Brian Kidd

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Brian Kidd
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Personal information
Date of birth May 29, 1949 (1949-05-29) (age 59)
Place of birth    Collyhurst, England
Playing position Midfielder (retired)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1963–1974
1974–1976
1976–1979
1979–1980
1980–1982
1981
1982–1983
1984		 Manchester United
Arsenal
Manchester City
Everton
Bolton Wanderers
→ Atlanta Chiefs (loan)
Fort Lauderdale Strikers
Minnesota Strikers		 203 (52)
077 (30)
098 (44)
040 (12)
043 (14)
027 (22)
044 (33)
013 0(8)   
National team
1970 England 002 0(1)
Teams managed
1984–1985
1986
1998–1999		 Barrow
Preston North End
Blackburn Rovers

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

Brian Kidd (born 29 May 1949 in Collyhurst, Manchester) is an English football coach and former player. He is most well known for his spell as assistant manager to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United in the 1990s. He was also a member of the Manachester United team which won the European Cup in 1968.

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[edit] Playing career

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Kidd played for Manchester United (1963-1974), Arsenal (1974-1976), Manchester City (1976-1979), Everton (1979-1980), Bolton Wanderers (1980-1982) and the Atlanta Chiefs (1981) 29 Apps 23 Goals, Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1982-83) 51 Apps 34 Goals and Minnesota Strikers (1984) 13 Apps 8 goals in the NASL. He scored in the European Cup final in 1968 (with Manchester United), on his 19th birthday. He earned both of his England caps two years later.

Kidd maintained a healthy goalcoring ratio throughout his career, and was still scoring on a regular basis in the final years of his career in America during the early 1980s.

[edit] Management and coaching career

After management posts at Barrow and Preston North End, he was involved in coaching young players before being brought back to Manchester United as a youth team coach by Alex Ferguson in 1988 and played a key role in the development of players such as David Beckham, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs. He was soon promoted to Assistant Manager, helping the club to win the League Cup, the Premier League and FA Cup.

He left United to take charge at Blackburn Rovers in December 1998, but the club was relegated and Kidd was dismissed on 3 November 1999 after the side performed poorly in the First Division. He moved to Leeds United as youth coach but was promoted to act as assistant manager under David O'Leary and Terry Venables. He left Leeds in May 2003 after Peter Reid was appointed manager.[1]

Meanwhile, Kidd was named as assistant to England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in January 2003.[2] He was forced to end this role in May 2004, just weeks before Euro 2004, due to undergoing surgery for prostate cancer.[3] Kidd had recovered by February 2006.[4]

He was linked with becoming assistant manager to Roy Keane, whom he had worked with at Manchester United, at Sunderland in August 2006. He instead chose to join Sheffield United under Neil Warnock.[5] He remained at Bramall Lane under new manager Bryan Robson (who he had also worked with at Manchester United) but left the club after Robson departed in February 2008.[6]

[edit] Managerial stats

Team Nat From To Record
G W L D Win %
Barrow Flag of England 1984 1985
Preston North End Flag of England January 24, 1986 March 1, 1986 4 0 3 1 00.00
Blackburn Rovers Flag of England December 4, 1998 November 3, 1999 44 12 14 18 27.27

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Leeds axe Gray and Kidd", BBC Sport, 2003-05-15. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 
  2. ^ "Kidd gets England role", BBC Sport, 2003-01-22. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 
  3. ^ "McClaren nets England role", BBC Sport, 2004-05-14. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 
  4. ^ "Kidd keen on return to coaching", BBC Sport, 2006-02-07. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 
  5. ^ "Kidd snubs Sunderland for Blades", BBC Sport, 2006-09-11. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 
  6. ^ "Blackwell in for Robson at Blades", BBC Sport, 2008-02-14. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Archie Knox		 Manchester United F.C. Assistant Manager
1991–1998		 Succeeded by
Steve McClaren
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Preston North End F.C. – Managers

Parker (1906–15) • Hayes (1919–23) • Lawrence (1923–25) • Richards (1925–27) • Gibson (1927–31) • Hayes (1931–32) • Muirhead (1936–37) • Scott (1949–53) • Symon (1953–54) • Hill (1954–56) • Britton (1956–61) • Milne (1961–68) • Seith (1968–70) • Ball (1970–73) • Charlton (1973–75) • Catterick (1975–77) • Stiles (1977–81) • Docherty (1981) • Kelly (1981) • Lee (1981–83) • Kelly (1983–85) • Booth (1985–86) • Kidd (1986) • McGrath (1986–90) • Chapman (1990–92) • Beck (1992–94) • Peters (1994–98) • Moyes (1998–2002) • O'Hanlon (2002) • Brown (2002–04) • Davies (2004–06) • Simpson (2006–07) • Irvine (2007–)
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Blackburn Rovers F.C. – Managers

Mitchell (1884–96) • Walmsley (1896–03) • Middleton (1903–22) • Carr (1922–26) • Crompton (1926–31) • Barritt (1931–36) • Taylor (1936–38) • Crompton (1938–41) • Hapgood (1944–47) • Scott (1947–47) • Bruton (1947–49) • Bestall (1949–53) • Carey (1953–58) • Duncan (1958–60) • Marshall (1960–67) • Quigley (1967–70) • Carey (1970–71) • Furphy (1971–73) • Lee (1974–75) • Smith (1975–78) • Pickering (1978–79) • Iley (1978) • Kendall (1979–81) • Saxton (1981–86) • Parkes (1986–87) • Mackay (1987–91) • Parkes (1991) • Dalglish (1991–95) • Harford (1995–96) • Parkes (1996–97) • Hodgson (1997–98) • Parkes (1998) • Kidd (1998–99) • Parkes (1999–2000) • Souness (2000–04) • Parkes (2004) • Hughes (2004–08)