Mick Tait

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Mick Tait
Personal information
Full name	Michael Tait
Date of birth	30 September 1956 (1956-09-30) (age 51)
Place of birth	Wallsend, England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1974–1977 1977–1979 1979–1980 1980–1987 1987–1990 1990–1992 1992–1994 1994 1994–1998	Oxford United Carlisle United Hull City Portsmouth Reading Darlington Hartlepool United Gretna Hartlepool United	064 (23) 106 (20) 033 0(3) 240 (30) 099 (10) 079 0(2) 061 0(1) 00? 0(?) 077 0(2)
Teams managed
1996–1998 1999 2002–2003 2003	Hartlepool United (player) Hartlepool United Darlington (caretaker) Darlington
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Michael 'Mick' Tait (born 30 September 1956) was an English footballer and later a manager at the end of his playing career. His 760 league games puts him 13th in the list of English footballers. His clubs were Oxford United, Carlisle United, Hull City, Portsmouth, Reading, Darlington and Hartlepool United as well as Gretna in Scotland. Tait also later managed two of these clubs Darlington and Hartlepool United.

Tait started his career as an apprentice at Oxford scoring 23 goals in 64 league appearances before moving on to Carlisle for £65,000 in 1977. Michael scored 20 goals for Carlisle in 106 league appearances before moving on to Hull City £150,000 in 1979. Mick scored 3 goals in 33 league appearances whilst at Boothferry Park before moving on to Portsmouth for £100,000 in 1980. At Portsmouth he scored 30 goals in 240 league appearances. Still in the same year he moved to Reading for £50,000 scoring 10 goals in 99 league appearances before moving on to Darlington in 1990 for free. At Darlington he scored 2 goals in 79 league appearances. In the 1992 close season he joined Hartlepool United, scoring 1 goal in 61 league appearances. In the 1994 close season he joined Gretna, but within weeks he was re-signed by Hartlepool. Two years into his second spell at Victoria Park Tait was asked to become player manager and he agreed. He hung up his boots up and retired as a player 1998 and as well as his playing career being over so was his management one a year later in 1999 when he was sacked by Hartlepool. Four years later Mick was back but this time at rivals Darlington taking over as caretaker manager in 2002 until June 2003 when he was given the job on a permanent basis until he was sacked four months later by Darlington in October 2003, but in the same month the club brought him back but this time as youth development officer and has been there ever since he was given the role in 2003, but in February 2008 it was confirmed by Darlington that Tait had left the club and his role at it as well.

[edit] External links

• Mick Tait career stats at Soccerbase
• Mick Tait management career stats at Soccerbase

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