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Steve Evans (born 30 October 1962) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of EFL League One club Stevenage. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Evans played professional football for Bolton Wanderers, Clyde, Albion Rovers, Ayr United, Hamilton Academical and St Johnstone until a knee ligament injury ended his playing career at 24. After his retirement he became a manager. Prior to taking charge at Crawley Town, he managed Stamford and Boston United, the latter on two occasions. A controversial figure, whilst manager of Boston United he was successfully prosecuted for tax evasion. However, in charge of Rotherham United, he led the club to two successive promotions. He left the club in late September 2015. On 19 October 2015, Evans replaced Uwe Rösler as head coach of Leeds United, before being sacked in May 2016. Early life Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Evans was spotted by scouts from English team Bolton Wanderers when playing for his local youth football club in Glasgow, and he joined Bolton after leaving school. Playing career Evans failed to break into the first team at Bolton and was released in 1979. He then returned to his native Scotland and joined Clyde, where he played in 36 league matches, scoring four goals, before joining Albion Rovers in 1981, where he scored 28 goals in 76 league matches during three years at Cliftonhill. He subsequently moved to Ayr United in 1984, scoring four goals in 30 matches, and to Hamilton Academical in 1985, where he only played in two league matches. He joined St Johnstone in 1985 and scored six goals in 24 matches before a knee ligament injury ended his playing career in 1986, aged 24. Managerial career Stamford Evans fell out of football following his retirement, and was working in sales for Budweiser, when he became manager at Peterborough League side Gedney Hill. He soon moved to Holbeach United for eighteen months, before briefly becoming chairman at Corby Town. His managerial career got going in earnest with Stamford in 1994, who he led to the United Counties Football League Premier Division title and to promotion to the Southern Football League. Boston United After resigning as Stamford manager he was appointed manager of Boston United in October 1998. He managed Boston to promotion from the Southern Football League to the Football Conference in 2000 and subsequently to the Football League in 2002. Both promotions have since been overshadowed by revelations of off-the-field cheating.Evans was suspended by Boston as manager on 4 July 2002 after a much-publicised Football Association (The FA) investigation into "contract irregularities". He later resigned as manager of the club in September 2002, after still being suspended by the club. He was found guilty by The FA in December 2002 of impeding an FA inquiry into contract irregularities. Evans was also suspended from the game for 20 months in January 2003 for involvement of the affairs of Boston, in which players' contracts lodged with the FA contained false salary details. Evans was further accused of impeding the inquiry and fined £8,000. Evans lodged an appeal against charges in May 2003, but The FA rejected his appeal later that month and the punishment stood. Evans later pleaded guilty in court to conspiring to cheat the public revenue, and was given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.An announcement was made on 20 February 2004 that Evans would return as Boston's manager on 2 March. In September 2005, Evans and four other people connected with Boston appeared in court, denying fraud charges. In November 2005, Evans was given a £1,000 fine, suspended for a year, after admitting to using insulting or abusive words to the match official in a match against Peterborough United in October 2005. On 11 February 2006, he was escorted from Grimsby Town's stadium Blundell Park by Humberside Police at half-time, after he berated the fourth official after being incensed when Grimsby goalkeeper Steve Mildenhall appeared to handle the ball outside his area and was immediately spoken to by a police officer after a complaint of alleged foul and abusive language. After the match Boston chairman Jon Sotnick accused the football authorities of waging a "conspiracy" against his manager. In October 2006, Evans was linked with the vacant Darlington managerial vacancy, but Boston chairman James Rodwell and Evans both denied the link. Also in October, Evans was sent from the dugout after an altercation with Wycombe Wanderers player Tommy Doherty for which he later received a £1,000 suspended fine from the FA. Despite this, which came on top of his conviction for tax evasion, Evans kept his manager's position at Boston, a decision that angered the Boston United Supporters' Trust.In March 2007, Evans was left with only 11 professional footballers for the relegation clash with Bury. Although players were back from suspension, Evans was left frustrated after players such as Barnsley's on-loan striker Nathan Joynes quit the club, which left him with just 12 fit senior players and he was forced to put 16- and 17-year-olds on an incomplete substitute's bench. After drawing 1–1 in their penultimate match of the season against relegated Torquay United, Boston needed a win against relegation rivals Wrexham on 5 May 2007 to avoid the drop out of league football. Francis Green gave Boston a 1–0 half-time lead, but in the second half United conceded a penalty kick, which Wrexham defender Ryan Valentine converted. Two late goals from Chris Llewellyn and Michael Proctor gave Wrexham a 3–1 victory to ensure their survival. On 8 May 2007, Evans pledged his commitment to the club despite their relegation and return to non-League football. However, on 27 May, Evans and his assistant manager Paul Raynor resigned from Boston with immediate effect. Evans' two occasions as manager combined at Boston made him the club's second-longest-serving manager behind Fred Tunstall, who had three occasions as manager of the club in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. He managed the team on 354 occasions, which resulted in 145 wins, 99 draws and 110 losses.Crawley Town On 29 May 2007, two days after resigning from Boston, Evans took over as Crawley Town manager. He has been sent from the dugout numerous times, which resulted in a ten match ban during the 2008–09 season. He verbally accepted a new three-year contract with Crawley in February 2011. During the 2010–11 season, Crawley reached the fifth round of the FA Cup, beating Swindon Town of League One, Derby County of the Championship and Torquay United of League Two. In the fifth round they were drawn against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Crawley lost this match 1–0 but earned over £1 million for this match alone. Evans stated afterwards "I think we have done our football club proud and we wanted to go away with some respect" and "We have had a fantastic run in the competition and we could not have wished it to finish anywhere.... Discover the Steve Evans popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Steve Evans books.

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    Sex Factor International Book 3

    Steve Evans

    Sofia and staff arrive at the LA Hotel. Manager Mel Hays has taken over his exboss’s drug distribution. The Hotel Management is in chaos and the Casino Manager and his pimps are no...

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    How to Be a Scientist

    Steve Mould

    Learn how to think like a scientist, look at the world in a brandnew way and have tons of fun with science comedian Steve Mould's bold and playful kids science book.Supporting STEM...

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    James Toseland

    James Toseland & Ted Macauley

    At 23, James Toseland was the youngest ever winner of the World Superbike Championship and with more racing experience than riders twice his age, has overtaken previous champions C...

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    Robotic Humanoids

    Steve Evans

    With the continued deterioration of our Earth climatic environment, the human and animal environment. Our extinction was not just a probability but a definite conclusion. With the ...

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    Alanatomy

    Alan Carr

    If you loved Alan's first memoir Look Who It Is! then his followup, Alanatomy, will take you further into the hilarious and bizarre world of the country's favourite chatty man.'A...

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    Kaos

    Steve Evans

    Tom heads to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival, agreeing to look up the neighbour's daughter while there. Step by slippery step he finds himself drawn into a web of pleasure...but ...

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    Supreme Court Of Idaho

    Michael Headlee was found guilty by a jury of raping his exwife. We affirm the judgment of conviction.

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    Sex Factor International Book 2.

    Steve Evans

    Chico Sanchez arrives at his London Soho hotel apart from the pressure from Ricoh Angeles to pay him for his drug delivery he gets news of the FBI raiding his ship in the Hong Kong...

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    How to Start and Run an Internet Business 2nd Edition

    Carol Anne Strange

    This is the 2nd edition of this practical guide to establishing a profitable online business. It includes business ideas, case studies, suggestions for creating a visible web prese...

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    The Russian Idea

    Steve Evans

    Englishman Daniel is hired by Russian oligarch Maxim Maximov to organise and promote Russian cultural centres in Britain and then the wider world. The eccentric need to use the cen...

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    In a Philosophical Mood

    Steve Evans

    A Poetic narrative written in my first year at university.Writing about our secret thoughts and feelings, I find that writing strictly to the poetry metre sounds too restraining as...

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    Evilheart

    Steve Evans

    Murder wasn't what Alex had in mind in the picturesque German village of Sigmaringen, but it was kill or be killed as he tried to keep one step ahead of the law and a drug lord – a...

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    A Walk in Time

    Steve Evans

    Starting with an eerie walk in the woods, a pause, a ghostly meeting and through an instant threshold of time I walked out of my body and into a past life…a life so real that at th...

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    The Living End

    Steve Evans

    A group of environmentalists kidnap a journalist in Berlin. They tell her they want her to tell their story to the world how the human race is nearing extinction. Confronted with ...

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    Deep Purple

    Jürgen Roth & Michael Sailer

    Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple die Trinität dieser Bands wird meist genannt, wenn zur Debatte steht, wer den Hardrock oder gar das Genre des Heavy Metal erfunden hat, so...

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    Four Men in a Boat

    Tim Foster & Rory Ross

    When Great Britain won gold at the Sydney 2000 Olympics coxless four, seven million people watched and voted it the greatest sporting moment of the year.This moment, and Steve Redg...

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    Small Man in a Book

    Rob Brydon

    Rob Brydon tells story of his slow ascent to fame and fortune in Small Man in a Book.A multiawardwinning actor, writer, comedian and presenter known for his warmth, humour and insp...

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    Rescued from Hell

    Steve Evans

    Rescued from HellToo incredible to have been imagined... One man’s journey into a tenyear living nightmare and his astonishing true story of return."…It was then that god showed up...

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    Sex Factor International. Book1.

    Steve Evans

    In this story, the author takes us on an international journey into the realms of the sex ridden drugtaking and arms smuggling operations of the Anglo AmericanMexican gangster frat...

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    American Interior

    Gruff Rhys

    American Interior is a psychedelic historical travelogue from Welsh pop legend Gruff Rhys.In 1792, John Evans, a twentytwoyearold farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to Ameri...

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    Beyond Acceptance.

    Steve Evans

    In this short story (60 pages) based on a true experience, we share an uplifting spiritual religious encounter, as Josie, a young, frustrated women relaxes into involuntary meditat...