Terry Burton

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Terry Burton is a football manager and coach who is currently assistant manager to Dave Jones at Cardiff City F.C.  He was brought to the club during the 2004–05 season when Lennie Lawrence was still manager.

Before moving to Cardiff City, Burton had spent two years with Watford as assistant manager to Ray Lewington. His role at Vicarage Road had begun during the summer of 2002, shortly after he was sacked as manager of Wimbledon.

Burton had been a respected youth coach at Arsenal during the 1980s and early 1990s, but is best remembered for his two-year spell as Wimbledon manager (2000 to 2002).

Having been first team coach, following the sacking of Egil Olsen he was suddenly placed in charge with only two games remaining before the end of the club's 1999–2000 Premiership campaign, and was given the, by then, near impossible task of keeping Wimbledon in the Premiership. A last minute goal from John Hartson against Aston Villa at Selhurst Park in Burton's first game in charge gave the Dons hope of staying up as long as they matched the result of Bradford City against Liverpool in the final game of the year. A defeat at Southampton on the final day of the season, and a shock 2-0 win at Valley Parade for Bradford meant that Wimbledon's fight against relegation was lost.

Wimbledon achieved respectable top-ten finishes in both of their first two seasons outside the top flight since 1985–86, but never made a serious promotion challenge. Although he was popular with the club's fans, Burton incurred the wrath of the chairman after speaking out against the club's proposed relocation to Milton Keynes, and he was promptly sacked just after the end of the 2001–02 season. He was replaced by Stuart Murdoch.