Keith Downing

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Keith Downing
Personal information
Full name	Keith Gordon Downing
Date of birth	23 July 1965 (1965-07-23) (age 42)
Place of birth	Oldbury, England
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Cheltenham Town (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1983–1984 1984–1987 1987–1993 1993–1994 1994–1995 1995 1995–1999	Mile Oak Rovers Notts County Wolverhampton Wanderers Birmingham City Stoke City Cardiff City Hereford United	00? 0(?) 023 0(1) 191 0(8) 001 0(0) 016 0(0) 004 0(0) 059 0(1)
Teams managed
2007–	Cheltenham Town
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Keith Downing (born 23 July 1965 in Oldbury) is an English former professional footballer. He was nicknamed “Psycho” for his robust style playing in central midfield. He is currently the manager of Cheltenham Town.

Downing began his professional career in 1984 at Notts County, after a spell at Mile Oak Rovers, before moving to Wolves in 1987. At Wolves he played over 200 league and cup games, scoring 11 goals in total, and helping the team to two successive promotions in the late 1980s.

In 1993 Downing moved to Birmingham City, but managed only one league game, before leaving for Stoke City and later Cardiff City. He ended his playing career at Hereford United, becoming player-coach in 1998 and subsequently returned to Wolves as a youth team coach.

He joined Cheltenham Town as assistant manager in the summer of 2004, working alongside manager John Ward, who he had met through his time at Wolves where Ward had been assistant manager. When Ward left the club to join Carlisle United in October 2007, Downing stepped in as caretaker manager, before being given the position on a full time basis on 2 November 2007.

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