Archie Knox

Archibald " Archie " Knox ( born May 1, 1947) is a Scottish football coach and former player.

Club career

Knox played in Scotland for Forfar Athletic, FC St. Mirren, Dundee United and briefly for the FC Montrose. With Dundee United he reached the Scottish Cup Final, but lost the his team against Celtic Glasgow in 1974.

Coaching career

Knox's coaching career began when he worked for the second time in Forfar Athletic 1976. For four years he worked in the dual role as player-coach. In 1980 he became assistant to Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen FC; in the three years at the Dons the team twice won the Scottish Cup and the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup and in two games against Hamburger SV the Supercup. In 1983, he took over for two and a half years as coach at FC Dundee. After a brief return to Aberdeen he followed in 1986 by Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, where he remained until April 1991. He returned to Scotland, where he was Cotrainer by Walter Smith at Rangers. This coaching staff could enter six titles in seven years. Both went in July 1998 to Everton, where they were working together to March 2000.

Then Knox worked for three years as Cotrainer by Craig Brown at the Scottish national team. Short exposures followed as an assistant at FC Millwall at Coventry City FC Livingston. In May 2006, he again worked as an assistant with the national team; in July he was appointed by the Scottish Association as successor by Rainer Bonhof to coach the U-21 national team. In August 2007, he was Training Coordinator at Bolton Wanderers and took over on an interim basis the first team after coach Sammy Lee left the club in October. At this time the team was on second from bottom in the Premier League, but the group stage of the UEFA Cup had been reached where it met, among others on the FC Bayern Munich. Knox was replaced by Gary Megson after two games. In July 2008, manager Paul Ince took him as an assistant and instructor of Erstligateams to Blackburn Rovers.