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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Alexander Beck | ||
| Date of birth | 25 May 1954 | ||
| Place of birth | Edmonton, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1972–1976 | Queens Park Rangers | 40 | (1) |
| 1976–1978 | Coventry City | 69 | (6) |
| 1978–1982 | Fulham | 114 | (12) |
| 1982–1986 | AFC Bournemouth | 137 | (13) |
| 1986–1989 | Cambridge United | 112 | (11) |
| Total | 472 | (43) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1990–1992 | Cambridge United | ||
| 1992–1994 | Preston North End | ||
| 1995–1997 | Lincoln City | ||
| 2001 | Cambridge United | ||
| 2010 | Histon | ||
| 2012 | Kettering Town | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
John Alexander Beck (born 25 May 1954) is an English former footballer and manager. As a player, he made nearly 500 English Football League appearances for five clubs between 1972 and 1989.
As a manager, he had a highly successful spell in charge of Cambridge United in the early 1990s, when he guided the club to two successive promotions and two successive quarter-final appearances in the FA Cup. Beck took the club from the Fourth Division to the Second and very nearly to the new Premier League at the end of the 1991–92 season, where they ended their campaign fifth in the Second Division, their highest ever league finish..
In 2010, he was appointed manager of Conference National club Histon,[2] but resigned two games into the 2010–11 season.
- ^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
- ^ "Former Cambridge boss John Beck takes charge at Histon". BBC News. 21 May 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2013.