Richard William Holden was born on 9 September 1964 and is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger for six clubs in a decade-long career.
19 Facts About Rick Holden
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Rick Holden made one Football League appearance for the Clarets, in a defeat at Leyton Orient, the following year.
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Rick Holden was asked to leave by incoming manager Brian Miller after being unable to commit to full-time training due to his attendance at Carnegie College Leeds.
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Rick Holden went on to achieve a degree in Human Movement in 1987.
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Rick Holden joined Halifax Town as an amateur in August 1986.
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Rick Holden remained at Halifax until the spring of 1988, at which point Billy Ayre had taken over from Peterborough-bound Mick Jones.
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Rick Holden joined Oldham just as the club was about to embark on one of the most notable seasons in its history, better known as the "pinch-me season", when the club reached the semi-final of the FA Cup and the final of the League Cup.
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Rick Holden was ever-present in the club's first season in the top flight for 68 years.
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Rick Holden was ever-present as the club reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, only to be relegated from the Premier League.
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Rick Holden opted to stay with the club despite the decline, but further problems were to come when Joe Royle left the club to manage Everton.
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Rick Holden suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in February 1996 and failed to recover from it.
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Rick Holden had been playing for ten years without knowledge that he had ruptured his posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
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Rick Holden worked at Noble's Hospital and became head of its outpatient physiotherapy department.
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Rick Holden started to turn out for Peel, and in 1999 became their manager.
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Rick Holden played 199 games for them, scoring 105 goals.
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Rick Holden subsequently became assistant manager and head physio at Barnsley, in 2004, to managers Paul Hart and former Oldham teammate Andy Ritchie.
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In 2007, after living in Cullingworth, West Yorkshire, Rick Holden returned to the Isle of Man and opened Island Physiotherapy, based at Peel, where he was manager of the team until August 2014.
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Rick Holden coached St John's, Ayre United and the Isle of Man FA's men's representative side, including an Island Games gold medal success in 2017.
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In 1995, while at Blackpool, Rick Holden obtained a degree in physiotherapy Salford University.