For the similarly named former defender, see Bryn Gunn.
Bryan Gunn
Gunn at his own-named catering facility club at Carrow Road in November 2007
Personal information
Full name
Bryan James Gunn[1]
Date of birth
(1963-12-22) 22 December 1963 (age 60)[1]
Place of birth
Thurso, Scotland
Height
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)
Goalkeeper
Youth career
1979–1980
Invergordon
1980–1982
Aberdeen
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1982–1986
Aberdeen
15
(0)
1986–1998
Norwich City
390
(0)
1998
→ Hibernian (loan)
12
(0)
1998–1999
Hibernian
0
(0)
Total
417
(0)
International career
1990–1994
Scotland
6
(0)
Managerial career
2009
Norwich City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Bryan James Gunn (born 22 December 1963) is a Scottish former professional goalkeeper and football manager. After learning his trade with Aberdeen in the early 1980s, he spent most of his playing career at Norwich City, the club with which he came to be most closely associated. This was followed by a brief spell back in Scotland with Hibernian before his retirement as a player in 1998.
Gunn feels the peak of his playing career was making what he calls the save of his life in the UEFA Cup match against Bayern Munich in 1993. This event was called the summit of Norwich City's history by The Independent. He is one of only nine Norwich players to win the club's Player of the Year award twice. He was made an inaugural member of Norwich City's Hall of Fame. He was a member of the Scotland national football team, making six appearances for his country in the early 1990s.
Gunn worked for years behind the scenes at Norwich in a variety of roles, from matchday hosting to coaching. He was appointed temporary manager towards the end of the 2008–09 season and then confirmed as permanent manager during the summer. However, after a 7–1 home defeat in the opening game to local rivals Colchester United, he lost his job a week into the 2009–10 Football League One season.
Since the death of his young daughter from leukaemia in 1992, Gunn has been extensively involved in fundraising to combat the disease and its effects. As of 2011 he has raised more than £1 million for research into childhood leukaemia. The money has been used to fund projects to improve the lives of children with leukaemia and their families, notably a national telephone support line. The city of Norwich recognised Gunn's charity work and his long association with the city's football club by naming him Sheriff for 2002. Published in 2006, his autobiography, In Where it Hurts: My Autobiography, includes a foreword by his former manager Alex Ferguson.
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