Chris Turner (defender)
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| Chris Turner | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Christopher Turner | |
| Date of birth | 3 April 1951 | |
| Place of birth | St Neots, England | |
| Playing position | Defender | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1969–1978 1978–1979 1979–1980 19??–19?? 19??–19?? 19??–19?? 1980–1983 1983–1984 |
Peterborough United Luton Town Cambridge United Swindon Town Connecticut Bicentennials New England Tea Men Cambridge United Southend United |
314 (37) 30 (5) 19 (0) ? (?) ? (?) ? (?) 71 (3) ? (?) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1985–1990 1991–1992 |
Cambridge United Peterborough United |
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Chris Turner (born 3 April 1951 in St Neots, Cambridgeshire) was an English professional footballer and manager, best known for a 9 year association as a player with Peterborough United.
Turner began his playing career with Peterborough in 1969 and went onto make 314 league appearances as a centre half, scoring 37 goals before leaving the club in 1978 to join Luton Town. Spending a season with The Hatters, he played 30 games, scoring 5 goals before switching again, this time to Cambridge United.
He played for one season at Cambridge, playing 19 times before joining Swindon Town for a brief spell and then going off to play in the American Soccer League for Connecticut Bicentennials and the New England Tea Men. After returning to the UK he joined up once again with Cambridge and between 1980 and 1983 he played a further 71 games, scoring 3 goals. Turner ended a 15 year playing career with a spell at Southend United before retiring in 1984.
In December 1985, Cambridge United had sacked their manager Ken Shellito and were looking for a new appointment. Legend has it that Turner called chairman David Ruston to enquire about some money he was owed, not aware that the club were looking for a new manager. By the end of the telephone conversation he had been appointed as manager of Cambridge United.
He managed The U's until January 1990, stabilising a club that was at rock bottom and turning them slowly into promotion candidates. He build much of the squad that he would later hand over to John Beck to take the team up from the Fourth Division to Second Division. Players such as Dion Dublin, John Taylor, John Vaughan, Alan Kimble, Liam Daish, Danny O'Shea, Lee Philpott, Chris Leadbitter and Colin Bailie were all signed by Turner and would all go onto play a pivitol role in that team. After resigning in December 1989, citing he had "taken the club as far as he could", Turner took on a short lived role as General Manager before leaving the club.
He took on his next managerial position at his first club, Peterborough United, in January 1991 and managed the club until December 1992, going on to be one of the most successful managers in the clubs history. He retired from football in 1992 and went on to own the club as chairman before selling his interest to Barry Fry in 1996.
More recently Turner teamed up with ex-Peterborough player Lee Power (now chairman of Cambridge United) to help out in a temporary coaching role at Cambridge in September 2006.
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