Alan James Irvine - Football Coach

James Alan Irvine (born 12 July 1958) is a Scottish former professional footballer and coach. He is currently assistant manager of Premier League club Everton. Irvine played as a winger for Queen's Park, Everton, Crystal Palace, Dundee United and Blackburn Rovers. As a coach, Irvine worked in various roles at Blackburn Rovers, Preston North End, Newcastle United and Everton before becoming a manager, firstly with Preston and then Sheffield Wednesday. After three years in charge of the Everton Academy, he became head coach of West Bromwich Albion. He rejoined Blackburn as assistant manager in November 2015, and was later caretaker manager of Norwich City and assistant manager at West Ham United. In 2025, he returned to Everton as assistant manager. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article

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