Post by QPR Report on Jan 21, 2010 16:10:25 GMT
Ho Hum...#2s at QPR: They come and they go
QPR Official Site
EXCLUSIVE: COTON JOINS
Posted on: Thu 21 Jan 2010
Queens Park Rangers Football Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Tony Coton as Assistant Manager.
The 48-year-old, who made 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League playing as a goalkeeper for Birmingham City, Watford, Manchester City and Sunderland, teams up with Mick Harford, who he played alongside at St Andrews in the early 1980s.
Following retirement as a player, Coton spent 11 years at Manchester United as a goalkeeper coach, and established himself as one of the best in his field.
A knee injury in December 2007 prevented Coton from being able to take part in training sessions, and he left Old Trafford at the end of the 2007/08 season.
Coton is now looking forward to helping Mick Harford in any way he can following his appointment as Paul Hart's successor last Friday.
Coton told http://www.qpr.co.uk: "Mick and I are very good friends. We have kept in touch over the years - we normally speak two or three times a week - and we have the same philosophies on how the game should be played.
"He called me and said he needed a hand, and wanted someone he can trust who he gets on well with.
"This was a big decision for me because I live up in Bolton with my family. But we go back a long way and I am delighted to be here to help."
Coton belives the fact he and Harford have similar views on how the game should be played is vital to a successful relationship between Manager and Assistant.
"If you didn't, you'd be at logger-heads every day," he adds.
"The final decision will be Mick's, and rightly so. He is the boss and we all work for him. I am here to offer my experience from being a coach at Manchester United for 11 years.
"Hopefully we can bring those philosophies into Queens Park Rangers."
It is immediately apparent on meeting Coton that he is nobody's 'yes man,' and that is another trait which he belives is so important to his new role in W12.
"I am definitely not that - just ask Sir Alex Ferguson," Coton says with a smile. "I believe that's a reason why I get on so well with people.
"If you believe in something and you see it, then you've got to say it. That's the way I have been brougt up in my coaching career.
"I'm sure Mick and I won't see eye-to-eye on everything, but he has said on numerous occasions that he respects what I know about football and that I am one of the few people he listens to intently on how the game should be played.
"Obviously we will have our falling-outs, but that won't last for long!"
www.qpr.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~1936913,00.html
QPR Official Site
EXCLUSIVE: COTON JOINS
Posted on: Thu 21 Jan 2010
Queens Park Rangers Football Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Tony Coton as Assistant Manager.
The 48-year-old, who made 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League playing as a goalkeeper for Birmingham City, Watford, Manchester City and Sunderland, teams up with Mick Harford, who he played alongside at St Andrews in the early 1980s.
Following retirement as a player, Coton spent 11 years at Manchester United as a goalkeeper coach, and established himself as one of the best in his field.
A knee injury in December 2007 prevented Coton from being able to take part in training sessions, and he left Old Trafford at the end of the 2007/08 season.
Coton is now looking forward to helping Mick Harford in any way he can following his appointment as Paul Hart's successor last Friday.
Coton told http://www.qpr.co.uk: "Mick and I are very good friends. We have kept in touch over the years - we normally speak two or three times a week - and we have the same philosophies on how the game should be played.
"He called me and said he needed a hand, and wanted someone he can trust who he gets on well with.
"This was a big decision for me because I live up in Bolton with my family. But we go back a long way and I am delighted to be here to help."
Coton belives the fact he and Harford have similar views on how the game should be played is vital to a successful relationship between Manager and Assistant.
"If you didn't, you'd be at logger-heads every day," he adds.
"The final decision will be Mick's, and rightly so. He is the boss and we all work for him. I am here to offer my experience from being a coach at Manchester United for 11 years.
"Hopefully we can bring those philosophies into Queens Park Rangers."
It is immediately apparent on meeting Coton that he is nobody's 'yes man,' and that is another trait which he belives is so important to his new role in W12.
"I am definitely not that - just ask Sir Alex Ferguson," Coton says with a smile. "I believe that's a reason why I get on so well with people.
"If you believe in something and you see it, then you've got to say it. That's the way I have been brougt up in my coaching career.
"I'm sure Mick and I won't see eye-to-eye on everything, but he has said on numerous occasions that he respects what I know about football and that I am one of the few people he listens to intently on how the game should be played.
"Obviously we will have our falling-outs, but that won't last for long!"
www.qpr.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~1936913,00.html
