Phil Horner

Football manager infobox
playername = Phil Horner


fullname = Philip Matthew Horner
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1966|11|10
cityofbirth = Leeds
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = Blackpool (physio)
position = Defender (retired)
years = 1983-1988
1985-1986
1988-1990
1990-1996
1995-1996
1996-1999
1999-2000
clubs = Leicester City
→ Rotherham United (loan)
Halifax Town
Blackpool
→ Southport (loan)
Southport
Lancaster City
Career
caps(goals) = 010 0(0)
004 0(0)
072 0(4)
187 (22)
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00? 0(?)
00? 0(?)
273 (26)
manageryears =
managerclubs =

Philip Matthew Horner (born 10 November 1966 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is a former professional footballer. He is now a qualified physiotherapist and works at his former playing club Blackpool.

Career

Horner began his career with Leicester City in 1983, but he only made ten league appearances in five years at Filbert Street and spent a short spell on loan at Rotherham United in the 1985-86 season.

In 1988, he joined Halifax Town, then managed by Billy Ayre. Horner followed Ayre to Blackpool when the latter became manager of the Tangerines in 1990. In six years at Bloomfield Road he made 187 league appearances, scoring 22 goals.

He joined Southport on loan in the 1995-96 season. After finishing his professional playing career at Bloomfield Road, Horner went on to play non-league football for Southport in the Football Conference from 1996 to 1999 while he studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in physiotherapy.cite web
title = Blackpool Football Club Physiotherapist - Phil Horner
publisher = Blackpool F.C.
date = 2001-06-14
url = http://www.blackpoolfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/WhosWho/0,,10432~66875,00.html
accessdate = 2008-09-15] He finished his playing career with Lancaster City in the 1999-2000 season in the Northern Premier League Premier Division.

Post-football career

After gaining his degree, Horner worked as a physiotherapist at Royal Preston Hospital before returning to Bloomfield Road to become Blackpool FC's club physiotherapist in November 2000,cite news
title = Macca needto sell to buy
publisher = Lancashire Evening Telegraph
date = 2000-11-17
url = http://archive.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/2000/11/17/705388.html
accessdate = 2008-09-15] a role he continues to fulfill.cite web
title = Contact Us
publisher = Blackpool F.C.
url = http://www.blackpoolfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/FeedbackForm/0,,10432,00.html
accessdate = 2008-09-15] Horner is a member of both the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the Council of Professional Supplementary Medicine.cite web
title = Physiotherapy
publisher = Fylde Medical Clinic
url = http://www.dmi-uk.com/text/documents/FMC/physiotherapy.htm
accessdate = 2008-09-15]

Honours

Blackpool

* Division Four play-off winner: 1991-92

References

External links

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* [http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/blackpool/blackpool.htm Blackpool career profile]