · Moncur (1988–89) · Knowles (1989–91) · Murray (1991–93) · Busby (1993) · MacPhail (1993–94) · McCreery (1994–95) · Houchen (1995–96) · Tait (1996–99) · Baker and Honour (1999) · Turner (1999–2002) · Newell (2002–03) · Cooper (2003–05) · Scott (2005–06) · Stephenson (2006) · Wilson (2006–08) · Turner (2008–)

v • d • e York City F.C. – Managers Collier (1928–30) · Sherrington (1930–33) · Collier (1933–37) · Mitchell (1937–50) · Duckworth (1950–52) · Spencer (1952–53) · McCormick (1953–54) · Bartram (1956–60) · Lockie (1960–67) · Shaw (1967–68) · Johnston (1968–75) · McGuinness (1975–77) · Wright (1977–80) · Lyons (1980–81) · Randall (1981–82) · Swallow (1982) · Smith (1982–87) · Saxton (1987–88) · Swallow (1988) · Bird (1988–91) · Ward (1991–93) · Little (1993–99) · Thompson (1999–2000) · Dolan (2000–03) · Brass (2003–04) · Busby (2004–05) · McEwan (2005–07) · Walker (2007–08) · Redfearn (2008) · Foyle (2008–)