Dave Woodcock

Dave Woodcock
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*
Teams managed
1998–2007	Darlington Railway Athletic
200?–2009	Darlington Railway Athletic
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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

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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[Hugman-1] 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] Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.

[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 8 February 2020.

[7] "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.