Stewart Houston

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Stewart Houston
Personal information
Full name Stewart Mackie Houston
Date of birth August 20, 1949 (1949-08-20) (age 58)
Place of birth    Dunoon, Scotland
Playing position Left back
Youth clubs
Port Glasgow Rangers
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1967–1972
1972–1973
1973–1980
1980–1983
1983–1986		 Chelsea
Brentford
Manchester United
Sheffield United
Colchester United		  
 
205 (13)
 
    
National team
1976 Scotland 001 0(0)
Teams managed
Feb–Jun 1995
Aug–Sep 1996
1996–1997		 Arsenal (caretaker manager)
Arsenal (caretaker manager)
Queens Park Rangers

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Stewart Mackie Houston (born August 20, 1949, in Dunoon, Scotland) is a Scottish football player and coach.

As a player, Houston played at left back for Chelsea, Brentford, Manchester United, Sheffield United and Colchester United. At Manchester United, he made 250 appearances (including 2 substitute appearances) and scored 16 goals. He also played international football for Scotland, making one international appearance.

Houston was assistant manager to George Graham at Arsenal from 1990, and was twice the club's caretaker-manager: first for three months in 1995 after Graham's sacking in February 1995. Houston took his team to the final of the Cup Winners' Cup, but the Gunners lost to a spectacular last-minute goal from Nayim.

Arsenal appointed Bruce Rioch in the summer of 1995, but Houston remained on as his assistant. Just over a year after his appointment, Rioch was sacked, and Houston was reappointed as caretaker, while Rioch's designated successor, Arsène Wenger, waited to finish his contract at Grampus Eight. However, Houston did not wait for Wenger's arrival, resigning his Arsenal post in mid-September to take over as manager of Queens Park Rangers, with Rioch becoming his assistant.

QPR, who had just been relegated to Division One, were aiming for a return to the Premiership, but Houston's spell at the club was not a success; he was sacked as manager in December 1997 with the club in the relegation zone. Houston was later reunited with George Graham when the latter became manager of Tottenham Hotspur in 1998, but left the club after Graham was sacked in March 2001. He has since spent a brief period as first-team coach of Walsall.

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Queens Park Rangers F.C. – Managers

Cowan (1913–20) • Howie (1913–20) • Liddell (1920–25) • Hewison (1925–31) • Mitchell (1931–33) • O'Brien (1933–35) • Birrell (1935–39) • Vizard (1939–44) • Mangnall (1944–52) • Taylor (1952–59) • Stock (1959–68) • Dodgin (1968) • Docherty (1968) • Allen (1968–71) • Jago (1971–74) • Sexton (1974–77) • Sibley (1977–78) • Burtenshaw (1978–79) • Docherty (1979–80) • Venables (1980–84) • Mullery (1984) • Sibley (1984–85) • Smith (1985–88) • T. Francis (1988–89) • Howe (1989–91) • G. Francis (1991–1994) • Wilkins (1994–96) • Houston (1996–97) • Hollins (1997) • R. Harford (1997–98) • Dowie (1998) • G. Francis (1998–2001) • Holloway (2001–06) • Waddock (2006) • Gregory (2006–07) • M. Harford (2007) • De Canio (2007–08) Dowie (2008–incumbent)