John Edmund Sitton was born on 21 October 1959 and is an English former professional footballer and former coach and manager of Leyton Orient.
19 Facts About John Sitton
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John Sitton turned down an approach from Crystal Palace before signing professional terms with Chelsea in 1977.
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John Sitton enjoyed his time at Millwall but new manager Peter Anderson took an instant dislike to John Sitton and sold him to Third Division side Gillingham in September 1981 and spent four seasons there under manager Keith Peacock before being signed by Frank Clark for Fourth Division side Leyton Orient on a free transfer in July 1985 where he was made club captain.
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John Sitton started to work on his coaching badges in 1988, staffing coaching courses via the London FA at the FA training centre at Lilleshall under the FA Coaching Education Scheme until 1997, alongside such future managers as Alan Pardew and Kenny Jackett.
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At Lilleshall, John Sitton coached youth players such as future Tottenham Hotspur and England player Ledley King.
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John Sitton was appointed joint caretaker manager at Leyton Orient with Chris Turner in August 1994, following the departure of Peter Eustace, and helped the team avoid relegation from the Second Division by earning four points from their last two matches.
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John Sitton was passed over for many club coaching jobs and his application for a youth coach position at Charlton Athletic was rejected due to how he was perceived in Club for a Fiver, leaving him very disillusioned with football.
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John Sitton spent eighteen months applying for coaching jobs without success despite being an otherwise well regarded coach within football due to his earlier coaching work at Lilleshall and with the Leyton Orient youth team.
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In 1997, John Sitton began learning The Knowledge in order to become a London taxi driver, completing it in 2003 and becoming a licensed black cab driver, which John Sitton does to this day.
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John Sitton had a brief spell as a scout for Manchester City, where he was sent to scout and later recommended Arjan de Zeeuw, Tim Cahill and a young Frank Lampard to the club, before Joe Royle cleared out the backroom staff on his arrival as manager in 1998.
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John Sitton had a short spell as assistant manager at Enfield under manager Tom Loizou, with the club owned by controversial chairman Tony Lazarou, and later briefly worked as assistant manager at Leyton.
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John Sitton worked at the Press Association, compiling statistics for Arsenal matches for the Actim Index, and had spent some time as a martial arts instructor.
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John Sitton currently works as a taxi driver, and is a regular Twitter user.
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From 2012 to 2014 John Sitton did several interviews with television producer Vernon Grant on YouTube in which he discussed his playing career and his time as Leyton Orient manager.
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John Sitton related his hopes of creating a Wimbledon-style Crazy Gang mentality at Leyton Orient, coupled with youth development along the lines of Dario Gradi's work at Crewe Alexandra.
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John Sitton worked on his autobiography from scratch throughout 2015 with assistance from his family and had largely completed it by the end of September 2015.
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John Sitton has appeared on Pitch Talk's YouTube channel, discussing his life and career, and has appeared several times on the Talksport radio station.
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In July, 2019 John Sitton received a fine for breaking speeding laws.
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John Sitton responded with an angry twitter tirade blaming the Metropolitan Police and TFL instead of acknowledging that he had broken the law.