David Watson

Where is David Watson now?

Barnsley born and bred and also a one-club man, goalkeeper David Watson’s playing career was cruelly cut short due to a knee injury in 2001 at the age of 28.

A former England under-21 player, Watson was in goal for the majority of Barnsley’s one and only season in the Premier League in 1997-98 and despite retiring early still managed 178 first-team appearances.

Upon hanging up his gloves he worked his way up the coaching ladder and worked as a goalkeeper coach at Northampton Town, Oldham Athletic, Huddersfield Town, Nottingham Forest and also the England under-19’s national side.

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Watson’s reputation as one of the best goalkeeping coaches in the country was enhanced when he joined Birmingham City in 2008 where he coached and developed future England internationals Joe Hart, Ben Foster and Jack Butland. This led to an invitation from Roy Hodgson to join the international set-up as goalkeeping coach.

In 2012, he moved to Norwich City where he linked up once again with Chris Hughton whom he worked under at Birmingham City. Whilst at the canaries he coached another England goalkeeper in John Ruddy.

In July 2014, he joined Ronald Koeman’s new look coaching set up at Southampton and stayed on in his goalkeeping coach role with the England national side until 2016 when Sam Allardyce replaced Roy Hodgson and brought in his own coach.

No longer involved in the international setup, he was promoted to Southampton’s head of goalkeeping in 2016 before another promotion to first team assistant coach under manager Ralph Hasenhüttl in 2019.

Unfortunately he was one of three coaches axed by the club at the end of the 2021-22 season after a disappointing 15th place league finish.

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Dave Watson: Premier League Statistics

NationalityEnglish
PositionGoalkeeper
Appearances35
Goals0
Yellow Cards0
Red Cards0
Premier League Teams Played forBarnsley

Statistics courtesy of www.premierleague.com

Last Updated on 27 March 2024 by Admin