Jim Gannon
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Paul Gannon | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-half; various | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Stockport County | ||
Jim Gannon, (born September 7 1968), is an Irish football manager and former player. He was appointed manager of Stockport County on January 17 2006, having served as caretaker-manager since the departure of Chris Turner on December 27 2005.
He was born in Southwark, South London and moved with his family to Ireland at a young age. Gannon received his start in higher level football from the Irish club Dundalk. In April 1989 Gannon was transferred from Dundalk to English team Sheffield United and after 12 months he moved to Stockport County where he had a distinguished ten year career. His 479 club appearances puts him in third spot in Stockport’s all-time appearance list and his 65 goals are 9th in their scoring records.
Gannon was and still is known by Stockport fans as 'the Ghost', due to his knack of 'ghosting' in behind the defensive wall to head in free-kicks. He has received two distinguished honours from the club’s supporter—elected to the Stockport Hall of Fame and as Honorary Vice President of the Hatters Independent Supporters Club.
On his return to Ireland, Gannon completed his accountancy exams and had a number of successful years as a Shelbourne player, before his appointment as Dundalk manager in June 2004. On 14 November 2005, Gannon confirmed his resignation from Dundalk. Gannon's position had been called into question after his chief supporters, vice-chairman Tom Baldwin and chief executive Sean Connolly, left the club.
Jim gannon was the manager in Stockport Countys memorable 9 game winning streak whilst keeping successive clean sheets (goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey)in 2007. This broke the former League 2 record of 8 games unbeaten.
Managerial stats
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Stockport County | 
|
January 17 2006 | Present | 64 | 30 | 21 | 13 | 46.87 |
External links
- Jim Gannon at Soccerbase
- Jim Gannon management career statistics at Soccerbase
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Republic of Ireland football managers
- Republic of Ireland footballers
- Sheffield United F.C. players
- Halifax Town A.F.C. players
- Stockport County F.C. players
- Stockport County F.C. managers
- Notts County F.C. players
- Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
- Football League of Ireland players
- Shelbourne F.C. players