David Corner (soccer player)

David Corner
Personnel
Surname	David Edward Corner
birthday	May 15, 1966
place of birth	Sunderland ,  England
position	Central defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1984-1988	Sunderland AFC	33 (1)
1985	→  Cardiff City  (loan)	6 (0)
1988	→  Peterborough United  (loan)	9 (0)
1988-1989	Leyton Orient	4 (0)
1989-1991	Darlington FC	56 (9)
1991-1995	Gateshead FC	99 (8)
	Whitley Bay FC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	England U-19
1 Only league games are given.

David Edward Corner (born May 15, 1966 in Sunderland ) is a retired English football player .

Career

Corner received his first professional contract as a junior player at Sunderland AFC in April 1984. His first steps in the professional field were not very promising. On his debut in the Black Cats defense against Nottingham Forest on September 1, 1984, Forest striker Peter Davenport scored a hat trick and Corner was taken off the field prematurely. In his fourth competitive game, the 1985 League Cup final against Norwich City in front of 100,000 spectators at London's Wembley Stadium , after losing the ball on the corner flag, the 1-0 winner for Norwich fell. The fans never forgave him for this mistake, not least because of this mistake , the FourFourTwo magazine named him the worst Sunderland player of all time in 2005. In August 1985 he took part in the Junior World Championship in the Soviet Union with the English youth team. The man was in the starting line-up in all three preliminary rounds when the poorly prepared English team missed the knockout round against Paraguay, China and Mexico.

After returning from the World Cup, he was loaned to Cardiff City for a month and returned to Sunderland after six unimpressive league appearances. After Sunderland was relegated to the Second Division in 1985, Corner came in 1986/87, when the club even had to relegate to the Third Division, to 17 missions before he played no role in the promotion season 1987/88 under the new coach Denis Smith and in March 1988 was awarded to fourth division Peterborough United . In the summer of 1988 he finally moved to Leyton Orient , but did not know how to convince there either and just one year later he joined Darlington FC , who had been relegated to Conference National . The 1989/90 season he ended with Darlington on the first place in the table, making the direct return to the Football League , a success to which he had contributed with nine goals in 41 inserts. When Darlington even managed to march through to the third division a year later, Corner was only part of the extended squad with 15 missions and switched back to non-league football in 1991 . He played in the following four years at FC Gateshead in the Conference National (99 league appearances, 8 goals) and Whitley Bay FC in the Northern Premier League . Corner earned his living after the end of his professional career as an insurance agent before he joined the police force around 1997.

literature

• Garth Dykes, Doug Lamming: All the Lads - A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC Polar Print Group Ltd, Leicester 2000, ISBN 1-899538-15-1 , pp. 92 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Compilation of the game on youtube.com ( Memento from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ FourFourTwo No ° 128, April 2005
3. ↑ FIFA (Ed.): Technical Report - USSR '85 . Zurich 1985, p. 44f
4. ^ John Crooks: The Bluebirds - A Who's Who of Cardiff City Football League Players . Seargeant Brothers Printers Ltd, Pontypool 1987, ISBN 0-9511984-1-6 , p. 25 .
5. ^ John Harman: Alliance to Conference 1979-2004: The First 25 Years . Tony Williams Publications, 2005, ISBN 978-1-869833-52-7 , pp. 195 .
6. ^ John Harman: Alliance to Conference 1979-2004: The First 25 Years . Tony Williams Publications, 2005, ISBN 978-1-869833-52-7 , pp. 289 ff .
7. ↑ wakefieldexpress.co.uk: FOOTBALLER SIGNS UP FOR THE BEAT (Feb. 6, 1997)