Tony Parkes
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anthony Parkes | ||
| Date of birth | 5 May 1949 | ||
| Place of birth | Sheffield, England | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1969–1970 | Buxton | ? | (?) |
| 1970–1982 | Blackburn Rovers | 350 | (38) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1986–1987 | Blackburn Rovers (caretaker manager) | ||
| 1991 | Blackburn Rovers (caretaker manager) | ||
| 1996–1997 | Blackburn Rovers (caretaker manager) | ||
| 1998 | Blackburn Rovers (caretaker manager) | ||
| 1999–2000 | Blackburn Rovers (caretaker manager) | ||
| 2004 | Blackburn Rovers (caretaker manager) | ||
| 2008–2009 | Blackpool (caretaker manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Anthony "Tony" Parkes (born 5 May 1949) is an English former professional footballer. After retiring, he became a coach. He was most recently caretaker manager at Blackpool. It was the seventh such role of his coaching career, having performed the role on six occasions for Blackburn Rovers. He currently works as a scout for Blackburn Rovers.
Parkes was a midfielder who started his career in non-League football at Buxton in 1969 before moving to Blackburn Rovers in 1970 where he spent the rest of his playing career. He played a total of 350 league games and scored 38 goals for Rovers before retiring in 1982.
After retiring Parkes stayed with Blackburn, joining their coaching staff under Bobby Saxton, where he became assistant manager. He stood in as caretaker manager for the club six times in less than 20 years. He took over from Bobby Saxton (December 1986 – February 1987), Don Mackay (September–October 1991), Ray Harford (October 1996 – June 1997), Roy Hodgson (November–December 1998), Brian Kidd (November 1999 – March 2000) and Graeme Souness (September 2004) after their departures.
During this time Rovers experienced something of a revolution. During his first caretaker spell, they were a struggling Second Division club who had not tasted top flight football for some 20 years. Five years later, during his second caretaker spell, they had just been taken over by local steel baron Jack Walker and were a wealthy, ambitious side building for a challenge for promotion to the new FA Premier League – which was ultimately achieved at the end of the season under new manager Kenny Dalglish. By the time of his third caretaker spell five years later, barely 18 months had passed since their Premier League title triumph – the club's first top division title since 1914. His fourth spell came in 1999 after Rovers' shock relegation from the top-flight; while Parkes hoped to secure promotion and the manager's position on a full-time basis, this in fact proved to be his least successful stint as caretaker, and he was replaced by Graeme Souness in March 2000 with the club looking in danger of a second successive relegation. However, Parkes still remained at the club as Souness's assistant.
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