Eddie May
Personal information
Full name Edward Skillion May[1]
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
1984–1985 Dundee United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1989 Hibernian 109 (10)
1989–1990 Brentford 47 (10)
1990–1994 Falkirk 153 (22)
1994–1999 Motherwell 109 (5)
1999–2001 Dunfermline Athletic 30 (2)
2001 Airdrieonians 6 (0)
2001 Western Knights
2001–2002 Berwick Rangers 6 (0)
2002–2004 Falkirk 5 (0)
International career
1988–1989 Scotland U21[2] 2 (0)
Managerial career
2009–2010 Falkirk[3]
2019 Hibernian (caretaker)
2019 Hibernian (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eddie May (born 30 August 1967) is a former Scottish football player and coach.

Playing career

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 £167,000 transfer fee was a then-club record.[4]

Coaching career

After retiring as a player, May became a coach, developing young players for Falkirk.[5] May was appointed as the manager of Falkirk in June 2009, with former player Steven Pressley and Alex Smith assisting him.[5][6] His first competitive game was a 1–0 victory over FC Vaduz in the UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds, although Falkirk eventually lost their first ever European tie 2–1 on aggregate, becoming the first British club to lose a European tie to a club from Liechtenstein.[7] May developed a reputation for being brutally honest during his spell in charge at Falkirk.[7] May resigned as Falkirk manager soon afterwards, however, with the team bottom of the SPL.[8]

May returned to football in June 2010, becoming a youth coach with Rangers.[9] He was appointed high performance coach at the University of Stirling in August 2012.[10][11] May returned to boyhood club Hibernian in August 2014 when he became their academy coaching manager.[12] He was put in caretaker charge of the Hibernian first team in January 2019, after Neil Lennon was suspended by the club.[13] After his first game in charge, May said that he was not interested in becoming a manager again because he had not enjoyed that role at Falkirk.[14] May took charge of four games until Paul Heckingbottom was appointed head coach.[15] May was again placed in caretaker charge in November 2019, after Heckingbottom was sacked.[16] He managed one game during this spell, a 4–1 win at St Johnstone.

Managerial statistics

As of match played 9 November 2019
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Falkirk Scotland 23 June 2009 11 February 2010 27 4 8 15 18 43 −25 014.81 [3]
Hibernian (caretaker) Scotland 26 January 2019 13 February 2019 4 2 0 2 7 6 +1 050.00 [17][15]
Hibernian (caretaker) Scotland 4 November 2019 15 November 2019 1 1 0 0 4 1 +3 100.00
Career Total 32 7 8 17 29 50 −21 021.88 —

Acting role

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.

Honours

Falkirk

References

  1. ^ "Eddie May". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  2. ^ Scotland U21 Player Eddie May Details
  3. ^ a b "Falkirk FC Managers". Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  4. ^ Brentford Football Club Official Matchday Magazine versus Hull City 07/05/05. 2005. p. 46.
  5. ^ a b "Falkirk to name May new manager". BBC Sport. 18 June 2009.
  6. ^ "May is new Bairns boss". Eurosport. 23 June 2009.
  7. ^ a b 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.
  8. ^ "Steven Pressley succeeds Eddie May as Falkirk manager". BBC Sport. 11 February 2010.
  9. ^ Wright, Angus (25 June 2010). "Eddie May to coach Rangers youngsters". The Scotsman. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "May and Mathie Join Hibernian". hibernianfc.co.uk. Hibernian FC. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  13. ^ McLaughlin, Chris (26 January 2019). "Neil Lennon: Head coach suspended by club & unlikely to take charge again". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  14. ^ "St Mirren 1-3 Hibernian: Eddie May not interested in taking over from Neil Lennon". BBC Sport. 27 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  15. ^ a b "Hibernian: Paul Heckingbottom appointed as head coach". BBC Sport. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  16. ^ McLauchlin, Brian (4 November 2019). "Hibernian: Paul Heckingbottom sacked as head coach". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  17. ^ "2018–19 Hibernian Fixtures & Results". Soccerbase. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  18. ^ McKinney, David (13 December 1993). "Football: Falkirk find their fire". The Independent. London. Retrieved 22 April 2021.

External links

Falkirk F.C. – managers
Hibernian F.C. – managers
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