Personal information | |||
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Full name | John Leonard Still[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 24 April 1950||
Place of birth | West Ham, England | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1966–1967 | Leyton Orient | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1967–1970 | Leyton Orient | 1 | (0) |
1970–1972 | Bishop's Stortford | 16 | (0) |
1972–1974 | Leytonstone | 18 | (0) |
1974–1976 | Dagenham | 1 | (0) |
Total | 36 | (0) | |
Managerial career | |||
1976–1979 | Leytonstone | ||
1979–1983 | Leytonstone & Ilford | ||
1983–1986 | Dartford | ||
1986 | Leytonstone & Ilford | ||
1986–1989 | Maidstone United | ||
1989–1992 | Redbridge Forest | ||
1992–1994 | Dagenham & Redbridge | ||
1994–1995 | Peterborough United | ||
1997–2000 | Barnet | ||
2001–2002 | Barnet | ||
2002–2003 | Bristol Rovers (assistant) | ||
2004–2013 | Dagenham & Redbridge | ||
2013–2015 | Luton Town | ||
2015–2018 | Dagenham & Redbridge | ||
2018 | Barnet | ||
2019–2020 | Maidstone United | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
John Leonard Still (born 24 April 1950) is an English former footballer and manager. He is currently Head of Football for National League side Southend United.
After his playing career was cut short by injury, Still began managing non-League clubs around his hometown area of East London, Essex and Kent, achieving title wins and promotions with Leytonstone & Ilford, Dartford, Maidstone United and Redbridge Forest. He was manager of Redbridge Forest when the club merged with Dagenham in 1992 to become its current incarnation – Dagenham & Redbridge. Still accepted his first job in the Football League in August 1994 at Peterborough United, but was sacked a year later. He joined Barnet in June 1997 and took the club to the play-offs twice, before leaving in 2002 after the club was relegated to the Football Conference. Still returned to Dagenham & Redbridge in April 2004, guiding the club to promotion to League Two in 2006–07 and then to League One three years later. In February 2013, after nine seasons in charge, Still left Dagenham and dropped down a league to join Luton Town. In his first full season as Luton manager, the club were crowned as Conference Premier champions and won promotion to League Two, making Still the only manager to lead three clubs to promotion out of non-League football. He led Luton to an eighth-placed finish in League Two in 2014–15, before leaving the club in December 2015. Still rejoined Dagenham for a third term as manager on 31 December 2015.