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Mick Halsall
Michael Halsall (born 21 July 1961) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He scored 42 goals in 389 appearances in the Football League, playing for Birmingham City, Carlisle United, Grimsby Town and Peterborough United.
He has also worked as a manager with Peterborough United and as caretaker manager at Walsall and at Wolverhampton Wanderers youth academy, as of 2014[update] as professional lead coach.
In August 2014 he joined Notts County, and has had two spells there as caretaker manager.
Halsall was born in Bootle, Merseyside. He began his football career as an apprentice with Liverpool in 1977 and turned professional in 1979, but in six years with the club he never played for the first team. He moved on to Birmingham City, and went straight into the starting eleven for the First Division game away to West Bromwich Albion on 19 March 1983. Birmingham lost that game 2–0, but Halsall played in all but one of the remaining games of the 1982–83 season, in which the team won five of the last six games to avoid relegation, and scored his first goal for Birmingham in the penultimate game against Tottenham Hotspur. Halsall began the following season as a first-team regular, but despite demonstrating his enthusiasm and capacity for hard work, he gradually lost his hold on a starting place. He was sent off in his last appearance for the club, in a League Cup tie in October 1984, and was promptly sold to Carlisle United for a fee of £5,000.
When Halsall joined Carlisle, they were in the Second Division; by the time he left for Grimsby Town two and a half years later, for a fee of £10,000, they were well on the way to the Fourth. Grimsby sold Halsall on to Peterborough United for a fee of £25,000 during the 1987 close season.
Halsall spent six seasons as a player with Peterborough, and played 249 league games. He captained the club to promotion from the Fourth Division in the 1990–91 season, to a run of nine consecutive wins the following season which contributed to their reaching sixth place in the Third Division, qualifying for the play-offs, and winning promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in the club's history. The Peterborough Evening Telegraph's "A to Z of Posh" feature summed him up as follows:
Have Posh ever had a better captain than Mick HALSALL? It's doubtful as his tireless, passionate performances made him a club legend even before he lifted the Division Three Play-off trophy at Wembley in 1992.
In his last season as a Peterborough player he became involved on the coaching side, and in January 1994 he was appointed assistant manager to Chris Turner after the departure of Lil Fuccillo. He then worked under John Still before being appointed manager in October 1995 after Still's departure. Halsall reverted to coaching when Barry Fry took over the club in June 1996, only to be sacked as an economy measure a few months later.
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Mick Halsall
Michael Halsall (born 21 July 1961) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He scored 42 goals in 389 appearances in the Football League, playing for Birmingham City, Carlisle United, Grimsby Town and Peterborough United.
He has also worked as a manager with Peterborough United and as caretaker manager at Walsall and at Wolverhampton Wanderers youth academy, as of 2014[update] as professional lead coach.
In August 2014 he joined Notts County, and has had two spells there as caretaker manager.
Halsall was born in Bootle, Merseyside. He began his football career as an apprentice with Liverpool in 1977 and turned professional in 1979, but in six years with the club he never played for the first team. He moved on to Birmingham City, and went straight into the starting eleven for the First Division game away to West Bromwich Albion on 19 March 1983. Birmingham lost that game 2–0, but Halsall played in all but one of the remaining games of the 1982–83 season, in which the team won five of the last six games to avoid relegation, and scored his first goal for Birmingham in the penultimate game against Tottenham Hotspur. Halsall began the following season as a first-team regular, but despite demonstrating his enthusiasm and capacity for hard work, he gradually lost his hold on a starting place. He was sent off in his last appearance for the club, in a League Cup tie in October 1984, and was promptly sold to Carlisle United for a fee of £5,000.
When Halsall joined Carlisle, they were in the Second Division; by the time he left for Grimsby Town two and a half years later, for a fee of £10,000, they were well on the way to the Fourth. Grimsby sold Halsall on to Peterborough United for a fee of £25,000 during the 1987 close season.
Halsall spent six seasons as a player with Peterborough, and played 249 league games. He captained the club to promotion from the Fourth Division in the 1990–91 season, to a run of nine consecutive wins the following season which contributed to their reaching sixth place in the Third Division, qualifying for the play-offs, and winning promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in the club's history. The Peterborough Evening Telegraph's "A to Z of Posh" feature summed him up as follows:
Have Posh ever had a better captain than Mick HALSALL? It's doubtful as his tireless, passionate performances made him a club legend even before he lifted the Division Three Play-off trophy at Wembley in 1992.
In his last season as a Peterborough player he became involved on the coaching side, and in January 1994 he was appointed assistant manager to Chris Turner after the departure of Lil Fuccillo. He then worked under John Still before being appointed manager in October 1995 after Still's departure. Halsall reverted to coaching when Barry Fry took over the club in June 1996, only to be sacked as an economy measure a few months later.