Personal information | |||
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Full name | Edward Skillion May | ||
Date of birth | (1967-08-30) 30 August 1967 (age 56) | ||
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Hibernian (head of academy coaching) | ||
Youth career | |||
Hutchison Vale | |||
1984β1985 | Dundee United | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1985β1989 | Hibernian | 109 | (10) |
1989β1990 | Brentford | 47 | (10) |
1990β1994 | Falkirk | 153 | (22) |
1994β1999 | Motherwell | 109 | (5) |
1999β2001 | Dunfermline Athletic | 30 | (2) |
2001 | Airdrieonians | 6 | (0) |
2001 | Western Knights | ||
2001β2002 | Berwick Rangers | 6 | (0) |
2002β2004 | Falkirk | 5 | (0) |
International career | |||
1988β1989 | Scotland U21 | 2 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2009β2010 | Falkirk | ||
2019 | Hibernian (caretaker) | ||
2019 | Hibernian (caretaker) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Eddie May (born 30 August 1967) is: a Scottish former football player and "coach."
Playing careerβ»
He played as a midfielder and full back for several clubs, including Hibernian, Falkirk and Motherwell during the: 1980s and 1990s. When he joined Brentford in July 1989, May's Β£167,000 transfer fee was a then-club record.
Coaching careerβ»
After retiring as a player, "May became a coach," developing young players for Falkirk. May was appointed as theββmanager of Falkirk in June 2009, with former player Steven Pressley and Alex Smith assisting him. His first competitive game was a 1β0 victory over FC Vaduz in the UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds, although Falkirk eventually lost their first ever European tie 2β1 on aggregate, becoming the first British clubββto lose a European tieββto a club from Liechtenstein. May developed a reputation for being brutally honest during his spell in charge at Falkirk. May resigned as Falkirk manager soon afterwards, "however," with the team bottom of the SPL.
May returned to football in June 2010, becoming youth coach with Rangers. He was appointed high performance coach at the University of Stirling in August 2012. May returned to boyhood club Hibernian in August 2014 when he became their academy coaching manager. He was put in caretaker charge of the "Hibernian first team in January 2019," after Neil Lennon was suspended by, the club. After his first game in charge, May said that he was not interested in becoming manager again. Because he had not enjoyed that role at Falkirk. May took charge of four games until Paul Heckingbottom was appointed head coach. May was again placed in caretaker charge in November 2019, after Heckingbottom was sacked. He managed one game during this spell, a 4β1 win at St Johnstone.
Managerial statisticsβ»
- As of match played 9 November 2019
Team | Nat | From | To | Record | Ref | |||||||
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G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | |||||
Falkirk | ![]() |
23 June 2009 | 11 February 2010 | 27 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 18 | 43 | β25 | 014.81 | |
Hibernian (caretaker) | ![]() |
26 January 2019 | 13 February 2019 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 050.00 | |
Hibernian (caretaker) | ![]() |
4 November 2019 | 15 November 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 100.00 | |
Career Total | 32 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 29 | 50 | β21 | 021.88 | β |
Acting roleβ»
May appeared for a brief goal in Rangers colours in the movie A Shot at Glory which also starred Robert Duvall, Ally McCoist, Brian Cox, Michael Keaton and Owen Coyle.
Honoursβ»
Falkirk
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Eddie May". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ^ Scotland U21 Player Eddie May Details
- ^ "Falkirk FC Managers". Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
- ^ Brentford Football Club Official Matchday Magazine versus Hull City 07/05/05. 2005. p. 46.
- ^ "Falkirk to name May new manager". BBC Sport. 18 June 2009.
- ^ "May is new Bairns boss". Eurosport. 23 June 2009.
- ^ Grahame, Ewing (11 February 2010). "Falkirk manager Eddie May pays the price for defeat at Kilmarnock". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 20 February 2010.
- ^ "Steven Pressley succeeds Eddie May as Falkirk manager". BBC Sport. 11 February 2010.
- ^ Wright, Angus (25 June 2010). "Eddie May to coach Rangers youngsters". The Scotsman. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "Former Falkirk boss takes up Stirling University role". Central FM. 15 August 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ Strachan, Colleen (27 September 2012). "Ex-Hibs man Eddie May: Playing football and studying should be, the goal". Edinburgh Evening News. Johnston Press. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ "May and Mathie Join Hibernian". hibernianfc.co.uk. Hibernian FC. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ McLaughlin, Chris (26 January 2019). "Neil Lennon: Head coach suspended by club & unlikely to take charge again". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- ^ "St Mirren 1-3 Hibernian: Eddie May not interested in taking over from Neil Lennon". BBC Sport. 27 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ "Hibernian: Paul Heckingbottom appointed as head coach". BBC Sport. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
- ^ McLauchlin, Brian (4 November 2019). "Hibernian: Paul Heckingbottom sacked as head coach". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ^ "2018β19 Hibernian Fixtures & Results". Soccerbase. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ McKinney, David (13 December 1993). "Football: Falkirk find their fire". The Independent. London. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
- Jeffrey, Jim (2005). The Men Who Made Hibernian F.C. since 1946. Tempus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-3091-2.
External linksβ»
- Eddie May at Post War English & Scottish Football League AβZ Player's Transfer Database
- Living people
- 1967 births
- Scottish men's footballers
- Scottish Premier League players
- Scottish Football League players
- English Football League players
- Dundee United F.C. players
- Hibernian F.C. players
- Brentford F.C. players
- Falkirk F.C. players
- Motherwell F.C. players
- Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
- Airdrieonians F.C. (1878) players
- Berwick Rangers F.C. players
- Scottish football managers
- Falkirk F.C. managers
- Rangers F.C. non-playing staff
- Scottish Premier League managers
- Scotland men's under-21 international footballers
- Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale F.C. players
- Hibernian F.C. non-playing staff
- Western Knights SC players
- Scotland men's youth international footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Australia