David Needham

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David William Needham (born 21 May 1949 Leicester, England) was a former professional footballer of the 1970s and 1980s.

Dave Needham started his career at Notts County in 1966. He spent eleven years at the Magpies and was signed by Queens Park Rangers in the close season of 1977 for £90,000. He was signed to replace the recently retired Frank McLintock in the centre of QPR's defence. He only spent six months at the West London club before newly promoted Nottingham Forest signed him in the December of 1977 for £140,000.

At the end of the 1977-78 season he had picked up two winners medals as Forest won the First Division and also won the League Cup. He won another League Cup winners medal the following season. He left Forest in 1982 to play in Canada for Toronto Blizzard in the North American Soccer League.

Needham was capped six times for England 'B', scoring twice.

He later went on to become a successful businessman in Leicester.