Steve Heighway

[Stuttgart88]

I see Steve Heighway is stepping down as youth team coach at Liverpool and is upset at Benitez' interference.

The FAI should take note. I know the Irish underage coaching is excellent (bar Givens) but his experience could be really valuable. Possible U21 coach?

Dammit, I'd even have him as first team coach!

[endabob1]

Owen, Carragher, Gerrard have all come through the ranks uner Heighway and they won the Youth Cup last week so he seems to have the credentials alright......You really think the FAI would want some with credentials and experience

[beautifulrock]

very good shout Stuttgart, he would be a fantastic choice.

[geysir]

"Maybe because I have a brain and a mind, maybe that counts against you"
Steve rules himself out of consideration for any Irish job.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=94&si=1824737&issue_id=15587

There a load of articles in the ET

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/

With Benitez's status now, the exclusives have a whiff of poor timing, unlike Heighway in his playing days.

[Stuttgart88]

I heard him interviewd on TV a couple of weeks ago. Very articulate. Wasn't he a rarity - a footballer with a University degree?

[geysir]

" It was due to Heighway's academic achievements that he got his nickname 'Big Bamber', team-mate and fellow academic Brian Hall was dubbed 'Little Bamber' both after the television programme University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne."

[Stuttgart88]

"He thinks that I'm a cabbage, because I hate University Challenge"

[paul_oshea]

stuts where did you get that quote from?

[Stuttgart88]

Undertones "My Perfect Cousin".

Lyrics are superb. Referred to the Human League years before anyone ever even heard of them.

"His mum bought him a synthesizer, Got the Human League in to advise her". Genius.

He's got a degree in economics, maths, physics and bionics,
He thinks that I'm a cabbage,`cos I hate "University Challenge",
Even at the age of ten, Smart boy Kevin was a smart boy then,
He always beat me at "Subbuteo",`Cos he flicked to kick, and I didn't know.

[Billsthoughts]

I thought when reading it he would be ideal for the U21s.
time for a change as givens has had the job years.

he always beats me at subbuteo,cause he flicked to kick and I didnt know..

[Stuttgart88]

Sorry Bill, was editing & adding same line as you posted that!

[geysir]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohkqr2mgUck

"All of a sudden Liverpool had 2 of them (graduates)"

[geysir]

Watching that utube clip I see where we went wrong with Heighway, we should have picked just 10 players and let Heighway work both wings.

[lofty9]

I read his autobiography whilst I was supposed to be studying for my A levels. His decision to stay on at school for as long as possible and keep Liverpool's advances at bay actually spurred me on to study!! Thanks Steve.

[Stuttgart88]

I just read the same wikipedia entry that I think Geysir got the quote from. I didn't realise Heighway was born in Dublin, I always assumed he qualified under ancestry. Would love to see him take the U21s & maybe a ready made senior team manager could be groomed. That'd involve foresight however.

Intelligent, thinking coaches seem to be the most successful these days, not the "inject some passion" types.