Peter Fox (footballer)

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Peter Fox
Full name	Peter David Fox
Date of birth	July 5, 1957 (1957-07-05) (age 50)
Place of birth	Scunthorpe, England
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1972-1978 1977 1977 1978-1993 1993-1999	Sheffield Wednesday Barnsley (loan) Team Hawaii (loan) Stoke City Exeter City	049 (0) 001 (0) 409 (0) 108 (0)
Teams managed
1995-2000	Exeter City
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Peter Fox (born July 5, 1957, in Scunthorpe) is an English former footballer, now working as a goalkeeper coach at Blackpool. Fox played as a goalkeeper, and began his career with Sheffield Wednesday, making his debut aged just 15 years 8 months, a club record. He stayed at Wednesday until 1978, playing 49 league games, plus 1 appearance on loan at Barnsley and a summer in the NASL with Team Hawaii, before moving to Stoke City, the club with which he is most associated. He played over 400 league games for the club, over a spell of 15 years, and won the Second Division title and the Football League Trophy. Following his release aged 36, he joined Exeter City, initially as player-coach, being made manager in 1995 after the departure of Terry Cooper. His time at the helm at Exeter was one of consistent mid-table mediocrity, never looking like achieving anything but for a brief spell at the beginning of the 1997-98 season. The club was never in any serious relegation danger, however, and in hindsight his tenure compares favourably with what has happened at the club in subsequent years. He left St James Park in January 2000, replaced by his assistant Noel Blake. Since that time he has worked as a scout and coach at a number of clubs. His son, David Fox, is a professional footballer, also at Blackpool.

[edit] Honours

Football League Trophy: 1992
Division 2 (Level 3): 1993

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