Lance Key

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Lance Key
Personal information
Full name Lance William Key [1]
Date of birth (1968-05-13) 13 May 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth Kettering, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
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Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
000?–1990 Histon
1990–1996 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (0)
1993 → Oldham Athletic (loan) 2 (0)
1995 → Oxford United (loan) 6 (0)
1995 → Lincoln City (loan) 5 (0)
1995 → Hartlepool United (loan) 1 (0)
1996 → Rochdale (loan) 14 (0)
1996–1997 Dundee United 3 (0)
1997 Sheffield United 0 (0)
1997–1999 Rochdale 19 (0)
1998–2001 Northwich Victoria 51 (0)
2000 → Altrincham (loan) 15 (0)
2001–2004 Kingstonian 136 (0)
2004–2008 Histon 124 (0)
2008 Wivenhoe Town 0 (0)
2010–2011 Rushden & Diamonds 0 (0)
Total376(0)
Managerial career
2016–2023 Histon
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lance William Key (born 13 May 1968) is an English former footballer and manager, who played as a goalkeeper. He is manager of Histon.

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Career

Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, Key began his professional career in April 1990 when he joined Sheffield Wednesday from non-league Histon for a fee of £10,000. He spent six years with Wednesday, but made just one appearance, as a substitute in the FA Cup at Gillingham. This followed the sending off of Kevin Pressman. Key's first touch was to pick the ball out of the net following the penalty which led to the sending off.

Loan spells with Oldham Athletic, Oxford United, Lincoln City, Hartlepool United and Rochdale followed before a free transfer move to Dundee United in July 1996.

At Tannadice, Key was understudy to regular keeper Ally Maxwell and made his debut on 2 November 1996 in a 3–1 win away to Motherwell. He played twice more later that month, and after a horrendous error against Dunfermline Athletic returned to England in March 1997 without making any further first team appearances, joining Sheffield United on a free transfer.

In August 1997 he joined Rochdale on a free transfer. He moved to Northwich Victoria on loan in December 1998, with the move being made permanent in February 1999.

He moved to Kingstonian in June 2001 and rejoined Histon in September 2004, [2] where he helped the team to Southern League and Conference South championships. He left Histon in September 2008 and joined Wivenhoe Town, [3] but left the club after just one FA Vase appearance. In July 2010 he joined Rushden & Diamonds as goalkeeping coach. [4] He was released by the club in May 2011. [5]

Managerial career

Key was appointed manager of Histon on 7 October 2016, replacing Steve Fallon. [6] He was relieved of duties on 28 September 2023 after winning only one of their opening ten league games. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Lance Key". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Histon sign three Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Lance Key signs from Histon". Wivenhoe Town F.C. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2008.
  4. ↑ "Lance Key joins R&DFC". Rushden & Diamonds F.C. 15 July 2010. Archived from the original on 17 July 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
  5. ↑ "Lance Key". Rushden & Diamonds F.C. 17 June 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2011.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ Mason, Aaron (7 October 2016). "Lance Key returns to Histon as manager as Steve Fallon takes new role". Cambridge News. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Apicella, Liam (28 September 2023). "Histon announce departure of manager Lance Key after 'poor start to the season'". Cambridge Independent.
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