John Duncan (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Pearson Duncan | ||
| Date of birth | 22 February 1949 | ||
| Place of birth | Dundee, Scotland | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Broughty Athletic | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1968–1975 | Dundee | 121 | (64) |
| 1975–1979 | Tottenham Hotspur | 103 | (53) |
| 1979–1981 | Derby County | 36 | (12) |
| 1981–1983 | Scunthorpe United | 9 | (0) |
| Total | 269 | (129) | |
| National team | |||
| 1973 | Scottish League XI | 1 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1981–1983 | Scunthorpe United | ||
| 1983 | Hartlepool United | ||
| 1983–1987 | Chesterfield | ||
| 1987–1990 | Ipswich Town | ||
| 1993–2000 | Chesterfield | ||
| 2007–2011 | Loughborough University | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John Pearson Duncan (born 22 February 1949 in Dundee) is a Scottish former football player and manager.
He played as a centre-forward for Dundee, Tottenham Hotspur, Derby County, Scunthorpe United and the Scottish Football League.
Duncan's first managerial job was at Scunthorpe United. His first season in charge proved to be one to forget, as they finished second-bottom of the Fourth Division and were forced to apply for re-election to the Football League. The following season was a vast improvement however, and Scunthorpe spent much of the season challenging for the Fourth Division title. However, Duncan was controversially sacked in February 1983 after it was alleged that he had spoken to Second Division side Grimsby Town about their manager's job. Scunthorpe eventually achieved promotion that season under succeeding manager Allan Clarke.
Six weeks after being sacked by Scunthorpe, Duncan was invited to become interim manager of Hartlepool United, who were bottom of the Fourth Division. In his two months in charge the club earned enough points to escape bottom place, but their eventual finish of 22nd place wasn't enough to prevent Duncan spending a second successive year watching his club apply for re-election. That summer, Duncan was offered the chance to become the club's permanent manager, but turned it down in favour of the manager's job at Chesterfield, who had just been relegated from the Third Division.
Duncan's first season in charge of the club resulted in only a mid-table finish, but in 1985 he steered the club to the Fourth Division title. The club managed to stay in the Third Division for the next two seasons, even looking like they might challenge for promotion to the Second Division in the early stages of the 1985–86 season. Duncan's achievements with the club were noticed by Ipswich Town, who appointed him as manager in the summer of 1987 following the departure of Bobby Ferguson.
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