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Glynn Snodin

b. 1960

Footballer; coach (born 1960)

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Born 1960. Glynn Snodin is a British association football player.

Glynn Snodin (born 14 February 1960) is an English football coach, and former professional player.

As a player, he was a midfielder from 1977 to 1998. He played for Doncaster Rovers and later made just under 100 appearances for Leeds United and spent two years with Sheffield Wednesday. Whilst with Leeds, Snodin was loaned out to Oldham Athletic and Rotherham United before having spell with Scottish Premier Division side Hearts. In 1993, he spent two years with Barnsley before finishing his playing career in the Northern Premier League with Gainsborough Trinity. He later came out of retirement 14 years later joining non-league outfit Yorkshire Main on a sporadic basis where he played a handful of games over a three year period.

Since retiring Snodin has held various scouting and coaching roles firstly with Carlisle United and then returning to former club Doncaster. He later became manager of Charlton Athletic's reserve team before joining the coaching staff at Southampton and Northern Ireland. He has since been on the coaching staff at West Ham United, Leeds United, Huddersfield Town, Preston North End, Sunderland, Bradford City and Chesterfield.

Playing career Snodin started his professional career at Doncaster Rovers as a 16-year-old in 1977, making his debut in a 3–1 defeat to Bradford City on 2 April 1977. He initially played as a winger or striker before being used as a left-back under manager Billy Bremner where he excelled. A whole-hearted and dependable player, he scored 13 goals in 116 appearances for Leeds, but found his chances limited by the arrival of Tony Dorigo. By the 1989–90 season he was a fringe player as Leeds gained promotion to Division 1.

He then had periods on loan to Oldham Athletic and Rotherham United, before to Scotland to join Joe Jordan's Hearts in March 1992. When Curbishley left in September 2008 and Gianfranco Zola was appointed in his place, Snodin was not retained on the coaching staff.

On 2 February 2009, Snodin was appointed the new assistant manager of Leeds United. Snodin was part of the Leeds management team who earned a 1–0 win away to Manchester United in the FA Cup third round. Glynn had some great times at Leeds, including some famous results in the FA Cup and promotion from League One back to the Championship in the 09/10 season. With Leeds in tenth position in the Championship, three points below the play-off places, Snodin was sacked as assistant manager along with manager Simon Grayson and coach Ian Miller on Wednesday 1 February 2012.

Less than three weeks after leaving Leeds United, the management trio was back in work at neighbouring League One club Huddersfield Town, when on 21 February 2012 Simon Grayson was appointed manager, saying "Glynn Snodin and Ian Miller are the perfect pair to help me achieve success." They won promotion at the end of that season. Grayson, Snodin and Miller were dismissed from Huddersfield on 24 January 2013.

In May 2013 Grayson was announced as the new manager at Preston North End replacing Graham Westley, with Snodin joining him again.

He worked with Grayson at Sunderland, as assistant manager.

He worked with Grayson at Bradford City, as assistant manager.

In January 2019, Snodin was appointed assistant manager to John Sheridan at National League club Chesterfield. Having missed much of the first half of the 2019–20 season due to health problems, he left the club alongside Sheridan on 2 January 2020 following a poor run of form.

Personal life He is the elder brother of fellow professional footballer Ian Snodin

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Footballer; coach (born 1960)

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Glynn Snodin was born on 14 February 1960 in Thrybergh.

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