John Grattan Hendrie (born 24 October 1963) is a Scottish former professional

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er who played on the

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or in attack. His career started at

Coventry City Coventry City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The team currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. The club is nicknamed t ...

but he moved to

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, where he played 173 consecutive league games, winning one promotion and narrowly missing out on another. Following spells with Newcastle United and

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, he moved to

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and scored the final goal at Ayresome Park among his 44 goals for Boro. When he was replaced by Brazilian Juninho he moved to Barnsley where he finished his career and also served as manager. His uncle is another Scottish former pro footballer, Paul Hendrie. Paul has two sons (John's cousins) in the game; Lee Hendrie made a late substitute appearance for England in 1998 and Stuart Hendrie played for Morecambe.

Playing career

Coventry City

Hendrie started his professional football career at

, originally signing as an apprentice in June 1980, and signing full-time forms in May 1981. He was a hit with Coventry's reserves, being top scorer in 1983–84, with ten goals from 25 games, but he struggled to break into the first team and played in just 21 league games during his time at Coventry. Instead he moved on a free transfer to

in 1984 following a loan spell with

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Bradford City

Hendrie was one of two free transfers between the 1983–84 and 1984–85 seasons, along with Dave Evans, as manager

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tried to build a team capable of promotion from

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. Hendrie was an ever-present in his first season scoring nine goals from his

position as City won the Division Three title. On the last day of that successful season his day was to turn into a nightmare when 56 spectators were killed in a horrendous stand fire while playing Lincoln City. Hendrie continued to be one of the first names of the City team-sheet following promotion and during his four seasons at City he missed just one league game. He won a series of fans' awards and nominations for the PFA teams in 1987 and 1988. He scored ten goals in 1985–86 and 14 more in 1986–87. Cherry had been replaced by Terry Dolan, who built a team pushing for promotion to

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in 1987–88. Hendrie was one of the key men, scoring 13 goals, but he was sent off in a 2–2 draw at Manchester City on 23 April 1988. His subsequent suspension meant he missed the final league game of the season, as City lost 3–2 to

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and missed out on promotion. It was the only league game Hendrie missed during his time at Valley Parade, and his 173 consecutive league appearances has only been beaten by Geoff Smith with City. Hendrie came back for the

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games with

but after defeat he signed for Newcastle United for £500,000.

Newcastle United and Leeds United

Hendrie's career stalled at Newcastle United in a difficult season for the Magpies and he soon moved on to

. He spent just one season at Leeds but was voted in the top 100 Leeds players in 2000.

Middlesbrough

He played as a deep-lying striker for

and helped them win promotion to the newly founded FA Premier League in 1992, where on 5 December 1992 he scored a

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in a 3–2 win against

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. Hendrie was their leading scorer in 1995 when they won promotion back to the top flight. He secured legendary status on

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by scoring the last goal at Ayresome Park.

Barnsley

He left the following year after losing his place in the first team to

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, and joined

side Barnsley. Once again, Hendrie contributed towards his club winning promotion as Barnsley finished Division One runners-up and became top division members for the first time in their history. Hendrie was unable to prevent Barnsley from suffering relegation in 1997–98, and after the end of the season he succeeded Danny Wilson as manager.

Managerial career

John Hendrie was sacked on 19 April 1999 after just one season in charge of Barnsley, having failed to achieve a promotion play off place.

Personal life

Hendrie is married to Linda, with whom he has three sons, Joe, Luke and Jordan, and a daughter Lauren. They live in

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. Two of his three sons are junior footballers;

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playing at

, Jordan with

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. Both attended St. Mary's Catholic High School, Menston.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Bradford City *

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: 1984–85 Leeds United *

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: 1989–90 Middlesbrough * Football League First Division: 1994–95 Individual * PFA Team of the Year: 1994–95 First Division

References

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