Tim Flowers

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Tim Flowers
Personal information
Full name	Timothy David Flowers
Date of birth	3 February 1967 (1967-02-03) (age 42)
Place of birth	Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1984–1986 1986–1993 1987 1993–1999 1999–2003 2001 2002 2002	Wolverhampton Wanderers Southampton → Swindon Town (loan) Blackburn Rovers Leicester City → Stockport County (loan) → Coventry City (loan) → Manchester City (loan) Total	063 (0) 192 (0) 007 (0) 175 (0) 054 (0) 004 (0) 005 (0) 000 (0) 500 (0)
National team
1987 1993–1998	England U21 England	003 (0) 011 (0)
Teams managed
2007–2008 2008	Coventry City (assistant manager) Queens Park Rangers (assistant manager)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Timothy David "Tim" Flowers (born 3 February 1967) is an English former football goalkeeper and is currently unemployed after quitting his job as assistant manager of Queens Park Rangers.

Playing career

Flowers was born in Kenilworth and began his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1984. He quickly broke into the first team, becoming their regular goalkeeper by his 18th birthday, but his breakthrough came at the bleakest time in the club's history, as the two seasons he spent there both ended in relegation (in 1984-85 to the Third Division and in 1985-86 to the Fourth. After Wolves fell into the Fourth Division to complete a hat-trick of successive relegations, they had to sell Flowers as part of the effort to avoid bankruptcy and he joined First Division club Southampton for £70,000. He was understudy to Peter Shilton in 1986-87, but managed nine league appearances (the first in a 5-1 defeat to Manchester United in mid September) and also played a further nine games on loan to Swindon Town in the Third Division. He made another nine league appearances in 1987-88 and returned to Swindon for a five-match loan spell, before becoming Southampton's regular goalkeeper in the 1989-90 season.

Within a couple of years of becoming Southampton's first choice goalkeeper, Flowers was regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the English league and inevitable rumours of a transfer to a bigger club began. [1]

He finally left Southampton on 4 November 1993 when a £2.4million move to Blackburn Rovers made him the most expensive goalkeeper in Britain. His excellent goalkeeping wasn't quite enough to win Blackburn the Premier League title that season, but they did finish second to Manchester United, and went one better the following year when they won their first top division title since 1914.

He remained at Ewood Park for another four seasons before Blackburn were relegated in 1999 and he was transferred to Leicester City, where he collected a Football League Cup winner's medal in his first season. He stayed with them for one season after their relegation to Division One two years later before retiring as a player.

His final appearance for Leicester City was against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux in May 2003. It was the final game of the season, and with Leicester 1-0 down, Flowers came on as a late substitute. Leicester were awarded a late penalty, and despite shouts from the travelling Leicester fans for Flowers to take the penalty, and Flowers himself signalling to the bench, Micky Adams (then Leicester manager) ignored the fans, and allowed Trevor Benjamin to take it, who scored. It seemed harsh on Flowers, as Leicester were already promoted to the Premiership, and he could have ended his career with his only goal.

Flowers also won 11 caps with England between 1993 and 1998. He was in the squads for both Euro 96 in England and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. He retired following the 2002-03 season.

Coaching career

Following a spell as goalkeeper coach for both Leicester City and Manchester City, on 19 February 2007 he was appointed as assistant manager to Iain Dowie at Coventry City. Flowers left Coventry on 11 February 2008 after Dowie was sacked, before joining him again at QPR. He left the assistant manager's role at QPR as well after Dowie was sacked again.

Honours

Southampton

• Full Members Cup: runner-up 1992

Blackburn Rovers

• Premier League
  • Champion 1994-95
  • runner-up 1993-94
• FA Charity Shield: runner-up 1994, 1995

Leicester City

• League Cup: winner 2000

England

• Tournoi de France 1997: winner
• Umbro Cup 1995: runner-up
• 1998 King Hassan II International Cup Tournament: runner-up

External links

• Tim Flowers career stats at Soccerbase
• Englandstats.com profile

v • d • e England squad – UEFA Euro 1996 semi-finalists 1 Seaman • 2 G. Neville • 3 Pearce • 4 Ince • 5 Adams • 6 Southgate • 7 Platt • 8 Gascoigne • 9 Shearer • 10 Sheringham • 11 Anderton • 12 Howey • 13 Flowers • 14 Barmby • 15 Redknapp • 16 Campbell • 17 McManaman • 18 Ferdinand • 19 P. Neville • 20 Stone • 21 Fowler • 22 Walker • Coach: Venables

v • d • e England squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Seaman • 2 Campbell • 3 Le Saux • 4 Ince • 5 Adams • 6 Southgate • 7 Beckham • 8 Batty • 9 Shearer • 10 Sheringham • 11 McManaman • 12 Neville • 13 Martyn • 14 Anderton • 15 Merson • 16 Scholes • 17 Lee • 18 Keown • 19 L. Ferdinand • 20 Owen • 21 R. Ferdinand • 22 Flowers • Coach: Hoddle