Dean Spink

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Dean Spink
Date of birth	January 22, 1967 (1967-01-22) (age 41)
Place of birth	Birmingham, England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position	Striker / Defender
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988 - 1989 1989 - 1990 1989 1990 1990 - 1997 1997 - 2000 1999 2000 - 2002 2002 2002-2003 2003	Halesowen Town Aston Villa Scarborough Bury Shrewsbury Town Wrexham Shrewsbury Town Chester City Telford United Kidsgrove Athletic Colwyn Bay	003 (0) 006 (0) 273 (53) 085 (9) 004 (0) 021 (2) 003 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Dean Spink (born 22 January 1967 in Birmingham) is an English former professional footballer who played either as a striker or a defender. Since retiring as a player he has become a physiotherapist for Shrewsbury Town.

[edit] Career

Spink began at non-league Halesowen Town before signing for First Division Aston Villa for £30,000 in 1989. He never made the grade at Villa, and spent loan spells at Scarborough and Bury before moving to Shrewsbury Town where he spent seven years. In his first year with the club he was switched from centre-forward to centre-back, and won the club's player of the year award.

He had played over 300 games for Shrewsbury before moving across the border in 1997 to local rivals Wrexham, where he spent three seasons. Whilst at Wrexham he returned to Shrewsbury on a month's loan, and when he left the Welsh club in 2000 he didn't travel too far to his next two clubs, Chester City and Telford United, who were both in the Nationwide Conference at the time. His spell at Chester saw him have a very brief spell as joint caretaker-manager with Owen Brown and Andy Porter, between the departure of Steve Mungall in December 2001 and the arrival of Mark Wright in January 2002. He later had short spells with Kidsgrove Athletic (where he was assistant manager to Porter) and Colwyn Bay.

Since retiring Spink has ventured into nursery care and gym training, and returned to Shrewsbury initially as youth-team physiotherapist before getting promoted to first-team physio.^[1]

[edit] Honours

Football League Division Three champions: 1993-94, Shrewsbury Town.
Auto Windscreens Shield runners-up: 1995-96, Shrewsbury Town.
Voted Shrewsbury's cult hero by viewers of the BBC show Football Focus in 2004.

[edit] References

Shrewsbury's cult heroes. BBC Sport. Retrieved on June 21, 2007.
Dean Spink. Soccerbase. Retrieved on June 21, 2007.

^ Dean Spink's Hall Of Fame. Premier Global. Retrieved on June 21, 2007.

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