Kit Symons

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Kit Symons
Personal information
Date of birth	March 8, 1971 (1971-03-08) (age 37)
Place of birth	Basingstoke, England
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Colchester United
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988–1995 1995–1998 1998–2001 2001–2005	Portsmouth Manchester City Fulham Crystal Palace	160 (10) 124 (4) 102 (13) 49 (0)
National team2
1992–2004	Wales	37 (2)
Teams managed
2003 2007	Crystal Palace (caretaker) Crystal Palace (caretaker)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24/09/2006. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 24/09/2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Christopher "Kit" Symons (born March 8, 1971, in Basingstoke, England) is a former Welsh footballer, and currently assistant manager at Colchester United.

A defender, Symons began his career at Portsmouth, spending seven years at the south coast club, making 160 appearances. In the summer of 1995 he transferred to Manchester City for a £1.2million fee. He played for The Citizens until 1998 when he moved to London club Fulham, on a free transfer, having made 124 appearances. He played for Fulham until 2001, when he was signed by Crystal Palace for £400,000, the club at which he finished his playing career after 49 appearances. During his playing career he also won 37 caps for the Wales national football team, scoring twice.

Symons spent some of his time at Crystal Palace as a player-coach, and after retiring from playing became a full-time member of the coaching staff. He became caretaker player-manager for a short while in 2003, and following the subsequent appointment of Iain Dowie he combined the roles of player and assistant manager.

For the 2005–06 season, Symons was replaced by Neil McDonald as assistant manager, and was instead given the task of managing Crystal Palace's reserve team, who played in the Premiership Reserve Southern League until the end of the 2005–06 season (The side will play in the Pontin's Holiday Combination League for the 2006–07 season, following changes that meant only Premier League teams can have a reserve team in the Premiership Reserve League).

Following the departure of both Iain Dowie and Neil McDonald in the summer of 2006, Symons was named First-Team Coach under new manager Peter Taylor. The title of Assistant Manager was not given to anyone, but it was instead seen that Symons had the role closest to assistant.

After Taylor was dismissed from the Eagles on October 8, 2007, Symons was confirmed as Caretaker Manager until the appointment of Neil Warnock three days later (Palace did not play during this time). Following Warnock's appointment, Symons stepped down from his position of Assistant Manager and left the club on October 16, 2007.^[1]

Kit joined Colchester United on January 16, 2008 following Micky Adams' resignation as assistant the previous week.^[2]

[edit] Career statistics

Club Performance			League		Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
England			League		FA Cup		Total
1988-89	Portsmouth	Second Division	2	0
1989-90			1	0
1990-91			1	0
1991-92			46	1
1992-93		First Division	41	2
1993-94			29	3
1994-95			40	4
1995-96			1	0
1995-96	Manchester City	Premier League	38	2
1996-97		First Division	44	0
1997-98			42	2
1998-99	Fulham	Second Division	45	11
1999-00		First Division	29	2
2000-01			24	0
2001-02		Premier League	4	0
2001-02	Crystal Palace	First Division	9	0
2002-03			25	0
2003-04			15	0
2004-05		Premier League	0	0
Total	England		436	27
Career Total			436	27

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Awards
Preceded by Paul Walsh	Portsmouth F.C. Fans' Player of the Year 1993–1994	Succeeded by Alan Knight

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