David Keith Woodcock (born 13 October 1966) is an English former footballer who made 27 appearances in the Football League playing as a midfielder for Darlington in the mid-1980s.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | David Keith Woodcock[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1966-10-13) 13 October 1966 (age 56)[1] | ||
Place of birth | Shardlow,[1] England | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Sunderland | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1984–1985 | Sunderland | 0 | (0) |
1985–1987 | Darlington | 27 | (2) |
Newcastle Blue Star | |||
19??–1992 | North Shields | ||
1992–199? | Bridlington Town | ||
Bishop Auckland | |||
Teams managed | |||
1998–2007 | Darlington Railway Athletic | ||
200?–2009 | Darlington Railway Athletic | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Woodcock was born in Shardlow, Derbyshire.[1] He began his football career as an apprentice with Sunderland, but left the club without having played for the first-team, and signed for Darlington, newly promoted to the Football League Third Division, in August 1985. Over the next two seasons, he played 27 league matches, around half of which as a substitute, and scored twice.[1] At the end of his second season, Darlington were relegated back to the Fourth Division, and Woodcock left.
He played non-league football for clubs including Newcastle Blue Star,[3] North Shields, Bridlington Town,[4] with whom he won the FA Vase and the Northern Premier League First Division title in 1993,[5] and Bishop Auckland.
His playing career was ended by a badly broken leg in the mid-1990s, and he resumed working in football in 1998 as manager of Darlington Railway Athletic,[6] where he stayed for ten of the next eleven years.[7]
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