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Timothy David Flowers (born 3 February 1967) is an English
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manager and former player who recently was the manager of Stratford Town. He played as a
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from 1984 until 2003, notably in the
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for
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where he was part of side that won the
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. He also played in the top flight for
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and Leicester City as well as a brief stint at
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that yielded no appearances. He also played in the
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for
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,
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, Stockport County and
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. He earned eleven caps for England and was part of their Euro 1996 and 1998 World Cup squads. Following on his retirement, Flowers has largely worked as a goalkeeping coach in the professional game or as a manager in Non-League. He has managed Stafford Rangers, Solihull Moors, Macclesfield Town and Barnet, as well as working on the coaching staff at Leicester City, Manchester City, Coventry City,
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. Northampton Town, Kidderminster Harriers,
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and Cheltenham Town


Club career


Wolverhampton Wanderers

Flowers was born in
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, Warwickshire, and began his career with
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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.


Southampton

Flowers joined First Division club
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for £70,000 in June 1986. He was understudy to
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in 1986–87, but managed nine league appearances (the first in a 5–1 defeat to
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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 (by which time Shilton had joined Derby County) 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.


Blackburn Rovers

Flowers left Southampton on 4 November 1993 when a £2.4 million move to
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made him the most expensive goalkeeper in Britain. His excellent goalkeeping was not quite enough to win Blackburn the
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title in the
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, but they did finish second to Manchester United, and went one better the following year when they won their first top division title since
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. He remained at Ewood Park for another four seasons before Blackburn were relegated in 1999.


Leicester City

Flowers was transferred to Leicester City, where he collected a
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winner's medal in his first season. In August 2002 he went on loan to
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to provide cover for Carlo Nash after injuries to
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and Nicky Weaver. He stayed with Leicester 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 for Ian Walker. 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, manager
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ignored the fans and ordered Trevor Benjamin to take it, who scored.


International career

Flowers won 11
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with England between 1993 and 1998. He was in the squads for both Euro 96 in England and the
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in France. He retired following the 2002–03 season.


Coaching and managerial career

Following a spell as goalkeeper coach for both Leicester City and
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, on 19 February 2007 Flowers was appointed as assistant manager to Iain Dowie at
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. Flowers left Coventry on 11 February 2008 after Dowie was sacked, before joining him again at
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. He left the assistant manager's role at QPR as well after Dowie was sacked again. In February 2010, he was appointed part-time goalkeeper coach at Northampton Town, as well as mentoring Dean Coleman and Yasbir Singh at Kidderminster Harriers. On 17 March 2010, he re-joined Dowie when he was appointed as assistant manager at Premiership club,
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. On 14 October he was appointed manager of
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team Stafford Rangers. However, Flowers resigned on 11 January 2011 after just nine games in charge. On 22 November 2011, Flowers become manager of his second club, this time being appointed caretaker manager of Northampton Town on 22 November 2011. He only managed the club for one game, losing 4–1 to Plymouth Argyle, before
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became permanent manager at the club, although Flowers remained as goalkeeping coach. When Boothroyd was sacked by Northampton in January 2014, Flowers continued on the coaching staff under caretaker boss Andy King, but he left the club on 30 January 2014 following the appointment earlier that week of
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as the new manager of Northampton Town. On 6 March 2014, he was appointed first-team coach at Kidderminster Harriers. In July 2014, Flowers started working as a goalkeeper coach at
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under his former teammate, Nottingham Forest manager
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. Flowers left Forest following the dismissal of Pearce in February 2015. On 11 September 2015, it was reported that Flowers had replaced Gary Whild as manager of Kidderminster Harriers, but he left the club within a fortnight to be replaced by Dave Hockaday. On 20 June 2018, he returned to management with Solihull Moors replacing Mark Yates, who had joined newly promoted
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side Macclesfield Town. He left Solihull Moors by mutual consent on 28 January 2020. On 28 August 2020, Flowers was appointed as manager of then newly relegated Macclesfield Town, but the club was wound-up on 16 September 2020, before playing a competitive first team game. Flowers was appointed manager at Barnet on 14 December 2020. He left Barnet by mutual consent on 10 March 2021 after losing 11 of his 12 games in charge. On 25 November 2021, Flowers was appointed manager at Stratford Town.


Career statistics


Honours

Southampton *
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runner-up:
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Blackburn Rovers *
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: 1994–95 *
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runner-up:
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,
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Leicester City *
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:
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Individual *
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: January 1997, September 2000


References


External links

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Soccerbase managerial statisticsEnglandstats.com profileProfile on "Sporting Heroes" website
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