Bryan Gunn

Bryan James Gunn ( born December 22, 1963 in Thurso ), is a former Scottish football player and coach who was active in both functions for English club Norwich City.

• 2.1 Norwich City (2009)

Playing career

Aberdeen FC (1980-1986)

Bryan Gunn began his career with coached by Alex Ferguson Scottish first division club FC Aberdeen. Between 1980 and 1986 he did not make it past a reserve role behind the goalkeeper Jim Leighton. With Aberdeen he won the European Cup Winners' Cup 1982/83 by a 2-1 in extra time against Real Madrid, remained in the final but without the use. 1984 and 1985, he secured the title with his team in the Scottish Cup. In October 1986 he moved for £ 100,000 to the English first division club Norwich City.

Norwich City (1986-1998)

In Norwich, he replaced the English national team goalkeeper Chris Woods, who had moved to Glasgow Rangers. The coached by Ken Brown climber reached a good fifth place in the Football League First Division 1986/87. A further increase in the league came two years later under new coach Dave Stringer in the 1988/89 season in fourth. After three years of declining output in the League coached by Mike Walker team reached in the newly formed Premier League 1992/93 surprising third place in the standings and thus the best league placing the club's history. By this Platziereung to Norwich qualified for the UEFA Cup in 1993/94 and reached successes over Vitesse Arnhem (3:0 and 0:0) and Bayern Munich (2:1 and 1:1 ) the third round. There was against the eventual champions Inter Milan with two 0-1 defeats the corner. Specifically, the success against FC Bayern owed ​​the team to a substantial part of the good-humored goalkeeper Bryan Gunn. A year later, the injured this season extended period Gunn rose in the Premier League 1994/95 for the first time from his team in the first league. After two years in the second division, he lost in the 1997/98 season, his regular place of Andy Marshall and joined in February 1998 on loan to Hibernian. With the Scottish first division club he dismounted as Table from the first league at the end of the season. In summer 1998, he moved on a firm contractual basis to Edinburgh, but was injured early in the season and finished in the course of the season his career prematurely.

Scottish National Team (1990-1994)

Bryan Gunn debuted on May 16, 1990 a 1-3 defeat against Egypt in the Scottish national team and then took part in Scotland with the Football World Cup 1990 in Italy. Gunn, however, remained without use and divorced with his team already out in the first round. His sixth and last match he graduated on 27 May 1994 against the Netherlands.

Coaching career

Norwich City (2009)

After he had previously been active in various capacities for Norwich City, he took on 16 January 2009 on an interim basis in place of Glenn Roeder as coach at Zweitligistenund won his opening match 4-0 against FC Barnsley. On 21 January, he was then introduced as the new head coach. However, the performance of the team deteriorated in the following months and led to relegation from the Football League Championship 2008/09. Norwich lost the opening match in the Football League One 2009 /10 with 1:7 against Colchester United, which led to the dismissal of Bryan Gunn on August 14, 2009.