Keith Downing

Infobox Football biography
playername = Keith Downing


fullname = Keith Gordon Downing
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1965|7|23|df=y
cityofbirth = Oldbury
countryofbirth = England
height = height|metre=1.73
currentclub =
position = Midfielder
years = 1983–1984
1984–1987
1987–1993
1993–1994
1994–1995
1995
1995–1999
clubs = Mile Oak Rovers
Notts County
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Birmingham City
Stoke City
Cardiff City
Hereford United
caps(goals) = 00? 0(?)
023 0(1)
191 0(8)
001 0(0)
016 0(0)
004 0(0)
059 0(1)
manageryears = 2007–2008
managerclubs = Cheltenham Town

Keith Gordon Downing (born 23 July 1965 in Oldbury) is an English former footballer. He was nicknamed “Psycho” for his robust style playing in central midfield.

Career

Downing began his professional career in 1984 at Notts County, after a spell at Mile Oak Rovers, before moving to Wolves in 1987. At Wolves he played over 200 league and cup games, scoring 11 goals in total, and helping the team to two successive promotions in the late 1980s.

In 1993 Downing moved to Birmingham City, but managed only one league game, before leaving for Stoke City and later Cardiff City. He ended his playing career at Hereford United, becoming player-coach in 1998 and subsequently returned to Wolves as a youth team coach.

He joined Cheltenham Town as assistant manager in the summer of 2004, working alongside manager John Ward, who he had met through his time at Wolves where Ward had been assistant manager. When Ward left the club to join Carlisle United in October 2007, Downing stepped in as caretaker manager, before being given the position on a full time basis on 2 November 2007. He left the club by mutual consent on 13 September 2008. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cheltenham_town/7614259.stm] ]