Patrick "Patsy" Holland (born 13 September 1950) is an English former

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who played for clubs

West Ham United West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club that plays its home matches in Stratford, East London. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club plays at the London Stadium, hav ...

, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic and

Team Hawaii Team Hawaii was a soccer team based out of Honolulu that played in the NASL for one season, 1977. Their home field was Aloha Stadium. After two unsuccessful years as the San Antonio Thunder, the franchise moved to Hawai'i in time for the 19 ...

. Holland has also coached and scouted for teams such as

Leyton Orient Leyton Orient Football Club is a professional football club based in Leyton, East London, England, who compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. They are the second oldest football club in London to play at a professio ...

Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham () or Spurs, is a professional association football, football club based in Tottenham, London, England. It competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English footba ...

Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England, which compete in the . After a nomadic early existence, they have played home matches at Loftus Ro ...

and

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Career

Holland was born in

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. A

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, he made his professional debut for

in 1969. He became an integral player for the club playing in the team that won the 1975 FA Cup Final. He also played in the

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final of 1976, where he scored one of West Ham's goals in a 4–2 loss to Anderlecht. Holland sustained a knee injury in a game against

Notts County Notts County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Nottingham, England. The team participate in the National League (division), National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. Founded on the 2 ...

on 17 January 1981. Despite this, he earned a winner's medal as West Ham won the

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. As a result of his injury he played

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football but never again did so for the Hammers' first team. In all Holland made a total of 296 appearances for the

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club. He then joined

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and later had spells at

as reserve team coach, and Orient as youth team coach. In 1988, he became reserve team coach at

. In 1995, he left Spurs to be manager of

, who had just been relegated to Division Three. Despite being heavily backed by the new chairman, Holland presided over the club's low league standing in 1995–96, before being sacked in the wake of a poor start to the 1996–97 season. Subsequently, Holland went back to Spurs to take up the role of a coach within the club's academy. Holland once again moved on from Tottenham in May 2006 to

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, joining as chief scout. He soon afterward took up the post of the assistant manager to

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. Donachie was sacked by Millwall on 8 October 2007 after a start to the 2007–08 season that saw Millwall at the bottom of the League One table. Following the appointment of new Millwall manager,

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Holland left the club. In July 2009, Holland left his role as

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for

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following the departure of manager

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, and subsequent appointment of

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. On 22 August 2012, Holland was appointed as the coach of

's under-18 team. However, he left his post at the club seven weeks later, citing personal reasons. With this being so, Holland went on working with Arsenal as a scout.

Honours

;West Ham United *

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1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Holland, Pat 1950 births Living people Footballers from Poplar, London English footballers Association football midfielders West Ham United F.C. players AFC Bournemouth players Leyton Orient F.C. players Team Hawaii players Leyton Orient F.C. managers English Football League managers English Football League players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Tottenham Hotspur F.C. non-playing staff Arsenal F.C. non-playing staff Expatriate soccer players in the United States Milton Keynes Dons F.C. non-playing staff English expatriate sportspeople in the United States English expatriate footballers English football managers FA Cup Final players