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Which team did the player Brian Kidd belong to from 1979 to 1980?
Brian Kidd Brian Kidd ( born 29 May 1949 ) is an English football coach and former player , who is currently assistant coach of Manchester City , alongside manager Pep Guardiola . Kidd was also assistant to Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson from 1991 to 1998 . In this role he was pivotal in the development of a group of young footballers known as Fergies Fledglings . Kidds first spell as assistant manager of Manchester City came under manager Roberto Mancini , who moved Kidd from the youth setup to become his sole assistant manager . After one year , Kidd became a co-assistant , initially alongside Attilio Lombardo and latterly alongside David Platt . Following the departure of Mancini , Kidd had a brief spell as caretaker manager of Manchester City for two games at the close of the 2012–13 season , as well as the USA tour . Under the subsequent helm of Manuel Pellegrini of the sky blues , Kidd was the co-assistant manager , alongside Rubén Cousillas . Kidd , who featured as a striker , played for Manchester United , Arsenal , Manchester City , Everton , Bolton Wanderers , Fort Lauderdale Strikers and the Minnesota Strikers in his footballing career . Playing career . Kidd was born in Collyhurst , Manchester , and started playing for Manchester United as a youngster whose academy he joined in August 1964 . Two years later , he went on to become a professional player with the club . Kidd had the distinction of scoring on his 19th birthday for Manchester United in their 4–1 victory over Benfica in the 1968 European Cup Final . All in all , he scored 52 times in 203 league appearances for Manchester United . Following Uniteds relegation to the Football League Second Division in 1974 , Kidd was transferred to Arsenal for £110,000 . Kidd scored on his debut for Arsenal against Leicester City at Filbert Street . He then scored a brace at home against Manchester City . He was by far Arsenals top goalscorer during the 1974–75 season , scoring 19 goals in 40 appearances . In the following season Kidd , on 20 March 1976 , scored a hat-trick against West Ham United in a 6–1 win at Highbury . Altogether Kidd scored 34 times for Arsenal from 90 appearances . In July 1976 , he was sold to Manchester City for a fee of £100,000 . With Manchester City , Kidd scored three times against rivals Manchester United , in a 3–1 win at Maine Road and a 2–2 draw at Old Trafford during the 1977–78 season . He would play 98 times for Manchester City , netting 44 goals . He then moved to Everton in March 1979 for £150,000 . With the Toffees , Kidd netted 12 times in 44 appearances and was sent off in an FA Cup semi final against West Ham United . Kidd then joined Bolton Wanderers in May 1980 for £110,000 . Kidd found the back of the net a total of 13 times for Bolton where he made a total of 43 appearances at and away from Burnden Park . He was then loaned out to NASL team Atlanta Chiefs in 1981 . He played 29 times for the chiefs , scoring on 23 occasions . In January 1982 , Kidd moved on from Bolton to return to the NASL . He then signed with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers and two years afterward with the Minnesota Strikers . He was prolific with both teams when it came to goalscoring , but in 1984 he retired from the game . International career . Kidd was capped twice for the England national football team with both of those appearances coming in 1970 . Management and coaching career . 1984–2008 . In 1984 , Kidd began his coaching career at Barrow . He briefly managed Preston North End for several games in 1986 . Kidd then became involved in coaching young players before being brought back to Manchester United as a youth team coach by Alex Ferguson in 1988 . Over the next three years Kidd helped to bring through a host of talented players like Ryan Giggs and Darren Ferguson . When Fergusons assistant Archie Knox moved to a similar capacity at Glasgow Rangers in the summer of 1991 , Kidd was promoted to the role of assistant manager . He helped Ferguson guide United to a Football League Cup win in 1992 , the Premier League title in 1993 , the double in 1994 and again in 1996 , as well as another Premier League title in 1997 . Kidd left United to take charge at Blackburn Rovers in December 1998 , replacing Roy Hodgson who had been sacked after Blackburns poor start to the season left them in the relegation zone . Despite Kidd having a promising start with Rovers , which saw him voted Premier League Manager of the Month and having also spent nearly £20 million on new players in his first four months in charge he was unable to save them from being relegated from the Premier League ( just four years after being champions ) and Kidd was dismissed on 3 November 1999 with Rovers standing 19th in Division One . In 1999 , a rift developed between Kidd and Alex Ferguson after Kidd was strongly criticised in Fergusons autobiography Managing My Life . Ferguson was angered that when Kidd was his assistant manager he had questioned Uniteds 1998 summer signing of striker Dwight Yorke . Ferguson criticised Kidds footballing judgement and wrote in his book : I saw Brian Kidd as a complex person , often quite insecure , particularly about his health . Kidd was upset at Fergusons attack on him and responded by saying : I believe Walt Disney is trying to buy the film rights to his book as a sequel to Fantasia . Kidd moved to Leeds United in May 2000 as youth coach but was promoted to act as Head Coach in March 2001 under David OLeary then Terry Venables . He left Leeds in May 2003 after Peter Reid was appointed manager . Meanwhile , Kidd was named as assistant to England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in January 2003 . He was forced to end this role in May 2004 , just weeks before Euro 2004 , due to undergoing surgery for prostate cancer . Kidd had recovered by February 2006 . In August 2006 , former United player Roy Keane was appointed manager of Sunderland and there were reports that Keane wanted Kidd to become his assistant manager at the Stadium of Light . However , Kidd instead accepted an offer to work as assistant to Neil Warnock at Sheffield United a few months after their promotion to the Premier League . After the Blades were relegated and Warnock resigned , Kidd remained at Bramall Lane under new manager Bryan Robson ( another former Manchester United player ) but left the club after Robson departed in February 2008 . 2009–present . On 11 February 2009 , Kidd was appointed as the assistant to caretaker manager Paul Hart at Premier League side Portsmouth . He stayed until August 2009 , when he rejected a new contract offer . Kidd became Technical Development Manager at Manchester City in September 2009 , before becoming assistant manager to new boss Roberto Mancini on 19 December 2009 , following the sacking of manager Mark Hughes . In February 2011 , Kidd said that he was willing to give Alex Ferguson the benefit of the doubt in the dispute that the two men had in the late 1990s . Kidd revealed that although there was no phone call from Ferguson when he was fighting prostate cancer in 2004 , he was now speaking to Ferguson after matches again . In the 2011 FA Cup Final , Manchester City won their first major trophy for 35 years after beating Stoke City 1–0 . In the following 2011–12 season , City were crowned league champions for the first time since 1968 . In an extraordinary finale to the season , City scored twice in stoppage time to beat Queens Park Rangers 3–2 in dramatic style to win the Premier League on goal difference from Manchester United . Together with Mancini and Citys first team coach David Platt , Kidd raced on to the pitch to celebrate Sergio Agüeros title-winning goal for City . Honours . Player . Manchester United - FA Charity Shield : 1967 - European Cup : 1967–68 Manager . Individual - Premier League Manager of the Month : December 1998 External links . - Football Association – Brian Kidd profile - NASL stats