Andy Woodman

Andy Woodman
Personal information
Full name Andrew John Woodman
Date of birth 11 August 1971 (1971-08-11) (age 40)
Place of birth Camberwell, London, England
Playing position Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1994 Crystal Palace 0 (0)
1994–1995 Exeter City 6 (0)
1995–1999 Northampton Town 160 (0)
1999 Brentford (loan) 1 (0)
1999–2001 Brentford 60 (0)
2000 Peterborough United (loan) 0 (0)
2000 Southend United (loan) 17 (0)
2000 Colchester United (loan) 6 (0)
2001–2002 Colchester United 48 (0)
2002 Oxford United (loan) 12 (0)
2002–2004 Oxford United 89 (0)
2004–2005 Stevenage Borough 21 (0)
2005 Redbridge
2005 Thurrock
2005–2006 Rushden & Diamonds 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Andrew John "Andy" Woodman (born 11 August 1971) is an English football coach and former player. He is currently goalkeeping coach at Newcastle United. As a player, his highest claim to fame was being goalkeeper for Northampton Town when they won the Division Three playoffs in 1997.

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Playing career

Woodman played for a number of clubs in his career, starting out at Crystal Palace in the 1989–90 season, he stayed with them for several years, until 1993–94. He then moved to Exeter City. His spell at Exeter was cut short following two red cards in quick succession, one against Leyton Orient for violent conduct, and secondly against Colchester United in the FA Cup, for deliberate handball outside the area, when after making a total hash of a back pass he decided to dive on the ball with both hands. Exeter fans never forgave him for this, and when he later played in goal for Northampton in a home game with Exeter he was forced to endure repeated chants of "We remember Colchester" from the away fans behind his goal.

Following his red cards he moved to Northampton Town which lasted until 1998–99. Woodman is regarded as something of a cult figure at Sixfields after this time there, and was granted a testimonial by the club in summer 2007. He was also on loan to Brentford during this time, and moved there on a free during 1998–99. While at Brentford he was loaned to several clubs; Peterborough United (1999–2000), Southend United (2000–01) and Colchester United (2000–01).

He joined Colchester on a free transfer in the 2001–02 season, and was loaned to Oxford United in that season. Woodman then moved into non-league football with Stevenage Borough in 2004–05, as well as Redbridge, Thurrock and a trial at Torquay United. He joined Rushden & Diamonds in the 2005–06 season, but injured his Achilles tendon early on in the season, which ruled him out for a number of months.

Non-playing career

Coaching career

In the spring of 2006 he was appointed assistant manager at Rushden and Diamonds. When the club was relegated at the end of that season, he chose to join his old team-mate Alan Pardew's staff at West Ham United. When Pardew moved to Charlton Athletic, Woodman joined him in the summer of 2007 as goalkeeping coach. He joined Newcastle United on 13 December 2010 as Goalkeeping Coach, again joining Alan Pardew

Other activities

He is a close friend of ex-England international and ex-Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate, with whom he has written a book about life in the youth ranks of Crystal Palace, their first club. The book is called Woody & Nord: A Football Friendship, and describes an enduring friendship forged in the Palace youth team that has survived Southgate and Woodman's wildly differing fortunes in the professional game. The book won the Sporting Book of the Year Award for 2004 from the National Sporting Club.

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