Nicholas Law (born 8 September 1961) is an English former professional footballer and football manager who is the Head of Youth Recruitment at
Premier League
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Burnley
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Rotherham United
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and Chesterfield. He became manager of the latter between 2000 and 2001 and later went on to take charge at
Bradford City
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Grimsby Town
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Rotherham United
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. He began his professional career at Arsenal, but his first team involvement was limited to a single appearance on the substitute's bench in a 1–5 defeat at Aston Villa on 24 April 1979.
Managerial and coaching career
Chesterfield
Law was made Football in the Community officer with Chesterfield before taking over as manager from
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in the spring of 2000. The change was too late to save the Spireites from relegation in 1999–2000, but with some shrewd signings by Law, the team dominated
Division Three
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in 2000–01 and led the table, until the pressures of the Football League enquiry into financial irregularities started to impact on performances. Despite a nine-point deduction, Law nevertheless led Chesterfield to third place and automatic promotion to Division Two.
Bradford City
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replacing Jim Jeffries as manager. He was sacked in November 2003 during which the club was in administration and second from bottom of league.
Grimsby Town
Law was appointed manager of
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Grimsby Town
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on 3 March 2004. The Mariners had recently dismissed Paul Groves and were struggling in the lower mid-table of the third-tier of English football following relegation from the First Division a few months earlier. He turned his attention to the transfer market and acquired
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and Mickaël Antoine-Curier amongst others. However, in the final twelve games of the season Law only posted three victories, two draws and seven defeats which confined Grimsby to a second successive relegation. Law was dismissed as a result and was replaced by
Russell Slade
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Alfreton Town
On 14 May 2007, he was appointed as manager of
Alfreton Town
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History
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. In March 2008 he was set to return to Bradford as manager of Bradford Park Avenue, until Park Avenue were forced to call off the deal and apologise to Alfreton Town.
On 25 May 2011, Law signed a new contract along with assistant Russ O'Neill keeping them with the club till June 2014.
Burnley
On 25 January 2017, it was announced that Law would join Premier League
Burnley
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as head of national recruitment for 17-23 year olds.
Honours
Manager
Chesterfield
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Division Three
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References
*Panini (1988). ''Panini's Football Yearbook 1988–89'', Panini Publishing,