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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stewart Mackie Houston[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1949-08-20)20 August 1949 (age 76) | ||
| Place of birth | Dunoon,Argyll, Scotland | ||
| Position | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Port Glasgow Rangers | |||
| Chelsea | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1967–1972 | Chelsea | 9 | (0) |
| 1972 | →Brentford (loan) | 15 | (2) |
| 1972–1973 | Brentford | 62 | (7) |
| 1973–1980 | Manchester United | 205 | (13) |
| 1980–1983 | Sheffield United | 94 | (1) |
| 1983–1986 | Colchester United | 107 | (5) |
| Total | 492 | (28) | |
| International career | |||
| 1975 | Scotland | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1995 | Arsenal (caretaker) | ||
| 1996 | Arsenal (caretaker) | ||
| 1996–1997 | Queens Park Rangers | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Stewart Mackie Houston (born 20 August 1949) is a Scottish formerfootball player andcoach who played as aleft-back. Born inDunoon, he began his professional career in 1967 withChelsea, before moving toBrentford and thenManchester United, where he spent seven years. He also made one appearance for theScotland national team in 1975.
He wasGeorge Graham's assistant atArsenal and caretaker manager after the sackings of Graham and his replacementBruce Rioch, and later manager ofQueens Park Rangers. He then had spells as the first-team coach atIpswich Town,Tottenham Hotspur andWalsall. Houston later worked as a scout for Arsenal.[2][3]
Aleft back, Houston's first professional club wasChelsea, but he failed to break into the first team and only made 14 appearances in five years. He was sold toBrentford in 1972.[4] A year later he signed forManchester United for £55,000, where he made 250 appearances (plus two as substitute) and scored 16 goals.
While he was atOld Trafford, Houston helped United win theFootball League Second Division in1975 and the1976–77 FA Cup, although he did not feature in the1977 FA Cup Final. He joinedSheffield United in 1980, before ending his playing career withColchester United in 1986. He also played international football forScotland, making one appearance in 1975 againstDenmark.[5]
Houston was assistant manager toGeorge Graham atArsenal in 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 theEuropean Cup Winners' Cup, but the Gunners lost to a last-minute goal fromNayim.[6]
Arsenal appointedBruce Rioch in the summer of 1995, but Houston stayed on as his assistant. Just over a year after his appointment, Rioch was sacked, and Houston was reappointed as caretaker.Arsène Wenger was identified as Rioch's successor in August, but Arsenal were forced to wait as Wenger was contracted to Japanese clubGrampus Eight.[7][8] Houston left Arsenal in mid-September to become manager ofQueens Park Rangers,[9] where he appointed Bruce Rioch as his assistant. QPR had just been relegated to theFirst Division and were aiming for a return to thePremier League. Houston and Rioch were sacked by QPR in November 1997, with the club sitting 13th in the First Division.[10]
Houston then went toIpswich Town asGeorge Burley's first team coach, but was later reunited with George Graham in March 1999 when Graham appointed him assistant manager atTottenham Hotspur. Houston was fired two years later.[11] after Graham was sacked in March 2001. He then spent a brief period as first-team coach ofWalsall. Houston also worked as a scout for Arsenal from 2008 to 2020.[12][2][3]
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Sheffield United
I was at theStade Louis II in 2004 and afterwards, in a hotel nearby, met the former Arsenal manager Stewart Houston, who was one of two scouts Wenger had sent — one to watchMonaco and the other their opponents,Real Madrid.