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Alan Gough (born 10 March 1971) is an English football player and manager. He is the former Longford Town player manager.

His clubs included Portsmouth, Galway United, Fulham, Shelbourne, Glentoran, Derry City and Bray Wanderers.

Playing career

Gough was born in Watford. He began his career initially as an apprentice with Portsmouth before moving to Ireland with Galway United. After eighteen months with Galway, he joined Shelbourne, with whom he spent five highly successful seasons. In the 1996 FAI Cup Final he was sent off at Lansdowne Road.[1]

In July 1999, Gough made the switch to Glentoran and had an excellent first season, winning three winners medals in the process. He was in terrific form in the Irish Cup Final and played a large part in the victory. He finished his career as team-captain at Galway United at the end of the 2006 season but continued to play in 2007 as an emergency goalkeeper as well as his assistant manager role. On 31 March 2008, he was sacked from Galway United along with the rest of the management team.

He won numerous major honours both north and south of the Irish border. They include five under-21 international caps with the Republic of Ireland in the early 1990s, youth caps, FAI Cup medals and League Cup medals.

On 22 May 2008, he was signed by Bray Wanderers as a player.[2]

Managerial career

On 22 December 2008, Gough was announced as new manager of Longford Town.[3] While managing Longford Gough was forced to don the goalkeeping gloves for a spell due to the lack of a regular custodian[4]

Gough resigned[5] as manager of Longford Town on 24 May 2009 following a poor run of results.

Honours

Shelbourne

Glentoran

Derry City

  • FAI Cup: 2002

References

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External links

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