Peter Barnes (footballer)

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Peter Barnes
Personal information
Full name	Peter Simon Barnes
Date of birth	10 June 1957 (1957-06-10) (age 52)
Place of birth	Manchester, England
Youth career
1972–1975	Manchester City
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1975–1979 1979–1981 1981–1984 1983–1984 1984 1985–1986 1986–1987 1987 1987 1987–1988 1988 1988–1989 1990 1991 1992	Manchester City West Bromwich Albion Leeds United → Real Betis (loan) Coventry City Manchester United Manchester City → Bolton Wanderers (loan) → Port Vale (loan) Hull City Bolton Wanderers Sunderland Tampa Bay Rowdies Ħamrun Spartans SC Farense Mossley	167 (41) 056 (24) 049 (19) 029 0(8) 025 (10) 038 0(7) 002 0(0) 003 0(0) 011 0(0) 003 0(0) 001 0(0) 011 0(1) 010 0(4) 008 0(0)[1]
National team
1977–1982	England U-21 England	021 0(7) 022 0(5)
Teams managed
1998 1998	Gibraltar Runcorn
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Peter Simon Barnes (born 10 June 1957) is an English former footballer, son of footballer Ken Barnes.

[edit] Playing career

Born in Manchester, Barnes made his debut for Manchester City in 1974–75, and scored in the 1976 League Cup final at the age of 19. In the same year, he was voted Young Player of the Year by the Professional Footballers Association. Barnes was sold by Malcolm Allison in 1979, and joined West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £752,000 – a club transfer record that was not broken for nearly 20 years.

Barnes was Albion's leading scorer in 1979–80, but he struggled to emulate this form after signing for Leeds United in 1981. Leeds manager Allan Clarke played him as a striker, but Barnes failed to adapt to his new role, scoring only one goal. Barnes was a regular with England at the time but apparently unpopular with his team-mates, who took advantage of his club troubles in pressuring manager Ron Greenwood to drop him.

When Leeds were relegated in 1982 he was loaned to Spanish club Real Betis for a season, but didn't relish the climate and returned to Leeds the following year. After 27 games and 4 goals in the Second Division, he was sold to Coventry City for £50,000, where he scored 8 goals in 29 games. Ron Atkinson subsequently signed him for Manchester United, where he was effectively an understudy to Danish winger Jesper Olsen. Barnes managed only 25 appearances during his two years at Manchester United, and scored 10 goals.

Atkinson was replaced as Manchester United manager by Alex Ferguson, who quickly fell out with Barnes. He was transferred back to Manchester City in 1987, but soon fell out of favour and was loaned out to Bolton Wanderers and Port Vale.^[2] His league career petered out with brief spells at Hull City, Bolton again and Sunderland. He moved on to Tampa Bay Rowdies in the American Professional Soccer League and, after failing to persuade Bury he was worth a contract, drifted into non-league football with Mossley.

After retiring from playing, Barnes had a spell managing Runcorn and has since worked behind the scenes at Manchester City and for local radio.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Peter Barnes career stats at Soccerbase

Awards
Preceded by Mervyn Day	PFA Young Player of the Year 1976	Succeeded by Andy Gray

Persondata
NAME	Barnes, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Barnes, Peter Simon
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	10 June 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manchester, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH