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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Paul Whitehead Sturrock[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 10 October 1956 | ||
| Place of birth | Ellon, Scotland | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Grandtully Vale | |||
| 1972–1973 | Vale of Atholl | ||
| 1973–1974 | Bankfoot Athletic | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1974–1989 | Dundee United | 385 | (109) |
| International career | |||
| 1977–1982 | Scotland under-21 | 9 | (0) |
| 1981–1987 | Scotland | 20 | (3) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1993–1998 | St Johnstone | ||
| 1998–2000 | Dundee United | ||
| 2000–2004 | Plymouth Argyle | ||
| 2004 | Southampton | ||
| 2004–2006 | Sheffield Wednesday | ||
| 2006–2007 | Swindon Town | ||
| 2007–2009 | Plymouth Argyle | ||
| 2010–2013 | Southend United | ||
| 2015 | Yeovil Town | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Paul Whitehead Sturrock (born 10 October 1956) is a Scottish former football coach and former player.
As a player, Sturrock spent his entire senior career with Dundee United, making more than five hundred appearances between 1974 and 1989. He won the Scottish Football League title with United in 1982–83 and the Scottish League Cup twice, in 1979 and 1980. He was named the SFWA Footballer of the Year in 1982. At international level, Sturrock played twenty times for Scotland and appeared at the 1982 and 1986 World Cups.
Sturrock's managerial career began with St Johnstone in 1993, where he went on to win the Scottish First Division title in 1996–97 before returning to Dundee United as manager. Since 2000, Sturrock has worked as a manager in English football, initially with Plymouth Argyle where he helped the club to win two promotions before moving on to a brief spell with Southampton. He has subsequently also managed Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town and Southend United as well as returning to Plymouth for a second spell. He became Yeovil Town manager in April 2015, but left the club eight months later. According to an analysis by the Financial Times he was among the country's best ever managers, even though he has mostly managed clubs at Championship level and below.[2]
He is known by fans as Luggy[3] (from the Scots language word lugs, Eng: ears). Sturrock announced in July 2008 that he was suffering from a mild form of Parkinson's disease.[4] His son, Blair, was also a professional footballer.
- ^ Brown, Alan; Tossani, Gabriele (17 October 2019). "Scotland - International Matches 1981-1985". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
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GOSwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cockcroft, Lucy (25 July 2008). "Plymouth Argyle manager Paul Sturrock is battling Parkinson's Disease". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 March 2013.