This is a single post from deeden.co.uk made during the period May 2002 to April 2009. During a previous grand redesign I decided to make a break with the past and consign the old entries to history. This entry is from October 2002 and lives here forevermore.

Manchester City Managers

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I’ve noticed that I’m getting an awful lot of hits from searches for “Manchester City Managers”. In order to actually justify that placing on Google (currently second), here’s the list in chronological order. It scarily reminds me that there have been 16 different managers in my lifetime. 17 if you count Tony Books short caretaker spell seperately.

  • Lawrence Furniss
  • Joshua Parlby
  • Sam Omerod
  • Tom Maley
  • Harry Newbould
  • Ernest Magnall
  • David Ashworth
  • Peter Hodge
  • Wilf Wild
  • Sam Cowan
  • John Thomson
  • Les McDowall
  • George Poyser
  • Joe Mercer
  • Malcolm Allison
  • Johnny Hart
  • Ron Saunders
  • Tony Book
  • Malcolm Allison
  • John Bond
  • John Benson
  • Billy McNeill
  • Jimmy Frizzell
  • Mel Machin
  • Howard Kendall
  • Peter Reid
  • Tony Book (caretaker)
  • Brian Horton
  • Alan Ball
  • Steve Coppell
  • Phil Neal (caretaker)
  • Frank Clark
  • Joe Royle
  • Kevin Keegan
  • Stuart Pearce

Stuart Pearce took charge on a temporary basis after Keegan left the club on the 10th of March 2005.

Pearce was appointed full-time manager on the 12th of May 2005.