Profile
John Ward
Football Player + Coach & Manager
Male
Born
Apr 7, 1951
Age
62
Hometown
Lincolnshire
Team
Watford Football ...
Position
Striker
Other Names
Ward, John
John Patrick Ward is an English former footballer and manager. He is currently manager of Colchester United after being promoted from assistant manager on 31 May 2010.
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1951
Birth
Born on April 7, 1951.
TEENAGE
1970
19 Years Old
As a player, Ward spent the bulk of his career as a forward at Lincoln City where he scored more than 100 goals between 1970 and 1979.
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THIRTIES
1982
31 Years Old
Following his retirement from playing, Ward was assistant manager to Graham Taylor at Watford from 1982 and then followed Taylor to Aston Villa in 1987.
1990
39 Years Old
After Taylor became England manager in 1990, Ward remained at Villa for a further year and a half under Jozef Venglos and then Ron Atkinson.
FORTIES
1991
40 Years Old
In late 1991, Ward heard that, then a struggling fourth division club, had just sacked their manager.
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1992
41 Years Old
After his appointment, Ward turned York around and in the 1992-93 season and had them challenging for automatic promotion for much of the season.
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1998
47 Years Old
In 1998 Ward became assistant manager to Colin Lee at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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FIFTIES
He helped the club win promotion to the Premier League in 2003 but left the club at the end of the season.
2007
56 Years Old
After keeping the Robins in League One the following season, he moved to Carlisle United in October 2007.
2008
57 Years Old
Ward guided the club to a play-off position in his first season in charge, despite this however, a poor start to the 2008–09 campaign saw him under heavy pressure to resign.
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2009
58 Years Old
Ward applied for the vacant Swindon Town managerial role in November after Maurice Malpas left the club by mutual consent. He held preliminary talks with Port Vale over their managerial vacancy in May 2009, and was the favourite for the job, however lost out to Micky Adams.
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2010
59 Years Old
After Colchester United appointed Aidy Boothroyd as manager he became his assistant manager. But on 20 May 2010, Aidy Boothroyd resigned as manager to join Coventry City and 11 days later, Ward was promoted to manager.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
In late March 2011, John Ward got his best win as Colchester manager to date with the U's beating Exeter 5-1 at home.
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In February 2012, Ward captured former Queens Park Rangers midfielder Martin Rowlands on a free transfer and also completed a one month emergency loan deal for West Ham United forward Freddie Sears.
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