Peter Fox (footballer)

Peter Fox

Personal information
Full name	Peter David Fox
Date of birth	5 July 1957 (1957-07-05) (age 54)
Place of birth	Scunthorpe, England
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1972–1978	Sheffield Wednesday	49	(0)
1977	→ Barnsley (loan)	1	(0)
1977	→ Team Hawaii (loan)	25	(0)
1978–1993	Stoke City	409	(0)
1993–1999	Exeter City	108	(0)
Total		592	(0)
Teams managed
1995-2000	Exeter City
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Peter Fox (born 5 July 1957, in Scunthorpe) is an English former footballer, who recently worked as a goalkeeper coach at Blackpool.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Playing career 1.2 Managerial and coaching career 2 Personal life 3 Honours 4 References 5 External links

Career

Playing career

Fox played as a goalkeeper, and began his career with Sheffield Wednesday, making his debut aged just 15 years 8 months, a club record.^[1] He stayed at Wednesday until 1978, playing 49 league games, plus one 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.

Managerial and coaching career

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. The club was never in any serious relegation danger, however. He left St James Park in January 2000, replaced by his assistant Noel Blake. Since that time he worked as a scout and coach at a number of clubs, before becoming the Goalkeeping coach at Blackpool. His time at Blackpool was only working part-time during which time they were promoted twice in the 6 years he had worked there. He also still works part time at Blackburn Rovers in the academy, working with kids from u18 to u9s. Peter Fox left his post at Blackpool following their dramatic rise to Premier League stardom and currently undertakes a Part-time post at Preston North End as Goalkeeper coach with the First Team.

Personal life

His son, David, is a professional footballer who currently plays for Norwich City

Honours

• Football League Trophy: 1992
• Division 2 (III): 1993

References

External links

• Profile at the Stoke City hall of fame
• Peter Fox career stats at Soccerbase
• Peter Fox management career stats at Soccerbase
• Team Hawaii stats

Stoke City F.C. – Player of the Year 1978: Kendall 1979: Doyle 1980: Dodd 1981: Fox 1982: Fox 1983: Thomas 1984: Bould 1985: McIlroy 1986: Bertschin 1987: Dixon 1988: Parkin 1989: Kamara 1990: Fox 1991: Thomas 1992: Biggins 1993: Stein 1994: Cranson 1995: Sigurðsson 1996: Wallace 1997: Griffin 1998: Whittle 1999: Keen 2000: O'Connor 2001: Gunnarsson 2002: Thomas 2003: Shtanuk 2004: Akinbiyi 2005: Hill 2006: Hoefkens 2007: Higginbotham 2008: Lawrence 2009: Faye 2010: Etherington 2011: Huth

Exeter City F.C. – managers Chadwick (1908–22) Maven (1923–27) D. Wilson (1928–29) McDevitt (1929–35) English (1935–39) Roughton (1945–52) Kirkman (1952–53) Ward (1953) Dodgin (1953–57) Thompson (1957–58) Broome (1958–60) G. Wilson (1960–62) Spiers (1962–63) Edwards (1963–65) Stuttard (1965–66) Basford (1966–67) Broome (1967–69) Newman (1969–76) Saxton (1977–79) Godfrey (1979–83) Francis (1983–84) Iley (1984–85) Appleton (1985–87) Cooper (1988–91) Ball (1991–94) Cooper (1994–95) Fox (1995–2000) Blake (2000–01) Cornforth (2001–02) McNab (2002–03) Peters (2003) Dolan (2003–04) Perryman (2004) Inglethorpe (2004–06) Tisdale (2006–)

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Name	Fox, Peter
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Date of birth	1957-07-05
Place of birth	Scunthorpe, England
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