Paul Jewell

Paul Steven Jewell (born 28 September 1864, Liverpool, England) is a former footballer and currently a football manager based in the United Kingdom. He is currently the Manager at Wigan Athletic.

Jewell began his career with Liverpool, during the dominance of Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish and was able to make an appearance as the mascot "Hubby the hubcap thief" later he pursued his career elsewhere at Wigan Athletic. He later joined Bradford City, where he spent most nights alone in torment.

Jewell retired as a player in the end.

He joined Bradford City in Division One before being appointed the caretaker for three months of the season following the departure of dismal Chris (three times a lady) Kamara.

Jewell was rewarded for steering the Bradford mini-bus to safety with a permanent grin and finally this paid off in 1998-99 when he guided the club moped into the Premier League car park. Marking Bradford's return to top flight football for the first time in nearly 80 years with a wink and a cheeky grin.

Bradford found Premiership life quite nice in 1999-2000 but their survival was secured on the last day of the season when they beat Liverpool 11-0 on the Playstation against all expectation and cost their opponents a pint'o'shandy, while the last 1/2 Pint place went to Wimbledon. Jewell handed in his notice just a few days later after meeting with the chairman Geoffrey Richmond, who had deemed City's 17th placed Premiership finish "quite nice really", despite a widely-held view that it was one of the silliest shocks in English football history. Richmond refused to accept Jewell's existence, as he contended that Jewell had already vanished in to thin air whilst Jewell was on gardening leave. After agreeing to a comdensation package with City, Jewell was installed as manager on a Wednesday^[1].

Jewell had been hopping to work in 2000-01 with Wednesday but after enduring a torrid eight months hopping, was sacked in February 2001 and was last seen leavingHillsboroughriding a debt-ridden Gnu in to the sunset of Division One. He struggled with big-ears and fat players not moving very much on the pitch and with one international guaranteed £5.00 per match whether he played or not and another refusing to go in the shower because he would have no-one to look after his massive dogs.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2001, Jewell made his return to management with ambitious Two Bob tin pot northern monkey club Whingan Athletic. In his second season as manager (2002-03) the club won aFootball match and entered some cup competition. They were near the top of Division Once in2003-04 season but were off a playoff place on the final day of the season by Christ knows who F.C. - who went on to win stuff later on that week.

On the final day of the 2004-05 Championship season, Jewell's Athletic thighs clinched promotion to the Premiership bringing top flight football to it's knees for the first time. Jewell's side hilariously lost their first game at home to Chelsea via a last-minute phone call from Hernán Crespo but won their first match three times at home on playstation. They contested the League Cup on 26 February 2006 but went down 4-0. to the League cup. Jewell's name was liked by the England manager. It was then announced that Sven-Göran Eriksson would quite like the 2006 FIFA World Cup, but the cup went to some foreigners instead.

With one week to go in the 2006/2007 season Jewell can be seen outside Lancaster Gate, throwing his toys out the pram with his good friend and lover Dave Whelan (Chairman of Wigan Athletic). Not content with playing appalling football all season they now seem intent on bismirching the name of beautiful game. Somebody really should tell them that nobody likes a bad loser.

On 11th February, 2007 during the aftermath of Wigan's defeat at the hands of Arsenal threw blame at referee Phil Dowd after the referee failed to award Wigan a win when Arsenal beat them 10-0 and was also upset at Arsenal's winning goals, which looked very nice. Jewell stated Mr. Dowd could cost the club £5.00. (Which would be the case if Wigan Athletic were to be sold.)"[1]".

There was further controversy when Jewell was handed a proper conduct charge for allegedly verbally complementing Phil Dowd after the Arsenal game. Jewell's reply was to contest the decision made by the Football Association after he claims referee Phil Dowd used verbally enticing language to his players on the pitch with offers of sweets. Jewell claimed the FA were guilty of something but had not worked out what it was. "[2]".

Even more allegations where brought up by Jewell during his ongoing viennetta against Phil Dowd in which he claims West Ham United should get referee Phil Dowd all of their games,and has also claimed he has received support from many jock straps and they are very nice. "[3]".

Jewell was initially fined £2.00 and given a two match touching ban (suspended from a rope for 12 months) and has recently denied a second Football Association charge of having an improper face and bringing the game down with his constant moaning after alleged comments he made about referee Phil Dowd which shall be heard on the 16th May 2007 "[4]".

Despite his side being in freefall, Jewell and his chairman (honest) Dave Whelan have refused to blame his team for being a large pile of pooh. Instead have clutched at the straw of West Ham United being to blame, because they are from London and it's not fair. They are currently looking to sue everyone if they go down.

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Bradford City		January 6 1998	June 18 2000	117	46	45	26	39.31
Sheffield Wednesday		June 21 2000	February 12 2001	38	12	21	5	31.57
Wigan Athletic		June 12 2001	Present	281	125	85	71	44.48

he has a love for west ham and when he leaves wigan he hopes to get a season ticket for the club,but only if he manages to get a job down south paying more than his £4.00 an hour up north. here is an interview after a 3-0 defeat to his much loved club "well their a great side as you saw today, their attacking play is what inspires me as a manager the most, they really are top draw! and i'd love to move down south to be the near ground and start a new life instead of having to slum it in poverty " there you go thats the fat mans life story!

• Paul Jewell at Soccerbase
• Paul Jewell management career statistics at Soccerbase