21 Facts About Mick Wadsworth

Mick Wadsworth has held a number of coaching roles, including eight years working in a number of roles for The FA.

Mick Wadsworth was then employed by the FA until commencing his club management career in 1993.

In 1985, Mick Wadsworth was appointed as an FA regional coach in the north-west region of England, a position he would hold until 1991, when he became a Technical Co-ordinator on the FA's Excellence Programme, working on the futures of promising youngsters.

Mick Wadsworth coached some of the FA's representative teams during his time in their employ, including a coaching role with the national team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Mick Wadsworth spent two years as manager of the England non-league team, five years as manager of the England youth team and had a coaching role with the England U-21 team.

In 1993, Mick Wadsworth was offered a coaching role at PSV Eindhoven, but couldn't accept due to a lack of Dutch coaching credentials.

In January 1996 Mick Wadsworth became the assistant to the inexperienced Gary Megson at Norwich City.

In January 1999 Mick Wadsworth left Scarborough to manage Colchester United.

Not long afterwards Mick Wadsworth resigned from Colchester on 25 August 1999 citing difficulties with commuting from his home at Pontefract.

Mick Wadsworth was to leave Newcastle in June 2001, without telling Sir Bobby, to become assistant manager to Stuart Gray at Southampton.

Mick Wadsworth was sacked from "The Simbas" on 2 February 2004, the day after the team had lost their third of three matches in the tournament.

Mick Wadsworth re-surfaced at Shrewsbury Town in January 2005 as assistant manager to Gary Peters and remained with the club until March 2006.

Mick Wadsworth was appointed Director of Club Development at Scottish side Gretna in July 2006, and he later took on a dual role as Director of Football and assistant manager when David Irons was appointed as Gretna's new manager in July 2007.

On 19 May 2008, forty members of staff at Gretna, including Mick Wadsworth, were laid off due to financial difficulties and after relegation.

Mick Wadsworth was then appointed Chester City manager on 29 June 2009.

Mick Wadsworth was appointed First Team Coach at Football League One club Hartlepool United in June 2010 and Caretaker Manager on 19 August following the resignation of Director of Sport Chris Turner.

In October 2013 Mick Wadsworth was appointed as temporary first team coach at Sheffield United to support caretaker manager Chris Morgan.

Mick Wadsworth had a six-month spell as manager of non-league Sheffield FC, in 2014, and returned to Sheffield United as the club's Senior Youth Development in July 2015.

Mick Wadsworth grew up in the village of Dodworth which is in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley.

Mick Wadsworth's father was a collier and Wadsworth himself began his career working down the pit.

Mick Wadsworth is a keen artist and has auctioned off some of his drawing of football grounds for charity.