Brian Talbot is a football manager and former England midfielder (born July 21, 1953). Talbot began his footballing career as an apprentice with Ipswich Town, turning professional in 1972. He made 227 appearances for Ipswich before moving to Arsenal in 1979 for a fee of £450,000. Talbot achieved the rare distinction of winning a FA Cup-winner's medal with two different teams in consecutive seasons: with Ipswich in the 1978 final and with Arsenal in 1979. He played in the FA Cup final for a third consecutive season the following year, again for Arsenal, but this time was on the losing side. Talbot played for England five times while at Ipswich and once as an Arsenal player. After leaving Arsenal in June 1985 he went on to play for Watford, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Fulham and Aldershot. First International Scotland 0 - 0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) Largest win Ireland 0 - 13 England (Belfast, Northern Ireland; 18 February 1882) Worst defeat Hungary 7 - 1 England (Budapest, Hungary; 23 May 1954) World Cup Appearances 11 (First in 1950) Best result Winners, 1966 European Championship Appearances 7 (First... In association football a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders. ... July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 163 days remaining. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Ipswich Town F.C. is the professional football team of Ipswich, in East Anglia, England. ... Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) is a north London football club founded in 1886. ... The FA Cups trophy is also known as the FA Cup. ... Watford Football Club is an English Football League team located in Watford, Hertfordshire. ... Stoke City F.C. (known as Stoke F.C. until 1925) is a football club from Stoke-on-Trent in England. ... West Bromwich Albion Football Club is an English football club formed by workers from Salters Spring Works in West Bromwich, West Midlands in 1878. ... Fulham Football Club is a football team based in Fulham, London. ... Aldershot Football Club were the last (at time of writing June 2003) English league club to go out of business during a season. ...

From 1984 to 1988 Talbot was Chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association. The Professional Footballers Association is the association for professional footballers in the United Kingdom. ...

Talbot first tasted football management with West Bromwich Albion, where he served as player-manager from November 1988 to January 1991, and then at Aldershot (February–November 1991). He subsequently managed Maltese club Hibernians, where his team won the island's Premier League in 1993 and 1994.

Talbot returned to English club football as part of the coaching staff of Rushden and Diamonds, then in the Football Conference, in 1997. After a spell as Head Coach he was appointed Club Manager before the start of the 1999–2000 season. At the end of the 2000–01 season Rushden secured promotion to the Football League under his management. The team reached the Third Division playoffs in 2002 but lost in the final. In their second season in the League they secured the 2003 Division Three Championship, but were relegated the following season, Talbot having left the club in March 2004 after 7 years to take over at Oldham Athletic. Rushden and Diamonds were formed in 1992 by Max Griggs, the owner of the Dr Martens shoe company who bought two non-league clubs (Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds) and merged them to form a team which would compete in the Southern (Beazer Homes) League Division One and play its... The Football Conference is a football league at the top of the National League System of so-called non-league football in England. ... The Football League is an organisation representing 72 professional football clubs in England and Wales, and runs the oldest professional football league competition in the world. ... Until the 2004/05 season, the Football League Third Division was the third-highest division of The Football League and the fourth-highest division in the overall English football league system. ... Oldham Athletic Association Football Club are an English football team currently playing in Football League One. ...

Talbot succeeded in keeping Oldham in the Football League Second Division in 2004, but resigned in March 2005. In May 2005 he signed a two-year contract as manager of Oxford United before the final game of the 2004–2005 season. Between the 1992-93 and 2004-05 season, the Football League Second Division was the second-highest division of The Football League and the third-highest division in the overall English football league system. ... Oxford United F.C. is an English football team currently playing in Football League Two. ...

References

• 'Brian Talbot's managerial career' www.soccerbase.com  (http://www.soccerbase.com/managers2.sd?managerid=254)
• Harding, John, 'The Brian Talbot Years: 1984-88' The Official Website of the Professional Footballers' Association (http://www.givemefootball.com/display.cfm?article=3092&type=1)
• Rushden & Diamonds Club History Rushden & Diamonds Official Website (http://www.thediamondsfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/History/0,,10784,00.html)
• 'Talbot Takes Over' Oxford United Official Website (http://www.oufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/TheBigInterview/0,,10342~662489,00.html)