.JPG) Kidd withManchester City in 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Brian Kidd[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1949-05-29)29 May 1949 (age 75)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Manchester, England | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1963–1967 | Manchester United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1967–1974 | Manchester United | 203 | (52) |
| 1974–1976 | Arsenal | 77 | (30) |
| 1976–1979 | Manchester City | 98 | (44) |
| 1979–1980 | Everton | 40 | (12) |
| 1980–1982 | Bolton Wanderers | 43 | (14) |
| 1981 | →Atlanta Chiefs (loan) | 27 | (22) |
| 1982–1983 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | 44 | (33) |
| 1983 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers (indoor) | 2 | (3) |
| 1984 | Minnesota Strikers | 13 | (8) |
| Total | 545 | (215) | |
| International career | |||
| 1967 | England Youth | 8 | (2) |
| 1967–1970 | England U23 | 10 | (5) |
| 1970 | England | 2 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1984–1985 | Barrow | ||
| 1986 | Preston North End | ||
| 1988–1991 | Manchester United (youth team) | ||
| 1991–1998 | Manchester United (assistant) | ||
| 1998–1999 | Blackburn Rovers | ||
| 2009 | Manchester City (youth team) | ||
| 2013 | Manchester City (interim) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Brian Kidd (born 29 May 1949) is an Englishfootball coach and former player, who was most recently assistant coach ofManchester City.
Kidd, a striker, played forManchester United,Arsenal,Manchester City,Everton,Bolton Wanderers,Fort Lauderdale Strikers and theMinnesota Strikers in his footballing career.
Kidd was born inManchester,[1] and started playing forManchester United as a youngster, joining the club'sacademy in August 1964. Two years later, he went on to become a professional player with the club.[2]
Kidd had the distinction of scoring on his 19th birthday for Manchester United in their 4–1 victory overBenfica in the1968 European Cup Final. All in all, he scored 52 times in 203 league appearances for Manchester United.[2]
Following United's relegation to theFootball League Second Division in 1974, Kidd was transferred to Arsenal for £110,000.[3] Kidd scored on his debut for Arsenal againstLeicester City atFilbert Street. He then scored a brace at home againstManchester City. He was by far Arsenal's top goalscorer during the1974–75 season, scoring 19 goals in 40 appearances. In the following season Kidd, on 20 March 1976, scored a hat-trick againstWest Ham United in a 6–1 win atHighbury.[4][5] Altogether Kidd scored 34 times for Arsenal from 90 appearances. In July 1976, he was sold to Manchester City for a fee of £100,000.[3]
With Manchester City, Kidd scored three times against rivals Manchester United, in a 3–1 win atMaine Road and a 2–2 draw at Old Trafford during the1977–78 season. He would play 98 times for Manchester City, netting 44 goals. He then moved toEverton in March 1979 for £150,000. With the Toffees, Kidd netted 12 times in 44 appearances and was sent off in an FA Cup semi final againstWest Ham United. Kidd then joinedBolton Wanderers in May 1980 for £110,000. Kidd found the back of the net a total of 13 times for Bolton where he made a total of 43 appearances at and away fromBurnden Park. He was then loaned out toNASL teamAtlanta Chiefs in 1981. He played 29 times for the chiefs, scoring on 23 occasions.[2][6]
In January 1982, Kidd moved on from Bolton to return to the NASL. He then signed with theFort Lauderdale Strikers and two years afterward with theMinnesota Strikers. He was prolific with both teams when it came to goalscoring, but in 1984 he retired from the game.[2]
In 1984, Kidd began his coaching career atBarrow. He briefly managedPreston North End for several games in 1986.[7] Kidd then became involved in coaching young players before being brought back to Manchester United as a youth team coach byAlex Ferguson in 1988. Over the next three years Kidd helped to bring through a host of talented players likeRyan Giggs andDarren Ferguson. When Ferguson's assistantArchie Knox moved to a similar capacity atRangers in the summer of 1991, Kidd was promoted to the role of assistant manager. He helped Ferguson guide United to aFootball League Cup win in 1992, thePremier League title in 1993,the double in 1994 and again in 1996, as well as another Premier League title in 1997.
Kidd left United to take charge atBlackburn Rovers in December 1998, replacingRoy Hodgson who had been sacked after Blackburn's poor start to the season left them in the relegation zone. Despite Kidd having a promising start with Rovers, which saw him votedPremier League Manager of the Month and having also spent nearly £20 million on new players in his first four months in charge he was unable to save them from being relegated from the Premier League (just four years after being champions) and Kidd was dismissed on 3 November 1999 with Rovers standing 19th inDivision One.[2][8]
In 1999, a rift developed between Kidd and Alex Ferguson after Kidd was strongly criticised in Ferguson's autobiographyManaging My Life. Ferguson was angered that when Kidd was his assistant manager he had questioned United's 1998 summer signing of strikerDwight Yorke. Ferguson criticised Kidd's footballing judgement and wrote in his book: "I saw Brian Kidd as a complex person, often quite insecure, particularly about his health." Kidd was upset at Ferguson's attack on him and responded by saying: "I believe Walt Disney is trying to buy the film rights to his book as a sequel to Fantasia."[9]
Kidd moved toLeeds United in May 2000 as youth coach but was promoted to act as Head Coach in March 2001 underDavid O'Leary thenTerry Venables. He left Leeds in May 2003 afterPeter Reid was appointed manager.[10]
Meanwhile, Kidd was named as assistant toEngland managerSven-Göran Eriksson in January 2003.[11] He was forced to end this role in May 2004, just weeks beforeEuro 2004, due to undergoing surgery forprostate cancer.[12] Kidd had recovered by February 2006.[13]
In August 2006, former United playerRoy Keane was appointed manager ofSunderland and there were reports that Keane wanted Kidd to become his assistant manager at theStadium of Light. However, Kidd instead accepted an offer to work as assistant toNeil Warnock atSheffield United a few months after their promotion to the Premier League.[14] After the Blades were relegated and Warnock resigned, Kidd remained atBramall Lane under new managerBryan Robson (another former Manchester United player) but left the club after Robson departed in February 2008.[15]
On 11 February 2009, Kidd was appointed as the assistant to caretaker managerPaul Hart atPremier League sidePortsmouth.[16] He stayed until August 2009, when he rejected a new contract offer.[17]
Kidd became Technical Development Manager atManchester City in September 2009,[18] before becoming assistant manager to new bossRoberto Mancini on 19 December 2009, following the sacking of managerMark Hughes.
In February 2011, Kidd said that he was willing to give Alex Ferguson "the benefit of the doubt" in the dispute that the two men had in the late 1990s. Kidd revealed that although there was no phone call from Ferguson when he was fighting prostate cancer in 2004, he was now speaking to Ferguson after matches again.[19]
In the2011 FA Cup Final, Manchester City won their first major trophy for 35 years after beatingStoke City 1–0.[20] In the following2011–12 season, City were crowned league champions for the first time since 1968. In an extraordinary finale to the season, City scored twice in stoppage time to beatQueens Park Rangers 3–2 in dramatic style to win thePremier League on goal difference from Manchester United. Together with Mancini and City's first team coachDavid Platt, Kidd raced on to the pitch to celebrateSergio Agüero's title-winning goal for City.[21]
Kidd served as caretaker manager for the final two games of the 2012–13 season, following the departure of Mancini.[22] Kidd returned to his assistant role following the appointment ofManuel Pellegrini and worked with both him and his successorPep Guardiola, before leaving after the 2020–21 season.[23]
Kidd wascapped twice for theEngland national football team with both of those appearances coming in 1970.[2]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1970 | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 2 | 1 |
Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kidd's goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 May 1970 | Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa,Quito, Ecuador |  Ecuador | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
Manchester United
Individual
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
| Preston North End |  ENG | 24 January 1986 | 1 March 1986 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 000.00 |
| Blackburn Rovers | ENG | 4 December 1998 | 3 November 1999 | 44 | 12 | 18 | 14 | 027.27 |
| Manchester City | ENG | 13 May 2013 | 14 June 2013 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 050.00 |
| Total | 52 | 13 | 20 | 19 | 025.00 | |||
