 Laws in 2006 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Brian Laws[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 14 October 1961[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Wallsend, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1983 | Burnley | 125 | (12) |
| 1983–1985 | Huddersfield Town | 56 | (1) |
| 1985–1988 | Middlesbrough | 108 | (12) |
| 1988–1994 | Nottingham Forest | 147 | (4) |
| 1994–1996 | Grimsby Town | 46 | (2) |
| 1996–1997 | Darlington | 10 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | Scunthorpe United | 18 | (0) |
| Total | 510 | (31) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1994–1996 | Grimsby Town | ||
| 1997–2006 | Scunthorpe United | ||
| 2006–2009 | Sheffield Wednesday | ||
| 2010 | Burnley | ||
| 2012 | Shamrock Rovers | ||
| 2012–2013 | Scunthorpe United | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Brian Laws (born 14 October 1961) is an English former professional footballer and manager.
Playing as a defender, Laws made over 100 appearances for each of Burnley, Middlesbrough, and Nottingham Forest. In 1994, Laws became player-manager of Grimsby Town before taking a similar position with Scunthorpe United in 1997. For the next nine years, Laws served as manager of Scunthorpe United, guiding them to promotion twice. In 2006, he accepted the managerial role at Sheffield Wednesday, lasting three years in the job during which time Burnley approached him for their managers job when Steve Cotterill left, but were put off by the compensation demanded by Wednesday. Wednesday later struggled with financial problems and he was dismissed in December 2009 after a poor run of results.
After only a brief spell out of the game, Burnley appointed Laws as their manager, giving him his first chance to manage in the Premier League after Owen Coyle left the club for Bolton Wanderers in January 2010 and took the entire management team with him. He was dismissed by the club in December that year. Laws returned to manage Scunthorpe United in 2012 only to be dismissed in November 2013.
- ^ a b "Brian Laws". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- ^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1996). The 1996–97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile. Queen Anne Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-85291-571-1.