- Neil Maddison
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Neil Maddison Personal information Date of birth 2 October 1969 Place of birth Darlington, England Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1] Playing position Midfielder Club information Current club Darlington
(centre of excellence manager)Youth career 1984–1988 Southampton Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1988–1997 Southampton 170 (19) 1997–2001 Middlesbrough 55 (4) 2000 → Barnsley (loan) 3 (0) 2001 → Bristol City (loan) 7 (1) 2001–2007 Darlington 115 (4) Teams managed 2006 Darlington (joint caretaker) 2009 Darlington (joint caretaker) 2010 Darlington (joint caretaker) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Neil Maddison (born 2 October 1969) is an English former footballer and is currently youth coach at Darlington. His main position was in midfield, but has played in all outfield positions during his career.
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Playing career
He signed as a trainee with Southampton in 1984 and stayed with them until 1997 when he made a £250,000 transfer to Middlesbrough. At Middlesbrough he spent time on loan to Bansley and Bristol City. Then he went back to his home town club, Darlington. From there he has gone on to do coaching the youth in Darlington and also is in the centre of excellence role.
Coaching career
On 30 September 2006, David Hodgson was suspended by the club following a run of poor results and a possible approach from AFC Bournemouth, leaving Maddison and Martin Gray in joint caretaker charge for up to two weeks while an internal investigation was carried out.[2] He remained in charge until Dave Penney was appointed on 30 October.[3] On 5 January 2007, Darlington agreed to end Maddison's playing contract so he could concentrate on being youth coach full time.
In February 2008 after Mick Tait had left Darlington, Maddison took over the role as reserve team coach with Craig Liddle taking the role of youth team coach.
On 8 May 2009 it was revealed that Darlington's administrators Brackenbury Clark and Company had released the majority of the first team squad from their contracts to cut costs, with immediate effect, as well as the club's coaching staff and administrative staff including caretaker manager Martin Gray, leaving Craig Liddle and Maddison as joint temporary caretaker managers.[4] They remained in these posts until Colin Todd was appointed on 20 May.[5]
Since 20 May, Maddison has been working as Darlington's centre of excellence manager.
After Todd was dismissed from Darlington he was appointed to assist Craig Liddle as temporary caretaker assistant manager as Liddle was appointed caretaker manager.
On 5 October it was announced that former Republic of Ireland manager Steve Staunton took over as the new permanent manager until the end of that season as well as bringing in Staunton the club bought in an assistant to him who was former Sunderland coach Kevin Richardson coming in on the same deal as Staunton. The pair started their job roles later on that week after Liddle finished off his temporary caretaker manager role and his assistant Maddison finished off his temporary caretaker assistant manager role after the Football League Trophy tie against Leeds United earlier that week, but the new pair's first game as the football management was against Dagenham & Redbridge later that week in League Two.[6] On 21 March 2010 he joined Liddle as caretaker yet again after the sacking of Staunton,[7] before Simon Davey was appointed manager on 1 April.[8]
Honours
As a player
- Full Members Cup' runner-up: 1992
- First Division title winner: 1997–98
- League Cup runner-up: 1998
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- Third Division play-off Final runner-up: 1999–2000
Managerial statistics
- As of 1 April 2010.
Team Nation From To Record G W D L Win % Darlington (joint caretaker) 
England30 September 2006 30 October 2006 4 1 2 1 25.0 Darlington (joint caretaker) England8 May 2009 20 May 2009 0 0 0 0 0.00 Darlington (joint caretaker) England21 March 2010 1 April 2010 2 1 0 1 50.00 Total 6 2 2 2 33.3 References
- ^ "Neil Maddison". ESPNsoccernet. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/player/_/id/6606/neil-maddison. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
- ^ "Quakers suspend manager Hodgson". BBC Sport. 2006-09-30. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/5394720.stm. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
- ^ "Penney named as Darlington boss". BBC Sport. 2006-10-30. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6097242.stm. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
- ^ "Darlington put squad up for free". BBC Sport. 2009-05-08. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/d/darlington/8039511.stm. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ "Houghton and Todd to lead Quakers". BBC Sport. 2009-05-20. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8059089.stm. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
- ^ "Staunton appointed new Quakers boss". Darlington F.C.. 2009-10-05. http://www.darlington-fc.net/page/NewsDetail/0,,10339~1818062,00.html. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ "Darlington part company with manager Steve Staunton". BBC Sport. 2010-03-21. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8578728.stm. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
- ^ "Simon Davey named as new Darlington manager". BBC Sport. 2010-04-01. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8598587.stm. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
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(c) caretaker; (p) player manager; (s) secretary Categories:- 1969 births
- Living people
- People from Darlington
- English footballers
- Association football defenders
- Southampton F.C. players
- Middlesbrough F.C. players
- Barnsley F.C. players
- Bristol City F.C. players
- Darlington F.C. players
- Premier League players
- The Football League players
- English football managers
- Darlington F.C. managers
- The Football League managers
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