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{{Football player infobox
| playername= Gary Megson
| image =
| fullname = Gary John Megson
| height =
| dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1959|5|2|df=y}}
| cityofbirth = [[Manchester]]
| countryofbirth = [[England]]
| dateofdeath =
| cityofdeath
| countryofdeath =
| currentclub = [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] ([[coach (sport)|manager]])
| position = [[Midfielder]] (retired)
| youthyears =
| youthclubs =
| years = 1977&ndash;1979<br> 1979&ndash;1981<br> 1981&ndash;1984<br> 1984<br> 1984&ndash;1985<br> 1985&ndash;1989<br> 1989&ndash;1992<br> 1992&ndash;1995<br> 1995<br>1995
| clubs = [[Plymouth Argyle F.C.|Plymouth Argyle]]<br>[[Everton F.C.|Everton]]<br>[[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]]<br>[[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]]<br>[[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]]<br>[[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]]<br>[[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]<br>[[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]<br>[[Lincoln City F.C.|Lincoln City]]<br>[[Shrewsbury Town F.C.|Shrewsbury Town]] <br> '''Career'''
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| nationalcaps(goals) =
| manageryears = 1995-1996<br>1996-1997<br>1997-1999<br>1999<br>2000-2004<br>2005-2006<br>2007-
| managerclubs = [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]<br>[[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]<br>[[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]]<br>[[Stoke City F.C.|Stoke City]]<br>[[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]]<br>[[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]]<br>[[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]
}}
'''Gary John Megson''' (born [[2 May]], [[1959]] in [[Manchester]]) is a former English [[football (soccer)|footballer]] and [[coach (sports)|manager]]. He has recently been appointed as Leicester City's new manager. As a player, he is arguably best remembered from his days at [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]], where his father [[Don Megson]] also played in the 1960s. As manager he enjoyed his most successful spell at [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]], whom he twice got promoted to the [[FA Premier League|Premiership]].

==Playing career==
As a player, Megson was a tough-tackling defensive midfielder, and something of a [[journeyman (football)|journeyman]], playing for nine different clubs.

He began his career at [[Plymouth Argyle F.C.|Plymouth Argyle]], where he quickly made his name and impressed enough for [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] to sign him for a £250,000 transfer fee. Megson struggled to establish himself in the Everton lineup, and after two unremarkable years at Goodison, he moved to his father's old stomping grounds, [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]], for a fee of £130,000.

Megson immediately gained a place in Wednesday's starting lineup, and was a key member of the team that gained promotion to the top flight in 1983&ndash;84. In his three years at Hillsborough, he missed only three league games. In the summer of 1984, he was signed by [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]], only for [[Brian Clough]] to decide he didn't need him. Megson spent five frustrating months at the City Ground, without making a single first-team appearance before being sold to [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]].

Megson played regularly for the Magpies for the remainder of the 1984&ndash;85 season, but lost his place in the lineup the following season, and moved back to Sheffield Wednesday. In his second spell with the Owls, Megson again established himself as an important member of the squad, and was rarely out of the starting eleven. In January 1989, he moved to [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]], where he spent three and a half seasons. He then moved to [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] in the summer of 1992, and spent three seasons at Carrow Road. In his final season at Norwich, he was also assistant manager to [[John Deehan]].

When Deehan resigned in the Spring of 1995, Megson briefly took charge as caretaker manager, but failed to save City from the drop, losing four and drawing one of his five games in charge. In the Summer, he also left Norwich and finished his playing career with short spells at lower division sides [[Lincoln City F.C.|Lincoln City]] and [[Shrewsbury Town F.C.|Shrewsbury Town]]. Later the same year, he got a surprise return to Norwich when he was re-appointed manager following [[Martin O'Neill]]'s sudden departure.


==Managerial career==
While still playing at Norwich City, Megson became assistant to manager [[John Deehan]]. He briefly left the club following Deehan's sacking in 1995, but returned to Carrow Road later the same year when new manager [[Martin O'Neill]] left to take charge at [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]. Megson managed the Canaries for the remainder of the 1995&ndash;96 season, but was let go at the end of the season.

In [[1996]], Megson became manager at [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]] where he recorded only 21 wins in 52 matches. At [[Bloomfield Road]], he was assisted by the former [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] midfielder [[Mike Phelan]], but the partnership failed to bring a Division Two playoff place to the Seasiders, and Megson left at the end of the season.

Megson moved to [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] in 1997 and they came just two places short of the Division One playoffs in his first season as manager. After two reasonable seasons with Stockport, he was dismissed after the board alleged that he had applied for a manager's post elsewhere without their permission. However, he wasn't unemployed for long, taking the manager's job at [[Stoke City F.C.|Stoke City]]. His tenure at the [[Britannia Stadium]] was brought to an end when the club was sold to an [[Iceland]]ic consortium which appointed its own man, former [[Iceland national football team|Iceland national-team]] coach Gudjon Thordarsson, to the manager's position.

===West Bromwich Albion===
Megson took over as manager of struggling [[Football League First Division|First Division]] [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] towards the very end of the [[1999-2000 in English football|1999&ndash;2000]] season with barely time for him to organise a few key player transfers before the deadline. Albion narrowly evaded relegation by winning their final game of the season and Megson was immediately hailed as a hero.

The following season, he took the club into the playoffs. In the [[2001-02 in English football|2001&ndash;02 season]] the club won promotion to the [[FA Premier League]], overcoming the eleven-point lead of bitter local rivals [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]] in the closing weeks of the campaign. This achievement earned Megson the Nationwide Division One Manager of the Year award.<ref>{{cite news
|date=[[2002-05-14]]
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1986615.stm
|title=Megson scoops award
|publisher=BBC Sport
|accessdate=2007-05-04}}</ref> However, the club was barely prepared for the financial challenges of life in the top flight and a bitter quarrel soon developed between Megson and the club's chairman Paul Thompson over the latter's perceived interference in footballing matters. An undignified public showdown resulted in Thompson resigning from the board in order to forestall Megson's departure. Jeremy Peace took the opportunity to establish himself as Thompson's successor. In July 2002 Megson signed a new three-year contract with Albion.<ref>{{cite news
|date=[[2002-07-25]]
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_bromwich_albion/2150680.stm
|title=Megson signs West Brom deal
|publisher=BBC Sport
|accessdate=2007-05-04}}</ref> However in 2002&ndash;03 the club were relegated after just a single season in the Premier League.

Peace's financial prudence enabled Megson to mount a successful promotion campaign, and return to the Premier League the following season &ndash; but by the summer of [[2004]], the relationship between the two men had become strained. With a poor start to the season, by September, Megson's job was under threat. The following month Megson, whose contract was due to end in June 2005, announced that he would not sign a new deal at the club if offered one. On [[26 October]], Megson was dismissed by West Brom.<ref>{{cite news
|date=[[2004-10-26]]
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_bromwich_albion/3954309.stm
|title=Megson sacked by West Brom
|publisher=BBC Sport
|accessdate=2007-04-22}}</ref> A settlement for the remainder of his contract was reached in November 2004.<ref>{{cite news
|date=[[2004-11-12]]
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_bromwich_albion/4007815.stm
|title=West Brom agree Megson settlement
|publisher=BBC Sport
|accessdate=2007-05-04}}</ref>

===Nottingham Forest===
Within a week of being sacked at West Bromwich Albion, Gary Megson was linked with vacant manager's job at [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]] after [[Dave Jones]] was sacked &ndash; but that job went to [[Glenn Hoddle]] instead. Megson was then appointed manager of struggling [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] on [[10 January]] [[2005]], succeeding [[Joe Kinnear]],<ref>{{cite news
|date=[[2005-01-10]]
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/nottm_forest/4160373.stm
|title=Forest appoint Megson as manager
|publisher=BBC Sport
|accessdate=2007-05-04}}</ref> but was unable to save them from slipping into the third tier of English football for the first time. Promotion back to the [[Football League Championship|Championship]] was to be his priority for [[2005-06 in English football|2005-06]], but Forest struggled, especially away from home, for most of the season. In terms of points they were nearer to the relegation zone than the playoff zone when he resigned in February 2006 after being put under a lot of pressure by the Forest fans.<ref>{{cite news
|date=[[2006-02-16]]
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/nottm_forest/4720840.stm
|title=Megson departs as Forest manager
|publisher=BBC Sport
|accessdate=2007-04-22}}</ref> He claimed that his resignation had cost him £500,000.<ref>{{cite news
|date=[[2006-03-03]]
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/nottm_forest/4769654.stm
|title=Forest exit costs Megson £500,000
|publisher=BBC Sport
|accessdate=2007-05-04}}</ref>

He was linked with the [[Sheffield Wednesday]] job on [[19 October]] [[2006]] alongside [[Nigel Pearson]].

===Leicester City===

On 13 September 2007, a press conference was called by [[Leicester City]] chairman [[Milan Mandarić]] where he announced Gary Megson as the new manager of the club, citing Megson's "wealth of experience" as a deciding factor in the appointment.<ref>{{cite news
|date=[[2007-09-13]]
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/leicester_city/6987880.stm
|title=Megson excited by Leicester job
|publisher=BBC Sport
|accessdate=2007-09-13}}</ref>

==Managerial stats==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|Nat
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="5"|Record
|-
!G!!W!!L!!D!!Win %
|-
|align=left|[[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|[[December 21]] [[1995]]
|align=left|[[July 31]] [[1996]]
||27||5||13||9||18.51
|-
|align=left|[[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|[[July 5]] [[1996]]
|align=left|[[July 1]] [[1997]]
||52||21||16||15||40.38
|-
|align=left|[[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|[[July 1]] [[1997]]
|align=left|[[June 25]] [[1999]]
||102||35||40||27||34.31
|-
|align=left|[[Stoke City F.C.|Stoke City]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|[[July 14]] [[1999]]
|align=left|[[November 15]] [[1999]]
||22||9||6||7||40.90
|-
|align=left|[[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]]
|align=left|[[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|{{flagicon|England}}

Revision as of 23:36, 4 October 2007

|align=left|West Bromwich Albion |England |align=left|March 9 2000 |align=left|October 26 2004 ||221||94||77||50||42.53 |- |align=left|Nottingham Forest |England |align=left|January 10 2005 |align=left|February 16 2006 ||59||17||24||18||28.81 |- |align=left|Leicester City |England |align=left|September 13 2007 |align=left|Present ||2||0||1||1||0 |}

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by Norwich City F.C. Manager
1995-1996 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Blackpool F.C. Manager
1996-1997 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Stockport County F.C. Manager
1997-1999 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Stoke City F.C. Manager
1999 		Succeeded by
Preceded by West Bromwich Albion F.C. Manager
2000-2004 		Succeeded by
Frank Burrows (caretaker)
Preceded by
Mick Harford (caretaker)
 Nottingham Forest F.C. Manager
2005-2006 		Succeeded by
Frank Barlow and Ian McParland (caretakers)
Preceded by Leicester City F.C. Manager
2007-present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent

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