Ron Fenton

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Ron Fenton
Full name	Ronald Fenton
Date of birth	2 September 1940 (1940-09-02) (age 67)
Place of birth	South Shields, England
Playing position	Inside forward
Youth clubs
1956–1957	South Shields Burnley
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1957–1962 1962–1965 1965–1968 1968–1970 1970–1971	Burnley West Bromwich Albion Birmingham City Brentford Notts County	11 0(1) 59 (16) 33 0(7) 91 (19) 00 0(0)
Teams managed
1975–1977	Notts County
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Ronald Fenton (born 21 September 1940 in South Shields) is an English former footballer, coach and manager. He played as an inside forward and made nearly 200 appearances in the Football League.

Fenton was born in South Shields, and began his football career with his home town club before joining Burnley as a junior. He moved to West Bromwich Albion in 1962, later playing for Birmingham City and finally Brentford.

After finishing his playing career, he joined the coaching staff at Notts County. After Jimmy Sirrel moved to Sheffield United, he became County manager for two years before being replaced by Sirrel again.

After leaving County, Fenton joined Nottingham Forest where he spent ten years on the coaching staff and a further six as assistant manager under Brian Clough.

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Career Stats

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Notts County F.C. – Managers

Browne (1883–93) • Featherstone (1893) • Harris (1893–1913) • Fisher (1913–27) • Henshall (1927–34) • Jones (1934–35) • Pratt (1935) • Smith (1935–36) • McMullan (1936–39) • Parkes (1938–39) • Towers (1939–42) • Womack (1942–43) • Buckley (1944–46) • Stollery (1946–49) • Houghton (1949–53) • Poyser (1953–57) • Lawton (1957–58) • Hill (1958–61) • Coleman (1961–63) • Lowe (1963–65) • Coleman (1965–66) • Burkitt (1966–67) • Beattie (1967) • Gray (1967–78) • Sirrel (1969–75) • Fenton (1975–77) • Sirrel (1978–82) • Wilkinson (1982–83) • Lloyd (1983–84) • Barker (1984–85) • Sirrel (1985–87) • Barnwell (1987–88) • Warnock (1989–93) • Walker (1993–94) • Slade (1994–95) • Kendall (1995) • Nicol (1995) • Murphy (1995–96) • Allardyce (1997–99) • Scott (1999–2001) • Brazil (2001–02) • Dearden (2002–04) • Mills (2004–05) • Thordarson (2005–06) • Thompson (2006–2007) • McParland (2007–)