Jim Gannon

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Jim Gannon
Personal information
Date of birth	September 7, 1968
Place of birth	Southwark, England
Nickname	'Jimbo', 'The Ghost'
Position	Centre-half; various
Club information
Current club	Stockport County
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1998-89 1989-90 1990 1990-2000 1994 2000-01 2002	Dundalk Sheffield United Halifax Town Stockport County Notts County Crewe Alexandra Shelbourne	* (*) * (*) 2 (0) 383 (52) 2 (0) 7 (0) * (*)
Teams managed
2004-05 2006	Dundalk Stockport County
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Jim Gannon, (born September 7, 1968), is an Irish football manager and former player. He was appointed manager of Stockport County on January 17, 2006, having served as caretaker-manager since the departure of Chris Turner on December 27, 2005.

He was born in Southwark, South London and moved with his family to Ireland at a young age. Gannon received his start in higher level football from the Irish club Dundalk F.C.. In April 1989 Gannon was transferred from Dundalk to English team Sheffield United and after 12 months he moved to Stockport County where he had a distinguished ten year career. His 479 club appearances puts him in third spot in Stockport’s all-time appearance list and his 65 goals are 9th in their scoring records.

Gannon was and still is known by Stockport fans as 'the Ghost', due to his knack of 'ghosting' in behind the defensive wall to head in free-kicks. He has received two distinguished honours from the club’s supporter—elected to the Stockport Hall of Fame and as Honorary Vice President of the Hatters Independent Supporters Club.

On his return to Ireland, Gannon completed his accountancy exams and had a number of successful years as a Shelbourne player, before his appointment as Dundalk manager in June 2004. On 14 November 2005, Gannon confirmed his resignation from Dundalk. Gannon's position had been called into question after his chief supporters, vice-chairman Tom Baldwin and chief executive Sean Connolly, left the club.

On 17th January 2006, after a short stint as caretaker, Jim was appointed as manager of Stockport County following the departure of Chris Turner. County were 5 points adrift at the foot of League Two when Gannon took charge and under his stewardship the club battled back to secure their league status on the final day of the season, sparking jubilant celebrations at Edgeley Park.

Stockport County F.C. - Current Squad
1 Spencer | 2 Clare | 3 Rose | 4 Dinning | 5 Raynes | 6 Williams | 7 Briggs | 8 Allen | 9 Bramble | 10 Dickinson | 11 Robinson | 14 le Fondre | 15 Tunnicliffe | 16 Owen | 17 Tansey | 18 Ellis | 19 Malcolm | 20 Taylor | 21 Kane | 22 Deasy | 23 Bowler | 24 Griffin | 25 Crowther | 26 Poole | 28 Havern | 29 Ruddy | 31 Proudlock | 34 Gleeson | Manager: Gannon