{"id":471783,"date":"2019-07-02T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=471783"},"modified":"2019-07-02T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:19:18","slug":"everton-paul-wilkinson-bury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/02\/everton-paul-wilkinson-bury\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Everton Striker Paul Wilkinson Appointed Bury Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bury have appointed former <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everton<\/a> striker Paul Wilkinson as their new manager.<\/p>\n<h1>Bury Appoint Paul Wilkinson<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u26aa\ufe0f? Bury Football Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Paul Wilkinson as the new First Team Manager!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Paul!<\/p>\n<p>Full Details \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/buryfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#buryfc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UTS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XON2Dp1cxX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/XON2Dp1cxX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bury Football Club (@buryfcofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/buryfcofficial\/status\/1146007892950212608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Changing Decision<\/h2>\n<p>Paul Wilkinson has been appointed manager of League One side Bury just two weeks after signing a two-year contract at non-league Truro City.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old was unable to save Truro from relegation from the National League South.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson&#8217;s coaching career began in 2000 and has gone on to include spells at Leeds United and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/cardiff-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His first job in coaching came with the youth team at Leeds and Wilkinson has since had two spells in caretaker charge in the EFL, with Northampton Town and Grimsby.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Wilkinson has made more than 650 appearances as an attacker. In an extensive career, Wilkinson played for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everton<\/a>, Nottingham Forest, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/watford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watford<\/a>, Middlesbrough and Barnsley.<\/p>\n<p>After joining Bury, Wilkinson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buryfc.co.uk\/news\/2019\/july\/paul-wilkinson-new-shakers-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said to the club&#8217;s website<\/a>: &#8220;I\u2019m delighted to be here, Bury is a club with a great history and I can\u2019t wait to get started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m determined to drive the club forward in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>General manager Scott Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buryfc.co.uk\/news\/2019\/july\/paul-wilkinson-new-shakers-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s such a strong foot forward, Paul is a manager with a wealth of experience, something that is modern day and is exactly what we need and is required for League One football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Financial Concerns<\/h2>\n<p>Bury won promotion from League Two last season; however, the Shakers experienced a troublesome time off the field.<\/p>\n<p>The club faced a winding-up petition and left staff and players to settle with delayed payments of wages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c101ca3b\/Ryan-Lowe?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Lowe<\/a> left as manager in June and the Shakers face a 12-point deduction upon their return to the third tier.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Steve Dale proposed to help clear some of the club&#8217;s debts. Unsecured creditors, including HM Revenue &amp; Customs, will receive 25% of what they are owed.<\/p>\n<p>If the proposal is approved, the company voluntary agreement would qualify as an insolvency event; therefore, Bury would receive a points deduction.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"bWabtUSuRD9HYrl3rNkpDw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/631686486\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'bWabtUSuRD9HYrl3rNkpDw',sig:'lyrdfvydgvXYAht855Xumyf-KPieppuuL6bQJF91eZY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'631686486',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bury have appointed former Everton striker Paul Wilkinson as their new manager. Bury Appoint Paul Wilkinson &nbsp; \u26aa\ufe0f? Bury Football Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Paul Wilkinson as the new First Team Manager! Welcome, Paul! Full Details \u2b07\ufe0f #buryfc #UTShttps:\/\/t.co\/XON2Dp1cxX \u2014 Bury Football Club (@buryfcofficial) July 2, 2019 Changing Decision Paul Wilkinson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":471786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,30],"tags":[245,45,3938,240,3940,3939,296,136],"class_list":["post-471783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","tag-bury","tag-everton","tag-grimsby","tag-leeds-united","tag-northampton","tag-paul-wilkinson","tag-watford","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}