John Sheridan

Where is John Sheridan now?

An elegant midfielder with a fantastic range of passing and trickery, John Sheridan hung up his boots in 2004 whilst playing for Oldham Athletic, a couple of months short of his 40th birthday.

Playing over 600 league games during his 23-year playing career, Sheridan never won a title but he scored the winning goal in Sheffield Wednesday’s 1991 League Cup final win.

Internationally, he won 34 caps for the Republic of Ireland and was a member of their UEFA Euro 1988 squad and their 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cup squads.

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Having already stepped in as caretaker manager on two occasions during his playing days at Oldham, Sheridan was appointed manager on a full-time basis in 2006 and had reasonable success taking the club to top eight finishes in League One. However after a run of bad results he left the club by mutual consent in March 2009.

He made a return to football management in June 2009 when he was appointed as the new manager of League Two side Chesterfield and enjoyed a successful couple of seasons winning promotion to League One in his first season and then winning the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy the following year.

However, Chesterfield’s cup winning year was soured when they were relegated back to League Two and Sheridan was sacked at the start of the 2012-13 season after a run of poor results.

In January 2013 he was appointed as manager of Plymouth Argyle keeping them from relegation in his first few months at the club.

Two successful seasons followed where he achieved a 10th place finish followed by a 7th place finish which resulted in a play off semi-final aggregate loss in 2014/15.

After this loss, in May 2015, Sheridan left Plymouth Argyle by mutual consent after expressing a desire to return to the north of England for family reasons.

In October 2015, he was back in football as the new manager of League Two side Newport County replacing Terry Butcher who was sacked after his team recorded only five points in their first 10 games leaving them rooted to the bottom of the table.

Sheridan immediately turned round the fortunes of the team and lifted the side to 20th in the league with five wins and seven draws in 17 games but left in January 2016 to take over the vacant manager’s position at his former club Oldham Athletic.

After steering the side from 22nd when he joined to 17th position at the end of the season, Sheridan left Oldham to join Notts County who he said were a much bigger club.

Unfortunately his time at Notts County wasn’t a success and he was sacked in January 2017 after a club record run of nine successive defeats left them just one point above the relegation zone.

In a move that surprised many, Sheridan made a swift return to former club Oldham Athletic in January 2017 as their new manager for a fifth time but left by mutual consent in September 2017 after winning just 10 of his 33 games in charge with his team languishing at the foot of the table.

Sheridan was then appointed manager of League One side Fleetwood Town in February 2018 until the end of the season after replacing outgoing manager Uwe Rosler and despite managing to avoid relegation, he left at the end of the season when Joey Barton was appointed as manager.

Just weeks later, Sheridan was back in football management when he was appointed as manager of League Two side Carlisle United but he left the Cumbrian side in January 2019 to join Chesterfield for a second time.

He was sacked after a year following a miserable run of form which saw his team languishing third from bottom in the National League.

Sheridan was appointed as manager of League One side Wigan Athletic in September 2020 on a month-to-month basis as the club was in administration but he left to join Swindon Town two months later despite Wigan’s prospective new owners wanting him to stay.

He resigned from Swindon with four games remaining of the 2020/21 season having won only eight of his 33 games in charge and then rejoined Oldham for a sixth time in January 2022.

Unfortunately Sheridan was unable to save the club from relegation to the National League and decided to part ways with them in September 2022.

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John Sheridan: Premier League Statistics

NationalityIrish
PositionMidfielder
Appearances112
Goals7
Yellow Cards9
Red Cards0
Premier League Teams Played forBolton Wanderers, Sheffield Wednesday

Statistics courtesy of www.premierleague.com

Last Updated on 15 September 2022 by Admin