How Old Was Former Manchester United Player Steve Coppell When He First Became Manager Of Crystal Palace?
In nineteen eighty four after injury forced Coppell to retire, he became the youngest manager in the football league when at the age of twenty nine he was given the job as manager of London club Crystal Palace. Coppell spent seven years in his first stint as manager at Palace, taking charge of the side in a total of four hundred and forty two league games, winning a credible one hundred and seventy two of those games, losing one hundred and fifty and drawing the remaining one hundred and thirteen. The highlight of Coppell’s reign at Palace came in the nineteen ninety FA cup, where he led the side to the final where they played Manchester United, taking them to a replay after drawing the first game three all. In all Coppell has enjoyed four different spells at Palace the last of which came in the year two thousand.
