Tony Parks

Tony Parks
Personal information
Full name Anthony Parks[1]
Date of birth (1963-01-26) 26 January 1963
Place of birth Hackney, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
– Tottenham Hotspur
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1988 Tottenham Hotspur 37 (0)
1986 → Oxford United (loan) 5 (0)
1987 → Gillingham (loan) 2 (0)
1988–1990 Brentford 71 (0)
1990 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 0 (0)
1990–1991 Fulham 2 (0)
1991–1992 West Ham United 6 (0)
1992 Stoke City 2 (0)
1992–1996 Falkirk 112 (0)
1996–1997 Blackpool 0 (0)
1997–1998 Burnley 0 (0)
1998 → Doncaster Rovers (loan) 6 (0)
1998–1999 Barrow
1999 Scarborough 15 (0)
1999–2002 Halifax Town 6 (0)
Teams managed
2000 Halifax Town (caretaker manager)
2001 Halifax Town (caretaker manager)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Tony Parks (born 26 January 1963) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. In a career spanning over 20 years, he was on the books of 15 different clubs, making more than 250 league appearances,[2][3] and won the 1983–84 UEFA Cup with Tottenham Hotspur. After retiring as a player he had two spells as joint caretaker manager of Halifax Town.[4][5]

Career

Parks was born in Hackney, London, and began his football career with Tottenham Hotspur.[3] Though never a first-team regular, he was on the winning side in the 1984 UEFA Cup Final, in which he saved the final penalty from Anderlecht's Arnór Guðjohnsen in the penalty shootout.[6] While still at Tottenham he had loan spells at fellow First Division club Oxford United and third-tier Gillingham.

Following his departure from Spurs in 1988 he signed for Third Division side Brentford, for whom he played 71 league games. In the 1990–91 season he was loaned to Queens Park Rangers in the First Division and subsequently joined third-tier side Fulham. Spells at West Ham United and Stoke City followed before he started a four-season spell at Scottish side Falkirk. After leaving them in 1996, his career concluded with spells at Blackpool, Burnley, Doncaster Rovers, Barrow, Scarborough and Halifax Town.[2]

After his playing career ended, Parks went on to work as a goalkeeping coach. He held roles at several clubs and also worked with the England youth teams for the Football Association.[6] In November 2008, he returned to Tottenham, succeeding Hans Leitert as goalkeeping coach.[7]

On 4 June 2016, Parks was released from his position of goalkeeping coach by Aston Villa.[8] Prior to the 2018–19 season, Parks was employed as Head of Academy Goalkeeping at Watford.[9] However, he left the club in September 2018 to take a break from professional coaching.

Football League career statistics

Source:[10]

Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Tottenham Hotspur 1981–82 First Division 2000000020
1982–83 First Division 1000001[lower-alpha 1]020
1983–84 First Division 16030005[lower-alpha 2]0240
1984–85 First Division 0000000000
1985–86 First Division 0000000000
1986–87 First Division 2000000020
1987–88 First Division 160201000190
Total 370501060490
Oxford United (loan) 1986–87 First Division 5000000050
Gillingham (loan) 1987–88 Third Division 2000000020
Brentford 1988–89 Third Division 33070302[lower-alpha 3]0450
1989–90 Third Division 37010403[lower-alpha 3]0450
1990–91 Third Division 1000000010
Total 710807050910
Queens Park Rangers (loan) 1990–91 First Division 0000000000
Fulham 1990–91 Third Division 2000000020
West Ham United 1991–92 First Division 6030000090
Stoke City 1992–93 Second Division 2000100030
Blackpool 1996–97 Second Division 0000000000
Burnley 1997–98 Second Division 0000000000
1998–99 Second Division 0000200020
Doncaster Rovers (loan) 1997–98 Third Division 6000000060
Scarborough 1998–99 Third Division 150000000150
Halifax Town 1999–2000 Third Division 1000200030
2000–01 Third Division 5000100060
Career total 15201601401101930
  1. ↑ Appearance in European Cup Winners' Cup
  2. ↑ Appearance in UEFA Cup
  3. 1 2 Appearances in Football League Trophy

Honours

Club

Tottenham Hotspur;
Falkirk

References

  1. ↑ "Tony Parks". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Tony Parks". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  3. 1 2 "Tony Parks". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  4. ↑ Nixon, Alan (4 October 2000). "Bracewell given task of rescuing Halifax". The Independent. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  5. ↑ Wilson, Scott (3 April 2002). "Halifax count cost of Bracewell's exit". The Independent. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  6. 1 2 Staves, Russell (11 October 2007). "Parks' life". The Football Association. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  7. ↑ "Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp appoints Tony Parks to help Heurelho Gomes". The Daily Telegraph. 21 November 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  8. ↑ "Aston-Villa release goalkeeping coach Tony Parks following Roberto Di Matteo's arrival". Daily Mail. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  9. ↑ "Sarll: "I'm Eager To Get My Teeth Into It"". Watford F.C. 7 August 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  10. ↑ Tony Parks at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  11. ↑ McKinney, David (13 December 1993). "Football: Falkirk find their fire". The Independent. London. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
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