Following Turner's departure, former Stockport player Jim Gannon took over as manager and oversaw a remarkable recovery which saw County retain their league status in a nail-biting finish to the season.

James Paul " Jim " Gannon ( born 7 September 1968 ) is a former footballer and football manager, who is now director of football and manager of Conference National team Stockport County.

Gannon began his management career at Dundalk, before becoming manager of Stockport County in December 2005.

He returned to Stockport County in November 2011, as the club's director of football and manager ; Gannon is also a director on the board at Stockport County.

In November 2005, Gannon was appointed as director of Stockport County's centre of excellence for girls.

After the resignation of Chris Turner as Stockport County manager on Boxing Day 2005, Gannon was appointed as caretaker manager with the team nine points adrift of safety at the bottom of League Two, facing potential relegation from the Football League.

At the beginning of the 2006 – 07 season, Gannon and Stockport announced they had drawn up a five year plan to take the club to the Championship.

Gannon also branded approaches from Manchester City and Liverpool questionable and unprofessional after the two Premier League clubs swooped for youngsters being trained in Stockport County's development squads.

During the season, Gannon and Stockport began to form a close relationship with Alan Lord, the founder of Football Development School ProFootball4u.

Nevertheless, having quickly taken Stockport from the foot of League Two and into League One on a meagre budget, Gannon had established himself as one of most highly rated young managers in the lower leagues.

Meanwhile Gannon was left threatening police action over a strong challenge that left Stockport striker Matty McNeil unconscious and in hospital.

On 24 February 2009 Stockport agreed to allow Gannon to hold talks with Brighton & Hove Albion, who were seeking to fill the managerial position left vacant by Micky Adams.

Knight had indicated that Gannon was his first choice for the job, and former Stockport players now at Brighton had shown their desire for Gannon to be given the job.

On 6 May 2009, soon after the final game of the season, Gannon was made redundant as manager of Stockport along with assistant boss Peter Ward.

Gannon had been satisfied with the board's contract offer, but his family still resided in Stockport.

Following the resignation of Dietmar Hamann in November 2011, speculation came of a return to Stockport County for Gannon ; when questioned on the possibility, club chairman Lord Snape stated that should he apply for the position then " he'd merit very serious consideration ".

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Gannon however took over as manager at Scottish Premier League side Motherwell, giving County fans cause to worry that he'd be poaching County's young players in the forthcoming weeks.

Gannon managed County to their first back to back wins in over 3 years – since his last stint as manager – with successive 1 – 0 victories over Wrexham and Darlington.

Gannon steered County away from the drop zone, winning 8 of the last 15 league games – remarkable form for a side that had only managed to win 9 games throughout the whole of the 2010 / 11 campaign – to finish 16th in the final table.

They live in Fairfield County, Connecticut and have two sons, Gannon and Avery.

In January 1994 Gannon joined Notts County on a brief loan spell to help him overcome some personal problems.

After three weeks, this upturn in results saw Gannon offered the job full time, which allowed him to guide County to safety.

Results on the field followed this statement of intent, with Gannon leading County to a League record nine consecutive victories without conceding a goal.

At the end of the season, Lord was taken on at County as a scout and development team coach ; he would later follow Gannon to Motherwell.

The 2007 – 08 season started with a friendly marking the death of Danny Bergara, the manager who had brought Gannon to County as a player in 1990.

The friendly was against Cardiff City, managed by Dave Jones, who also managed County whilst Gannon was a player at the club.

Later in the year Gannon publicly criticised Paul Ince and the MK Dons after he felt the " Dons " were poor sports in their 3 – 2 victory over County that ensured Ince's side promotion out of the division.

Gannon led County to an impressive start to the season following their promotion, and they spent Christmas in the play-off places with the best away record in the division.

The new year started uncomfortably for Gannon ; with media speculation linking him with a move away from Edgeley Park, and the club announcing they were in financial difficulty, he took interviews reassuring fans of his intent to stick by County.

A group of area governmental and labor officials including Kane County board chairwoman Karen McConnaughay, Kendall County board chairwoman Anne Vickery, Grundy County board chairman Frank Halpin, Yorkville mayor Valerie Burd, Plano mayor Bob Hausler, Sugar Grove village president Sean Michels, Chicago AFL-CIO President Dennis Gannon and others met with IL Governor Pat Quinn's staff to renew the local push to complete the Prairie Parkway project.

Former Scotland manager Craig Brown took over when Gannon left however Brown also left Motherwell for Aberdeen on 10 December 2010.

It was widely reported that fans ' favourite, and former manager Jim Gannon, who was made redundant in April 2009, would return to the club.

Simpson's Assistant Manager was Peter Ward, who was previously assistant manager at the club between 2005 and 2009 under former manager Jim Gannon, and who also played over 100 games for the club in the 1990s.

He was replaced by former player and manager Jim Gannon, who returned to the club as Director of Football and First Team Manager through the ' Your Town Your Team ' Group.

As speculation of a move to Hibernian came to nothing ( despite his being installed as the bookmaker's favourite ), Gannon instead was confirmed as manager of Scottish Premier League side Motherwell at the end of June 2009, two days before the club's Europa League first round qualifying tie against Llanelli of Wales.

Gannon was sent to the stand in Motherwell's Europa League match against Bucharest ; however Gannon later stated he did not know why he, or his assistant manager were sent off by Spanish referee Carlos Clos Gómez.

On 2 February 2010 Gannon was appointed manager of Peterborough United, following the sacking of Mark Cooper.

Gannon was confirmed as the manager of Port Vale on 6 January 2011, succeeding Micky Adams at the helm of the promotion chasing club, signing a contract that lasted until summer 2012.

However tension remained, as proven at the end of the month when it was reported that Gannon left the team bus on a pre-match journey after rowing with assistant manager Geoff Horsfield.

Meek expressed particular gratification at the defensive performances of end Happy Nelson and halfback Billy Gannon.

Gannon contributed saving plays on the Falcons' aerial thrusts in the late stages.

`` As soon as it started to form, Gannon spotted it '', Meek said.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

Rourke was replaced on bass by Craig Gannon ( formerly a member of Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera ), but was reinstated after only a fortnight.

Gannon stayed in the band, switching to rhythm guitar.

After the tour ended in October 1986, Gannon left the band.

A couple of further singles from Strangeways were released with earlier live, session and demo tracks as B-sides, and the following year the live recording Rank ( recorded in 1986 while Gannon was in the band ) repeated the UK chart success of previous albums.

Still in 1988, they were recruited ( with Craig Gannon ) to Adult Net, but left the band soon afterwards.

" Later Phillips produced Lie Detector as a series for PAX / ION — some of the guests included Paula Jones, Reverend Paul Crouch accuser Lonny Ford, Ben Rowling, Jeff Gannon and Swift Boat Vet, Steve Garner.

The conference announced on June 18, 2007, that it had invited three private universities — Gannon University and Mercyhurst College of Erie, Pennsylvania and C. W.

On June 27, Gannon and Mercyhurst held a joint press conference to announce their acceptance into the PSAC, effective July 1, 2008.

In one of the later episodes of " Dragnet 1967 ", Frank Gannon retires to Pismo Beach and in explaining his plans to Joe Friday, he states his reason, " The clams, man.

Ward ( Commissioner of Public Affairs and Public Safety ), William E. Gannon ( Commissioner of Revenue and Finance ) and Kurt E. Bicking ( Commissioner of Public Works, Parks and Public Property ).

Aaron Baldwin, Robert J. Gannon, Gussie Humes, James E. Scott IV.

Between September and December 1943, Ives lived in California with actor Harry Morgan ( who would later go on to play Officer Bill Gannon in the 1960s version of Jack Webb's TV show Dragnet, and Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M * A * S * H ).

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Original drummer Weakley returned to replace Ritter, and Spagnola was replaced on guitar by Mike Gannon, who appears on only two songs.

Oakland quarterback Rich Gannon threw a Super Bowl record five interceptions, three of which were returned for touchdowns.

The Buccaneers also sacked Gannon five times, and scored 34 unanswered points to build a 34-3 lead late in the third quarter.

The team was further boosted in 1999 with the signing of veteran quarterback Rich Gannon.