Gary Megson
| Gary Megson | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Gary John Megson | |
| birthday | May 2, 1959 | |
| place of birth | Manchester , England | |
| position | midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1977-1979 | Plymouth Argyle | 78 (10) |
| 1979-1981 | Everton FC | 22 (2) |
| 1981-1984 | Sheffield Wednesday | 123 (13) |
| 1984 | Nottingham Forest | 0 (0) |
| 1984-1985 | Newcastle United | 24 (1) |
| 1985-1989 | Sheffield Wednesday | 110 (12) |
| 1989-1992 | Manchester City | 82 (2) |
| 1992-1995 | Norwich City | 47 (1) |
| 1995 | Lincoln City | 2 (0) |
| 1995 | Shrewsbury Town | 2 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1995-1996 | Norwich City | |
| 1996-1997 | Blackpool FC | |
| 1997-1999 | Stockport County | |
| 1999 | Stoke City | |
| 2000-2004 | West Bromwich Albion | |
| 2005-2006 | Nottingham Forest | |
| 2007 | Leicester City | |
| 2007-2009 | Bolton Wanderers | |
| 2011–2012 | Sheffield Wednesday | |
| 2017 | West Bromwich Albion (interim) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Gary John Megson (born May 2, 1959 in Manchester , Great Britain ) is a former English football player and current coach . He is the son of former soccer player and coach Don Megson .
Club career
The defensive midfielder was active for a total of nine English clubs. He began his professional career at the age of 18 with Plymouth Argyle in the third division , where he was discovered by Everton FC officials . In almost two years he could not prevail in Liverpool in the First Division and in 1981 moved to the second division at Sheffield Wednesday , the club for which his father had already been active from 1959 to 1969.
In Sheffield he quickly became a regular player and was one of the guarantors for the rise of the Owls in 1984. In the three years at Sheffield Wednesday he was not on the field in only three games. In 1984 he received a contract with Nottingham Forest , but was not used by coach Brian Clough in the first team and was transferred to the Second Division after a few months without a first division game to Newcastle United . Here he initially played regularly, but after the rise of the Magpies could no longer establish himself in the first team and went back to his former club in Hillsborough in December 1985. Here he regained a regular place and again completed more than 100 league games for Sheffield by 1989.
In January 1989 he moved to his hometown of Manchester City , with whom he was promoted to the First Division in the summer and where he stayed for three and a half seasons. The next stop was Norwich City , where in the first Premier League season in 1992/93 he played his part in ensuring that Norwich was third in the UEFA Cup for the first time . In his last playing season with the Canaries , he was also the assistant coach of John Deehan and took over his position at short notice when he resigned in the spring of 1995. But Megson could not save Norwich from relegation .
He left Norwich and was for two missions each as a player in the lower class Lincoln City and Shrewsbury Town , before he was again in November 1995 as a successor to Martin O'Neill coach in Norwich.
Coaching career
Megson coached Norwich until the end of the 1995/96 season, but was then fired and replaced by Mike Walker . In 1996 he took over the coaching job at third division club Blackpool , which he held until the end of the season before he went back to Sheffield due to illness in the family. He then coached Stockport County in the second division for two seasons before moving to Stoke City . Here he was released after a short time when an Icelandic consortium bought the club and the former national coach of Iceland , Guðjón Þórðarson , used as a coach.
At the end of the 1999/2000 season Megson took over the coaching job at second division West Bromwich Albion . With a victory in the last game of the season, the team saved themselves from relegation. In the following season he led the team to the playoffs , and at the end of the 2001/02 season West Bromwich rose to the Premier League . Megson and his team managed to overtake their old rivals from the neighboring city, Wolverhampton Wanderers , at the end of the season, although the Wolves were already eleven points ahead. This earned Megson the Division One Coach of the Year title . After a year , the team was relegated again, but was able to move into the football club again in the following season. After a poor start to the 2004/05 season , he was released on October 26, 2004.
In January 2005 Megson succeeded Joe Kinnear in the relegation-threatened second division Nottingham Forest , but could no longer prevent the traditional club from slipping into the third division for the first time . He was supposed to lead the team back to the championship , but by January 2006 Forest was closer to the relegation zone than the promotion spots. Under pressure from fans, he resigned in February 2006.
On September 13, 2007, the board of directors of second division Leicester City announced the commitment of Gary Megson as the fifth man to coach the club this year alone. However, he only looked after the team in nine games before accepting an offer from the Premier League club Bolton Wanderers . On October 24, 2007, he signed a two and a half year contract in Bolton. On December 30, 2009, the club announced that it had released Megson from his duties.
After more than a year without a coaching activity, Gary Megson took over on February 4, 2011 the coaching position at the English third division club Sheffield Wednesday . The team did not succeed in direct promotion to the second division either, at the end of the season Wednesday was only fifteenth in the table.
On February 29, 2012, Gary Megson, although he finished third with his team and had just won the prestigious derby against second-placed Sheffield United, was dismissed. Chairman Milan Mandaric justified the move by saying that he saw the great goal, promotion, endangered by recent fluctuations in performance.
Web links
- Gary Megson in the database of weltfussball.de
- Gary Megson in the soccerbase.com database
- Gary Megson in the soccerbase.com database
- Biography at ex-canaries.co.uk
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile at League Managers Association , viewed October 26, 2007
- ↑ Megson scoops award , BBC Sport, May 14, 2002, viewed October 27, 2007
- ↑ Megson departs as Forest manager , BBC Sport February 16, 2006, viewed October 26, 2007
- ↑ Megson Takes Control At The Reebok ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bolton Wanderers website as of October 25, 2007
- ↑ Club statement ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bolton Wanderers website as of December 30, 2009
- ↑ Gary Megson appointed Sheffield Wednesday manager (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Gary Megson is sacked by Sheffield Wednesday (BBC Sport)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Megson, Gary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Megson, Gary John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester , England |