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Gary Johnson
Personal information
Full name	Gary Johnson
Date of birth	September 28, 1955 (1955-09-28) (age 52)
Place of birth	England
Club information
Current club	Bristol City (manager)
Teams managed
1993-1995 1995-1997 1999-2001 2001-2005 2005-	Cambridge United Kettering Town Latvia Yeovil Town Bristol City
* Appearances (Goals)

Gary Johnson (born September 28, 1955) in Suffolk is a British football manager. He is currently the manager of Bristol City.

Contents 1 Management career 1.1 Cambridge United 1.2 Kettering Town 1.3 Latvia 1.4 Yeovil 1.5 Bristol City 2 Quotes 3 Managerial stats 4 External links

He was formerly with Cambridge United, Kettering Town, Watford (as director of their youth academy) and Yeovil Town. He has also managed the Latvian National Team.

Johnson was manager at Newmarket Town F.C. where he was persuaded to join Cambridge United as Reserve Team manager in 1988. Appointed as Assistant Manager in 1990, Johnson helped John Beck organise the U's remarkable rise in the early 1990s, in which they came within two matches of becoming the first club to rise from the old Fourth Division to the top flight in successive seasons. Johnson was briefly caretaker manager in late 1992 and then took charge from 1993 until 1995.

After being sacked by Cambridge, Johnson took over as manager of Kettering Town, but was sacked in the 1996-97 season and moved to Watford, as director of their youth academy.

He was approached by the Latvian football authorities for help, and became coach of their national team for two years from 1999 to 2001.

Whilst coaching Latvia, he spotted the potential of Marian Pahars and recommended him to Southampton's manager Dave Jones, who invited Pahars for a trial before signing him in March 1999.

He was sacked after a 1-1 draw with San Marino

Returning to England, Johnson was appointed manager of Yeovil. In his first year in charge the Glovers won the FA Trophy and finished third in the Football Conference; the following year they won the greater prize of the Conference championship and promotion the Football League. Yeovil were immediately contenders in the League and were Division Three champions at the second attempt.

Despite turning down an approach from Derby County in the summer of 2005, Johnson became Bristol City's target when their manager Brian Tinnion resigned that September. Yeovil agreed compensation terms and he became City's manager on 26 September 2005. Despite a long losing streak through October and November, City's fortunes turned around under Johnson and a good run of form in the second half of the season saw them in play-off contention, eventually finishing ninth. Johnson won the League One Manager of the Month award for April 2006. After an impressive 2006-07 season (including an 18 match unbeaten run), Johnson won the award again in March 2007 after successfully guiding his side to 16 points from seven games the previous month. This had set Bristol City in a good spot to contend for automatic promotion, which they sealed 5 May 2007 with a 3-1 home win over Rotherham on the last day of the season.

On 6th September 2007 Gary Johnson and assistant Keith Millen both signed 2 and a half year contract extensions keeping them at the club until 2010.

Gary has proved popular with Bristol City fans, partially due to some amusing post match comments:

• "If Fonts ever scores I'll bare my backside in Burtons window"
  Gary referring to Bristol City defender Liam Fontaine.

• "Didn't I say it had to be a winning goal?"
  Gary after Fontaine scored his first professional goal in a game against Wolves.

• When striker Enoch Showunmi was doubtful to start a game he told interviewers "We'll pump him full of pills and ask him for a big half hour"

• "I think Sven's spent a few million more than me over the summer."
  Gary talking about Sven-Göran Eriksson's multi-million pound squad before a cup game with Man City.

• "I don't normally speak to people over 30, let alone sign them!"
  Gary after signing 30 year old striker Lee Trundle.

• "You cannot afford to sign the first player who becomes available in case Roy of the Rovers comes knocking on your door further down the line"
  One of Garys numerous mentions of the fictional football character.

• "It was an honour to get closer to Britney Spears than any man's managed before!"
  Gary in 2003 after all but clinching promotion on the same day his picture was alongside a revealing photograph of Britney Spears in a national newspaper.

• At the 2006-07 season awards, Gary was commenting on City right back Bradley Orr when the crowd started chanting "He's an Orr!" When it quietened down again, Gary said "Well I suppose we better keep him then!"

• "Scotty has got that youthful exuberance if you like. Well... perhaps not 'youthful'!"
  Gary talking about 32-year-old winger Scott Murray

• After hearing that Sven-Göran Eriksson had opened a bottle of £460.00 Burgundy after Man City's previous match, Gary said, "As it's our home game I suppose it's down to me to treat Sven. I've had a word with the chairman and I reckon our budget will stretch to about £4.60."

• After a last minute equaliser against Man City was disallowed, Gary commented, "It's a fine line between success and failure but Macca has seen it and he told me he was just offside. So I punched him."

• "He deserved his mum to see him on television today."
  Gary on returning Adriano Basso in the first team for a televised match.

• After being sent to the stands for coming onto the pitch and tackling Izzy Iriekpen during a match with Swansea City (because he thought he was time wasting), Gary was asked by an interviewer what he made of it. Gary replied, "I don't think it was a red card at all. It was a good tackle and I won the ball."

• "It had so much bend on it that had it not hit the net it would have probably come back round to him."
  Gary commenting on midfielder Marvin Elliott's 30 yard match winning goal against Stoke City.

• On striker Steve Brooker's long term injury Gary said, "I really feel for Brooks but thankfully he is only 26 despite looking 36, and has age on his side."

• After Bristol City defender Louis Carey broke his nose (his third time) during a game, Gary said, "He's definitely got a broken nose but it's actually a bit straighter now."

As of 06:55, 5 November 2007 (UTC).

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Cambridge United		October 22, 1992	April 1, 1995	135	41	57	37	30.37
Yeovil Town		June 19, 2001	September 23, 2005	221	116	59	46	52.48
Bristol City		September 26, 2005	Present	112	54	30	28	48.21

Gary has won 3 promotions and several impressive cup runs including 1 cup win, all in the last 5 years.

• Gary Johnson management career stats at Soccerbase
• Profile on Kettering Town website

v • d • e Cambridge United F.C. – Managers

Target (1948) • Hartley (1949–50) • Whittaker (1951–55) • Williams (1955) • Johnson (1955–59) • Craig (1959) • Moore (1960–63) • Kirk (1963–66) • Wynn (1966–67) • Leivers (1967–74) • Atkinson (1974–78) • Docherty (1978–83) • Cozens (1983–84) • Ryan (1984–85) • Cozens (1985) • Shellito (1985–86) • Turner (1986–90) • Beck (1990–92) • Johnson (1992) • Atkins (1992–93) • Johnson (1993–95) • Taylor (1995–96) • McFarland (1996–2001) • Beck (2001) • Taylor (2001–04) • Le Roy (2004) • Renard (2004) • Thompson (2004–05) • Newman (2005–06) • Quinn (2006–)

v • d • e Kettering Town F.C. – Managers

York (1922–24) • Matthews (1924–25) • Collier (1925–30) • Cawthorne (1930) • Dainty (1931–32) • Loasby (1932–35) • Potter (1937–38) • Riches (1938–39) • Molloy (1945–47) • Riches (1948–49) • Calder (1950–56) • Lawton (1956–57) • Mather (1957–58) • Froggatt (1958–61) • Akers (1961–63) • Lawton (1963–64) • White (1964–65) • Swindlin (1965) • Gammon (1965–71) • Atkinson (1971–74) • Vowden (1974–75) • Dougan (1975–77) • Jones (1977–79) • Clarke (1979–82) • Conde (1982–83) • Masson (1983) • Needham (1983–86) • Buckley (1986–88) • Morris (1988–92) • Cusack (1992) • Carr (1992–95) • Johnson (1995–96) • Berry (1996–98) • Morris (1998–2001) • Shutt (2001–03) • Genovese (2003) • Platnauer (2003) • Wilson (2003–05) • Gascoigne (2005) • Wilson (2005–06) • Maison (2006–07) • Westley (2007) • Cooper (2007–)

v • d • e Yeovil Town F.C. – Managers

Gregory (1922–1928) • Lawes (1928–1929) • Pratt (1929–1933) • Page (1933–1935) • Halliday (1935–1938) • Kingdon (1938–1946) • Stock (1946–1949) • Patterson (1949–1951) • Lowe (1951–1953) • Clarke (1953–1957) • Dodgin (1957) • Baldwin (1957–1960) • Hayward (1960–1964) • Davies (1964–1965) • McDonald (1965–1967) • Saunders (1967–1969) • Hughes (1969–1972) • Irwin (1972–1975) • Harland (1975–1978) • Lloyd (1978–1981) • Allinson (1981) • Giles (1981–1983) • Finnigan & Hughes (1982) • Coles (1983–1984) • McFarlane (1984) • Gow (1984–1987) • Hall (1987–1990) • Whitehead (1990–1991) • Rutter (1991–1993) • Hall (1994–1995) • Roberts (1995–1998) • Lippiatt (1998–1999) • Thompson (1999–2000) • Webb (2000) • Addison (2000–2001) • Johnson (2001–2005) • Thompson (2005–2006) • Slade (2006–)

v • d • e Bristol City F.C. – Managers

Hollis (1897–99) • Campbell (1899–1901) • Hollis (1901–05) • Thickett (1905–10) • Bacon (1910–11) • Hollis (1911–13) • Hedley (1913–15) • Hamilton (1915–19) • Palmer (1919–21) • Raisbeck (1921–29) • Bradshaw (1929–32) • Hewison (1932–49) • Wright (1949–50) • Beasley (1950–58) • Doherty (1958–60) • Ford (1960–67) • Dicks (1967–80) • Houghton (1980–82) • Hodgson (1982) • Cooper (1982–88) • Jordan (1988–90) • Lumsden (1990–92) • Smith (1992–93) • Osman (1993–94) • Jordan (1994–97) • Sweeney (1997) • Ward (1997–98) • Lennartsson (1998–99) • Pulis (1999–2000) • Fawthrop & Burnside (2000) • Rosenior (2000) • Wilson (2000–04) • Tinnion (2004–05) • Millen (2005) • Johnson (2005–)

v • d • e Bristol City F.C. – current squad
1 Basso • 2 Orr • 3 McAllister • 4 Fontaine • 5 McCombe • 6 Carey • 7 Murray • 8 Noble • 9 Brooker • 11 McIndoe • 14 Skuse • 15 Showunmi • 18 B. Wilson • 19 Vaskó • 20 Betsy • 21 Artus • 22 Weale • 23 Trundle • 24 Ribeiro • 25 Elliott • 26 J. Wilson • 27 Walker • 28 Slocombe • 29 Sproule • 30 Plummer • 32 Henderson • 33 L. Johnson • 34 Byfield • Manager: G. Johnson