Stephen Paul Fallon (born 3 August 1956) is an English former

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who made 410 appearances in

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playing as a defender for

Cambridge United Cambridge United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Cambridge, England. They currently compete in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed the U’s, the club h ...

. From 1999 to 2010 he was

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Histon Histon is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is immediately north of Cambridge – and is separated from the city – by the A14 road (England), A14 road which runs eas ...

. From 2012 Fallon was manager of

Soham Town Rangers Soham Town Rangers Football Club is an English football club based in Soham, Cambridgeshire. The club are currently members of the and play at Julius Martin Lane. History The club was established in 1947 by a merger of Soham Town and Soham Ra ...

before he stepped down in October 2015, later in the same month he was reappointed manager of Histon. He is currently a PE teacher for Cambridge Primary Education Trust.

Career

Fallon was born in

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and brought up in

Whittlesey Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland District, Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is east of Peterborough. The population of the parish was 17,667 at the 2021 Census. Toponymy W ...

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfor ...

. He played for Whittlesey and for

Kettering Town Kettering Town Football Club is a football club based in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Latimer Park. Kettering were the first club to wear sponsorship on their shirts in 1976, and have ...

before joining

as an 18-year-old, where he went on to make 410 league appearances, helping the club to promotions from the Fourth to the

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. Fallon retired from League football in 1986 because of a knee injury, and then spent nine years as

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of Southern League club (and cross-city rivals) Cambridge City. In 1999 Fallon took over as manager of

, and led them from the

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Premier Division (level 9 of the

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) to the

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(level 5). In December 2006, Histon faced Fallon's former club Cambridge United in the first round of the

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in the first competitive match for more than 40 years between the two clubs, who had been seven divisions apart as recently as the early 1990s. Histon won 5–0. On 12 January 2010, a day after being re-instated as manager after being suspended following disagreements with the Chairman, it was announced that Histon had sacked Fallon citing "irreconcilable differences". Fallon was appointed manager of

in March 2012 and stepped down in October 2015 and was then reappointed as manager of Histon in the same month. In October 2016 he became Director of Football, with Lance Key replacing him as manager.Lance Key returns to Histon as manager as Steve Fallon takes new role
Cambridge News, 15 October 2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fallon, Steve 1956 births Living people Sportspeople from Whittlesey English men's footballers Men's association football defenders Kettering Town F.C. players Cambridge United F.C. players Cambridge City F.C. players English Football League players English football managers Cambridge City F.C. managers Histon F.C. managers Soham Town Rangers F.C. managers Footballers from Cambridgeshire