Former Bristol Rovers coaches Marcus Stewart and Chris Hargreaves have been reunited at Yeovil Town.
New Glovers boss Hargreaves, formerly on first-team coach and academy manager at Rovers, has added Gas hero Stewart to his support staff at Huish Park.
The 49-year-old has been appointed head of player development, assisting Hargreaves with the first-team as they plot to improve on last season's 12th-placed finish in the National League.
“When Chris called me, this just felt like the right thing to do, I’ve been here before and I feel like I can help him," Stewart told the club's website.
“I’m here to do my best, like I did before. This is a club I’m fond of, it’s a club that’s local to me and where I have had a good relationship with the fans.”
Stewart's professional career began with the Gas in the early 1990s and he would quickly make a name for himself as one of the brightest attacking prospects in the country, scoring 24 goals in the 1994/95 campaign.
After passing 170 appearance and more than 50 goals, Huddersfield Town snapped him up for £1.2million. He was a huge success with the Terriers, prompting Ipswich Town to shell out £2.5m. At Portman Road, he was a pivotal player in their promotion to the Premier League in 2000 before scoring 19 goals in his debut season in the top flight – more than any other English player.
He would go on to play for Sunderland, Bristol City, Preston North End, Yeovil and Exeter City later in his career, ending with a career haul in excess of 250 goals when he hung his boots up in 2011.
Stewart would transition into coaching, joining the Gas as a development coach in 2012. He would later become assistant manager and work closely with Darrell Clarke, leaving after he was sacked in 2018 before reuniting at Walsall the following year.
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