Gary Johnson (footballer)

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Gary Johnson
Personal information
Full name	Gary Johnson
Date of birth	September 28, 1955 (1955-09-28) (age 52)
Place of birth	England
Club information
Current club	Bristol City (manager)
Teams managed
1993–1995 1995–1997 1999–2001 2001–2005 2005–	Cambridge United Kettering Town Latvia Yeovil Town Bristol City
* Appearances (Goals)

Gary Johnson (born September 28, 1955) in Fulham is a British football manager. He is currently the manager of Bristol City.

Contents 1 Management career 1.1 Cambridge United 1.2 Kettering Town 1.3 Latvia 1.4 Yeovil Town 1.5 Bristol City 2 Managerial stats 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Management career

He was formerly with Cambridge United, Kettering Town, Watford (as director of their youth academy) and Yeovil Town. He has also managed the Latvian National Team.

[edit] Cambridge United

Johnson was manager at Newmarket Town F.C. where he was persuaded to join Cambridge United as Reserve Team manager in 1988. Appointed as Assistant Manager in 1990, Johnson helped John Beck organise the U's remarkable rise in the early 1990s, in which they came within two matches of becoming the first club to rise from the old Fourth Division to the top flight in successive seasons. Johnson was briefly caretaker manager in late 1992 and then took charge from 1993 until 1995.

[edit] Kettering Town

After being sacked by Cambridge, Johnson took over as manager of Kettering Town, but was sacked in the 1996-97 season and moved to Watford, as director of their youth academy.

[edit] Latvia

He was approached by the Latvian football authorities for help, and became coach of their national team for two years from 1999 to 2001.

Whilst coaching Latvia, he spotted the potential of Marian Pahars and recommended him to Southampton's manager Dave Jones, who invited Pahars for a trial before signing him in March 1999.

He resigned after a 1-1 draw with San Marino.^[1]

[edit] Yeovil Town

Returning to England, Johnson was appointed manager of Yeovil. In his first year in charge the Glovers won the FA Trophy and finished third in the Football Conference; the following year they won the greater prize of the Conference championship and promotion to the Football League. Yeovil were immediately contenders in the League and were Division Three champions at the second attempt.

[edit] Bristol City

Despite turning down an approach from Derby County in the summer of 2005, Johnson became Bristol City's target when their manager Brian Tinnion resigned that September. Yeovil agreed compensation terms and he became City's manager on 26 September 2005. Despite a long losing streak through October and November, City's fortunes turned around under Johnson and a good run of form in the second half of the season saw them in play-off contention, eventually finishing ninth. Johnson won the League One Manager of the Month award for April 2006. After an impressive 2006-07 season (including an 18 match unbeaten run), Johnson won the award again in March 2007 after successfully guiding his side to 16 points from seven games the previous month. This had set Bristol City in a good spot to contend for automatic promotion, which they sealed 5 May 2007 with a 3-1 home win over Rotherham on the last day of the season.

On 6 September 2007 Gary Johnson and assistant Keith Millen both signed 2 and a half year contract extensions keeping them at the club until 2010.

Bristol City had a great first season back in the Championship and lost the play-off final 1-0 to Hull City. Despite that Johnson and his players have done the club proud and things look very bright for Bristol City.

[edit] Managerial stats

As of 06:55, 5 November 2007 (UTC).

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Cambridge United		October 22, 1992	April 1, 1995	135	41	57	37	30.37
Latvia		September 05, 1999	April 26, 2001	14	4	2	8	28.57
Yeovil Town		June 19, 2001	September 23, 2005	221	116	59	46	52.48
Bristol City		September 26, 2005	Present	112	54	30	28	48.21

Gary has won 3 promotions and several impressive cup runs including 1 cup win, all in the last 5 years.

[edit] External links

• Gary Johnson management career stats at Soccerbase
• Profile on Kettering Town website

[edit] References

1. ^ Latvia national football team 'beaten' by San Marino amateurs (Latvian)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Revaz Dzodzuashvili	Latvia national football team coach 1999–2001	Succeeded by Aleksandrs Starkovs

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v • d • e Bristol City F.C. – current squad 1 Basso • 2 Orr • 3 McAllister • 4 Fontaine • 5 McCombe • 6 Carey • 7 Murray • 8 Noble • 9 Brooker • 10 Carle • 11 McIndoe • 12 Myrie-Williams • 14 Skuse • 16 Keogh • 18 B. Wilson • 20 Betsy • 21 Artus • 22 Weale • 23 Trundle • 24 Ribeiro • 25 Elliott • 26 J. Wilson • 27 Walker • 29 Sproule • 30 Plummer • 32 Henderson • 33 L. Johnson • 35 Adebola • Manager: G. Johnson