Stephen Paul Fallon (born 3 August 1956) is an English former

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who made 410 appearances in

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playing as a defender for Cambridge United. From 1999 to 2010 he was

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of Histon. From 2012 Steve was manager of

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before he stepped down in October 2015, later in the same month he was reappointed manager of Histon. He is currently a PE teacher for Cambridge Primary Education Trust.

Career

Fallon was born in

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...

and brought up in

Whittlesey Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is east of Peterborough. The population of the parish was 16,058 at the 2011 Census. History and architecture W ...

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

. He played for Whittlesey and for

Kettering Town Kettering Town Football Club is a football club based in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, England. They are currently members of and play at Latimer Park in Burton Latimer. Kettering were the first club to wear sponsorship on their shirts in ...

before joining Cambridge United as an 18-year-old, where he went on to make 410 league appearances, helping the club to promotions from the Fourth to the

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. Fallon retired from League football in 1986 because of a knee injury, and then spent nine years as

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of Southern League club (and cross-city rivals) Cambridge City. In 1999 Fallon took over as manager of Histon, and led them from the

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Premier Division (level 9 of the

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) to the

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(level 5). In December 2006, Histon faced Fallon's former club Cambridge United in the first round of the

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in the first competitive match for more than 40 years between the two clubs, who had been seven divisions apart as recently as the early 1990s. Histon won 5–0. On 12 January 2010, a day after being re-instated as manager after being suspended following disagreements with the Chairman, it was announced that Histon had sacked Fallon citing "irreconcilable differences". Fallon was appointed manager of

in March 2012 and stepped down in October 2015 and was then reappointed as manager of Histon in the same month. In October 2016 he became Director of Football, with Lance Key replacing him as manager.Lance Key returns to Histon as manager as Steve Fallon takes new role
Cambridge News, 15 October 2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fallon, Steve 1956 births Living people People from Whittlesey English footballers Association football defenders Kettering Town F.C. players Cambridge United F.C. players Cambridge City F.C. players English Football League players English football managers Cambridge City F.C. managers Histon F.C. managers Soham Town Rangers F.C. managers