Jason Tindall

Jason James Tindall (born 15 November 1977) is an English professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of EFL Championship club AFC Bournemouth.

Jason Tindall
Personal information
Full name Jason James Tindall
Date of birth (1977-11-15) 15 November 1977
Place of birth Mile End, England
Playing position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 AFC Bournemouth (manager)
Youth career
1995–1996 Charlton Athletic
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1998 Charlton Athletic 0 (0)
1998–2006 AFC Bournemouth 171 (6)
2006–2008 Weymouth 17 (1)
2009–2011 AFC Bournemouth 2 (0)
Total 190 (7)
Teams managed
2007–2008 Weymouth
2008–2011 AFC Bournemouth (assistant)
2011–2012 Burnley (assistant)
2012–2020 AFC Bournemouth (assistant)
2020– AFC Bournemouth
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Tindall was an apprentice at Charlton Athletic, but was released and joined AFC Bournemouth on a free transfer in 1998 as a midfielder, becoming a regular in the side after being switched to central defence when Sean O'Driscoll replaced Mel Machin as manager. On 24 April 2004, in a 1–0 win at Peterborough United, Tindall made his last appearance for the Cherries for 18 months, when a knee injury recurred. After missing the entire 2004/5 season, he resorted to surgery in the United States with specialist surgeon Dr Richard Steadman, returning to action on 2 January 2006 as an 86th-minute substitute in the Cherries 1–1 draw with Scunthorpe United at Dean Court.[1]

Released by AFC Bournemouth in the summer of 2006, after a trial at Wycombe Wanderers,[2] Tindall joined local side Weymouth as a utility player.

Tindall was re-registered as a AFC Bournemouth player on Tuesday 24 February 2009, three years after his last appearance, coming on as a substitute against Dagenham and Redbridge.[3]

Managerial career

Tindall was appointed as player-manager of Weymouth in January 2007, but was sacked a year later in January 2008. In light of a 2007/08 season record of only three wins, leaving the club in 19th, 5 points off of the relegation zone.[4]

Assistant manager roles

On 2 September 2008, Tindall was appointed as assistant manager to Jimmy Quinn at AFC Bournemouth. With the Cherries performing poorly under Quinn, being second last in the league table at Christmas 2008, Quinn was sacked in January 2009 with Eddie Howe promoted to Caretaker Manager, and after a string of good results, Howe became the permanent manager with Tindall as his assistant. The duo of Howe and Tindall became the youngest managerial partnership in the Football League, and they soon had a growing reputation as they saved the Cherries from relegation into the Conference National, then in the 2009/10 season led AFC Bournemouth to promotion to League One, finishing 2nd behind Notts County. With Howe having to deal with a transfer embargo, leaving the team with a threadbare squad, Tindall was still registered as a player and made a handful of appearances in the Cherries promotion campaign in 2009/10. After a positive start to the first half of the 2010/11 season in League One, which saw the Cherries in the play-off places throughout the season, Tindall and Howe were drawing significant interest from other clubs.[5] After committing their immediate future to the club on 12 January 2011, Howe and Tindall did a complete U-turn less than a week later as they were confirmed as Manager and Assistant Manager of Championship side Burnley, respectively.[6]

After 18 months at Burnley, Tindall and Howe returned to AFC Bournemouth in October 2012, with the club in the relegation places of League One at the time.[7] By the end of the 2012-13 season, however, the duo steered AFC Bournemouth to the Championship, returning the club to the 2nd tier for just the 2nd time in its history. [8] After a 10th-place finish in the 2013-14 season, AFC Bournemouth were promoted to the Premier League after winning the 2014-15 Championship.[9]

Tindall and Howe would lead the club to a narrow survival in 2015-16, before comfortable finishes of 9th, 12th and 14th in the following 3 seasons.[10][11][12] In the 2019-20 season, however, AFC Bournemouth's five-year run in the top flight ended after the club finished in 18th place.[13]On 1 August 2020, Howe left the club by mutual consent and Tindall took over as manager on a temporary basis.[14]

AFC Bournemouth

On 8 August 2020, one week after Howe's departure, Tindall was appointed as manager of AFC Bournemouth on a permanent basis, following the club's relegation from the Premier League. He signed a three year contract with the club.[15]

References
  1. "The long road back". BBC Sport. 4 January 2006. Retrieved 28 January 2008.
  2. "July 2006 – Triallists Ditched". chairboys.co.uk. 25 July 2006. Retrieved 28 January 2008.
  3. "Tindall admits comeback was scary". BBC Sport. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
  4. "Weymouth dismiss manager Tindall". BBC Sport. 28 January 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2008.
  5. "Rumour after rumour and the viral blog". Bournemouth Echo. 11 January 2011. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
  6. "Howe is new Burnley manager". Burnley FC. 16 January 2011. Archived from the original on 17 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  7. "Eddie Howe: I had to leave Burnley for AFC Bournemouth". 13 October 2012 – via www.bbc.com.
  8. "AFC Bournemouth Home Page for the 2012-2013 season - Statto.com". web.archive.org. 11 May 2015.
  9. "Never been a day like it! Cherries achieve the impossible dream of Premier League football". Bournemouth Echo.
  10. "2016/17 preview: Cherries primed for second term". www.premierleague.com.
  11. "PICTURES: Cherries claim Leicester draw to seal ninth-place Premier League finish". Bournemouth Echo.
  12. "Bournemouth's 12th-place Premier League finish a huge achievement, says Eddie Howe". Sky Sports.
  13. "Everton 1-3 AFC Bournemouth: Cherries relegated despite win". 26 July 2020 – via www.bbc.com.
  14. "Tindall and coaches remain at Cherries despite Howe departure". Bournemouth Echo.
  15. "Jason Tindall Appointed AFC Bournemouth Manager". AFCB.
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