Don Howe

Don Howe

Personal information
Full name	Donald Howe
Date of birth	(1935-10-12)12 October 1935
Place of birth	Springfield, Wolverhampton, England
Date of death	23 December 2015(2015-12-23) (aged 80)
Position(s)	Right Back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1952–1964	West Bromwich Albion	342	(17)
1964–1966	Arsenal	70	(1)
International career
1957–1959	England	23	(0)
Managerial career
1971–1975	West Bromwich Albion
1975–1976	Galatasaray SK
1983–1986	Arsenal
1989–1991	Queens Park Rangers
1992	Coventry City (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Donald "Don" Howe (12 October 1935 – 23 December 2015) was an English football player, coach, manager and pundit. He was born in the Springfield area of Wolverhampton.

Career

Howe spent most of his playing career at West Bromwich Albion. Howe joined the West Bromwich Albion ground staff after leaving school, joining the club as a youth player in December 1950. He turned professional in November 1952, but did not make his debut until 1955, against Everton.

A full back, he played nearly 350 games for the Baggies in twelve years, as well as becoming a regular in the England team; he played in the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and won 23 caps in total.

Howe was signed by Billy Wright's Arsenal in 1964, and was made club captain. However, in March 1966 he broke his leg playing against Blackpool and never recovered well enough to play in the first team again.

Later life and death

Howe retired from coaching in the summer of 2003 after more than 30 years. He occasionally wrote as a pundit for the BBC Sport website. He also had a regular column in the official Arsenal magazine. Right up until his death he ran youth coaching schemes across the United Kingdom.

Howe died, aged 80, in December 2015.

Honours

References

Other websites

Media related to Don Howe at Wikimedia Commons

• Englandstats.com profile Archived 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine