Denny Ingram (born 27 June 1976) is an English
football player and coach. He previously played in
the Football League
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with
Hartlepool United as well as spells in the
Conference National
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with
Scarborough,
Halifax Town,
Forest Green Rovers and
Northwich Victoria.
Career
Ingram began his career as a trainee at Hartlepool United and made his first team debut on 20 November 1993 in a home game against
Wrexham
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. Ingram would go on to win the Hartlepool Supporters' Young Player of the Year award at the end of the 1993–94 season. At the end of the 1995–96 season Ingram received the Supporters' Away Player of the Year and featured for Hartlepool in the club's unsuccessful Division Three 1999–2000 play-off season.
He subsequently left the club at the end of that season making his final appearance in a Hartlepool shirt against
Northampton Town on 11 September 1999. Ingram had also spent some of his final year at Hartlepool on loan at
Scarborough. In total, Ingram featured in 228 first team games for Hartlepool scoring ten times.
Having enjoyed a loan spell at Scarborough in the latter stages of his Hartlepool career, Ingram joined the club permanently in July 2000. Ingram spent a season at Scarborough before eventually leaving for
Northwich Victoria of whom he spent two seasons with before moving clubs again.
Ingram linked up with
Forest Green Rovers in the summer of 2003 under manager
Colin Addison
Colin Addison (born 18 May 1940) is an English former professional footballer and manager.
Born in Taunton, Somerset, Addison started his playing career with York City before moving to Nottingham Forest, Arsenal and Sheffield United. His ...
. Ingram made 32 appearances in the
Conference National
The National League, known as the Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest level of the National League System and fifth-highest of the overall English football league system. It is the highest league that is semi-profes ...
scoring 2 goals but he left the club after just one season.
Ingram returned north and signed for
Halifax Town and featured for two years at Halifax making 61 league appearances in a spell that was ended when Ingram signed for
Scarborough for an undisclosed fee in January 2006.
For the 2006–07 season, Ingram was made club captain by manager
Mark Patterson and also was appointed as the club's new assistant manager. That season was to be the last for Scarborough however and for Ingram's stay with the club as crippling debts at the Conference club led to the club being wound up in June 2007.
Ingram then moved to
Harrogate Town
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The club is nicknamed the Sulphurites, due to the ...
in June 2008. This was followed by a short spell at
Whitby Town
Whitby Town Football Club is an English football club based in Whitby, North Yorkshire. The club participates in the Northern Premier League, the seventh tier of English football. Founded in 1880, Whitby are one of the oldest clubs from the Nor ...
.
Ingram then eventually returned to football in Scarborough by signing for phoenix club
Scarborough Athletic in August 2010.
He has continued coaching in the
Scarborough area. In the summer of 2015 he departed
Tadcaster Albion and joined
Pickering Town as player/assistant manager. At the same time he was a member of the behaviour management unit at local secondary school George Pindar School but departed in mid 2017 to join the coaching staff at the Scarborough football Scholarship located at the Flamingo Land Stadium in Scarborough.
Ingram was appointed manager of
Pickering Town, in February 2019. He was sacked on 3 January 2020.
NON-LEAGUE PREVIEWS: Steve Roberts replaces Denny Ingram as Pickering Town boss
yorkpress.co.uk, 3 January 2020
References
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1976 births
Living people
Footballers from Sunderland
Footballers from Scarborough, North Yorkshire
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Hartlepool United F.C. players
Scarborough F.C. players
Northwich Victoria F.C. players
Forest Green Rovers F.C. players
Halifax Town A.F.C. players
Harrogate Town A.F.C. players
Whitby Town F.C. players
Scarborough Athletic F.C. players
Tadcaster Albion A.F.C. players
Pickering Town F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players