Mark Wayne Hateley (born 7
November 1961 in Wallasey
, Merseyside) is a retired English
football player who played as a
centre-forward. He was capped
32 times for the
English
national team (including games in the
1986 World Cup), and played in top-level
football leagues in England, Italy, France and Scotland.
Career
Hateley started his career at
Coventry City, before moving to
Portsmouth, where a successful 1983-84
season resulted in a high profile transfer to
A.C. Milan. That year
he also helped England win the
1984 UEFA
European Under-21 Football Championship, scoring six goals in
the knockout stages. He then played for
AS
Monaco before transferring to
Rangers in 1990.
Arguably he enjoyed his best days at Rangers, where he scored both
goals in a title-clinching 2-0 victory against
Aberdeen on the final day of the
1990-91 season. He was also the
first non-Scottish player to win the
Scottish Football
Writers' Association Footballer of the Year award.
He left Rangers in 1995, with family problems suspected to be the
catalyst for his move to
Queen's Park Rangers for
£1.5million - a large fee for a 34-year-old.
He was unable to stop QPR from suffering relegation from the
Premier League in
1995-96. He also had a short
loan spell at
Leeds United during
this period.
However, in 1997, with Rangers trying to win their ninth title in a
row, and with a huge injury list, manager
Walter Smith desperately needed a
striker, and re-signed Hateley for the vital game against Rangers'
biggest rivals,
Celtic. Rangers won the
game 1-0, but Hateley was sent off. However, most commentators
thought that the mere presence of Hateley had given Rangers a
psychological advantage and that it was a signing that had paid
off. Rangers eventually won the league, with the game versus Celtic
seen as the unofficial clincher.
Following his departure from Rangers for a second time he became
player manager for
Hull City.
Hateley managed Hull between 1997 and 1999, but left after two
unproductive seasons which saw them struggling near the foot of
The Football League and
overshadowed by the constant fear of extinction. He ended his
playing career with a couple of appearances for
Ross County.
Personal life
His father,
Tony, was also an English
striker who played for many clubs including
Notts County,
Chelsea and
Liverpool.
Hateley's son
Tom, born 1989 in Monaco,
is currently in the
Motherwell team
after being released from the Reading youth team.
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