{"id":211005,"date":"2025-06-24T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211005\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:59:13","slug":"notts-county-appoint-martin-paterson-as-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211005\/","title":{"rendered":"Notts County appoint Martin Paterson as manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Notts County boss Martin Paterson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9453429d-5c78-487b-a6fe-cbfbb5d42c56.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">New Notts County boss Martin Paterson<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former Northern Ireland international Martin Paterson is the new manager of Notts County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The ex-Burton Albion boss and Derby County assistant manager will replaced sacked Stuart Maynard at the League Two club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Notts County director of football Roberto Gagliardi said: \u201cIn our conversations with him it&#8217;s been clear that he shares our vision of playing dynamic, progressive football and, as much as the club&#8217;s DNA will remain the same in terms of our desire to dominate the ball, we believe he may bring more intensity and directness to our play.<\/p>\n<p>  Leeds United and NI hero Stuart Dallas: \u201cThe togetherness at Euro 2016 was something special\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/beltel-football\/id1762800341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listen on Apple Podcasts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/editorial\/web\/podcasts\/listenonapple.svg\" style=\"width:40%\"\/> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2zDMhiMi3ittO2YQ3V0DoI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listen on Spotify\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/spotify330x80.png\" style=\"width:40%\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;Martin wants his teams to be extremely hard-working, well-organised and difficult to play against \u2013 characteristics which were key to his success at Burton having become their manager in very challenging circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;We believe we can provide the environment for Martin to demonstrate his true capabilities as a head coach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The striker played for Stoke City, Burnley, Huddersfield Town, Blackpool, Port Vale and Tampa Bay Rowdies. He won 22 caps for Northern Ireland between 2007 and 2014, scoring three goals. He is best remembered by the Green and White Army for his winner against Russia at Windsor Park in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/irish-league\/irish-league-transfer-tracker-all-this-summers-confirmed-moves\/a1696319313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish League Transfer Tracker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Notts County boss Martin Paterson Former Northern Ireland international Martin Paterson is the new manager of Notts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,8538,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-211005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114739646681132343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}