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Gordon Francis Lee (born 13 July 1934) is a former English footballer and football manager. He played 120 league matches in a 12-year career in the Football League, before going on to greater success as a manager. A right-back during his playing days, he moved from Hednesford Town to Aston Villa in 1955. He spent the next eleven years with the "Villans", winning a Second Division championship medal in 1959–60, a League Cup winners medal in 1961, as well as a League Cup runners-up medal in 1963. He then moved on to Shrewsbury Town in 1966, where he made the shift from player to coach. He began his management career with Port Vale in 1968, leading them to promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1969–70. Switching to Blackburn Rovers in January 1974, he took them to the Third Division title in 1974–75. This won him the top job at Newcastle United, and in 1976 he led Newcastle to the League Cup final. He took up the reins at Everton in January 1977, and also took them to the League Cup Final later in the year. After losing his job at Everton in May 1981, he was appointed manager of Preston North End, before he departed two years later. In 1985 he moved to Iceland to manage KR Reykjavik, before he left the club in 1987. Returning to England behind the scenes at Leicester City, he spent a brief period of 1991 as the club's caretaker-manager. ==Playing career== Lee was a full-back who began at Hednesford Town and joined Aston Villa in October 1955, who were then struggling to survive in the First Division under the stewardship of Eric Houghton. They avoided relegation in 1955–56 on virtue of their superior goal average to Huddersfield Town. Villa finished tenth in the 1956–57 and won the FA Cup, though Lee did not feature in the final. After a 14th-place finish in the 1957–58 campaign, the club were bottom of the league by December of the 1958–59 season, and new boss Joe Mercer could not prevent the drop. In 1959–60, the "Villans" were crowned Second Division champions, finishing one points above runners-up Cardiff City. They posted a ninth-place finish in the 1960–61 season and won the League Cup. Lee played in both legs of the 1961 final, which saw Villa defeat Rotherham United 3–2 on aggregate to become the inaugural winners of the competition. Villa finished seventh in 1961–62, before dropping to 15th in 1962–63. They again reached the League Cup final in 1963, and Lee played in both legs of the 3–1 aggregate defeat to rival's Birmingham City. They dropped to 19th in 1963–64, though still managed to finish ahead of Birmingham and to avoid relegation by a six points margin. They then finished 16th in both the 1964–65 and 1965–66 campaigns under new manager Dick Taylor. Lee made 142 appearances in all competitions before he left Villa Park for Shrewsbury Town in July 1966. He featured in two Third Division games for the "Shrews" in 1966–67 season, before becoming a trainer-coach at the Gay Meadow, later serving as Arthur Rowley's assistant manager. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gordon Lee (footballer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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