CARLTON PALMER

'Carlton Lloyd Palmer' (born 5 December, 1965 in Rowley Regis) is a former English professional football player who played as a midfielder, most notably for Sheffield Wednesday.

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Playing career

Management career

Post-management

External links

References

Playing career

Palmer started his career at West Bromwich Albion, coming through their youth team in time for the 1985-86 season. He earned a move to Sheffield Wednesday in February 1989 for £750,000, where he made his name in the Premiership. This led to him being bought by Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson for £2.6 million in June 1994.
In September 1997 he was signed by Southampton manager Dave Jones for a fee of £1.0 million. In the dressing room he was abrasive, awkward and argumentative but on the pitch he was determined, hard-working and persistent and his long legs made him difficult to play against. In January 1999 he was transferred to Nottingham Forest for a fee of £1.1 million and was replaced in Southampton's midfield by Chris Marsden.
He later played for Coventry City, who loaned him out to Watford for three months in 2000-01.^[1] He also had a loan spell at Sheffield Wednesday,^[2], before joining Stockport County in November 2001 as player-manager. Palmer also briefly played for Dublin City in Ireland, whom he joined in August 2004.^[3]
Palmer won 18 caps for the English national team, scoring once against San Marino. He was a member of the England squad that went to the 1992 European Championships in Sweden. He was also capped 5 times for the England B team.

Management career

Palmer's management career began when he was appointed player-manager of Stockport County in November 2001.^[4] He was sacked by the club in September 2003, following a poor start to the season.^[5]
In November 2004, events involving Mansfield Manager Keith Curle resulted in Curle being suspended. With no manager, the Mansfield Chairman rang up Carlton and asked him if he would join The Stags temporarily as manager of the club, which Carlton accepted, without being paid. Keith Curle was later dismissed and Carlton Palmer signed a contract till 2006 as manager of Mansfield Town.^[6] In September 2005, after Mansfield Town were beaten 2-0 by Rochdale and close to the League Two relegation zone, Carlton Palmer resigned as manager saying "I have had a good career and I don't need to take the abuse from the crowd. Keith Haslam, the Mansfield chairman, is a good mate of mine and I want to keep it that way so I will be stepping down as manager".^[7]

Post-management

Palmer now works as a pundit on the BBC show Final Score, and also provides match analysis for the Football Channel alongside Peter Reid. He represented Sheffield Wednesday in the 2006 Yorkshire Masters. He also owns the Dam House pub, near the Arts Tower in Sheffield.
Carlton currently owns an online estate agency in Sheffield called The Home Game.

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References

1. Palmer is Watford bound
2. Palmer back at Hillsborough
3. Carlton Palmer signs with Vikings
4. Palmer named Stockport boss
5. Stockport sack Palmer
6. Palmer earns permanent Stags role
7. Palmer resigns as Mansfield boss



★ In That Number - A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC, Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk, , , Hagiology, 2003, ISBN 0-9534474-3-X