Stewart Houston

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Stewart Houston
Personal information
Full name	Stewart Mackie Houston
Date of birth	20 August 1949 (1949-08-20) (age 59)
Place of birth	Dunoon, Scotland
Playing position	Left back
Youth career
	Port Glasgow Rangers
Senior career1
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 20 August 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. While he was at Old Trafford, Houston helped them win the Football League Second Division in 1974 as well as the FA Cup in 1977.

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.

In August 2008 it was reported that Stewart Houston was back at Arsenal, some 12 years after leaving the club, when he was rumoured to be scouting for the club. The Daily Mirror claimed Houston had been keeping tabs on Ipswich striker Danny Haynes^[1].

[edit] External links

• Stewart Houston management career stats at Soccerbase

[edit] References

• http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2008/08/14/ipswich-s-danny-haynes-in-arsenal-sights-115875-20696939/

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