Andy Morrell
Morrell training with Bury in 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Andrew Jonathan Morrell | ||
| Date of birth | 28 September 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Doncaster, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Tamworth (player-manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Nuneaton Borough | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–1998 | Newcastle Blue Star | ||
| 1998–2003 | Wrexham | 109 | (40) |
| 2003–2006 | Coventry City | 98 | (17) |
| 2006–2008 | Blackpool | 78 | (21) |
| 2008–2010 | Bury | 73 | (18) |
| 2010–2014 | Wrexham | 113 | (25) |
| 2014– | Tamworth | 28 | (4) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2011–2014 | Wrexham | ||
| 2014– | Tamworth | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:12, 6 March 2017 (UTC). |
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Andrew Jonathan "Andy" Morrell (born 28 September 1974) is an English semi-professional footballer and manager who is the current player-manager of Tamworth.
Morrell played 359 games in the Football League for Wrexham, Coventry City, Blackpool and Bury, scoring 96 goals.
Initially handed the manager's role on an interim basis at Wrexham, after Dean Saunders left to manage Doncaster Rovers, Morrell was given the job until the end of the season after a run of seven wins in nine games, he continued his playing career serving as a player-manager, leaving the position in February 2014 after two and a half years as manager with a win record at over 52%
Morrell has also served as assistant manager at Shrewsbury Town.
Born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire and brought up in Market Bosworth, and attending Twycross House School, he played for the Leicestershire County Cricket Club from under-15 to under-19 level. He started his football career as a youth team player at Nuneaton Borough, before deciding to make the move north to Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne to study Sports science. It was then that he started playing for Newcastle Blue Star making 31 appearances scoring 25 times in his season.
Morrell's first big break came when he started talking to Sky Sports presenter Rob McCaffrey, who was helping to write the autobiography of Joey Jones, Wrexham's first-team coach at the time. McCaffrey arranged for Morrell to have a trial at the club. After a week's trial he was kept on at Wrexham and was coached by their striking coach Ian Rush, from whom he learnt a great deal. With his new strike partner Lee Trundle he scored 34 league goals in 45 games in the 2002–03 season, making him top scorer in all four divisions that year, having only scored two goals the entire previous season.
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