Graham Hawkins

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Graham Hawkins
Personal information
Full name	Graham Norman Hawkins
Date of birth	March 5, 1946 (1946-03-05) (age 63)
Place of birth	Darlaston, England
Playing position	Defender
Youth career
1961–1964	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1964–1967 1967–1974 1974–1978 1978–1979	Wolverhampton Wanderers Preston North End Blackburn Rovers Port Vale	034 0(0) 245 0(3) 109 0(4) 062 0(3)
Teams managed
1982–1984	Wolverhampton Wanderers
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Graham Norman Hawkins (born 5 March 1946 in Darlaston) is an English former football player and manager.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching and Management career 3 Honours 3.1 as a Manager 4 References

[edit] Playing career

Hawkins began his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers, making his debut in the Black Country derby against West Bromwich Albion on 10 October 1964. However, he failed to establish himself and moved to Preston North End in December 1967.

After a slow start to his Deepdale career, primarily due to injury, he became a regular and was appointed captain at the young age of 22. He played over 250 games before moving to Blackburn Rovers in June 1974.

He later finished his playing career at Port Vale, signing as a player-youth coach for £6,000 from Blackburn in January 1978. He became a first team regular and was appointed as the first team coach in May 1978 before being promoted to assistant manager in September 1978. When manager Dennis Butler stepped down in August 1978 Hawkins was expecting to be appointed as caretaker manager. However the board appointed Alan Bloor in this role and he took up the position on a full time basis the following month. Feeling slighted by this Hawkins resigned his position and took out an unfair dismissal claim, but dropped the claim in April 1980 when the club offered compensation.^[1]

[edit] Coaching and Management career

Upon leaving Vale, he took up the assistant manager post at Shrewsbury Town before returning to Wolves as manager, appointed after the Derek Dougan-led takeover saved the club from extinction in August 1982. He guided Wolves to promotion back to the top flight at the first attempt, finishing runners-up to QPR.

However, life in the First Division was much tougher and the side were relegated after a disastrous campaign. Hawkins was dismissed in April 1984, after a run of just one win in 14.

He later coached in Saudi Arabia.

He is currently the Football League's head of player development.^[2]

[edit] Honours

[edit] as a Manager

with Wolverhampton Wanderers

• Second Division runners-up: 1982-83

[edit] References

• Matthews, Tony (2001). The Wolves Who's Who. West Midlands: Britespot. ISBN 1-904103-01-4. 

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Persondata
NAME	Hawkins, Graham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional footballer, football manager
DATE OF BIRTH	5 March 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darlaston, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH