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My Take
Peter Withe represents a vanished archetype I genuinely miss: the rugged English center-forward who battled for everything. A Liverpool lad who rose through the hard way, he tasted glory at Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa during English football's gritty late-seventies and early-eighties peak. What stays with me is his crowning moment, the goal that won a European Cup, scrappy and decisive in equal measure. Later he carried his knowledge abroad as a coach, leaving a real mark on Southeast Asian football. I respect players who let results, not flash, do the talking. Withe was exactly that sort of honest workhorse.
Overview
Peter Withe (; born 30 August 1951) is an English former football manager and forward who played between 1971 and 1990. At Nottingham Forest he won the Anglo-Scottish Cup and Second Division promotion in 1976–77, First Division and the Football League Cup in 1977–78, and the 1978 FA Charity Shield.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Peter Withe
- Name (Japanese)
- ピーター・ウィス
- Reading
- ぴーたー・うぃす
- Born
- August 30, 1951 (age 74)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Rabbit
- Origin
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.