Joseph Patrick Kinnear was born on 27 December 1946 and is an Irish former football manager and player.
30 Facts About Joe Kinnear
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Joe Kinnear was born in Dublin, moving to Watford, England at the age of seven.
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Joe Kinnear was capped 26 times for the Republic of Ireland national football team.
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Joe Kinnear's father died when Kinnear was young and his mother brought up five children on a council estate in Watford.
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Joe Kinnear first made an impression as a player with St Albans City.
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Joe Kinnear made almost 200 league appearances for Tottenham, scoring two league goals.
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Joe Kinnear won four major honours during his time at the club: the FA Cup in 1967; the UEFA Cup in 1972 and the EFL Cup on two occasions.
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Joe Kinnear was capped 26 times by the Republic of Ireland, scoring no goals.
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Joe Kinnear spent three months coaching India and one year coaching Nepal, later returning to England to assist Mackay at Doncaster Rovers.
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Joe Kinnear briefly took charge of Doncaster after Mackay's departure in 1989 but was replaced by Billy Bremner after a consortium completed their takeover of the club.
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Joe Kinnear was appointed reserve team manager of Wimbledon later that year before being appointed manager at the club following Peter Withe's dismissal in January 1992.
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Joe Kinnear was voted Premier League Manager of the Month three times by the end of the season as Wimbledon finished above more established teams including Liverpool, Aston Villa, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur.
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The next season Joe Kinnear continued to defy the odds and Wimbledon finished 9th in the league.
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Joe Kinnear then guided Wimbledon to semi-finals in both of the major domestic cup competitions in 1997 as well as finishing 8th in the Premier League.
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However, when Wimbledon were taken over by new Norwegian owners after the end of that season, it was widely reported that Joe Kinnear would be axed as manager in favour of Norwegian coach Age Hareide, but the change of management never happened and Joe Kinnear remained at the Wimbledon helm for a further two seasons.
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Joe Kinnear continued in his role as Wimbledon until he suffered a heart attack before a league game against Sheffield Wednesday in March 1999.
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Joe Kinnear was out of work until Nottingham Forest offered him the manager's job in February 2004, taking over from Paul Hart.
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Joe Kinnear was without a club following his departure from Nottingham Forest for almost four years and had not been involved in the top flight since 1999, there were rumours about joining several clubs during this time including QPR.
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On 26 September 2008, Joe Kinnear was named as the interim manager of Premier League side Newcastle United until the end of October, following the shock resignation of Kevin Keegan who had publicly berated the owners and directors of the club, suggesting corruption and lack of clarity over who was in charge of the squad.
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On 2 October 2008, Joe Kinnear launched a verbal tirade at the Daily Mirror journalist Simon Bird, calling him a "cunt".
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Joe Kinnear swore over 50 times in the first five minutes of the interview.
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The club's press officer tried to order the assembled journalists not to publish any extracts from the tirade, but Joe Kinnear himself gave the journalists permission to write up whatever they wanted from his remarks.
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Joe Kinnear then followed this up with a surprise win against fifth-placed Aston Villa to lift Newcastle off the foot of the table and out of the relegation zone.
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N'Zogbia had frequently stated in the press, via his agent, that he wished to leave after Joe Kinnear mispronounced his name during an interview in which he called him "insomnia".
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Joe Kinnear stated that he would not consider a return to Newcastle as long as Kinnear was the manager.
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On 7 February 2009, Joe Kinnear was taken to hospital after feeling ill, hours before Newcastle's clash with West Brom.
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On 16 June 2013, in a series of telephone interviews Joe Kinnear claimed he had been appointed as director of football for Newcastle United.
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Joe Kinnear mispronounced the names of Yohan Cabaye, Hatem Ben Arfa, Shola Ameobi and others in the Talksport interview.
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Joe Kinnear drew criticism when the 2013 summer transfer window closed with Joe Kinnear failing to make a single permanent signing, lone recruit Loic Remy having been signed on loan from Queens Park Rangers.
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On 3 February 2014, Joe Kinnear resigned from his position of director of football at Newcastle.