Gerry McMahon

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Gerry McMahon
Personal information
Full name Gerard McMahon [1]
Date of birth (1973-12-29) 29 December 1973 (age 49) [1]
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland [1]
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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)
2000–2008 Glenavon 179 (40)
2019 Lurgan Celtic 1 (0)
International career
1995–1997 Northern Ireland 17 (2)
Managerial career
2018–2019 Lurgan Celtic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gerard McMahon (born 29 December 1973) is a Northern Irish football coach and former footballer.

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As a player, he was a midfielder, who notably played in the Premier League for Tottenham Hotspur and in the Scottish Premiership for St Johnstone. He also played in the Football League for Barnet and Stoke City, having begun and ended his career with Glenavon. He was capped 17 times by Northern Ireland, scoring twice.

Since retiring, McMahon managed the Loughgall reserves before a spell as manager of Lurgan Celtic. In 2019 he briefly came out of retirement and played a game for Lurgan amidst an injury crisis.

Club career

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. [2]

McMahon found his first-team opportunities at White Hart Lane limited, so in September 1996 he stepped down a division in order to further his career. He joined Stoke City for a fee of £450,000 and was a regular in the side under Lou Macari in 1996–97 playing in 40 matches scoring three goals, twice against Portsmouth and the opening goal in a 2–1 victory against West Bromwich Albion on the final day of the season which was the last league match at the Victoria Ground. [1] Macari left Stoke in the summer of 1997 and in came Chic Bates. [1] McMahon played in 20 matches for Stoke in 1997–98 and with the team struggling Bates was sacked in January 1998. [1] In came Chris Kamara and sold McMahon to St Johnstone in February 1998, St Johnstone for £85,000. [1]

Again, however, McMahon found himself out of the first team following a change of manager, with Paul Sturrock leaving McDiarmid Park the following year, and in the summer of 2000, when his contract expired, McMahon was allowed to leave. After trials with Notts County and Macclesfield Town, McMahon returned to Glenavon in August 2000, initially on a short-term contract, but after a month Colin Malone convinced him to sign a permanent deal. It proved a productive move as the Lurgan Blues finished as IFA Premier League runners-up. McMahon was appointed club captain for the 2001–02 season, and nearly earned a surprise international recall when Sammy McIlroy came to watch him in a UEFA Cup tie against Kilmarnock. In December 2002, in a home game against Glentoran, a tackle on McMahon led to both the bones in his leg being broken. He required three operations, and he was ruled him out of football for two seasons.

McMahon returned to fitness, helping Glenavon, who were relegated at the end of the 2003–04 campaign, regain their Premier League position as play-off winners in 2005, and subsequently consolidate their top-flight position the following season. On 25 July 2009, Glenavon hosted St Johnstone for McMahon's testimonial match, nine years after he left the Saints. [3]

International career

In May 1995 he won the first of his seventeen caps when he played for Northern Ireland against Canada in Edmonton.

Coaching career

He retired from playing in 2012 and became Glenavon's reserve team manager before leaving to become assistant manager at Loughgall. [4]

On 6 April 2019, following a goalkeeper injury crisis, McMahon briefly came out of retirement to play in nets for Lurgan Celtic, in a 3–0 away defeat to Banbridge Town.

Career statistics

Club

Source: [5]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueFA CupLeague CupOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Glenavon 1991–92 Irish League 73———73
Tottenham Hotspur 1994–95 Premier League 200000—20
1995–96 Premier League14010302 [lower-alpha 1] 1201
Total160103021221
Barnet (loan) 1994–95 Third Division 10221001 [lower-alpha 2] 0133
Stoke City 1996–97 First Division 3531040—403
1997–98 First Division1700030—200
Total5231070—603
St Johnstone 1997–98 Scottish Premier League 1000000—100
1998–99 Scottish Premier League2012041—262
1999–2000 Scottish Premier League19000002 [lower-alpha 3] 0210
Total491204120572
Glenavon 2000–01 Irish League Premier Division 3313———3313
2001–02 Irish League Premier Division3411———3411
2002–03 Irish League Premier Division182———182
2003–04 Irish Premier League00———00
2004–05 Irish First League 184———184
2005–06 Irish Premier League281———281
2006–07 Irish Premier League266———266
2007–08 Irish Premier League223———223
Total17940———17940
Career Total31349611515133952
  1. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Intertoto Cup
  2. ↑ Appearance in Football League Trophy
  3. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Cup

International

Source: [6]

National teamYearAppsGoals
Northern Ireland 199541
199651
199780
Total172

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  2. ↑ "Season 1995-1996". topspurs.com. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  3. ↑ "McMahon is back among the Saints" - Perthshire Advertiser , 25 July 2009
  4. ↑ "Coach McMahon opts to swap Glenavon for Loughgall blue". Portadown Times. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  5. ↑ Gerry McMahon at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  6. ↑ McMahon, Gerry at National-Football-Teams.com
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