What is the name of the city where West Ham United plays and has had only fifteen permanent F.C. managers including English football manager and former professional player?
West Ham United F.C. managers London football team, West Ham United have had only fifteen permanent managers in their history and an additional three caretaker managers. Up until 1989 the club had only had five different managers. Before the appointment of Gianfranco Zola in 2008 the club never had an overseas manager, with the only non-Englishman being the Scot, Lou Macari. The current manager is Slaven Bilić who was appointed in June 2015. The most recent manager before that was Sam Allardyce who was appointed in May 2011 and left the club in May 2015. Numerous former West Ham players have taken on temporary managerial roles at the club, between permanent managers. Ronnie Boyce briefly took the reins, in February 1990, between Macari's resignation and the appointment of Billy Bonds. Former Hammer's player and board member Trevor Brooking was briefly in charge during two separate spells as caretaker manager in 2003, first during the illness of Glenn Roeder and again between Roeder's sacking and the appointment of Alan Pardew. Former player Kevin Keen has been caretaker manager twice; immediately prior to Gianfranco Zola's appointment in 2008 and after the sacking of Avram Grant in 2011.
Barrie Stimpson Barrie George Stimpson (born 8 February 1964 in Billingham) is an English former professional footballer and former non-league manager. Stimpson now spends his weekends following Middlesbrough Football Club up and down the country, in 2015 he became Vice President of the North Lancs South Lakes Middlesbrough supporters club (NLSLMSC). He played as a full-back, including Football League appearances for both Hartlepool United and Chesterfield.