Dave Woodcock

Dave Woodcock
Personal information
Full name David Keith Woodcock[1]
Date of birth (1966-10-13) 13 October 1966[1]
Place of birth Shardlow,[1] England
Playing position 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

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

David Keith "Dave" Woodcock (born 13 October 1966) is a 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] the son of Maurice and Margaret Woodcock.[2] 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][8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  2. ↑ "Northumberland and Durham Baptisms Transcription". David Keith Woodcock. Birth year: 1966. Baptism date: 18 Dec 1966. Parish: Hendon. Church: St Barnabas. Retrieved 26 August 2014 – via Findmypast. (subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "Reforming of Club". North Shields F.C. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Metcalf, Rupert (9 May 1993). "Football: Sweet solo by Radford". Independent on Sunday (London). Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "RA are on the right track". The Northern Echo (Darlington). 14 February 2003. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "History". Darlington Railway Athletic F.C. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "Local football: Determined RCA vow to avoid complacency". Sunderland Echo. 12 August 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
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