Paul Hart Ex English Football League Manager. He was born on May 4 1953.

Hart began his playing career as a 17-year-old defender in 1970, for Stockport County. Having made 87 appearances for the Cheshire side, Hart moved to Blackpool where he made a further 143 appearances. Hart subsequently had a six-year spell at Leeds United playing 191 games.

In 1983 Hart signed for [Nottingham Forest] to replace Willie Young, where he played 87 games and scored three goals. Hart actually scored in the controversial 1983-84 UEFA Cup semi-final against Anderlecht, but the goal was wrongly ruled out for no apparent reason and Anderlecht subsequently admitted having bribed the official. A year later Hart was sold to Sheffield Wednesday in May 1985.

Hart had further spells at Birmingham City and Notts County before retiring from playing in 1986- having made 567 league appearances.

After a spell as player-coach at Notts County, Hart was appointed manager of Chesterfield in 1988. Hart spent three years at the Saltergate helm, reaching the playoffs before a fall-out with the chairman and Hart's sacking after the club were relegated in 1991.

Hart then moved into youth coaching firstly at Forest then subsequently took charge of Leeds United's fledgling academy. Hart's proteges won the FA Youth Cup in 1993 and 1997 and formed the backbone of the Leeds side that reached the European Cup semi-finals in 2000-1.

Hart then returned to take charge of Forest's academy after a high-profile fall-out with George Graham over the promise of Jonathan Woodgate. Forest's Under-19 side became immensely successful winning the Under-19 title in 1999-2000. As the first team were faltering, and the club spiralling further into debt, players such as David Prutton, now at Southampton (who was initially blooded in an injury crisis), Jermaine Jenas (now at Newcastle and a full England international), Keith Foy, Chris Doig, David Freeman, Kevin Dawson, Gareth Williams (a full Scotland international), Richard Cooper and Gareth Edds (all teenagers) were blooded, with a further line of players including Barry Roche (who saved a penalty on his debut as a last minute sub v Crystal Palace), Andy Reid (who scored on debut as an 18-year-old v Sheffield United and is now a full Republic of Ireland international), Brian Cash, Eugen Bopp, John Thompson (another full Ireland international) and most notably the highly-sought-after and highly-rated central defender Michael Dawson following subsequently.

In the summer of 2001 Forest's manager David Platt was appointed as manager of the England Under-21 side. Platt's expensive tenure had left the club in crippling debt, and Hart had to cope with loss of several experienced and key players, notably Andy Johnson, Alan Rogers and Stern John (and at one point put the whole squad up for sale) but to his credit still insisted Forest played good quality passing football. Hart's pioneering "diamond formation" was heavily behind this early success. With the financial problems alleviated somewhat, and having the benefit of a settled side, Forest reached the 1st Division play-off semi finals in season 2002-3, losing in extra-time to Sheffield United. Unfortunately, wage demands and poor decisions meant several key players were lost in the summer of 2003, and not replaced. Forest started the subsequent season well, but a run of two wins in Hart's last 22 games, including two months without even a goal (and 14 games without a win) at the end of his tenure. Hart was sacked on 7th February 2004 after a fifth-minute Patrick Suffo goal condemned Forest to a 1-0 defeat at home to Coventry City.

In March 2004 Hart was appointed as manager of Second Division Barnsley F.C.. After a year in charge in March 2005 he left the club by mutual consent.