Gerry Taggart

Preceded by	Northern Ireland International Personality of the Year	Succeeded by
Michael O’Neill	1991	Tommy Wright

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A free-scoring centre-half (well by Northern Ireland standards anyway), some predicted that Big Ged Taggs would take the Northern Ireland goalscoring record...

Name: Gerald Paul Taggart
Born: 18 October 1970, Belfast
Height: 6.01 ft
Weight: 13.02 st
Position: Defender

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 51 Full Caps / 7 Goals (1990-2002), 2 Under-23 Caps (1989-1990), 2 Under-18 Caps, 1 Under-17 Cap, 6 Under-16 Caps / 1 Goal, 4 Under-15 Caps.
Club Honours: (with Bolton) Football League Division One Champion 1996/97; (with Leicester) Football League Cup Winner 1999/00, Runner-Up 1998/99; Football League Division One Runner-Up 2002/03.
Awards: Northern Ireland International Player of the Year 1991.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	FL Cup	Europe	Other
Glenavon	-	-	Youth	0 (0)/ 0	-	-	-	-
Man. City	89/90	Jul-89	Youth	10 (2)/ 1	-	-	-	1(0)/0
Barnsley	89/90-94/95	Jan-90	£75k	209 (3)/16	14(0)/2	15(0)/1	-	6(0)/1
Bolton.Wdrs	95/96-97/98	Aug-95	£1,500k	68 (1)/ 4	4(0)/0	8(0)/1	-	-
Leicester City	98/99-02/03	Jul-98	Free	105(12)/ 9	8(1)/0	12(2)/2	2(0)/1	-
Stoke City	03/04	Dec-03	Loan	8 (0)/ 2	-	-	-	-
Stoke City	03/04-05/06	Feb-04	Free	47 (0)/ 0	1(0)/0	-	-	-
Haslingden St Mary's		Feb-07	Free	-	(West Lancashire League)
Tamworth	07/08	May-07	Free	2 (-)/ 0	(Football Conference North)
TOTALS	-	£1,575k		449(18)/32	27(1)/2	35(2)/4	2(0)/1	7(0)/1

Biography:
A burly, commanding, tough, uncompromising centre-back, Gery Taggart's career followed closely that of Neil Lennon.

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After years of injury problems Gerry Taggart had seemingly hung up his boots in 2006 to concentrate on coaching - he had been part of the coaching staff at Stoke before being released as a player that May. He returned to Leicester where he worked towards his badges. In February 2007 he made a playing comeback with Haslingden St Mary's (playing in the 11th tier of the English 'pyramid') before joining Conference side Tamworth in May. He played just two games for the Lambs before returning to Leicester as firstteam coach in September 2007. He was briefly joint caretaker-manager from October to November that year. He remained on the Foxes coaching staff, including taking charge of the reserve team, until June 2010 when he was appointed assistant-manager at Oldham Athletic. With the Latics he will be working under former Leicester teammate, Paul Dickov. He was one of three members of the Oldham coaching staff placed in "gardening leave" at Christmas 2012, with his future guaranteed as being away from Boundary Park when Dickov quit in February 2013. The pair teamed-up again at Doncaster Rovers when Taggart was appointed chief scout, but he left that role in October 2015 shortly after Dickov was sacked.

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