Steve Paterson

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Steve Paterson
Personal information
Full name	Steven William Paterson
Date of birth	April 8, 1958 (1958-04-08) (age 50)
Place of birth	Elgin, Scotland
Playing position	Defender (retired)
Teams managed
1990 1990–1995 1995–2002 2002–2004 2004–2006 2006–2008	Elgin City Huntly F.C. Inverness C.T. Aberdeen F.C. Forres Mechanics Peterhead F.C.
* Appearances (Goals)

Steven William (Steve) Paterson (born on 8th April 1958 in Elgin, Moray) is a football manager and former Scottish footballer.

[edit] Career

During his professional playing career, he was a central defender and joined Manchester United from Nairn County in July 1975 and made a total of 6 league appearances for the Red Devils over four seasons. He also had spells playing for clubs in Hong Kong and Japan (Hong Kong Rangers & Yomiuri, before his playing career was cut short by persistent injury problems.

His management career began in the Highland League with Elgin City, before he moved on to Huntly. In the summer of 1995 he joined Inverness Caledonian Thistle, who were at that time playing in the Scottish Football League Third Division. Paterson spent seven and a half years at Caley Thistle, their longest-serving manager to date. During this time he took the club from the Third Division to the First Division and presided over the team's famous victories against Celtic (resulting in the well-known newspaper headline "Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious") and Hearts in the Scottish Cup.

In November 2002 Paterson was strongly linked with the vacant manager's job at Dundee United, but he stayed at Caley Thistle for another month until he was offered the manager's position at Aberdeen. This move was not without controversy, as Paterson and his assistant Duncan Shearer were each supposed to have agreed a five-year contract with Caley Thistle not long before their departure to the Dons. Further controversy occurred at his new club as he apparently battled alcohol addiction.

Paterson and Shearer left Aberdeen after around eighteen months. His next managerial post was with Highland League side Forres Mechanics, which he left in the summer of 2006. In October 2006 he was announced as the new manager of Peterhead, a position from which he was eventually dismissed on th 10^th of January, 2008.

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