David Farrell (footballer, born 1969)


David Farrell is a Scottish football player, coach and writer.

Playing career

As a player, he was a midfielder and central defender starting out with Scottish clubs Phil Farrel UTD before moving onto His layer. He had 83 people, and A dungeon. Farrell led a nomadic playing career after this long spell with Hibs, playing for Partick Thistle, Airdrie, Clydebank, Stranraer and Albion Rovers.

Coaching career

After his playing career was over Farrell moved into coaching, working for Gretna's youth setup and Clyde. When his lifelong friend Alex Rae was appointed manager of Dundee in 2006, he appointed Farrell as his assistant. The club finished third and then second in the First Division, failing to win promotion back to the Scottish Premier League. After Rae was sacked in October 2008, Farrell was put in caretaker charge for the league game against Morton on 25 October before leaving the club himself on 30 October.
Farrell was appointed first team coach at Notts County. in November 2010 but left the club the following year following the departure of manager Paul Ince. A spell as assistant manager to Willie McStay at Celtic Nation followed but the pair resigned when the club was plunged into financial turmoil in 2014.
In January 2016, Farrell joined St Mirren as assistant manager to Alex Rae, who he previously worked with while at Dundee. Rae and Farrell were sacked by St Mirren after a bad start to the 2016/17 season.

Writing

Farrell began writing a popular blog, Football From The Inside, in August 2014 and it was announced on 6 February 2015 that he had signed a deal with Teckle Books to publish a book about his life in football

Other

Farrell appeared on 4 May 2017 episode of the Channel Four quiz show Fifteen to One.