John Sheridan (footballer)

John Joseph Sheridan ( born October 1, 1964 in Stretford, Trafford ) is an Irish football manager and former football player. He played from 1988 to 1995 in the Irish national team and was at club level, inter alia, active at Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday and Bolton Wanderers. Since January 2013 he is the coach of the English fourth division Plymouth Argyle.

Clubs

Leeds United

John Sheridan spent the youth in his hometown club Manchester City, but changed the age of 17 to Leeds United without a competitive match for his youth club to be completed. His debut for Leeds he celebrated on 20 November 1982 in a second division match against Middlesbrough FC. Sheridan scored during the 1982/83 season two goals in 27 league games, finished with Leeds in eighth place and remained in the second division. His best season, he experienced for the club from Leeds in the 1986/87 season, as United reached the fourth place and also only in the semi-finals of the FA Cup with 2:3 after extra time failed in the later champions Coventry City. Sheridan scored 15 goals in the league, but even he could not prevent the failure in the play-off round against Charlton Athletic. After two years he decided to change to a club and went for £ 650,000 to Nottingham Forest.

Sheffield Wednesday

Forest has been very successfully coached by Brian Clough since 1975 and was among the top teams in the First Division. Sheridan came in the first few months only to use one in the League Cup and already moved to Sheffield Wednesday November 3, 1989. He got off to a very bad start and got into the 1989/90 season with his new club from the second division. However, the team quickly recovered from this setback and managed direct resurgence in third place behind Oldham Athletic and West Ham United. To top off this successful season the Owls the title in the League Cup in 1990/91 won with a 1-0 victory over Manchester United. John Sheridan succeeded in doing the decisive blow against the team of Alex Ferguson.

Before the start of the new season in the Football League First Division 1991/92 Trevor Francis took over as coach of Ron Atkinson, who coached future Aston Villa. Also under new coach Wednesday completed a very good season, finishing in third place. The following year led to the seventh place and also in the UEFA Cup 1992/93 the club acted with the reasons not as hoped in the second round. For this, the team succeeded in each of the finals of the FA Cup and the League Cup in 1993. Both games, however, were lost to the trained by George Graham Arsenal. After he was not considered as hoped, almost three years later under new coach David Pleat, he moved first in the short term on loan to Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers. On November 13, 1996, he went after six successful years in Sheffield for £ 180,000 for second division club Bolton Wanderers.

Bolton Wanderers

Sheridan reached with his new team during the 1996/97 season, his talent as table first promotion to the Premier League. There, however, the club spent the time being only a year and got a table third from bottom back out of the Premier League in 1997/98 from. After a short time while unterklassigen club Doncaster Rovers, he went in 1998 to Oldham Athletic. There he played until 2004 in the third division, before he ended his playing career with just under 40 years.

Irish national

John Sheridan played between 1988 and 1995 34 caps for the Irish national football team, scoring five goals. He was on the national team for the European Football Championship 1988 in Germany, came there but not used. Things went better in the Football World Cup 1994 in the USA, as Sheridan was used in all four games. Previously, he had come at the soccer World Cup in Italy in 1990 for deployment to a Substitutes.

Coaching career

After he had meanwhile helped out as a player coach, John Sheridan took over in 2006 as coach at Oldham Athletic. In the 2006/07 season he reached with his team to sixth place in the Football League One and missed promotion to the second division only in the play-offs. In March 2009, he was released in Oldham, then he took over in June 2009 as coach at fourth division club FC Chesterfield. In his second season, he led Chesterfield to the championship in the Football League Two and promotion to the third division. After relegation from the Football League One 2011/12 Sheridan was released on 28 August 2012.

On January 6, 2013, was introduced as the new coach of the fourth division Plymouth Argyle.

Title ( achievements)

• League Cup winner: 1991 (1-0 against Manchester United)
• League Cup Runners-up: 1993 ( 1:2 against Arsenal )
• FA Cup finalist: 1993 ( 1-1 aet and 1-2 against Arsenal )
• Second division champions: 1997