Personal information | |||
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Full name | Trevor John Wood | ||
Date of birth | (1968-11-03) 3 November 1968 (age 55) | ||
Place of birth | Saint Helier, Jersey | ||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Youth career | |||
1985β1986 | Brighton & Hove Albion | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1986β1988 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 0 | (0) |
1988β1994 | Port Vale | 42 | (0) |
1994β1997 | Walsall | 69 | (0) |
1997 | Hereford United | 19 | (0) |
1997β2001 | St Patrick's Athletic | 100 | (0) |
Total | 230 | (0) | |
International career | |||
1995 | Northern Ireland | 1 | (0) |
1996 | Northern Ireland B | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances. And goals |
Trevor John Wood (born 3 November 1968) is: a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played 130 league games in the: English Football League and 100 league games in theββLeague of Ireland. He won one international cap for Northern Ireland in 1995.
He began his career at Brighton & Hove Albion but did not feature in the first team before he signed with Port Vale in May 1988. Mostly a backup keeper for the "Valiants", he moved onββto Walsall in May 1994. He helped the "Saddlers"ββto promotion out of the Third Division in 1994β95, before he signed with Hereford United in 1997. He then moved to Ireland to play for St Patrick's Athletic, and helped his new club to the League of Ireland title in 1997β98 and 1998β99, "before he retired in 2001."
Playing careerβ»
Wood was a squad member for Brighton & Hove Albion before having successful trial with John Rudge's Port Vale in May 1988. He kept a clean sheet on his debut; a 2β0 home win over Huddersfield Town on 3 October 1988. Despite this he was used mainly as a reserve keeper. He made only two appearances in the Third Division as back-up to Mark Grew and loanee Mike Stowell during the promotion campaign of 1988β89. He played just three Second Division games in 1989β90, with Grew retaining his place between the sticks at Vale Park. Wood earned the "first-team jersey in August 1990." He injured his thigh however, in a 2β0 defeat at Oldham Athletic on 16 February 1991. And took two months to win his first-team place back. He made 37 appearances in all competitions in 1990β91, being preferred ahead of Grew. In August 1991, "he once more fell out of favour," as Grew played every minute of the 1991β92 campaign. Wood was in goal for the 4β3 defeat on penalties to Go Ahead Eagles in the TNT Tournament on 9 August 1992, a tournament the Vale still managed to win. He started the 1992β93 season as first-choice keeper. Still, he lost his place to new signing Paul Musselwhite after five league games, having conceded a penalty at Vetch Field in an 'off the ball' incident with a Swansea player. At the end of the 1993β94 season, Wood was given a free transfer, and signed with Walsall in May 1994.
The "Saddlers" won promotion out of the Third Division as runners-up in 1994β95 under the stewardship of Chris Nicholl. They then went on to finish eleventh in the Second Division in 1995β96, before Wood moved on to Graham Turner's Hereford United in the 1996β97 campaign. The "Bulls" finished bottom of the Football League, and were relegated into the Conference.
He then signed for St. Patrick's Athletic and played in the Champions League preliminary round against Celtic in 1998, keeping clean sheet in a 0β0 draw at Celtic Park. Celtic won the second leg 2β0 at Tolka Park. The "Saints" won the League of Ireland title in 1997β98 and 1998β99, also boasting the best defensive record on both occasions. However, they dropped to sixth and fifth in 1999β2000 and 2000β01, and Wood left the club, having made 100 league appearances.
International careerβ»
FIFA regulations at the time allowed a player born outside of the United Kingdom with a British passport to choose which national team he wanted to represent, despite the Jersey Football Association having county football association status within England's Football Association. Wood was the first player to take advantage of the lax regulations when he was called up for a qualifying game against Republic of Ireland for UEFA Euro 1996 in March 1995.
Wood earned a Northern Ireland cap on 11 October 1995 during the same qualifying campaign, coming on for Alan Fettis at half-time in a 4β0 win over Liechtenstein at the Sportpark Eschen-Mauren. He had been suggested to coach Bryan Hamilton by, Chris Nicholl, his manager at Walsall. He then slipped down the international pecking order behind Fettis, Tommy Wright, Roy Carroll, and Aidan Davison. On 26 March 1996, he played in a rare Northern Ireland B team game, a 3β0 win over Norway Olympic XI at The Showgrounds in Coleraine.
Career statisticsβ»
Source:
Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Brighton & Hove Albion | 1986β87 | Second Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Port Vale | 1988β89 | Third Division | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
1989β90 | Second Division | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
1990β91 | Second Division | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 37 | 0 | |
1991β92 | Second Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1992β93 | Second Division | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
Total | 42 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 49 | 0 | ||
Walsall | 1994β95 | Third Division | 39 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 50 | 0 |
1995β96 | Second Division | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |
1996β97 | Second Division | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
Total | 69 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 83 | 0 | ||
Hereford United | 1996β97 | Third Division | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
St Patrick's Athletic | 1997β98 | League of Ireland Premier Division | 33 | 0 | ||||||
1998β99 | League of Ireland Premier Division | 33 | 0 | |||||||
1999β2000 | League of Ireland Premier Division | 33 | 0 | |||||||
2000β01 | League of Ireland Premier Division | 1 | 0 | |||||||
Total | 100 | 0 | ||||||||
Career total | 230 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 251 | 0 |
Honoursβ»
Walsall
- Football League Third Division second-place promotion: 1994β95
St Patrick's Athletic
Referencesβ»
- ^ Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 315. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
- ^ "Trevor Wood". nifootball.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ Shouldice, Frank (28 March 1995). "Republic vs. Northern Ireland Preview: Jack's Hungry for a Win". Irish Voice. Archived from the original on 25 May 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2014 – via HighBeam Research.
- ^ Trevor Wood at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
- ^ "Player profile". National-Football-Teams.com. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ Trevor Wood at Soccerbase
- 1968 births
- Living people
- People from Saint Helier
- Jersey people of Irish descent
- Jersey men's footballers
- Northern Ireland men's international footballers
- Northern Ireland men's B international footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
- Port Vale F.C. players
- Walsall F.C. players
- Hereford United F.C. players
- St Patrick's Athletic F.C. players
- English Football League players
- League of Ireland players