Gerry McMahon
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gerard McMahon | ||
| Date of birth | 29 December 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfield | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1992 | Glenavon | 7 | (3) |
| 1992–1996 | Tottenham Hotspur | 16 | (0) |
| 1994 | → Barnet (loan) | 10 | (2) |
| 1996 | → Stoke City (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 1996–1998 | Stoke City | 48 | (3) |
| 1998–2000 | St Johnstone | 49 | (1) |
| 2000–2012 | Glenavon | 234 | (47) |
| National team | |||
| 1995–1997 | Northern Ireland | 17 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Gerard "Gerry" McMahon (born 29 December 1973) is a former Northern Irish footballer who played for Glenavon, Tottenham Hotspur, Barnet, Stoke City and St Johnstone.
McMahon started with Glenavon as a 14-year-old, and had only broken into the first team in the second half of the 1991–92 season, making his Irish League debut against Newry in February 1992. He established himself in the side for the rest of the season, and it was his performance in the 4–0 Irish Cup sixth-round replay win against Glentoran that saw scouts from some of England’s biggest clubs enquiring about him, and by the middle of March a transfer had been agreed with Tottenham Hotspur. Glenavon comfortably cruised to the final of the Irish Cup, and, in his last game before his £100,000 move to White Hart Lane, McMahon scored the free-kick which defeated Linfield 2–1.
After his move to London, it took him quite a while to settle, with the departure of Terry Venables and the arrival of Ossie Ardiles. McMahon, however, persevered and was eventually rewarded when his long-awaited first-team chance came at the end of the 1994–95 season. McMahon’s Spurs debut came in May 1995, and he was a regular in the first-team squad throughout the following season, without really establishing himself in the starting eleven. He scored his first and what turned out to be only goal for Spurs against Östers IF in their 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup campaign. In May 1995 he won the first of his seventeen caps when he played for Northern Ireland against Canada in Edmonton.
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