Maurice Malpas Coaching and managerial career
Who was Maurice Malpas coach?
Who was Maurice Malpas?
After retiring as a player, Malpas assumed full-time coaching duties at Tannadice, having been acting as player/coach since 1991. He was part of the temporary management team following the dismissal of Alex Smith in October 2002, but left the club in January 2003.  He initially joined Motherwell as assistant manager to former coaching colleague Terry Butcher. Malpas became Motherwell manager in May 2006, following Butcher's departure to coach Sydney FC. He left the club in June 2007 after one season in charge, having taken the team from a comfortable mid-table position to one that narrowly avoided relegation. Malpas became caretaker manager of the Scotland under-21 team in August 2007, but missed out on the permanent position to Billy Stark.  In January 2008, Malpas became manager of Swindon Town after the takeover of the club by local businessman Andrew Fitton, replacing former Dundee United teammate Paul Sturrock. Malpas was sacked by chairman Andrew Fitton on 14 November 2008 after a poor run of results and shock exits in the FA Cup to Histon and in the Football League Trophy within a week. He joined Terry Butcher again as assistant, this time at SPL club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. In 2013, Malpas moved with Butcher to Hibernian, rejecting the chance to manage Inverness. Butcher and Malpas both left Hibernian in June 2014, after the club had been relegated from the Scottish Premiership.  Malpas became director of football at Raith Rovers on 26 December 2014. He left Raith Rovers on 22 May 2015 and was inducted to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in October 2015.  Malpas returned to Inverness Caledonian Thistle in April 2017, working for manager Richie Foran. CANNOTANSWER
After retiring as a player, Malpas assumed full-time coaching duties at Tannadice, having been acting as player/coach since 1991.
Maurice Daniel Robert Malpas (born 3 August 1962) is a Scottish football player and coach. He signed for Dundee United in 1979 and spent his entire professional playing career with the club until his retirement in 2000. With him, United were Scottish champions in 1983 and Scottish Cup winners in 1994. European runs there included reaching the 1983–84 European Cup semi final and the 1987 UEFA Cup Final.

Malpas made his debut for the Scotland national team in 1984. He went on to gain 55 caps, making him a member of the Scotland national football team roll of honour. He played for Scotland at two World Cups and one UEFA European Championship final tournaments.
 
Malpas began a coaching career in 1991 whilst still a Dundee United player, continuing as a coach after his retirement until leaving the club in 2003. He joined Motherwell as assistant manager to Terry Butcher before becoming manager from 2006 until 2007. He coached the Scotland under-21 team on a temporary basis before another brief spell in club management with Swindon Town during 2008. More recently he has been assistant manager to Butcher at both Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Hibernian.

Playing career

Dundee United
Malpas was born in Dunfermline, Fife and played youth football for Leven Royals.

He signed for Dundee United in August 1979. His total of 830 competitive first team appearances is the second highest in the club's history. Malpas initially combined his football career with studying for an electrical engineering degree at Dundee College of Technology (now Abertay University), and didn't become a full-time professional until 1984. Despite this, he made his debut in for Dundee United in 1981 and won the Scottish Football League Premier Division title in 1983. In the subsequent 1983–84 European Cup, United reached the semi final.

United made it to the final of the 1986–87 UEFA Cup; en-route they defeated Terry Venables' FC Barcelona side home and away in the quarter-final, and inflicted a first home defeat on Borussia Mönchengladbach in 55 European games going back to 1970 in the semi-final. They lost 2–1 on aggregate to IFK Gothenburg in the final, the second leg of which was their 70th match of the season.

United and Malpas played in five Scottish Cup finals in nine years: in 1985 they took the lead but lost 2–1 to Celtic. In 1987 (played in between the two legs of the UEFA Cup final) they lost 1–0 St Mirren. In 1988 against Celtic, the pattern of 1985 was almost repeated but this time it was an even later goal which defeated United. In 1991, they suffered a 4–3 extra time defeat to Motherwell. Captain Malpas lifted the trophy when Craig Brewster scored the only goal in the 1994 Scottish Cup Final win against Rangers.

Malpas won the SFWA Footballer of the Year award in 1991. His long service was rewarded with two testimonial matches, in 1991 and 2000. He was inducted into the Dundee United Hall of Fame as one of its inaugural members in 2008.

Scotland
Winning first of his caps in 1984,  Malpas is the most recent part-time professional to have played for Scotland. He won 55 caps in total. In his 50th international appearance (away to Norway in June 1992) he was made captain to mark the occasion. He appeared for Scotland at the 1986 and 1990 World Cups and at Euro 1992.

Coaching and managerial career
After retiring as a player, Malpas assumed full-time coaching duties at Tannadice, having been acting as player/coach since 1991. He was part of the temporary management team following the dismissal of Alex Smith in October 2002, but left the club in January 2003.

He initially joined Motherwell as assistant manager to former coaching colleague Terry Butcher. Malpas became Motherwell manager in May 2006, following Butcher's departure to coach Sydney FC. He left the club in June 2007 after one season in charge, having taken the team from a comfortable mid-table position to one that narrowly avoided relegation. Malpas became caretaker manager of the Scotland under-21 team in August 2007, but missed out on the permanent position to Billy Stark.

In January 2008, Malpas became manager of Swindon Town after the takeover of the club by local businessman Andrew Fitton, replacing former Dundee United teammate Paul Sturrock. Malpas was sacked by chairman Andrew Fitton on 14 November 2008 after a poor run of results and shock exits in the FA Cup to Histon and in the Football League Trophy within a week. He joined Terry Butcher again as assistant, this time at SPL club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. In 2013, Malpas moved with Butcher to Hibernian, rejecting the chance to manage Inverness. Butcher and Malpas both left Hibernian in June 2014, after the club had been relegated from the Scottish Premiership.

Malpas became director of football at Raith Rovers on 26 December 2014. He left Raith Rovers on 22 May 2015 and was inducted to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in October 2015.

Malpas returned to Inverness Caledonian Thistle in April 2017, working for manager Richie Foran.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Club
 Dundee United
 Scottish League Premier Division: 1982–83
 Scottish Cup: 1993–94
Runner-up 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1990–91
 Scottish League Cup runner-up: 1984–85, 1997–98
 UEFA Cup runner-up: 1986–87
 Scottish Challenge Cup runner-up: 1995–96

Individual
SFWA Footballer of the Year: 1991
Scottish FA International Roll of Honour: 1992
Scottish Football Hall of Fame inductee: 2015

See also
 List of footballers in Scotland by number of league appearances (500+)
List of one-club men in association football
List of Scotland national football team captains

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1962 births
1986 FIFA World Cup players
1990 FIFA World Cup players
Dundee United F.C. non-playing staff
Dundee United F.C. players
Hibernian F.C. non-playing staff
Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. non-playing staff
Living people
Motherwell F.C. managers
Motherwell F.C. non-playing staff
Scotland international footballers
Scotland under-21 international footballers
Scottish Football League players
Scottish football managers
Scottish footballers
Scottish Premier League managers
Scottish Premier League players
Footballers from Dunfermline
Swindon Town F.C. managers
English Football League managers
UEFA Euro 1992 players
Scotland national under-21 football team managers
Scottish Football Hall of Fame inductees
Association football fullbacks
Malpas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Charles Malpas (1899–1982), Australian inventor and businessman
Jeff Malpas, Australian philosopher
Jodi Ellen Malpas, British writer
Maurice Malpas, Scottish footballer
Robert Malpas (born 1927), British engineer and businessman Malpas is an ancient market town and a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Malpas is now referred to as a village after losing its town status. It lies near the borders with Shropshire and Wales, and had a population of 1,673 at the 2011 census.

Etymology
The name derives from Old French and means "bad/difficult passage".

History

Medieval (Norman 1066–1154)
After the Norman Conquest of 1066 Malpas is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as belonging to Robert FitzHugh, baron of Malpas. Malpas and other holdings were given to his family for defensive services along the Welsh border.

A concentrated line of castles protected Cheshire's western border from the Welsh; these included motte-and-bailey castles at Shotwick, Dodleston, Aldford, Pulford, Shocklach, Oldcastle and Malpas. The earthworks of Malpas Castle are still to be found to the north of St. Oswald's Church.

Medieval (Plantagenet 1154–1485)
Malpas retains its general layout established in the medieval period. A possible reason for Malpas not undergoing intensive development is that Whitchurch, a major market town, was just  away.

Tudor – Elizabethan (1485–1603)
The seventh son of Sir Randolph Brereton of Shocklach and Malpas, Sir William Brereton, became chamberlain of Chester, and groom of the chamber to Henry VIII. He was beheaded on 17 May 1536 for a suspected romantic affair with Anne Boleyn. These accusations may have been politically motivated.

Civil War and the Stuarts (1603–1714)
Cheshire was strategically very important during the civil war as it controlled the north–south movement of troops from the west of the Pennines to the east of the Clwydian range – Chester, as the main port to Ireland was supremely important as Charles I had an army there.

Transport
Malpas was once served by a a station on the Whitchurch and Tattenhall Railway.

The B5069 road passes through the village from the Welsh border, towards the A41 road near Hampton Heath. The B5395 road diverges from the A41 at Grindley Brook and heads towards Malpas.

Demography

According to the 2001 census, the civil parish had 1,628 residents living in 720 households. This increased slightly in the 2011 census to 1,673 residents, composed of 767 (45.8%) males and 906 (54.2%) females, in 810 households.

Governance
Malpas was formerly a township and ancient parish within Broxton Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866. It has had a parish council since their formation in 1894. Prior to that, Malpas had been administered through Vestry Meetings held in St Oswald's Church. Between 1894 and 1936 the village had its own rural district council. Under a Cheshire County review order in 1936, the boundaries of several rural districts were adjusted. Malpas Rural District was abolished and most of the area absorbed into Tarvin Rural District.
On 1 April 1974 this was merged into Chester District. Further changes occurred on 1 April 2009 when the Cheshire West & Chester unitary authority was formed.

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north to Edge and south to Wigland. The total population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 3,975.

Malpas is within the Eddisbury parliamentary constituency.

Listed buildings

Religion
 Church of England, see: St Oswald's Church, Malpas
 High Street Church, an ecumenical partnership bringing together traditions of the United Reform Church and the Methodist Church.

Education
 Primary School − Malpas Alport Endowed Primary School
 Secondary School − Bishop Heber High School, named after Bishop Reginald Heber

Notable people
 Ian Bartholomew, Coronation Street actor, lives in Malpas
 Ralph Churton, Anglican churchman and biographer
 Anthony Harvey, filmmaker, was a resident from 1968
 Bishop Reginald Heber (1783–1826), Bishop of Calcutta and poet
 Matthew Henry (1662–1714), Presbyterian minister and biblical commentator
 Mark Rylands, Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury 2009–18, Malpas resident 1961–1988
 Chris Stockton, former jockey, owner of rare cattle, BTCC racing driver

References

Further reading
 Churton, Ralph (1793) "A memoir of Thomas Townson, D.D., archdeacon of Richmond, and rector of Malpas, Cheshire", prefixed to A Discourse on the Evangelical History from the Interment to the Ascension published after Dr. Townson's death by Dr. John Loveday, Oxford, 1793.

External links

Malpas Community Website which includes sections on history, art, events, sports and social groups and businesses.
 Visions of Britain – Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72)
 Visions of Britain, John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
 P. Carrington: Roman Cheshire
 K. Matthews: Saxon Cheshire

 
Villages in Cheshire
Civil parishes in Cheshire
Cheshire West and Chester