Barry Richardson (English footballer)

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Barry Richardson
Personal information
Full name Barry Richardson
Date of birth (1969-08-05) 5 August 1969 (age 53)
Place of birth Wallsend, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
Hull City
(Goalkeeping Coach)
Youth career
Wallsend Boys Club
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1988–1989 Sunderland 0 (0)
1988–1989Seaham Red Star (loan)
1989–1991 Scarborough 30 (0)
1991 Stockport County 0 (0)
1991–1994 Northampton Town 140 (0)
1994–1995 Preston North End 34 (0)
1995–2000 Lincoln City 149 (0)
1999Mansfield Town (loan) 8 (0)
2000Sheffield Wednesday (loan) 0 (0)
2000–2001 Doncaster Rovers 62 (0)
2001–2003 Halifax Town 24 (0)
2003–2004 Gainsborough Trinity
2004–2008 Doncaster Rovers 2 (0)
2008–2009 Nottingham Forest 0 (0)
2009–2010 Cheltenham Town 0 (0)
2010–2013 Peterborough United 0 (0)
2014–2018 Wycombe Wanderers 1 (0)
Total450(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Barry Richardson (born 5 August 1969) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is first team goalkeeping coach at Hull City.

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As a player, he was a goalkeeper who notably played in the Football League with lengthy spells at both Northampton Town and Lincoln City. He also played professionally for Scarborough, Preston North End, Mansfield Town and Doncaster Rovers before dropping into Non-League with Halifax Town and Gainsborough Trinity. Between 2004 and 2018 he was registered as a back-up player for teams he coached.

Playing career

He played for Sunderland, Seaham Red Star (loan), Scarborough, Stockport County, Northampton Town, Preston North End, Lincoln City, Mansfield Town (loan) Sheffield Wednesday (loan), Doncaster Rovers (1st spell), Gainsborough Trinity, Halifax Town, Doncaster Rovers (2nd spell), Nottingham Forest and Wycombe Wanderers.

Coaching career

Richardson has been the goalkeeping coach at Doncaster Rovers, Nottingham Forest, Cheltenham Town, Peterborough United and Wycombe Wanderers; he is currently the goalkeeping coach at Hull City.

Richardson returned to Doncaster Rovers as goalkeeping coach in the summer of 2005. On 11 January 2008 he departed Rovers to succeed David Watson as the goalkeeping coach at Nottingham Forest. [1]

Rejoining Forest, where he had coached the academy goalkeepers in the 2004–05 season, [2] he was also registered as a player being allocated (in line with his age) the squad number 38. [3] He would be an unused substitute goalkeeper on occasions for Forest, wearing the squad number 39 in the 2008–09 season, the last time being on 3 January 2009 when Forest beat Manchester City 3–0 in the FA Cup 3rd Round. He departed the club following the appointment of Billy Davies as manager, rejecting an alternative role with the club after Davies appointed Pete Williams as goalkeeping coach. [4]

He joined Cheltenham Town as goalkeeping coach at the start of the 2009–10 season [5] whilst also acting as back-up goalkeeper. He was sent off as an unused substitute in a match against Lincoln City on 14 November 2009. [6] He parted company with the club on 21 January 2010 following the new manager Mark Yates deciding to operate without a goalkeeping coach for the remainder of the 2009–10 season. [7]

On 3 February 2010 he signed a two and a half-year contract to become player-goalkeeping coach at Peterborough United [8] . He was given the number 37 shirt and appeared as an unused substitute for the game against Blackpool on 17 April 2010 due to the absence of number 1 Joe Lewis and the number 30 shirt for the match against Huddersfield in the play-off final, where again he was on the bench due to the absence of Lewis. Richardson left this role by mutual consent on 21 January 2013. [9]

On 30 January 2014 it was reported that Richardson had signed as the goalkeeping coach for Wycombe Wanderers; he also registered as a non-contract player with the squad number 44. [10]

During the 2014–15 season, having changed his squad number to 13, he was named as a substitute on thirty-five occasions for Wycombe but did not make a first-team appearance. At the age of 46, he played a competitive game for the first time in over 8 years on 30 January 2016, after an injury to first-choice goalkeeper Alex Lynch during a match against Plymouth Argyle, and kept a clean sheet in a 1–0 victory – the first time Plymouth had failed to score at home that season. [11]

On 26 January 2018, Richardson was appointed goalkeeping coach for Hull City. [12]

Notes

  1. "Richardson parts from Rovers". Doncaster Rovers F.C. 11 January 2008. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  2. "Richardson checks in". Nottingham Forest F.C. 11 January 2008. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  3. "Goalkeeper insurance policy". Nottingham Forest F.C. 24 January 2008. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  4. "More new faces on the way". Nottingham Forest F.C. 2 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 January 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  5. "Richardson arrives to help Robins". BBC Sport.
  6. "Lincoln City 1–1 Cheltenham". BBC Sport. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
  7. "Barry departs Robins". Cheltenham Town F.C. 21 January 2010. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  8. "Barry Richardson Signs Deal". Peterborough United F.C. 3 February 2010. Archived from the original on 5 February 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  9. "Peterborough goalkeeping coach Barry Richardson leaves club". Sky Sports. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  10. "Coaching role for Richardson". Wycombe Wanderers F.C. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  11. "Plymouth Argyle 0–1 Wycombe Wanderers". BBC Sport. 30 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  12. "RICHARDSON NAMED AS NEW GOALKEEPING COACH". Hull City A.F.C. 26 January 2018. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

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