Terry Christie

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Terry Christie
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-12-16) 16 December 1942 (age 83) [1]
Position(s)
Youth career
1960-1065 Dundee
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1965–1966 Raith Rovers 12 (2)
1966-1968 Hawick Royal Albert
1968–1974 Stirling Albion 142 (5)
1974-1978 Newtongrange Star
Total154(7)
Managerial career
1974–1978 Newtongrange Star
1980–1992 Meadowbank Thistle
1992–1999 Stenhousemuir
1999–2003 Alloa Athletic
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Terry Christie (born 16 December 1942) is a Scottish former football player and manager. He last managed Alloa Athletic. [2]

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Career

Christie played as a full back and winger for Dundee, Raith Rovers, Hawick Royal Albert, Stirling Albion and Newtongrange Star. [3] [4]

He later became a manager and was in charge of Newtongrange Star, Meadowbank Thistle, Stenhousemuir and Alloa Athletic. [5] [6] Christie won the 1995 Scottish Challenge Cup Final while manager of Stenhousemuir. [7]

Playing and managing in football part-time through his whole career, Christie worked as a chemistry teacher and was later headteacher of Ainslie Park High School between 1982 and 1987, and later Musselburgh Grammar School from 1987 until his retirement in 2003. [8] He also retired from football in 2003 and published his autobiography, The Head Teacher of Football in 2015. [9]

Honours

Manager

Meadowbank Thistle
Stenhousemuir
Alloa Athletic

References

  1. ↑ Christie, Terry (2015). The Head Teacher of Football. United Kingdom: Amazon. p. 7. ISBN   9781521882351.
  2. ↑ "Terry Christie on juggling football management and school teaching". scotsman.com.
  3. ↑ "RAITH ROVERS : 1946/47 - 2012/13". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "STIRLING ALBION : 1947/48 - 2012/13". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Profile". Historic Warriors. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Post War Managers". Alloa Athletic F.C. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  7. 1 2 "Stenhousemuir 1995-96". When Saturday Comes. March 2005. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  8. ↑ Hardie, David (23 August 2013). "Terry Christie and his star pupil Kenny Miller". Edinburgh Evening News. Johnston Publishing. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  9. ↑ "Terry Christie on his Meadowbank Thistle memories". The Scotsman. 23 May 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  10. ↑ "List of City Cup winners" . Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  11. ↑ "CAIRNS TAKES THE PLAUDITS AS WASPS WIN FIRST CUP IN 121 YEARS Alloa taste success after feast of goals". heraldscotland.com. 22 November 1999. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  12. ↑ "BELL'S CUP". spfl.co.uk. Retrieved 15 April 2021.


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