Newcastle's Premier League Managers Ranked As Players - Worst To Best

10. Joe Kinnear

Newcastle United Manager: 2008-09 (Interim) Position: Right-Back Clubs Played For: Tottenham Hotspur (1965-75), Brighton & Hove Albion (1975-76) League Appearances (Goals): 212 (3) International Side (Caps/Goals): Republic of Ireland (26/0) Honours (As A Player): 1967 FA Cup (Tottenham Hotspur); 1971 and 1973 League Cup (Tottenham Hotspur); 1967 FA Community Shield (Tottenham Hotspur); 1972 UEFA Cup (Tottenham Hotspur)

A man with an over-inflated (and delusional) ego as a manager, Joe Kinnear likes to make out as if he has reinvented the wheel during his coaching career - and claimed a whole host of entirely-fictitious awards. Yet as a player, Kinnear was an extremely-able defender - and he was part of a very successful Tottenham Hotspur side during the 1960s and 1970s. Capped 26 times by the Republic of Ireland, the former full-back (pictured above, left) lifted the UEFA Cup, FA Cup and League Cup (twice) with Spurs during an 11-year stay at White Hart Lane. If Kinnear had still been playing today, he would undoubtedly have represented a club regularly competing in the top eight of the Premier League - so competent a defender was he.