Alan Gough (born 10 March 1971) is an English

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player and manager. He is the former

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player manager. His clubs included

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Galway United Galway United Football Club (Irish language, Irish: ''Cumann Peile Ghaillimh Aontaithe'') is an List of association football clubs in the Republic of Ireland, Irish association football club based in Galway. They play in the League of Ireland Fi ...

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, Shelbourne,

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, Derry City and

Bray Wanderers Bray Wanderers Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Fánaithe Bhré) are an Irish association football club playing in the League of Ireland First Division. The club in its present form was founded in 1942 in Bray, and was known until 2010 as ''B ...

Playing career

Gough was born in

Watford Watford () is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the River Colne. Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal encouraged the construction of paper-making mills, print works, a ...

. He began his career initially as an apprentice with

before moving to Ireland with

. After eighteen months with Galway, he joined Shelbourne, with whom he spent five highly successful seasons. In the 1996

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Final he was sent off at

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. In July 1999, Gough made the switch to

and had an excellent first season, winning three winners medals in the process. He was in terrific form in the Irish Cup Final and played a large part in the victory. He finished his career as team-captain at Galway United at the end of the 2006 season but continued to play in 2007 as an emergency goalkeeper as well as his assistant manager role. On 31 March 2008, he was sacked from Galway United along with the rest of the management team. He won numerous major honours both north and south of the Irish border. They include five under-21 international caps with the

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in the early 1990s, youth caps,

medals and League Cup medals. On 22 May 2008, he was signed by

as a player.

Managerial career

On 22 December 2008, Gough was announced as new manager of

. While managing Longford Gough was forced to don the goalkeeping gloves for a spell due to the lack of a regular custodian Gough resigned as manager of Longford Town on 24 May 2009 following a poor run of results.

Honours

Shelbourne *

: 1996, 1997 *

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: 1995–96 Glentoran *

Irish Cup The Irish Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly referred to as the Irish Cup (currently known as the Samuel Gelston's Whiskey Irish Cup for sponsorship purposes) is the primary football knock-out cup competition in Northern Ireland. Ina ...

: 1999–2000, 2000–01 *

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: 2000–01 Derry City * FAI Cup: 2002

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gough, Alan 1971 births Living people People from Watford Republic of Ireland association footballers Men's association football goalkeepers League of Ireland players League of Ireland managers NIFL Premiership players Portsmouth F.C. players Fulham F.C. players Galway United F.C. players Galway United F.C. managers Shelbourne F.C. players Glentoran F.C. players Derry City F.C. players Bray Wanderers F.C. players Longford Town F.C. players Longford Town F.C. managers Republic of Ireland men's under-21 international footballers Republic of Ireland men's youth international footballers English Football League players Republic of Ireland association football managers