In 2006, Sheffield was appointed Professor of War studies at the University of Birmingham. His opportunity arose from a suspension crisis, the Maroons having no fewer than four defenders (Bruno, Weir, Ritchie and Pointon) sent off in their previous match at Rangers. Naysmith made his first team début in the opening game of the 2007–08 season in a 2–2 home draw with Colchester United[11] and quickly cemented his place in the side becoming the first choice at left back throughout the rest of the season. After becoming team manager in the following week, Naysmith decided to end his playing career. "[4], In 2013 he was appointed professor of War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. [2], Sheffield is a proponent of the "revisionist school" of thought with regard to the conduct of military operations on the Western Front by the British Army during the First World War. His early performances led to Everton fans nicknaming "El Blanco Carlos",[7] after the Brazilian left-back Roberto Carlos. Get the Daily Outkick and get smarter every day. [2] In 1999 he became a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London and Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course at the UK's Joint Services Command and Staff College. Within a year he had established himself as the side's first-choice left back, displacing Neil Pointon, and in 1998 helped the Tynecastle club end their 36-year trophy drought by lifting the Scottish Cup. Naysmith started 37 league games and made a further two appearances from the bench. He made 152 appearances for Everton, scoring six goals, although his Everton career was disrupted by injury. Financial concerns at the club heightened these and in October 2000 it appeared that Naysmith was bound for the West Midlands when Coventry City bid for him. Last edited on 22 September 2020, at 10:29, https://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/gary-sheffield/, "Osprey Publishing - Profile Gary Sheffield", http://www.socialismtoday.org/74/warhistory.html, https://www.johndclare.net/wwi3_SheffieldandMosier_Review.htm, "The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army by Gary Sheffield: Review", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gary_Sheffield_(historian)&oldid=979713379, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 September 2020, at 10:29. [1] In 2011 he published his second book on Field Marshal the Earl Douglas Haig, The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army (Aurum Press, 2011). He currently works as a sports agent . [12] Naysmith revealed that he turned down offers from Premier League clubs where he would have had the chance to be a squad player to move to the Galpharm Stadium.[13]. Despite the patchwork nature of their defence, Hearts defeated Celtic 1–0, with Naysmith earning plaudits for his mature display. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Sheffield studied history at the University of Leeds under Edward Spiers and Hugh Cecil. After a junior college stint, Sheffield hit.324 with a homer, 12 RBIs, and nine doubles in 33 games (18 starts) at Arizona Christian University in 2017. [26], On 1 December 2016 and after three and a half seasons as player-manager of part-time club East Fife, Naysmith signed for Scottish Championship club Queen of the South as their new manager to go full-time in Dumfries. Naysmith was capped 46 times by the Scotland national team between 2000 and 2009. [2] He is currently researching a study of the British and Commonwealth soldier in the Second World War, provisionally entitled Citizen Army. [2] In 1985, he became a lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and studied at King’s College, London under Brian Bond for a part-time PhD awarded in 1994. Hearts had trailed 2–0 before battling back to victory, with Naysmith striking a spectacular equalising goal.[6]. Born in Edinburgh, and raised in Loanhead, Naysmith started his senior career with Hearts. Reviewing the book in The Daily Telegraph the historian Nigel Jones commented on its 'solid scholarship and admirable advocacy', yet added that (with reference to Sheffield's thesis that the extremely high casualties of the British Army can be partly explained by Haig's understandable lack of experience in such matters in the years 1914 to 1917): 'the nagging thought remains: what a terrible shame it was that Haig's progress along his learning curve had to be greased by such deep floods of blood.