Peter Grant (footballer)

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Peter Grant
Personal information
Full name	Peter Grant
Date of birth	30 August 1965 (1965-08-30) (age 43)
Place of birth	Bellshill, Scotland
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1982–1997 1997–1999 1999–2000 2000–2002	Celtic Norwich City Reading Bournemouth	362 (15) 068 0(3) 029 0(1) 015 0(0)
National team
1989	Scotland	002 0(0)
Teams managed
2006–2007	Norwich City
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Peter Grant (born 30 August 1965 in Bellshill) is a Scottish former footballer and was, until October 2007, manager of Norwich City. This was Grant's first role in management, but he had previously held coaching jobs at Bournemouth, West Ham United and West Bromwich Albion . He is currently first team coach at Celtic.

During his playing career, Grant played for Celtic, Norwich City, Reading and Bournemouth. He was awarded a testimonial match against Bayern Munich by Celtic in 1997.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Management and coaching career 3 Managerial stats 4 Honours as a player 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing career

After making 361 appearances for Celtic between 1982 and 1997, Grant signed for Norwich City for a fee of £200,000. Mike Walker, in his second stint as Norwich City manager, had previously tried to sign Grant soon after taking over from Dave Stringer at Carrow Road in 1992 - however, Celtic had been unwilling to let Grant leave, and Walker opted for Gary Megson as a midfielder enforcer.

After deciding against taking on former Barcelona captain (and European Cup winner) Jose Maria Bakero, Walker this time found Celtic willing to let Grant - now 32 - move to East Anglia. In 1997–98, a difficult season with the club suffering a number of injuries to key players, Grant started 32 games, scoring 3 times; he made 31 starts (coming on as substitute twice) the following season under Bruce Rioch, before being transferred to Reading in summer 1999.

Grant was sent off in an old firm game after breaking out from the wall to get a 2nd yellow card (after being booked for conceding the foul).

[edit] Management and coaching career

Grant enjoyed a successful time as assistant manager to Alan Pardew at West Ham, helping them reach the 2006 FA Cup Final and finish ninth in their first season back in the English Premier League.

On Friday 13 October 2006 Peter Grant was appointed manager of Norwich City, leaving his position as Alan Pardew's assistant manager at West Ham United. On Saturday 14 October he was in the stands to see his new side draw 3-3 with Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road, presided over by caretaker manager Martin Hunter.

Grant opted to retain Hunter, but appointed a new assistant manager, Jim Duffy. Hunter eventually left the club in the summer of 2007 to take up a coaching position at Watford. Grant's first signing for Norwich was Jamie Ashdown from Portsmouth on a one month loan.

Grant had a mixed start as Norwich manager, with wins against Cardiff and Birmingham but a heavy defeat at Stoke. After the 1–1 draw at home to Hull City on 25 November 2006, Grant publicly criticised the supporters for the lack of atmosphere, saying they were 'a disgrace'.^[1] His refusal to apologise for his remarks led to considerable criticism from supporters, though in the following game against Leicester the supporters created the 'cauldron of noise' that had been asked for, and helped the team a 3–1 victory.^[2] City went on to finish the season in 16th position in the Championship.

In the summer of 2007 Grant prepared for his first full season in charge at Carrow Road by signing Jamie Cureton, Jon Otsemobor, David Marshall. He also signed Julien Brellier and David Strihavka, both of whom struggled to perform and left by January. However, he expressed his frustration at losing Rob Earnshaw and Dickson Etuhu as a result of buy-out clauses in their contracts.

However the start to the 2007–08 season was disastrous, culminating in a run of one point secured and no goals scored in over 450 minutes of play. When Norwich lost 0–1 to Queens Park Rangers on 8 October 2007, it was the second time that they had lost to the bottom team in just over a week. Grant announced that he was considering his position. He met with club officials after the match at QPR and again the following day ^[3] when it was announced that he was leaving the club "by mutual consent".^[4]

On 8 July 2008, he joined West Bromwich Albion as first-team coach, replacing Craig Shakespeare. Grant, who holds a UEFA Pro License, was a team-mate of Albion manager Tony Mowbray at Celtic.^[5]

In June 2009, Celtic began negotiations with West Bromwich Albion to try to agree on compensation for the management team of Tony Mowbray, Mark Venus and Peter Grant. He is now the first team coach at Parkhead after West Bromwich Albion and Celtic agreed a compensation fee believed to be in the region of 2.5 million pounds.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Norwich City		16 October 2006	9 October 2007	54	18	12	24	33.3

[edit] Honours as a player

• Scottish League Championship - 1986, 1988
• Scottish Cup - 1985, 1988, 1989, 1995

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Peter Grant career stats at Soccerbase
• Peter Grant management career stats at Soccerbase
• Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk
• Information re Grant's Celtic career

Preceded by Martin Hunter (caretaker)

Norwich City F.C. manager 2006–07

Succeeded by Jim Duffy (caretaker)

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