Michael Antony Appleton (born 4 December 1975) is an English professional football manager and former player, most recently head coach at EFL League Two club Shrewsbury Town.
As a player, he operated as a midfielder, in a nine-year career that began in 1994 and ended 2003. His playing years were cut short by a serious knee injury. He began his career as a professional for Manchester United. While there, he had brief loan spells at Wimbledon, Lincoln City and Grimsby Town, before securing a permanent transfer to Preston North End in 1997. He moved on to West Bromwich Albion in 2001, playing at the West Midlands club for two seasons, ending his playing career there.
Following his retirement, he became a coach with West Brom, and served as their caretaker manager for one match after Roberto Di Matteo was placed on leave. On 10 November 2011, he earned his first managerial appointment at Portsmouth, before he became manager of Blackpool a year later. After just over two months as Blackpool manager, he left his post with the Seasiders to take charge of Blackburn Rovers in January 2013. He was relieved from his duties on 19 March that same year. In July 2014, he was appointed manager of Oxford United, and led the club to promotion to League One in his second season.
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Date: 05 December 1975
NYS Mediation Bd chmn Vincent D McDonnell repts Photoengravers Union Local 1P and NY News and NY Times on Dec 4 reached agreement on new 3-yr contact; pact provides for same basic wage increases of earlier settlements with other newspaper unions; union pres Stanley A Aslanian comments; McDonnell announces that 2 papers and Pressmen's Union asked him to participate in their negotiations (S)
Date: 04 December 1975
By EMANUEL PERLMUTTER
Emanuel PERLMUTTER
NY Times and Daily News on Dec 3 warn NY Pressmen's Union that they will take 'appropriate action' if union does not stop alleged work slowdowns that they say have delayed production and caused financial losses; Times sr vp John Mortimer, in telegram to pressmen, warns against such actions; pressmen union pres William Kennedy denies allegations; says problem is caused by use of old paper in plants as result of newsprint strike in Canada that has cut off new supplies; Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and News pres and publisher W H James disclose situation in staff memos (M)
Date: 05 December 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
TV networks news execs, not altogether pleased with results of their coverage of Pres Ford's visit to China, say they believe TV is being manipulated by Chinese officials through their control over Ford's agenda and their restrictions on movements of journalists; maintain they were drawn into carrying speeches Chinese leaders desired to have televised in US and into showing pictures flattering to their country; CBS pres Richard S Salant and ABC News vp Walter Pfister comment; ABC News on 2 occasions was prevented by Peking authorities from taping feature stories that were not on planned schedule; correspondent Ted Koppel and camera crew were briefly detained by police for attempting to take pictures in part of city not authorized for reporters; most of network coverage was concentrated in early morning programs, Today, The CBS Morning News and Good Morning, America; network officials indicated that coverage might not have been so great in morning if it were not for fact that time difference, new electronic minicameras and satellite transmission made it possible for them to carry live pictures; NBC News exec vp Robert E Mulholland and ABC News pres William Sheehan comment
Date: 04 December 1975
US Dist Judge John W Oliver has asked newspaper publisher voluntarily not to publish column by Louis M Kohlmeier concerning antitrust case in dairy indus rather than force him (Oliver) to decide whether it should be published; column, which appeared in St Paul Pioneer Press on Nov 11, has inspired petition for restraining order that would prohibit its republication in Dec issue of monthly paper published by Natl Farmers Orgn; connected antitrust case with Watergate and suggested that Pres Ford cancel Govt's acceptance of consent decree that settled case when it was before Oliver; case is now being appealed; Oliver ruled that decision to kill column would be justified on ground that column was inaccurate, but questions whether article or viewpoint should be suppressed because it might contain erroneous material; restraining order is being sought by Associated Milk Producers and Bank for Cooperatives of Houston; they contend that column was based on documents made available by bank for use in antitrust litigation with stipulation that they be kept secret except for use in lawsuit (M)
Date: 04 December 1975
By MARVINE HOWE Special to The New York Times
Marvine Special
Portuguese Govt announces nationalization of TV network and all private radio stations except that of RC Ch (M)
Date: 04 December 1975
Amer Soc of Mechanical Engineers presents NY Times science editor Walter Sullivan with its Ralph Coats Roe Medal (S)
Date: 04 December 1975
By Ivan Van Sertima
Ivan Sertima
Rutgers Univ Africana studies asst Prof Ivan Van Sertima comments on recent worldwide discoveries lending credence to theory that strains of Negroid race inhabited or at least traveled to parts of US and Western Hemisphere; findings of physical anthropologist Ernest Hooton, historian Frederick Peterson, craniologist Andrzej Wiercinski, archeologist Matthew Stirling, art historian Prof Alexander von Wuthenau, Arab historian Ibn Fadl Allah al-Omari, historian E W Bovill, botanist Karl Schwerin, Ger Dr Hannes Lindemann and anthropologist Alphonse de Quatrefages discussed; drawing
Date: 04 December 1975
By William Safire
William Safire
W Safire comment on things HR Select Intelligence Com Chmn Repr O G Pike could have uncovered and disclosed before or in lieu of Sen Select Intelligence Com; cites White House abuse of IRS; says Pike could have called to stand Bill Moyers and Walter Jenkins, Pres Johnson aides who passed orders and recd repts on FBI's illegal pol wiretapping and bugging of Repub and Dem Natl Convs in '64; says Pike could have called Johnson pol operative Marvin Watson to look into 'plumbers' operation, which Sen com seems to be glossing over; says Pike, instead, is seeking approbation of Dems by leading charge to cite State Sec Kissinger for contempt of Cong
Date: 04 December 1975
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times
Rept by Sen Select Com on Intelligence, based on data from FBI files and testimony of former officials and other witnesses, charges Pres Kennedy authorized FBI to wiretap 6 US citizens, including officials of domestic Govt agency, Cong staff member and 2 registered lobbyists for foreign interests, in probe of efforts by foreign interests to influence US econ policies (S)