Stuart Whitehead

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Stuart Whitehead
Personal information
Full name Stuart David Whitehead [1]
Date of birth (1976-07-17) 17 July 1976 (age 47) [1]
Place of birth Bromsgrove, England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) [1]
Position(s) Right-back, centre back
Youth career
0000–1994 Bromsgrove Rovers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1994–1995 Bromsgrove Rovers
1995–1998 Bolton Wanderers 0 (0)
1998–2002 Carlisle United 152 (2)
2002–2003 Darlington 23 (0)
2003–2004 Telford United 37 (1)
2004–2006 Shrewsbury Town 63 (0)
2006–2008 Kidderminster Harriers 60 (0)
2008–2012 AFC Telford United 76 (0)
2012–2013 Worcester City 39 (0)
Total450(3)
Managerial career
2009 AFC Telford United (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stuart David Whitehead (born 17 July 1976) is an English former footballer. He played as a right-back or centre-back.

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Career

Born in Bromsgrove, Whitehead began his career at his hometown club Bromsgrove Rovers. After a season with the club, he joined then-Premiership Bolton Wanderers in 1995 on a free transfer.

Bolton were relegated in his first season with them, but won promotion back to the Premier League in the following season. After another top-flight season, Bolton and Whitehead parted company, with Whitehead never appearing for the club.

A regular starting role at Carlisle United followed, with Carlisle spending the whole period near the bottom of the Football League. He appeared in the famous Jimmy Glass game against Plymouth Argyle, in which the goalkeeper scored in the 94th minute to keep Carlisle United in the Football League. [2] A ten-month spell at Darlington followed before Whitehead dropped down to the Football Conference in August 2003 for a season with Telford United. Telford, and their chairman, were to go bankrupt at the end of the season, so Whitehead made the short move to newly promoted (to League Two) Shrewsbury Town.

In his two seasons with the club, Whitehead became Shrewsbury's first-choice right-back, making 70 appearances for the Shropshire club. However, on 14 April 2006 he was released by Shrewsbury to allow the emergence of Gavin Cadwallader. Whitehead agreed to join Conference club Kidderminster Harriers on a two-year contract in the summer of 2006.

In his first season Whitehead played well and was a vital part of the FA Trophy run to the finals. He led the team out on 12 May hoping to lift the trophy but, unfortunately he will go down in history as the first captain to lose a competitive match at Wembley.

Whitehead left Kidderminster by mutual consent on 31 January 2008 and subsequently made his return to the New Bucks Head, signing an 18-month deal with Conference North side AFC Telford United.

At the start of the 2008/2009 season, Whitehead was named as the new AFC Telford United captain. At the end of the 2009/2010 season, following the dismissal of Rob Smith, Whitehead was named caretaker manager for Telford's final game of the season, a 3–1 defeat away to Vauxhall Motors. He left Telford in January 2012, [3] joining Worcester City the next day. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2003). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004. Queen Anne Press. p. 451. ISBN   1-85291-651-6.
  2. ↑ Metcalf, Rupert (10 May 1999). "Carlisle raise a Glass to survival – Carlisle United 2 Plymouth Argyle 1" . The Independent . London. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  3. ↑ "AFC Telford release Stuart Whitehead and Jon Adams". BBC Sport. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "Worcester City sign Stuart Whitehead and Phil Green". BBC Sport. 20 January 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
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