Neil Cox is a former English footballer and manager who built up an impressive 400 career appearances and was also capped at Under-21 level for England. The talented defender wore the colours of teams including Scunthorpe, Aston Villa, Middlesbrough, Bolton and Crewe, and has managed Leek Town and AFC Wimbledon since retiring as a player. Cox began his career at the town where he was born and for the club he supported as a child, Scunthorpe United. He began playing for his hometown club when he just 11 years old, progressing through the youth ranks before signing a professional deal in 1990.
His impressive performances gained the attention of Aston Villa in 1991, and he moved to the First Division side for a fee of£400,000. Cox enjoyed 50 appearances for Aston Villa, including a memorable victory over Manchester United in the 1994 League Cup Final. His next move was to Middlesbrough for a club record transfer fee of £1 million, and the club achieved promotion to the Premier League in his first season there.In the following years, Cox, capable of playing at centre or right-back, moved to Watford after a brief spell at Bolton Wanderers.
Cox went on to become Watford’s captain, and made over 200 appearances for the Hornets.Cox pursued a management career after hanging up his boots as a player, firstly at Leek Town, then sharing management duties with long-term friend Neal Ardley at AFC Wimbledon, and the pair successfully led the team to promotion in 2016.
Fore Four 2 Podcast is a podcast hosted by ex professional footballer John Mcginlay and Liam Harrison From GolfMates.
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Trevor Francis 1st million pound player
Another Great podcast with some interesting stories , liked the stories about Doug Ellis at Villa and Paul
Another excellent interview, gentlemen. It's funny as, and an informative insight into the game of football. Well done 👏
A mate of mine as been a sheff utd serporter for year's he would love it if you'd help trainq them it would make his day
Ah, the good old days when blackface and betting fraud was “banter”. A bit of a dinosaur, with an overinflated ego.
Too much all our yesterdays
pontus kamark was the Leicester player
Top bloke Coxy. Lovely guy and cracking golfer. Another Wychwood member too!
Says Ravenelli was a good friend of his, then spends the next couple of minutes slagging him.
brilliant podcast guys keep them coming
Brilliant podcast lads yet again, I think that was the best one yet
Top top draw
Great podcast guys Coxy top man thanks for what you did at my club watford
Really enjoyed the interview, thanks 👍
Great pod cast Liam and John I think this is the best one yet well done boys keep them coming 👏👏👏
And Managed the mighty Leek Town , wish he would have stayed longer
Those seats are mostly broken or were whenever I went with Lincoln!
Another quality episode fella's
There’s a coaching job at Bolton going Neil !! Great lad.