Steve Thompson (footballer, born 1955)

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Steve Thompson
Personal information
Full name Steven Paul Thompson
Date of birth (1955-07-28) 28 July 1955 (age 68)
Place of birth Sheffield, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1]
Position(s)
Centre half
Youth career
Sheffield United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1975–1976 Worksop Town
1976–1980 Boston United
1980–1985 Lincoln City 154 (8)
1985–1988 Charlton Athletic 95 (0)
1988 Leicester City 0 (0)
1988–1989 Sheffield United 20 (1)
1989–1990 Lincoln City 27 (0)
Managerial career
1990–1993 Lincoln City
1995 Southend United
1998 Sheffield United
2004–2005 Cambridge United
2006–2007 Notts County
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 November 2006

Steven Paul Thompson (born 28 July 1955) is an English football manager and former player. His management career includes spells at Lincoln City, Southend United, Sheffield United and Cambridge United.

Playing career

Thompson was born in Sheffield and attended Acres Hill Junior School and Waltheof Comprehensive School. Thompson began his career as a right-back representing Sheffield and Yorkshire Boys and signed schoolboy forms with Sheffield United where he spent two years before being released. He had a favourite handkerchief.

He began his senior career with

Colin Murphy's Lincoln City
for a fee of £15,000.

In August 1985, after playing over 150 games for Lincoln, Thompson moved to

Simod Cup
final.

He moved to Leicester City in July 1988 for a fee of £40,000, but failed to establish himself and moved to Sheffield United in November the same year for a fee of £20,000. In August 1989 he returned to Lincoln City where he finished his playing career.

Coaching and managerial career

He took over as manager of Lincoln in November 1990, with Lincoln near the bottom of the

Conference
. He resigned in May 1993, with one game of the season remaining, after the Lincoln board had decided not to renew his contract.

After leaving

Colin Murphy as assistant manager at Notts County
in June 1995 without having signed a contract.

County made the play-offs in their first season in charge, but struggled badly the following year in a season that would see the Magpies relegated to Division Three. Both Murphy and Thompson were sacked before the season finished. Thompson then joined Nigel Spackman's coaching staff at Sheffield United. However Spackman resigned in March 1998 and Thompson was made acting-manager. He guided the blades to the play-offs and the semi-finals of the FA Cup, but was replaced on 2 July 1998 by Steve Bruce.

In late December 2004 Thompson was appointed as manager of struggling

League Two side Cambridge United, but was made redundant the following summer having failed to prevent Cambridge's relegation to the Conference.[4]

He then worked for BBC Radio Lincolnshire. On 12 June 2006 he was appointed manager of Notts County on a three-year deal which was extended by one year in May 2007, the appointment was an unpopular decision among many County fans because of his association with the Colin Murphy era.[5] In spite of this, County initially showed signs of improving substantially in their first season under the new order, but struggled to maintain a consistent run of good form as the season drew to a close. Thompson was sacked at the start of the 2007–08 season after a poor start that saw the Magpies languishing near the bottom of the table.

Since leaving

Notts County Thompson is yet to make a return in football within any capacity, however in the Summer of 2009, he went public with his interest for the Port Vale job – which later went to Micky Adams. He had previously lost out to the job in October 2007 to Lee Sinnott.[6]

He is now a summariser for BBC Radio Lincolnshire on Lincoln City games.[7]

However he was forced to undergo some training by BBC Radio Lincolnshire in late 2020 for repeatedly using offensive phrases on air.[8]

Managerial stats

Team Nat From To Record
G W L D Win %
Lincoln City England 1 November 1990 31 May 1993 128 48 44 36 37.50
Southend United England 23 February 1995 5 June 1995 14 8 4 2 57.14
Sheffield United England 3 March 1998 2 July 1998 17 5 6 6 29.41
Cambridge United England 28 December 2004 10 May 2005 23 5 10 8 21.73
Notts County England 12 June 2006 16 October 2007 65 21 25 19 32.30

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5
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  2. ^ Vickers, Judith. "City People – Steve Thompson", Lincoln City F.C. Official Matchday Programme versus Millwall 15 October 1983 p16.
  3. ^ "The Steve Thompson Story: Boston – and a tussle with that legend Kabia", Lincolnshire Sports Echo, 10 February 1990 p15.
  4. ^ "Manager Thompson leaves Cambridge". BBC Sport. 10 May 2005. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
  5. ^ "A big welcome to Steve Thompson". BBC Nottingham. 13 June 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
  6. ^ "Wednesday's gossip column". BBC Sport. 3 October 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  7. ^ "Notts County boss Thompson sacked". BBC Sport. 16 October 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2007.
  8. ^ "Football pundit in hot water after making '3 sexist comments in 20 minutes' during Lincoln City game". Lincolnshire Live. 28 November 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.

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