The Always Cultivated Stewart Houston

Stew­art Houston

Dun­oon born Stew­art Hou­s­ton appeared for Chelsea and Brent­ford before he was brought to Manchester United by Tommy Docherty for £55,000 in Decem­ber 1973. He made his debut in a 3–0 loss to Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road in Janu­ary 1974 and pro­ceeded to win the Second Divi­sion Cham­pi­on­ship with the club in 1974–75.

A cul­tiv­ated defender, Stew­art Hou­s­ton made well over 200 first team appear­ances for Manchester United and he col­lec­ted an FA Cup runners-up medal in 1976 when Tommy Docherty´s side were nar­rowly defeated by Second Divi­sion Southamp­ton in the final. The Manchester United corner­stone even­tu­ally joined forces with Shef­field United at the start of the 1980–81 cam­paign and went on to appear in 94 Foot­ball League matches for The Blades dur­ing his stay at Bramall Lane. With his foot­balling career los­ing impetus, the seasoned cam­paigner moved on to Fourth Divi­sion Col­chester United where he made 127 out­ings before he decided to call it a day at the end of the 1985–86 sea­son. Although he enjoyed a highly suc­cess­ful spell as assist­ant man­ager to his fel­low Scot George Gra­ham at Arsenal, he failed to make an impact as a man­ager at both Queens Park Rangers and Walsall. Des­pite his obvi­ous qual­it­ies, the rock steady wing back won few rep­res­ent­at­ive hon­ours, col­lect­ing just one cap for his nat­ive coun­try in 1976. Stew­art Hou­s­ton Play­ing Career: Chelsea, Brent­ford, Manchester United, Shef­field United, Colchester.

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