26 Facts About Tim Flowers

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Timothy David Flowers was born on 3 February 1967 and is an English football manager and former player who is currently manager of National League North side Gloucester City.

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Tim Flowers played in the top flight for Southampton and Leicester City as well as a brief stint at Manchester City that yielded no appearances.

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Tim Flowers played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Swindon Town, Stockport County and Coventry City.

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Tim Flowers earned eleven caps for England and was part of their Euro 1996 and 1998 World Cup squads.

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Tim Flowers has managed Stafford Rangers, Solihull Moors, Macclesfield Town, Barnet and Gloucester City, as well as working on the coaching staff at Leicester City, Manchester City, Coventry City, Queens Park Rangers.

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Tim Flowers was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, and began his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1984.

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Tim Flowers remained at Ewood Park for another four seasons before Blackburn were relegated in 1999.

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Tim Flowers was transferred to Leicester City, where he collected a Football League Cup winner's medal in his first season.

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Tim Flowers stayed with Leicester for one season after their relegation to Division One two years later before retiring as a player.

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Leicester were awarded a late penalty, and despite shouts from the travelling Leicester fans for Tim Flowers to take the penalty, and Tim Flowers himself signalling to the bench, manager Micky Adams ignored the fans and ordered Trevor Benjamin to take it, who scored.

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Tim Flowers won 11 caps with England between 1993 and 1998.

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Tim Flowers was in the squads for both Euro 96 in England and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France.

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Tim Flowers left Coventry on 11 February 2008 after Dowie was sacked, before joining him again at Queens Park Rangers.

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Tim Flowers left the assistant manager's role at QPR as well after Dowie was sacked again.

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However, Tim Flowers resigned on 11 January 2011 after just nine games in charge.

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On 22 November 2011, Flowers become manager of his second club, this time being appointed caretaker manager of Northampton Town on 22 November 2011.

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When Boothroyd was sacked by Northampton in January 2014, Tim Flowers continued on the coaching staff under caretaker boss Andy King, but he left the club on 30 January 2014 following the appointment earlier that week of Chris Wilder as the new manager of Northampton Town.

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In July 2014, Tim Flowers started working as a goalkeeper coach at Nottingham Forest under his former teammate, Nottingham Forest manager Stuart Pearce.

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Tim Flowers left Forest following the dismissal of Pearce in February 2015.

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On 11 September 2015, it was reported that Tim Flowers had replaced Gary Whild as manager of Kidderminster Harriers, but he left the club within a fortnight to be replaced by Dave Hockaday.

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Tim Flowers left Solihull Moors by mutual consent on 28 January 2020.

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On 28 August 2020, Tim Flowers was appointed as manager of then newly relegated Macclesfield Town, but the club was wound-up on 16 September 2020, before playing a competitive first team game.

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Tim Flowers was appointed manager at Barnet on 14 December 2020.

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Tim Flowers left Barnet by mutual consent on 10 March 2021 after losing 11 of his 12 games in charge.

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On 25 November 2021, Tim Flowers was appointed manager at Stratford Town.

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On 19 May 2023, Tim Flowers was announced as manager of National League North side Gloucester City.