Andrew John Woodman (born August 11, 1971) is a goalkeeper for Rushden & Diamonds. Other clubs he has played for are Oxford United and Northampton Town. August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... A football goalkeeper leaves the ground to parry a shot on goal In many team ever known sports, a goalkeeper (termed goaltender, or goalie in some sports) is a designated player that is charged with directly preventing the opposite team from scoring by defending the goal. ... Rushden and Diamonds Football Club were formed in 1992 by Max Griggs, the owner of the Dr Martens shoe company who bought two non-league clubs (Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds) and merged them to form a team which would compete in the Southern (Beazer Homes) League Division One and... Oxford United F.C. is an English football team currently playing in Football League Two. ... Northampton Town Football Club is a football team based in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. ...
He is a close friend of 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. Gareth Harold Southgate (born September 3, 1970 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is a former English footballer, currently manager of Middlesbrough in the English Premiership. ... Crystal Palace Football Club is a professional football team based in South Norwood in south-east London and playing in the Coca-Cola Football League Championship, the second level of English football. ...
His highest claim to fame was being goalkeeper for Northampton Town when they won the Division Three playoffs in 1997; a stark contrast to Gareth Southgate's achievements - regular England appearances plus League Cup winner's medals with Aston Villa and Middlesbrough.
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Profile at UpThePosh! The Peterborough United Database
Woody is AndyWoodman, who started out his career as an apprentice at Crystal Palace in the late Eighties, signed up, we’re reminded some 140 to 150 times throughout this text, for £27.50 per week.
Woodman emerges as an improviser and a chancer probably well suited to the precariousness and vicissitudes of footballing life as a journeyman, of which he gives a bumpy enough account here.
There’s irony, too, in that Woodman’s career has been rather pillar-to-post whereas Southgate was practically held hostage for a year at Villa, missed out on a dream career move and ended up at Middlesbrough, graveyard of footballing ambition.
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