Garry Thompson (footballer born 1959)

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Garry Thompson
Personal information
Full name	Garry Lindsey Thompson
Date of birth	October 7, 1959 (1959-10-07) (age 48)
Place of birth	Birmingham, England
Height	6 ft 1 in
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1977–1983 1983–1985 1985–1986 1986–1988 1988–1990 1990–1991 1991–1993 1993–1995 1995–1997	Coventry City West Bromwich Albion Sheffield Wednesday Aston Villa Watford Crystal Palace Queens Park Rangers Cardiff City Northampton Town	134 (38) 091 (39) 036 0(7) 060 (17) 034 0(8) 020 0(3) 019 0(1) 043 0(5) 050 0(6)
Teams managed
2001 2001–2002 2004	Bristol Rovers (caretaker) Bristol Rovers Brentford (caretaker)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Garry Thompson (born 7 October 1959 in Birmingham, England) is a former professional footballer and football manager, who played as a striker. He began his 20 year-long career at Coventry City as a trainee and earned his first professional contract at that club. A fast and exciting player, he was a fans favourite and was part of the Sky Blues team which reached the 1981 League Cup semi-final. He went on to play for West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa, Watford, Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Cardiff City and Northampton Town, making a total of 487 league appearances and scoring 124 league goals. Thompson played his final professional game for Northampton in 1997.

Although he spent several seasons as an inventive and influential player at top-flight clubs, he was never selected for the England international squad, though his name was regularly mentioned prior to call-ups. His non-selection is thought to be because he never played for any of the more illustrious top-flight English clubs rather than a lack of international-class ability.

After retiring as a player, he became a coach and in 2001 he took over as caretaker manager of Bristol Rovers following the sacking of Ian Holloway. He remained in charge for 23 games, until the appointment of Gerry Francis. When Francis resigned five months later, Thompson was given the Bristol Rovers job on a permanent basis,^[1] although he lasted only four months before being dismissed.^[2] In 2004 he was caretaker manager of Brentford for one game between Wally Downes and Martin Allen.

He joined Conference North side Hucknall Town in February 2006 as assistant to then manager Kevin Wilson, combining his position with a full-time role in promotions. With Hucknall struggling financially, Thompson was released from his contract in December 2006.^[3] The Hucknall chairman has denied the reason was financial.^[4]

v • d • e Bristol Rovers F.C. – Managers Homer (1899–1920) • Hall (1920–21) • Wilson (1921–26) • Palmer (1926–29) • McLean (1929–30) • Prince-Cox (1930–36) • Smith (1936–37) • Fletcher (1938–50) • Tann (1950–68) • Ford (1968–69) • Dodgin (1969–72) • Megson (1972–77) • Campbell (1977–79) • Jarman (1979–80) • Cooper (1980–81) • Gould (1981–83) • Williams (1983–85) • Gould (1985–87) • Francis (1987–91) • Dobson (1991) • Rofe (1991–92) • Allison (1992–93) • Ward (1993–96) • Holloway (1996–2001) • Francis (2001) • Thompson (2001–02) • Graydon (2002–04) • Atkins (2004–05) • Trollope (2005–)

v • d • e Brentford F.C. – Managers Lewis (1900–03) • Molyneux (1903–06) • Brown (1906–08) • Halliday (1908–12) • Rhodes (1912–15) • Halliday (1915–21) • Mitchell (1921–22) • Halliday (1924–26) • Curtis (1926–49) • Gibbons (1949–52) • Bain (1952–53) • Lawton (1953) • Dodgin, Snr. (1953–57) • Macdonald (1957–65) • Cavanagh (1965–66) • Gray (1966–67) • Sirrel (1967–69) • Blunstone (1969–73) • Everitt (1973–75) • Docherty (1975–76) • Dodgin, Jnr. (1976–80) • Callaghan (1980–84) • Blunstone (1984) • McLintock (1984–87) • Perryman (1987–90) • Holder (1990–93) • Webb (1993–97) • May (1997) • Adams (1997–98) • Noades (1998–2000) • Lewington (2000–01) • Coppell (2001–02) • Downes (2002–04) • Thompson (2004c) • Allen (2004–06) • Rosenior (2006) • Fitzgerald (2006–07) • Quin (2007c) • Butcher (2007) • Scott (2007–) (c) caretaker

[edit] External links

• Garry Thompson management career stats at Soccerbase

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