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{{Short description|Scottish football player and manager (born 1949)}}
{{for|the Canadian Anglican priest|Stewart Houston (priest)}}
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'''Stewart Mackie Houston''' (born 20 August 1949) is a Scottish former [[association football|football]] player and [[coach (sports)|coach]] who played as a [[Defender (association football)#Full-back|left-back]]. Born in [[Dunoon]], he began his professional career in 1967 with [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]], before moving to [[Brentford F.C.|Brentford]] and then [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]], where he spent seven years. He also made one appearance for the [[Scotland national football team|Scotland national team]] in 1975.
He was [[George Graham]]'s assistant at [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] and caretaker manager after the sackings of Graham and his replacement [[Bruce Rioch]], and later manager of [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]]. He then had spells as the first-team coach at [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]], [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] and [[Walsall F.C.|Walsall]]. Houston later worked as a scout for Arsenal.<ref name="barclay">{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/patrick-barclay-dare-to-dream-arsenal-fans-momentum-has-to-start-somewhere-10068630.html |title=Dare to dream, Arsenal fans, momentum has to start somewhere |work=Evening Standard |date=25 February 2015 |access-date=18 June 2015 |first=Patrick |last=Barclay |quote=I was at the [[Stade Louis II]] in 2004 and afterwards, in a hotel nearby, met the former Arsenal manager Stewart Houston, who was one of two scouts Wenger had sent — one to watch [[AS Monaco FC|Monaco]] and the other their opponents, [[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid]].}}</ref><ref name="haynes">[https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/danny-in-gunners-sights-729754 Haynes in Arsenal's sights]</ref>
==Career==
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Arsenal appointed [[Bruce Rioch]] in the summer of 1995, but Houston stayed on as his assistant. Just over a year after his appointment, Rioch was sacked, and Houston was reappointed as caretaker. [[Arsène Wenger]] was identified as Rioch's successor in August, but Arsenal were forced to wait as Wenger was contracted to Japanese club [[Nagoya Grampus Eight|Grampus Eight]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/arsenal-made-to-wait-for-wenger-1310660.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/arsenal-made-to-wait-for-wenger-1310660.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Arsenal made to wait for Wenger |work=The Independent |date=21 August 1996 |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/arsenal-still-waiting-on-wenger-1362864.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/arsenal-still-waiting-on-wenger-1362864.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Arsenal still waiting on Wenger |work=The Independent |date=11 September 1996 |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> Houston left Arsenal in mid-September to become manager of [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/houston-has-new-mission-as-wenger-replaces-him-1.435639 |title=Houston has new mission as Wenger replaces him |work=The Herald |publisher=Herald & Times Group |date=17 September 1996 |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> where he appointed Bruce Rioch as his assistant. QPR had just been relegated to the [[Football League First Division|First Division]] and were aiming for a return to the [[Premier League]]. Houston and Rioch were sacked by QPR in November 1997, with the club sitting 13th in the First Division.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-queens-park-rangers-dismiss-houston-and-rioch-1293477.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-queens-park-rangers-dismiss-houston-and-rioch-1293477.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Football: Queen's Park Rangers dismiss Houston and Rioch |work=The Independent |date=11 November 1997 |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref>
Houston then went to [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] as [[George Burley]]'s first team coach, but was later reunited with George Graham in March 1999 when Graham appointed him assistant manager at [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]]. Houston was fired two
==Honours==
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'''Brentford'''
* [[Football League Fourth Division]] promotion: [[1971–72 Football League Fourth Division|1971–72]]<ref name="White">{{Cite book|title=100 Years Of Brentford|publisher=Brentford FC|year=1989|isbn=0951526200|editor-last=White|editor-first=Eric|pages=391}}</ref>
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'''Manchester United'''
*[[Football League Second Division]]: 1974–75
*[[FA Cup]] runner-up: [[1975–76 FA Cup|1975–76]]<ref>{{cite book |first1=Leslie |first2=Jack |last1=Vernon |last2=Rollin |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78 |year=1977 |publisher=Brickfield Publications Ltd |location=London |isbn=0354 09018 6 |page=491}}</ref>
'''Sheffield United'''
*
===Individual===
*[[PFA Team of the Year]]: 1974–75
*[[Football League First Division]] Manager of the Month: September 1997<ref>{{cite news |title=Sporting Digest: Football |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/sporting-digest-football-1233378.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/sporting-digest-football-1233378.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Independent |publisher=Independent Print Limited |date=1 October 1997 |access-date=29 August 2012}}</ref>
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