Brian Kidd

Not to be confused with Bryan Kidd.
Brian Kidd
Personal information
Date of birth (1949-05-29) 29 May 1949
Place of birth Collyhurst, Manchester, England
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Manchester City (joint-assistant coach)
Youth career
1963–1967 Manchester United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1974 Manchester United 203 (52)
1974–1976 Arsenal 77 (30)
1976–1979 Manchester City 98 (44)
1979–1980 Everton 40 (12)
1980–1982 Bolton Wanderers 43 (14)
1981 → Atlanta Chiefs (loan) 27 (22)
1982–1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 44 (33)
1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers (indoor) 2 (3)
1984 Minnesota Strikers 13 (8)
Total 545 (215)
National team
1970 England 2 (1)
Teams managed
1984–1985 Barrow
1986 Preston North End
1988–1991 Manchester United (youth team)
1991–1998 Manchester United (assistant)
1998–1999 Blackburn Rovers
2000–2003 Leeds United (assistant)
2003–2004 England (assistant)
2006–2008 Sheffield United (assistant)
2009 Portsmouth (assistant)
2009 Manchester City (youth team)
2009–2010 Manchester City (assistant)
2010–2013 Manchester City (co-assistant)
2013 Manchester City (caretaker)
2013– Manchester City (co-assistant)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Brian Kidd (born 29 May 1949) is an English football coach and former player, who is currently the co-assistant coach of Manchester City, alongside fellow co-assistants Mikel Arteta and Domènec Torrent, and manager Pep Guardiola.

Under the previous leadership of Manuel Pellegrini, Kidd was the co-assistant manager, alongside Rubén Cousillas.

Kidd's first spell as assistant manager of the club came under manager Roberto Mancini, who moved Kidd from the youth setup to become his sole assistant manager. After one year, Kidd became a co-assistant, initially alongside Attilio Lombardo and latterly alongside David Platt. Following the departure of Mancini, Kidd had a brief spell as caretaker manager of Manchester City for two games at the close of the 2012–13 season, as well as the USA tour.

Kidd was also assistant to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson from 1991 to 1998. In this role he was pivotal in the development of a group of young footballers known as Fergie's Fledglings. Kidd himself was a former player with United and City, and was a member of Manchester United's European Cup-winning team in 1968.

Playing career

Born in Collyhurst, Manchester, Kidd played for Manchester United (1963–1974), Arsenal (1974–1976), Manchester City (1976–1979), Everton (1979–80) and Bolton Wanderers (1980–1982) in the Football League; and the Atlanta Chiefs (1981) (29 appearances, 23 goals), Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1982–83) (51 appearances, 34 goals) and Minnesota Strikers (1984) (13 appearances, 8 goals) in the North American Soccer League.

He scored for Manchester United in their 4–1 victory over Benfica in the 1968 European Cup Final on his 19th birthday. He earned both of his England caps two years later. Following United's relegation to the Football League Second Division in 1974, Kidd was transferred to Arsenal for £110,000.[1] He was Arsenal's top goalscorer during the 1974–75 season, scoring 19 goals in 40 appearances. In July 1976, he was sold to Manchester City for a fee of £100,000.[1]

Kidd was still scoring on a regular basis in the final years of his career in the NASL during the early 1980s. He finally retired as a player in 1984.

Management and coaching career

1984–2008

In 1984, Kidd began his coaching career at Barrow. He briefly managed Preston North End for several games in 1986.[2] Kidd then became involved in coaching young players before being brought back to Manchester United as a youth team coach by Alex Ferguson in 1988. Over the next three years Kidd helped to bring through a host of talented players like Ryan Giggs and Darren Ferguson. When Ferguson's assistant Archie Knox moved to a similar capacity at Glasgow Rangers in the summer of 1991, Kidd was promoted to the role of assistant manager. He helped Ferguson guide United to a Football League Cup win in 1992, the Premier League title in 1993, the double in 1994 and again in 1996, as well as another Premier League title in 1997.

Kidd left United to take charge at Blackburn Rovers in December 1998, replacing Roy Hodgson who had been sacked after Blackburn's poor start to the season left them in the relegation zone. Despite Kidd having a promising start with Rovers, which saw him voted Premier League Manager of the Month and having also spent nearly £20 million on new players in his first four months in charge,[3] he was unable to save them from being relegated from the Premier League (just four years after being champions) and Kidd was dismissed on 3 November 1999 with Rovers standing 19th in Division One.

In 1999, a rift developed between Kidd and Alex Ferguson after Kidd was strongly criticised in Ferguson's autobiography Managing My Life. Ferguson was angered that when Kidd was his assistant manager he had questioned United's 1998 summer signing of striker Dwight Yorke. Ferguson criticised Kidd's footballing judgement and wrote in his book: "I saw Brian Kidd as a complex person, often quite insecure, particularly about his health." Kidd was upset at Ferguson's attack on him and responded by saying: "I believe Walt Disney is trying to buy the film rights to his book as a sequel to Fantasia."[4]

Kidd moved to Leeds United in May 2000 as youth coach but was promoted to act as Head Coach in March 2001 under David O'Leary then Terry Venables. He left Leeds in May 2003 after Peter Reid was appointed manager.[5]

Meanwhile, Kidd was named as assistant to England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in January 2003.[6] He was forced to end this role in May 2004, just weeks before Euro 2004, due to undergoing surgery for prostate cancer.[7] Kidd had recovered by February 2006.[8]

In August 2006, former United player Roy Keane was appointed manager of Sunderland and there were reports that Keane wanted Kidd to become his assistant manager at the Stadium of Light. However, Kidd instead accepted an offer to work as assistant to Neil Warnock at Sheffield United a few months after their promotion to the Premier League.[9] After the Blades were relegated and Warnock resigned, Kidd remained at Bramall Lane under new manager Bryan Robson (another former Manchester United player) but left the club after Robson departed in February 2008.[10]

2009–present

On 11 February 2009, Kidd was appointed as the assistant to caretaker manager Paul Hart at Premier League side Portsmouth.[11] He stayed until August 2009, when he rejected a new contract offer.[12]

Kidd became Technical Development Manager at Manchester City in September 2009,[13] before becoming assistant manager to new boss Roberto Mancini on 19 December 2009, following the sacking of manager Mark Hughes.

In February 2011, Kidd said that he was willing to give Alex Ferguson "the benefit of the doubt" in the dispute that the two men had in the late 1990s. Kidd revealed that although there was no phone call from Ferguson when he was fighting prostate cancer in 2004, he was now speaking to Ferguson after matches again.[14]

In the 2011 FA Cup Final, Manchester City won their first major trophy for 35 years after beating Stoke City 1–0.[15] In the following 2011–12 season, City were crowned league champions for the first time since 1968. In an extraordinary finale to the season, City scored twice in stoppage time to beat Queens Park Rangers 3–2 in dramatic style to win the Premier League on goal difference from Manchester United. Together with Mancini and City's first team coach David Platt, Kidd raced on to the pitch to celebrate Sergio Agüero's title-winning goal for City.[16]

In an interview ten days after City's league title win, Kidd said: "I don't think I will ever see a finish like that again in my lifetime. When you look back on it, nobody would have been able to write that script." However, Kidd warned in his interview that City would face an even tougher challenge to win the title again in the 2012–13 season. Kidd said: "It is no good settling for winning the championship. You have got to be hungry, you have got to want more. I was brought up with humility. Everyone is talking about dynasties but you can't think like that. Yes, we have won the Cup and the league but it is only a good start. There is a long way to go."[17]

Managerial stats

Team Nat From To Record
GWDLWin %
Barrow England 1984 1985 1958626.32
Preston North End England 24 January 1986 1 March 1986 401300.00
Blackburn Rovers England 4 December 1998 3 November 1999 4412181427.27
Manchester City England 13 May 2013 14 June 2013 210150.00

References

  1. 1 2 "Profile: Brian Kidd". Arsenal.com. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Managers: Brian Kidd". Soccerbase. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Boom and bust the Blackburn way". BBC News. 13 May 1999.
  4. ↑ Nixon, Alan (7 August 1999). "Angry Kidd responds to Ferguson 'insults'". The Independent. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Leeds axe Gray and Kidd". BBC Sport. 15 March 2003. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
  6. ↑ "Kidd gets England role". BBC Sport. 22 January 2003. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
  7. ↑ "McClaren nets England role". BBC Sport. 14 May 2004. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
  8. ↑ "Kidd keen on return to coaching". BBC Sport. 7 February 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
  9. ↑ "Kidd snubs Sunderland for Blades". BBC Sport. 11 September 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
  10. ↑ "Blackwell in for Robson at Blades". BBC Sport. 14 February 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
  11. ↑ "Kidd Joins Blues". portsmouthfc.co.uk. Portsmouth FC. 11 February 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
  12. ↑ "Portsmouth and Kidd part company". BBC Sport. 10 August 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  13. ↑ "Brian Kidd joins Manchester City". mcfc.co.uk. Manchester City FC. 7 September 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  14. ↑ Herbert, Ian (11 February 2011). "How a bitter dispute with Ferguson turned Kidd red then blue". The Independent. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  15. ↑ "Man City 1 Stoke 0". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  16. ↑ "Man City 3 QPR 2". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  17. ↑ King, Dominic (24 May 2012). "Man City coach Kidd warns players winning the title next season will be even tougher". Daily Mail. Retrieved 14 February 2013.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Archie Knox		 Manchester United F.C. assistant manager
1991–1998 		Succeeded by
Steve McClaren
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