John Still

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John Leonard Still (born 24 April 1950) is an English footballer who has since played for many clubs.

He is currently the Head of Football at Maidstone United. Still started running non-League clubs in East London, Essex and Kent, winning championship titles and promotions with Leytonstone & Ilford, Dartford, Maidstone United, and Redbridge Forest, after his playing career was cut short due to injury.

He was the boss of Redbridge Forest when the club merged with Dagenham in 1992 to become the club's new incarnation – Dagenham & Redbridge.

In August 1994 at Peterborough United, he took his first job in the Football League, but was fired a year later.

He joined Barnet in June 1997 and saw the team advance to the play-offs twice before he was fired in 2002 after the club was relegated to the Football Conference.

Dagenham & Redbridge also returned to April 2004, leading the club to promotion to League Two in 2006–07 and then to League One three years later.

Still left Dagenham and joined Luton Town in February 2013, after nine seasons as coach.

The club was named Conference Premier champions and won promotion to League Two in their first full season as Luton boss, making him the only player to lead three clubs to promotion out of non-League football.

Luton made his way to an eighth-place finish in League Two in 2014-15 before leaving the team in December 2015.

On December 31, 2015, Dagenham's chairman for a third term as boss.

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Playing career

Born in West Ham, Essex, Leyton Orient came as a youth player, and the group's youngest player was recruited as an amateur in May 1967. He made his league debut against Torquay United the following season, but that was his only league appearance before being banned due to his knee injury in the game. He later turned to non-League football with Bishop's Stortford, Leytonstone, and Dagenham. Despite surgery on his injured knee and he began instructing, he returned to teaching while still working part-time as a salesman.

Management career

Still, his first managerial job was with Leytonstone in 1976, which later joined Ilford as Leytonstone & Ilford. In 1981-82, he helped the club win their first Isthmian League championship. Still won the Southern League championship in 1983 before returning to Leytonstone & Ilford for a short time. In 1986, he took his first post at Maidstone United, which he coached to the Football Conference championship and promotion to the Football League in 1989. Later on, Iree & Ilford's entrepreneur resigned as Maidstone's boss, who had no desire to move into a full-time coaching position and moved to Isthmian League Redbridge Forest, which had been established in 1989 by a merger between his former club Leytonstone & Ilford and Walthamstow Avenue. He coached Redbridge to the Isthmian League title, as well as its return to the Conference in 1990–91. Redbridge continued to finish seventh in the next season and remained with the team as it merged again, this time with Dagenham to become Dagenham & Redbridge in the summer of 1992. In 1992–93 and 1994–94, the club finished third, 1993–94, and sixth in 1993–94.

Still accepted the manager's position at Peterborough United's recently promoted Second Division team in August 1994. Still led the team to a 15th-place finish in his first season as manager. After winning only three of Peterborough's first 13 league games of 1995-1996, he was fired by the club on October 24, 1995. He made debuts at Peterborough, including Adam Drury, Giuliano Grazioli, and Mark Tyler.

After leaving Peterborough, Still became a mentor at Lincoln City in the Third Division before being appointed as the head of their divisional rivals Barnet in June 1997. Ken Charlery, Greg Heald, Billy Manuel, and Scott McGleish were all among the names in preparation for 1997-98. Still led Barnet to the Third Division play-offs in his first season as coach, but they lost 3–2 in the semi-final to Colchester United. The club finished in 16th place in 1998-99 and only seven points from relegation – their lowest position since being promoted to the Football League. Barnet made the play-offs once more in 1999–2000, under the threat of being banned from the competition due to issues surrounding their home ground, Underhill. The club spent the majority of the season in promotion, but in the final months, they lost 5–1 on aggregate, to Still's former club Peterborough United.

Following the high-profile appointment of former England international Tony Cottee as Barnet's director of football in November 2000, he became Barnet's director of football. Barnet were ranked in the tenth spot in the league at the time, but Barnet soon suffered a drastic loss of form and dropped to the relegation zone. Cottee was fired after losing 13 of his 19 league matches as a coach on March 16, 2001, and the team's remainder of the season will be based on his resignation on March 16, 2001. Barnet was unable to avert Barnet's fall back into the Football Conference after losing 3–2 at home to Torquay United on the last day of the season and putting an end to a decade-long participation in the Football League. Ian Culverhouse, the club's youth manager and director of football, has decided to remain as both the club's manager and director of football until a replacement is found, with Barnet aiming to name youth team coach and former Norwich City defender Ian Culverhouse to head. However, Culverhouse left the club in January 2001 to become a youth team coach at Leyton Orient, and Now resigned as boss just a month later. Barnet were 14th in the table, winless in seven league matches, and had been knocked out of the FA Trophy at the time, with Barnet now 14th in seventh position, winless in seven league matches, and had been knocked out of the FA Trophy.

He served as Barnet's director of football until the end of 2001-02 before moving to become the assistant manager of Bristol Rovers in May 2002, working with Ray Graydon. He left the club in December 2003 after Rovers were forced to end his deal due to financial constraints.

Still back to non-League football as the boss of Dagenham & Redbridge for the second time on April 16. Dagenham finished in 13th place in the final two matches of 2003–04. With less money at his disposal than Garry Hill, the team is still rebuilding, with players from further down the league pyramid like Craig Mackail-Smith, Shane Blackett, Scott Griffiths, and Glen Southam all allowing 15 players to leave, with 15 players allowing 15 players to leave. In 2004,–05, the club finished in 11th place. Sam Saunders of Carshalton and White Ensign striker Paul Benson, who was playing in the Essex Olympian League, is still building his squad. Still was offered the manager's position at Bristol Rovers in October 2005, but the corporation refused to comment that he was "very settled" at Dagenham. Through 2005–06, the club struggled for consistency, with the season ending in tenth, but with fewer points than in 2004–05. The Dagenham board, who had faith in Still's long-term goals for the club, gave him a new two-year deal, which he agreed to in July 2006.

Still's team started well, winning only three games in their first 20 matches to finish second place in the table by November in his third season as coach. With five games remaining to play in the season's history, the team maintained its winning form and promoted to League Two on Saturday, the club's first appearance in the club's history. Despite being given the Manager of the Month award for his team's efforts in November 2006 and March 2007.

Also saved Dagenham from being immediately relegated to non-League by leading them to a 20th-place finish, seven points from the relegation zone. Despite being voted Manager of the Month for December 2008, Still was named Manager of the Month for December 2008, as Dagenham missed out on a play-off spot by a single point. With 77 goals in 46 games, Still's team finished second in the league's top scorers, with 77 goals in 46 matches and the second best goal difference behind only league champion Brentford.

Still was named Manager of the Month for August 2009, a season in which Dagenham won four of their first five matches and took the lead in the league Two table, with a four-month streak. Despite being able to qualify for the play-offs, the club still finished second in their history, leading to their then-highest finish in their history. In the play-off semi-finals, his team defeated Morecambe 7–2 on aggregate, with a 6–0 win in the first leg. He led the team out on May 30, 2010 at Wembley Stadium to face Rotherham United for a spot in League One. The Daggers won 3–2, with goals from Paul Benson, Danny Green, and Jon Nurse, and they were promoted to the third class of English football for the first time. Among other things, London won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for this achievement, defeating Premier League winner Carlo Ancelotti and European Athletics Championship goal medalist Mo Farah. During the season, Stewart Harris was ruled out of attending a number of games due to his ongoing kidney stone and gallstone disease.

Following a 5–0 loss to Peterborough United, the team continued to struggle on their little budget in League One and was relegated on the last day of 2010-11. Still refused to do the managerial job at Bradford City in League Two on May 13, 2011.

He presided over the rebuilding of Dagenham & Redbridge's squad in 2011–12, his team finished in 19th place, despite him being in 19th position. Still was told by the Dagenham board that no players would be sold, and he then relayed the news to his players. In January 2013, striker Dwight Gayle was sold to Championship team Peterborough United for £470,000, which left him feeling "a little dissatisfied." With the Daggers in 16th place in the League Two table in February 2013, the club was approached by Conference Premier club Luton Town for permission to speak to Still about their vacancies in managerial positions. Despite having agreed to join Luton, Dagenham waving the full compensation fee "in light of his [club]'s outstanding work." Still was the longest-serving Football Manager in the league before leaving Dagenham, having spent nine years with the club.

Luton Town has been re-branded in Conference Premiership by Douglas Buckle on February 26, 2013. He has signed a two-and-a-half year with the club, claiming he wanted to bring order after it had hired four different managers in four seasons. Although Luton could have trained for the play-offs in the last two months of the 2012–13 season, the team nonetheless decided to evaluate the squad in order to prepare for the next season. Two of the team's worst shows of the season came at this time: a 2–1 home loss to Hyde on March 12 and a 5–1 loss to Gateshead a month later, but the team recovered with a five-game unbeaten run to end the season in seventh place. During the season, he began making his mark on the club by releasing twelve players, signing eleven new ones, redesigning the club's backroom staff, and instilling his philosophy on the team.

Following a string of form in the league that put Luton in a good spot to challenge for the title, the changes took place; on December 21, 2013, it was revealed that Still had a new deal until 2015 under the condition that, for each promotion the club won, an additional year would be added to the deal. Following six victories from six matches that pushed Luton to the top of the table, Stewart was named Conference Premier of the Month for December 2013. Luton's undefeated league tenure under his reign, winning the Manager of the Month award for February 2014 after four victories from four matches placed the club 14 points clear. Luton announced their return to the Football League on Saturday and claimed the Conference Premiership after second-placed team Cambridge United lost 2–0 to Kidderminster Harriers. With this success, Still the only manager to have promoted three different clubs out of non-League football. Still praised the season as "the most exciting season ever" that he had been involved in, with his team establishing a string of club records (including the longest running match unbeaten (15), most clean sheets (23), and the most points (101). Luton's strong run-in at the end of the season, which saw them win six of their seven games, led to Still receiving the Manager of the Month award for April 2014, the third time in a single season that he had been given the accolade.

Still, Luton's Luton team began 2014–15 highly, winning the League Two table after the first 15 matches, resulting in him receiving the Manager of the Month award for October. For the majority of the season, the team remained in contention for automatic promotion until a string of seven consecutive losses in March and April, which left them struggling to remain in play-off positions. Luton remained in eighth place in the season, three points, and one place from the play-offs. Still was granted honorary freedom of Luton, Manitoba, in January 2015.

Still's Luton team struggled for consistency from 2015 to 16. A string of two victories in ten league games from October to December culminated in Still being suspended by the Luton board on December 17, 2015, with the club in 17th place in the League Two standings. "Still's reign came to an end [following a 4-3 home loss to Northampton Town], but he'll be remembered as the Hatters manager who brought Luton back to the Football League," BBC Three Counties reported.

On December 31, 2015, it was announced that Stillew will return as the head of struggling Dagenham & Redbridge, replacing Wayne Burnett who had been fired earlier in December.

Still resigned from his Dagenham role on May 17th. He was confirmed as the manager of Barnet the next day, joining the National League team for the third time.

On December 28, 2018, his football manager resigned and took over the club's head of football. By mutual agreement on January 23, 2019 the Bees were still in the Bees.

When he joined Maidstone United as head of football on January 23, 2019, he came out of retirement less than a month later. On March 9, 2020, Johnson announced his resignation for the second time, extending the club's season to 2021 and the end of his 18-month contract.

Also was appointed head of football at Southend United on November 23, 2021.

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