Maurice Daniel Robert Malpas (born 3 August 1962 in Dunfermline) is the assistant manager at Inverness Caledonian Thistle having joined the club on 27 January 2009 along with their new manager Terry Butcher. He spent his entire professional playing career with Dundee United.

Playing career

He won 55 caps for Scotland and subsequently is a member of the Scotland Football Hall of Fame. A Scottish schools U-15 cap, he signed for Dundee United from Leven Royals in 1979. Despite making his first-team debut in November 1981, he did not become a full-time player until the completion of his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering two years later.

Maurice soon developed into one of the best full backs in Scotland, a fact recognised when he won the first of his caps in 1984. He went on to exceed 50, thus becoming the only United player so far to enter the SFA’s Hall of Fame. In his fiftieth international appearance (away to Norway in June 1992) he was made captain to mark the occasion.

Consistently outstanding, his good fortune in avoiding serious injury helped him build the club’s all-time record of 617 appearances by the time he retired from playing in the year 2000. He then 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.

Managerial career

He initially joined Motherwell as assistant manager to former coaching colleague Terry Butcher, taking over the manager's position in May 2006 following Butcher's departure to coach Sydney FC in the A-League. 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 was lucky to escape relegation. Malpas later became caretaker manager of Scotland's 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 team-mate 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 Johnstone's Paint Trophy within a week.Malpas applied for the vacant job at Crewe Alexandra and despite claiming to the Crewe fans to be their man and reaching the final 6 candidates, on 19 December, Malpas was told he would not be given the Manager job at Crewe.

Career statistics

Club	Season	League		Cup		Lg Cup		Other		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dundee United	1981–82	19	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	25	0
	1982–83	34	1	1	0	8	1	8	0	51	2
	1983–84	34	2	4	0	10	0	6	0	54	2
	1984–85	35	2	6	0	6	0	5	0	52	2
	1985–86	36	2	5	0	5	0	6	0	52	2
	1986–87	38	0	7	1	4	0	10	0	57	1
	1987–88	44	0	8	1	3	1	4	0	59	2
	1988–89	36	1	6	0	6	0	4	0	50	1
	1989–90	30	2	4	0	2	0	4	0	40	2
	1990–91	36	1	6	0	4	0	4	0	50	1
	1991–92	44	3	2	1	3	0	0	0	49	4
	1992–93	37	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	42	0
	1993–94	35	0	8	0	1	0	2	0	46	0
	1994–95	31	2	4	1	1	0	2	0	38	3
	1995–96	30	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	32	2
	1996–97	36	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	42	1
	1997–98	31	1	4	0	5	0	4	0	44	1
	1998–99	31	0	4	0	2	0	0	0	37	0
	1999–00	12	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	17	0
Career total		617	23	69	1	66	6	76	6	832	26

Honours

See also

• One-club man

References

1. Harry Reid (2005), The Final Whistle?, Birlinn, 238 ISBN 1-84158-362-6

External links

• Maurice Malpas' WTFC.net manager profile