Derek McInnes

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Derek McInnes
Personal information
Full name	Derek John McInnes
Date of birth	July 5, 1971 (1971-07-05) (age 36)
Place of birth	Paisley, Scotland
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	St. Johnstone (player-manager)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988–1995 1995–2000 1998 1999–2000 2000–2003 2003–2006 2006–2007 2007–	Greenock Morton Rangers → Stockport County (loan) → Toulouse (loan) West Bromwich Albion Dundee United Millwall St. Johnstone	221 (19) 035 0(1) 013 0(0) 003 0(0) 088 0(6) 074 0(3) 013 0(1) 029 0(0)
National team
2002	Scotland	002 0(0)
Teams managed
2007–	St. Johnstone
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Derek John McInnes (born 5 July 1971 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish football player and manager. He is currently the player-manager of St. Johnstone.

Contents 1 Early career 2 Dundee United 3 England and back to Tayside 4 Management 4.1 Managerial stats 5 Honours 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Early career

He began his professional career in 1988 at Greenock Morton, where he played in 221 league games in seven seasons before moving to Rangers. He spent almost five years at Ibrox, amassing 53 appearances for the club.

During his time in Glasgow, McInnes had a loan spell at English club Stockport, where he made 13 league appearances. He was also briefly at French side Toulouse.

McInnes joined West Bromwich Albion in 2000, but his first season there was cut short by injury in October. He returned the following season (2001-02), to captain Albion to a place in the English Premiership. He also won Albion's Goal of the Season award at the end of the promotion campaign, for his 25-yard strike against Sheffield United in the Battle of Bramall Lane.^[1] McInnes played in the majority of Albion's Premier League games during 2002-03 but was unable to prevent them from being relegated. In all he made 100 appearances and scored six times for the West Midlands side.

International recognition came late to McInnes as he made his Scotland debut on 21 August 2002, coming on for the last ten minutes against Denmark in a friendly. Three months later, against Portugal, he was sub again, coming on midway through the first half.

[edit] Dundee United

McInnes joined Dundee United on 11 July 2003, and was immediately installed as team captain by manager Ian McCall.

In his first full season at Tannadice, McInnes missed only three league and one cup game. He helped the club to a fifth-place finish in the Scottish Premier League and scored twice - his first coming in the Scottish Cup against Dunfermline and his second in a league match against Hearts.

After an unsteady start to the 2004-05 season, McInnes began to take control again in the centre of midfield. He then picked up an injury with a third of the season remaining but managed to return to the first team for the Scottish Cup final at the end of the season.

[edit] England and back to Tayside

In April 2006, United manager Craig Brewster announced that McInnes was free to leave the club at the end of the season, despite having a year of his contract left to run.^[2] On 24 June 2006, it was announced that McInnes had finally come to an agreement to be released from his contract and he subsequently joined Millwall. The then-Lions boss Nigel Spackman gave McInnes the captain's armband with the comment: "Every Millwall player on that pitch should be a Derek McInnes."^[3]

McInnes left Millwall on a free transfer during the January 2007 transfer window, returning to Scotland to sign for St. Johnstone late on New Year's Day.^[4] He made his debut for the Perth club on January 6, against Ayr United in the Scottish Cup at McDiarmid Park.

[edit] Management

McInnes was appointed manager of St. Johnstone on 27 November 2007, after Owen Coyle and his assistant, Sandy Stewart, departed for Burnley a few days earlier.^[5] Stewart had been in charge for one game, in a caretaker manager capacity, before opting to follow Coyle to Lancashire.

On April 20, 2008, in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup at Hampden Park, St. Johnstone lost to Rangers on penalties after the score was tied at 1-1 after extra time.^[6]

[edit] Managerial stats

Updated: April 27, 2008

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
St. Johnstone		November 27, 2007	Present	23	11	6	6	47.82

[edit] Honours

Greenock Morton

• Scottish Division Two champions: 1994-95

Rangers

• Scottish Cup winner: 1998-99

St Johnstone

• Scottish Challenge Cup winner: 2007-08

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website profile
• Derek McInnes career stats at Soccerbase

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