Peter Andrew Shirtliff (born 6 April 1961) is an English football coach and former player. As a player, he made more than 500 appearances in

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playing as a

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for

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, Barnsley and Carlisle United. He has managed

Mansfield Town Mansfield Town Football Club is a professional football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed 'The Stags', they play in a blue and ...

, and is currently employed as first-team coach at

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Career

Shirtliff was born in

Hoyland Hoyland is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The town developed from the hamlets of Upper Hoyland, Hoyland and Hoyland Common. The town has also been known as ''Nether Hoyland''. That name was given t ...

, near Barnsley. He began his football career with

, where in two spells with the club he achieved

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from the

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in 1983–84, a third-place finish in the First Division in the 1991–92 season, and a

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-winners' medal in

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, but missed the 1993 League Cup and

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with a broken arm. He played more than 350 games for the club in all competitions. After his first spell with Wednesday, he joined

, where his two goals in the last 10 minutes of extra time in the 1986–87 playoff final replay against

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kept the club in the First Division. He also played for

, Barnsley and Carlisle United). Shirtliff retired from the game in 1997, shortly after helping Barnsley reach the

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, after 18 years as a professional footballer. He has since been youth team coach at Barnsley and

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. In 2005, he was appointed assistant manager at

. He became the manager of Mansfield following the dismissal of

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in September 2005, and lasted 15 months in the job before getting sacked in December 2006 following a poor run of results. In 2007, he was appointed assistant manager at

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, and two years later took up the equivalent post at

. He was also assistant manager and caretaker manager of Bury before departing in 2013.

Personal life

His younger brother

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was also a professional footballer.

Honours

Sheffield Wednesday *

: 1991

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shirtliff, Peter Living people 1961 births People from Hoyland Men's association football central defenders Footballers from Barnsley English footballers Premier League players Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players Charlton Athletic F.C. players Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players Barnsley F.C. players Carlisle United F.C. players English football managers Mansfield Town F.C. managers Sportspeople from Yorkshire Tranmere Rovers F.C. non-playing staff Swindon Town F.C. non-playing staff Bury F.C. non-playing staff Oldham Athletic A.F.C. non-playing staff