Steve Sherwood

Steve Sherwood
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Sherwood
Date of birth	10 December 1953 (age 70)
Place of birth	Selby, England
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	Chelsea
Senior career*
Years	Team
1971–1976	Chelsea
1973	→ Millwall (loan)
1974	→ Brentford (loan)
1974–1975	→ Brentford (loan)
1976	→ Hartford Bicentennials (loan)
1976–1987	Watford
1987–1992	Grimsby Town
1993	Northampton Town
1994–1995	Lincoln City
1995–1997	Gateshead
1997–1998	Gainsborough Trinity
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stephen Sherwood (born 10 December 1953) is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, best remembered for his time at Watford, Chelsea and Grimsby Town.

Career

He played for Watford for 11 years, making 211 league appearances^[2] during Watford's most successful years under Graham Taylor and was in goal for the team when they lost 2–0 to Everton in the 1984 FA Cup final. He is one of the few goalkeepers to score a goal, against Coventry in 1984. His opposite number that day was Raddy Avramovic.

He started his career at Chelsea, breaking into the first team and making just 16 appearances between 1971 and 1976. At the end of the second of two loan spells with Brentford, he became the first ever loan player to go through a season as an ever-present in league matches, playing 46 matches in 1974–75, a season in which he was also voted the club's Supporters' Player of the Year.^[3] After Watford he played for Grimsby Town and Northampton Town and made an exit from league football in 1994 at the age of 40, moving on to Gateshead before retiring in 1998 with Gainsborough Trinity.

Personal life

His older brother is John Sherwood, a bronze medallist for hurdles at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. He is now a financial adviser in Grimsby.

Honours

Brentford Supporters' Player of the Year: 1974–75^[3]

References

^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
^ http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/watford/watford.html ^{[bare URL]}
^ ^a ^b White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 297. ISBN 0951526200.

External links

Blind, Stupid and Desperate - Watford FC site - Tributes - Steve Sherwood

This biographical article related to association football in England, about a goalkeeper, is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.

[2] ttp://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/watford/watford.html ^{[bare URL]}

[White2-3] White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 297. ISBN 0951526200.

[1]

[2]

[3]