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The following season Sheffield United finished ninth in Second Division after an unspectacular season.
The following season Sheffield United finished ninth in Second Division after an unspectacular season.
He had a 14-year playing career in the Scottish and English professional leagues, playing for seven different clubs. McEwan then undertook a coaching career. He has managed six different English league clubs, plus one club on a caretaker basis twice.
McEwan was most recently the manager of Antigua Barracuda but left the post in 2011.
Born in Cleland, North Lanarkshire, McEwan started his playing career as a midfielder with Scottish non-League side Pumpherston Juniors before joining in 1969, making 60 appearances and scoring two goals for the Edinburgh club McEwan left in May 1973 to join Blackpool, and went on to play for Brighton & Hove Albion, Chesterfield,, Peterborough United and whom he left in the 1982-1983 season.
McEwan"s first coaching appointment was at Sheffield United after he replaced Ian Porterfield as manager on 27 March 1986. More disappointing performances in the 1987-1988 season followed, and McEwan was forced to resign before taking over as manager of and guided them to the Fourth Division Championship in the 1988-1989 season.
McEwan later had a spell as manager at Darlington, but he was replaced by Alan Murray midway through his second season.
McEwan then spent nine years on the coaching team at Derby County. He was caretaker manager there twice in April to June 1995 and in January 2002, after the sackings of Roy McFarland and Colin Todd respectively. In 2003 he was sacked by the then manager John Gregory, but was restored into the post when he was found to have been unfairly dismissed.
Altogether he was on the coaching staff under five managers at Derby.
He left Derby on 19 October 2004, saying "I am looking for a new challenge. The time was right for me to move on".
McEwan said that he rejected an offer from an unnamed Football League club to take over as their manager in October 2005. During October 2006, he threatened to walk out on the club if the fans were not satisfied with his efforts.
McEwan issued a public apology to York"s supporters and on loan West Bromwich Albion striker Rob Elvins after the team"s home defeat to Conference bottom club Tamworth on 3 February 2007.
McEwan was named Conference National Manager of the Month for April 2007, but was then sacked by York on 19 November 2007. McEwan was linked with the managerial vacancy at in March 2008, and he was appointed as their manager on a three-year contract on 4 July 2008. He was sacked by the club on 10 December 2008.
McEwan was appointed as technical director of the Antigua and Barbuda Football Association in March 2010, and in April was made manager of Antigua Barracuda.
He left this position in March 2011. As a player As a manager.