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Ian Bogie

Ian Bogie (born 6 December 1967) is a former professional footballer, and former manager of Gateshead and Stockport County. He spent two decades as a professional player; from 1985 until 2001, he played in the English Football League, where he made 382 appearances.

He started at Newcastle United in the mid-1980s, he signed with Preston North End in 1989, moving on to Millwall two years later. In 1993, he joined Leyton Orient, and after another two years, moved on to Port Vale, where he saw out the century. A legend at Vale, he made over 150 appearances. He then had spells at Kidderminster Harriers, Bedlington Terriers and finally Gateshead.

He moved into management once his playing career had finished, taking up the reins at Gateshead in 2007. He guided the club to two successive promotions via the play-offs in 2008 and 2009 to take them from the Northern Premier League to the Conference National, before he was sacked in December 2012. He was appointed manager of Stockport County in March 2013 and could not save the club from relegation out of the Conference.

Having developed his skills at the Wallsend Boys Club, Bogie signed for his hometown club Newcastle United as an apprentice in July 1984, turning pro in December 1985 just after his 18th birthday. A skillful, ball playing midfielder in the Paul Gascoigne mould he was favourite to take over from the Tottenham bound England star in the Newcastle team. However, after only 21 games for the Toon Army in which he scored one goal, manager Jim Smith's traded him to Preston North End in exchange for striker Gary Brazil; Smith valued him at £100,000 mark. Bogie was originally against the move, preferring to stay and fight for his place, but after much persuasion by both Smith and Preston boss John McGrath, he finally moved to Deepdale.

Having finally joined Preston, Bogie debuted in a home league match versus Bristol Rovers, a game that ended 1–1. Bogie did, however, endear himself to the Preston fans immediately with his silky ball-playing skills. His time at Deepdale was frustrating for Bogie, Preston, and the fans, with the club beginning to struggle. Bogie himself frustrated the fans with some indifferent performances despite his obvious ability. After two and a half years at Preston in which he played 91 games, scoring 12 goals, Bogie exercised his right to speak to other clubs at the end of his contract and in August 1991 signed for Millwall for a tribunal set fee of £145,000.

His time at Millwall was much the same as at Preston, with Bogie frustrating the fans despite his obvious talent, bordering at times on the sublime to being completely ineffective. In just over two years at The Den, Bogie played 57 games, scoring just 1 goal before being sold to Leyton Orient for £75,000 in October 1993.

Bogie was by now regularly putting in some excellent performances, and he rarely missed a game. He was voted by his fellow professionals in the Team of the Year at the annual PFA awards and was voted Orient Player of the Year as well as scoring goal of the season. After 78 games and 5 goals, Bogie was sold to Port Vale in March 1995 for £50,000 after Orient encountered financial problems.

At Vale Park, Bogie began putting in the sort of consistent match-winning displays that had evaded him until this time. A favourite with the Vale fans, he was a member of the giant-killing Vale team that knocked Everton out of the FA Cup in 1996 and reached the final of the Anglo-Italian Cup at Wembley, eventually losing out to Genoa. He scored twice against Everton, a late equaliser in the original tie at Goodison Park and then once again in the replay. His cult status was elevated further by his penchant for scoring winning goals against local rivals Stoke City. In a 1–0 victory at Vale Park in 1996, Bogie silenced the Stoke City following with a winning goal just 12 seconds after the kick-off. This would be the quickest goal ever scored by a Port Vale player and was described by Bogie as "one of my best-ever goals." He played in the 1996 Anglo-Italian Cup final, as Vale lost 5–2 to Genoa. In five years at Vale Park, Bogie played 180 games in all competitions scoring 12 goals, before being handed a free transfer in April 2000 and signing a two-year contract with Conference National champions Kidderminster Harriers in August of that year. He later described his spell at Vale Park as "the best time of my career."

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