Stewart Houston

Stewart Houston
Personal information
Full name Stewart Mackie Houston[1]
Date of birth (1949-08-20) 20 August 1949 (age 75)
Place of birth Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland
Position(s) Left back
Youth career
Port Glasgow Rangers
Chelsea
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1972 Chelsea 9 (0)
1972Brentford (loan) 15 (2)
1972–1973 Brentford 62 (7)
1973–1980 Manchester United 205 (13)
1980–1983 Sheffield United 94 (1)
1983–1986 Colchester United 107 (5)
Total 492 (28)
International career
1975 Scotland 1 (0)
Managerial career
1995 Arsenal (caretaker)
1996 Arsenal (caretaker)
1996–1997 Queens Park Rangers
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stewart Mackie Houston (born 20 August 1949) is a Scottish former football player and coach who played as a left-back. Born in Dunoon, he began his professional career in 1967 with Chelsea, before moving to Brentford and then Manchester United, where he spent seven years. He also made one appearance for the Scotland national team in 1975.

He was George Graham's assistant at Arsenal and caretaker manager after the sackings of Graham and his replacement Bruce Rioch, and later manager of Queens Park Rangers. He then had spells as the first-team coach at Ipswich Town, Tottenham Hotspur and Walsall. Houston later worked as a scout for Arsenal.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Stewart Houston". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  2. ^ Barclay, Patrick (25 February 2015). "Dare to dream, Arsenal fans, momentum has to start somewhere". Evening Standard. Retrieved 18 June 2015. I was at the Stade Louis II in 2004 and afterwards, in a hotel nearby, met the former Arsenal manager Stewart Houston, who was one of two scouts Wenger had sent — one to watch Monaco and the other their opponents, Real Madrid.
  3. ^ Haynes in Arsenal's sights