Barry Fry
Fry at Upton Park, May 2011
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Barry Francis Fry | ||
| Date of birth | 7 April 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Bedford, England | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Peterborough United Director of Football |
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| Youth career | |||
| 1960–1962 | Manchester United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1962–1964 | Manchester United | 0 | (0) |
| 1964–1965 | Bolton Wanderers | 3 | (1) |
| 1965–1966 | Luton Town | 6 | (0) |
| 1966–1967 | Leyton Orient | 13 | (0) |
| 1967–1968 | Gravesend & Northfleet | ? | (?) |
| 1968 | Leyton Orient | ? | (?) |
| 1967–1969 | Romford | 50 | (8) |
| 1969–1972 | Bedford Town | ? | (?) |
| 1972–197? | Dunstable Town | ? | (?) |
| 1973–1974 | St Albans City | 23 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1974–1976 | Dunstable Town | ||
| 1976–1977 | Hillingdon Borough | ||
| 1977–1978 | Bedford Town | ||
| 1978–1985 | Barnet | ||
| 1985–1986 | Maidstone United | ||
| 1986–1993 | Barnet | ||
| 1993 | Southend United | ||
| 1993–1996 | Birmingham City | ||
| 1996–2005 | Peterborough United | ||
| 2006 | Peterborough United (joint caretaker) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Barry Francis Fry (born 7 April 1945) is an English former football player and manager. A winger, Fry was an apprentice at Manchester United in his youth, and had brief spells with Bolton Wanderers, Luton Town and Leyton Orient, before he retired prematurely due to injury.
He has managed Dunstable Town, Bedford Town, Maidstone United, Southend United, Barnet, Birmingham City and, most recently, Peterborough United. Fry is currently director of football at Peterborough.
In 1974, Dunstable Town received the financial backing of Keith Cheesman. He hired a young Barry Fry as manager, and gave him money to build up a strong team; indeed in his autobiography, Fry claims that he was often given blank, signed cheques. Of note, both Jeff Astle and George Best were brought in to play for the team with Best playing two pre-season games to promote interest in the club. Dunstable were promoted under Fry, but he was later dismissed by Cheeseman's successor, Billy Kitt, after a poor performance in the Southern League.
After spells at Hillingdon Borough and hometown club Bedford Town, in 1979 Fry became Barnet manager for the first of two management spells covering almost thirteen seasons. In his first spell, Barnet maintained a mid-table position in the Alliance League for six seasons before Fry left in December 1985 to manage Maidstone United. He returned to Barnet in August 1986 for a further seven seasons. Three times runners-up in the GM Vauxhall Conference, Fry achieved his first managerial success as Champions in 1990–91. Two years later he guided them towards the new Division Two (leaving two months before the end of the season to manage Southend) despite being sacked eight times and reinstated each time by controversial chairman Stan Flashman, as well as being in charge of a club which was in a precarious financial state and under threat of expulsion from the Football League.
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