Nick Tanner

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Nick Tanner
Personnel
Surname Nicholas Tanner
birthday May 24, 1965
place of birth Bristol ,  England
position Defense, midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1985 Mangotsfield United
1985-1988 Bristol Rovers 107 (3)
1988-1994 Liverpool FC 40 (1)
1990 →  Norwich City  (loan) 6 (0)
1990 →  Swindon Town  (loan) 7 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1997-2000 Mangotsfield United
2002-2003 Welton Rovers
2003-2005 Almondsbury Town
2005-2006 Roman Glass St George
2006-2007 Wotton Rovers
2009-2011 Winterbourne United
1 Only league games are given.

Nicholas "Nick" Tanner (born May 24, 1965 in Bristol , more rarely Nicky Tanner ) is a former English football player .

Career

Tanner played in his teenage years for the local amateur club Mangotsfield United in the Western League before moving to the professional field for the Bristol Rovers in the Football League Third Division in April 1985 . Just a month later, he came on as a substitute in the annual clash between the Rovers and local rivals Bristol City for the Gloucestershire Cup and scored a goal from over 40 meters in a 3-1 win. In the following three years Tanner, who was nicknamed "whoosh" by the Rovers, acted both in midfield control and on the flanks in midfield and in defense, playing 107 league games. In the summer of 1988 he received transfer clearance from Bristol for £ 20,000 and the reigning champions Liverpool FC expressed interest in addition to the fourth division side Torquay United .

Tanner decided to move to the top division of Liverpool and had to be a reservist for a long time. At Liverpool you saw Tanner's future, whose tackle and header strength stood out, in central defense, a position he had never occupied despite his versatility at Bristol and which at Liverpool was filled by the internationally experienced Gary Gillespie and Alan Hansen . He finally made his competitive debut in December 1989 in a 4-1 win against Manchester City, when he replaced Gillespie after a quarter of an hour. In the further course of the season Tanner completed three more missions when Liverpool won the 18th championship in the club's history; Tanner's four missions were not enough to get a championship medal. In March 1990 he was awarded for a month to league rivals Norwich City , with three central defenders Ian Butterworth , Andy Linighan and Tim Sherwood . Tanner played six games in the following weeks, Norwich remained four times clean and lost only one game. Then coach Dave Stringer tried unsuccessfully for a permanent commitment from Tanner. In October 1990 he spent a month on loan in the second division at Swindon Town , but the team remained without a win on its seven appearances.

Weaknesses in the ball handling and the game overview made him, in the opinion of author and journalist Ivan Ponting, initially "not look like a Liverpool player" and Tanner stayed in the 1990/91 season with Liverpool without a competitive game. For the 1991/92 season he benefited from an injury disaster and the change in the coaching bench that took place in February 1991, where Graeme Souness inherited the resigned Kenny Dalglish . After an injury to central defender Mark Wright, he moved to his position shortly after the start of the season and kept his regular place even after Wright's recovery. Due to his achievements, he received in January 1992, shortly before he had scored his only competitive goal for Liverpool in a 1-1 draw on Boxing Day in the Merseyside Derby against Everton , a new contract valid until the summer of 1995 on improved salaries. After 26 league appearances in a row, Tanner injured himself in the spring of 1992 and missed the FA Cup victory . As a result, Tanner only managed to return to the team sporadically. In March 1994 he finally had to end his career because of a recurring back injury, his last of 59 competitive appearances he had already played on December 16, 1992.

After the end of his playing career, Tanner coached a number of regional amateur clubs, was a scout for the fifth division Forest Green Rovers in 2006 and temporarily looked after the association selection of the Gloucestershire FA . He has been working in the insurance industry since he retired. In August 2017 his autobiography From A Field To Anfield was published .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mike Jay, Stephen Byrne: Pirates in Profile - A Bristol Rovers Players Who's Who 1902-94 . Pottens, Bristol 1995, ISBN 0-9524835-1-3 , pp. 259 .
  2. ^ A b Barry J. Hugman, Alan Platt: FA Carling Premiership, The Players, 1993-1994 . Tony Williams Publications, North Curry 1993, ISBN 1-869833-46-5 , pp. 325 .
  3. ^ A b Ivan Ponting: Liverpool Player by Player . Know the Score Books, Studley 2009, ISBN 978-1-84818-306-3 , pp. 185 .
  4. ↑ Mike Davage: Glorious Canaries - Past and Present 1902-1994 . Norwich City FC Ltd, Norfolk 1994, ISBN 0-9523857-0-8 , pp. 391 .
  5. ↑ bristolpost.co.uk: Former Bristol Rovers player Nick Tanner tells remarkable journey to Anfield in a new book (Aug 19, 2017) , accessed December 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanner, Nicholas; Tanner, Nicky (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol