Stuart Murdoch (football manager)

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Stuart Murdoch
Personal information
Date of birth (1950-08-17) 17 August 1950 (age 73)
Place of birth Blackpool, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1968–1971
Fleetwood
 48 (0)
1971–1974 Lancaster City
1974–1975
Fleetwood
 25 (0)
Managerial career
2002–2004 Wimbledon
2004 Milton Keynes Dons
2006 AFC Bournemouth (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stuart Murdoch (born 17 August 1950)[

coach. He is perhaps best known for his spell as manager of Wimbledon between May 2002 and June 2004, during which time the team moved to Milton Keynes in 2003. Wimbledon were renamed Milton Keynes Dons
by the new owner in 2004 and Murdoch remained in charge until November of that year.

Playing career

Murdoch played as a

Fleetwood
in two spells either side of a spell at Lancaster City.

Coaching career

Murdoch worked with Glenn Roeder at Watford before moving to Wimbledon in 1996 as goalkeeping coach.[citation needed]

He was appointed as manager of Wimbledon in June 2002 after a successful spell as caretaker.

administration
and a number of the club's players were sold off.

Murdoch remained in charge at Wimbledon throughout the

League One.[2]

In July 2005, Murdoch joined AFC Bournemouth as part-time goalkeeping coach. He was appointed joint caretaker manager, with Joe Roach, in September 2006 and held the post until Kevin Bond took over in October. He returned to his original role as goalkeeping coach after this. He moved to Norwich City as goalkeeping coach in January 2008, linking up again with Norwich boss Glenn Roeder. Murdoch left this role after just four days, citing personal reasons.[3] Later that month he linked up with Kenny Jackett, with whom he had worked at Watford, to become chief scout at Millwall.[4]

On 1 August 2009, Southampton announced that Murdoch had been appointed as a part-time goalkeeping coach and scout,[5] but he was "relieved of his duties" along with Alan Pardew on 30 August 2010.[6] He took up a similar role at Gillingham in November 2010.[7]

Just over eight years after leaving MK Dons, Murdoch has claimed his position as the manager during Wimbledon's move to Milton Keynes is the reason he has never had a permanent managerial position since.[8] He now works on a part time basis at Fleetwood Town.

References

  1. ^ "Murdoch takes reins". BBC. 25 June 2002. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
  2. ^ "Murdoch sacked by Milton Keynes". BBC. 8 November 2004. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
  3. ^ Search for keeper coach begins Archived 20 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Norwich City F.C.
  4. ^ Murdoch lands Millwall scout role
  5. ^ Blog Saints FC Saints appoint new backroom staff[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Official Club Statement". Southampton FC. 30 August 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  7. ^ "Wally takes West Ham role". Gillingham FC. 30 August 2010. Archived from the original on 28 November 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  8. ^ "MK Dons v AFC Wimbledon: Stuart Murdoch's story". BBC Sport. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
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