Patrick "Patsy" Holland (born 13 September 1950) is an English former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played for clubs

West Ham United West Ham United Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Stratford, London, Stratford, East London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English f ...

, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic and

Team Hawaii Team Hawaii was a soccer team based out of Honolulu that played in the NASL for one season, 1977. Their home field was Aloha Stadium. After two unsuccessful years as the San Antonio Thunder, the franchise moved to Hawai'i in time for the ...

. Holland has also coached and scouted for teams such as

Leyton Orient Leyton Orient Football Club, commonly referred to as Orient, is a professional association football club based in Leyton, Waltham Forest, London, England. The team compete in EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system. ...

Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tottenham (, , , ) or Spurs, is a professional Association football, football club based in Tottenham, North London, England. The club itself has stated that it should always ...

Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English f ...

and

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Career

Holland was born in

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. A

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, he made his professional debut for

in 1969. He became an integral player for the club playing in the team that won the 1975 FA Cup Final. He also played in the

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final of 1976, where he scored one of West Ham's goals in a 4–2 loss to Anderlecht. Holland sustained a knee injury in a game against

Notts County Notts County Football Club is a professional association football, football club in Nottingham, England, which competes in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of Football in England, English football, following promotion and relegation, promotion ...

on 17 January 1981. Despite this, he earned a winner's medal as West Ham won the

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. As a result of his injury he played

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football but never again did so for the Hammers' first team. In all Holland made a total of 296 appearances for the

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club. He then joined

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and later had spells at

as reserve team coach, and Orient as youth team coach. In 1988, he became reserve team coach at

. In 1995, he left Spurs to be manager of

, who had just been relegated to Division Three. Despite being heavily backed by the new chairman, Holland presided over the club's low league standing in 1995–96, before being sacked in the wake of a poor start to the 1996–97 season. Subsequently, Holland went back to Spurs to take up the role of a coach within the club's academy. Holland once again moved on from Tottenham in May 2006 to

Millwall Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Poplar, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of ...

, joining as chief scout. He soon afterward took up the post of the assistant manager to

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. Donachie was sacked by Millwall on 8 October 2007 after a start to the 2007–08 season that saw Millwall at the bottom of the League One table. Following the appointment of new Millwall manager,

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Holland left the club. In July 2009, Holland left his role as

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for

MK Dons Milton Keynes Dons Football Club, usually abbreviated to MK Dons, is a professional association football club based in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The team competes in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the English football leag ...

following the departure of manager

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, and subsequent appointment of

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. On 22 August 2012, Holland was appointed as the coach of

's under-18 team. However, he left his post at the club seven weeks later, citing personal reasons. With this being so, Holland went on working with Arsenal as a scout.

Honours

West Ham United *

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: 1974–75 *

Football League Second Division The Football League Second Division was the second level division in the English football league system between 1892 and 1992. Following the foundation of the FA Premier League, the Football League divisions were renumbered and the third tier ...

: 1980–81

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Holland, Pat 1950 births Living people Footballers from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets People from Poplar, London English men's footballers Men's association football midfielders West Ham United F.C. players AFC Bournemouth players Leyton Orient F.C. players Team Hawaii players Leyton Orient F.C. managers English Football League managers English Football League players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Tottenham Hotspur F.C. non-playing staff Arsenal F.C. non-playing staff Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Milton Keynes Dons F.C. non-playing staff English expatriate sportspeople in the United States English expatriate men's footballers English football managers