John Beck (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Alexander Beck | ||
| Date of birth | 25 May 1954 | ||
| Place of birth | Edmonton, England | ||
| Playing position | 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 | Bournemouth | 137 | (13) |
| 1986–1989 | Cambridge United | 112 | (11) |
| Total | 472 | (43) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1990–1992 | Cambridge United | ||
| 1992–1994 | Preston North End | ||
| 1995–1997 | Lincoln City | ||
| 2001 | Cambridge United | ||
| 2010 | Histon | ||
| 2012 | Kettering Town | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
John Alexander Beck (born 25 May 1954) is an English former footballer and manager. As a player he made nearly 500 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, but resigned two games into the 2010–11 season.
Beck started his playing career at Queens Park Rangers signing in May 1972 and made his debut in the 3–1 win against Leyton Orient in December 1972. Beck was unable to hold down a regular place in the immensely successful QPR side of the mid 1970s, competing with England captain Gerry Francis and Scottish international Don Masson for the creative midfield role. In 1976, the year that QPR finished second to Liverpool in the First Division, he moved to Coventry City after playing 40 league games for Rangers, scoring once. The 1977–78 season saw John Beck playing in what was arguably Coventry's most exciting top-flight team of all time. Gordon Milne's side containing Tommy Hutchison, Mick Ferguson, Ian Wallace, Terry Yorath, Graham Oakey, Bobby MacDonald and Jim Blyth played scintillating attacking football that swept many teams aside, often by large margins of victory, although they failed to win any silverware or qualify for the UEFA Cup.
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