Kidd has worked for a variety of clubs as well as the England team

Brian Kidd has returned to Manchester City as technical development manager at the Premier League club's academy.

Kidd, 60, played for City in the 1970s and will coach the youngsters and run the in-service training of the staff.

He spent last season as assistant boss at Portsmouth, where he and manager Paul Hart kept the club in the top flight after the exit of Tony Adams.

City's football administration officer Brian Marwood said: "Brian was much in demand. We are delighted."

Kidd's career has taken in two significant stints with City's rivals Manchester United.

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He was assistant manager to Old Trafford boss Sir Alex Ferguson in the 1990s, having been a member of the United team that won the European Cup in 1968.

Manchester-born Kidd also played for Arsenal, Everton and Bolton Wanderers and won two England caps in 1970.

He became the then England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson's assistant in January 2003, a role Kidd was forced to leave prematurely to undergo surgery for prostate cancer.

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