33 Facts About Iain Dowie

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Iain Dowie was born on 9 January 1965 and is a football manager, former professional footballer and sports television pundit.

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Iain Dowie played as a striker from 1983 until 2001, notably in the Premier League for Southampton, Crystal Palace and West Ham United.

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Iain Dowie earned 59 caps for Northern Ireland, scoring 12 goals.

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Iain Dowie played in the Football League for Luton Town, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers, and in Non-league for Cheshunt, St Albans City and Hendon.

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Iain Dowie is a former Northern Ireland international footballer where he earned 59 caps, scoring 12 goals.

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Iain Dowie has since worked as a pundit largely for Sky Sports.

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Iain Dowie left Cheshunt to improve his fitness and signed for St Albans City, then moved on to Hendon.

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Iain Dowie proved himself to be a competent deputy for the injured Trevor Morley as his four goals in the final 12 league games of the season secured the team's promotion as Second Division runners-up.

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Iain Dowie's spell at Palace was a frustrating one; he was cup-tied for the League Cup semi-finals against Liverpool, and Palace reached the FA Cup semi-finals where they lost to Manchester United after a replay.

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Iain Dowie then spent nearly three years back at West Ham.

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Iain Dowie is probably best remembered by West Ham fans for scoring a bizarre headed own goal in an infamous defeat to Stockport County in the League Cup in front of the live Sky cameras at Edgeley Park.

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Iain Dowie then moved across London to Queens Park Rangers, where he ended his days playing in defence, and being player-manager of QPR's reserve team.

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Iain Dowie had a brief spell as caretaker manager of QPR in the autumn of 1998, between the dismissal of Ray Harford and appointment of Gerry Francis.

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Iain Dowie's father was born in Belfast, thus qualifying him to play for Northern Ireland, for whom Iain Dowie gained 59 caps and scored 12 goals.

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However, financial trouble hit Oldham and Iain Dowie lost much of his first team squad.

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Iain Dowie tried to stick out the post for as long as possible until he decided to move on citing the need to support his family as a reason.

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On 21 December 2003, Iain Dowie was appointed manager of Crystal Palace, inheriting a squad with low morale and occupying 19th place in Division One.

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Iain Dowie made a couple of signings to the Crystal Palace squad: he signed goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly to challenge Julian Speroni for the number 1 top.

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Iain Dowie remained at Palace when the club was relegated to the Championship despite rumours that he was approached by other Premier League clubs to take over.

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The only actual report of a club approaching Palace to speak to Iain Dowie was when Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric approached Palace chairman Simon Jordan to speak to Iain Dowie, in November 2005.

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Jordan refused this approach, and for the meantime Iain Dowie remained at Selhurst Park.

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Iain Dowie had been allowed to leave without compensation being paid to Crystal Palace as he had wanted to be nearer to his family in Bolton.

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When Iain Dowie took over at the Valley, he was given more money than any previous manager to spend on players.

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Iain Dowie signed Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, and Scott Carson on loan, but was unable to prevent the team suffering a disastrous start to the Premier League season.

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However, Iain Dowie was unable to lift the team away from the relegation zone of the Premier League and build on the success of former manager Alan Curbishley, resulting in him and the club parting company on 13 November 2006, after just 15 games in charge.

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26.

Iain Dowie was unveiled as Coventry City manager on 19 February 2007.

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Iain Dowie found immediate success at the club with a number of wins but towards the end of the season their form dropped off and the Sky Blues finished 17th in the Championship table.

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On 11 February 2008, Iain Dowie was released from his contract as Coventry manager, which was officially cited as being due to significant differences of opinion between the management team and the Board as to how the club should be going forward.

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On 1 April 2009, Newcastle United appointed Alan Shearer as manager until the end of the season, with Iain Dowie being appointed to his coaching staff.

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Iain Dowie was named as the temporary "Football Management Consultant" of Premier League team Hull City on 17 March 2010, after manager Phil Brown was placed on gardening leave.

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Iain Dowie's niece Natasha Dowie is an international footballer who played for Charlton Athletic Women while he was manager of the men's team.

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In March 2016, Iain Dowie was employed as Regional Sales Manager for "Go To Surveys".

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Iain Dowie coined the word 'bouncebackability' which entered the Oxford English Dictionary.