Stewart Houston

Football manager infobox
playername = Stewart Houston
fullname = Stewart Mackie Houston
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1949|8|20|mf=y
cityofbirth = Dunoon
countryofbirth = Scotland
currentclub =
position = Left back
youthyears =
youthclubs = Port Glasgow Rangers
years = 1967–1972 1972–1973 1973–1980 1980–1983 1983–1986
clubs = Chelsea
Brentford
Manchester United
Sheffield United
Colchester United
caps(goals) =

205 (13)


nationalyears = 1976
nationalteam = Scotland
nationalcaps(goals) = 001 0(0)
manageryears = Feb–Jun 1995
Aug–Sep 1996
1996–1997
managerclubs = Arsenal (caretaker manager)
Arsenal (caretaker manager)
Queens Park Rangers

Stewart Mackie Houston (born August 20, 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 [Haynes in Arsenal's sights] .

External links

*soccerbase (manager)|id=1161|name=Stewart Houston

References

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