| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Keith Woodcock[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 13 October 1966[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 | |||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1998–2007 | Darlington Railway Athletic | ||
| 200?–2009 | Darlington Railway Athletic | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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.
Life and career
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]
References
- ^ a b c d e Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1998). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–1998. Queen Anne Press. p. 593. ISBN 978-1-85291-585-8.
- ^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
- ^ "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ "Reforming of Club". North Shields F.C. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.
- ^ Metcalf, Rupert (9 May 1993). "Football: Sweet solo by Radford". Independent on Sunday. London. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ "RA are on the right track". The Northern Echo. Darlington. 14 February 2003. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ^ "History". Darlington Railway Athletic F.C. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
"Local football: Determined RCA vow to avoid complacency". Sunderland Echo. 12 August 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
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