Steve Lomas

Lomas, a midfielder, first made his name with Manchester City after joining them in 1991. He soon broke into the first team but will often be remembered at the club for his misfortune of scoring an own goal on the last day of the 1995–96 season, which meant that City could only manage a 2–2 draw at home to Liverpool and were relegated from the Premier League on goal difference. He then moved to West Ham United in 1997 for a fee of £2.5 million. He made his West Ham debut on 9 April 1997 in a 0–0 draw with Middlesbrough; his first goal coming on 3 December 1997 in a 4–1 defeat of Crystal Palace. He made 227 competitive appearances, scoring 13 goals, became club captain and was a member of the West Ham team which won the Intertoto Cup in 1999. On 31 August 2005, he was released on a free transfer and joined Queens Park Rangers. Whilst at QPR he was named captain on occasions and his experience helped Rangers move away from the relegation zone. He left QPR in May 2007, and joined Gillingham on 31 July 2007. On 9 January 2008, Gillingham manager Mark Stimson revealed that Lomas had been placed on the transfer list. On 31 January it was announced that Lomas had been released from his contract.

Lomas was born in Hanover, West Germany, his father was a soldier stationed there. As a child he briefly lived in Hong Kong, before moving to Coleraine, Northern Ireland at the age of two. He earned 45 caps for the Northern Ireland national team, scoring three goals.

After leaving Gillingham, Lomas took up a coaching role at Norwich City before managing St Neots Town. from 23 March 2009, until July 2010, leading the club to their most successful season for 40 years. He left the club briefly in January 2010, following the departure of chairman John Delaney, but returned after Delaney had been reinstated as Chairman. Lomas resigned from St Neots in July 2010 to pursue his ambition to manage at a league club. At the end of February 2011 he accepted the position of reserve team manager at West Ham United.

St Johnstone

In November 2011, Lomas signed a 2+1⁄2-year deal to manage Scottish Premier League side St Johnstone following the departure of Derek McInnes to English Championship team Bristol City. Shortly after signing the deal to become first team manager he was joined by former Northern Ireland goalkeeper and Lisburn Distillery manager Tommy Wright who had agreed to join the club as an assistant to Lomas. In his first season as manager of St Johnstone, Lomas took the club to a top 6 finish for the first time since 1999. On 4 October 2012, Lomas was named SPL Manager of the month, the first time a St Johnstone manager had won the award. On beating the Manager of the Month "curse" in October to record fifth- and sixth-straight wins against St Mirren and Kilmarnock, Lomas achieved the best run of results at St Johnstone since 1971, reaching second place in the SPL table behind Celtic. In October 2012, Lomas' name began to be…

He is a nephew of the former Manchester United and Northern Ireland goalkeeper Harry Gregg.