David Kerslake

David Kerslake (born 19 June 1966) is an English former professional footballer and coach, who is currently Assistant Manager of English League One side Lincoln City. As a player Kerslake appeared for Queens Park Rangers, Swindon Town, Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Ipswich Town and Wycombe Wanderers.[1]

David Kerslake
Personal information
Full name David Kerslake
Date of birth (1966-06-19) 19 June 1966
Place of birth Stepney, London, England
Position(s) Right Back
Club information
Current team
 Lincoln City (Assistant Manager)
Youth career
1982–1984 Queens Park Rangers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1989 Queens Park Rangers 58 (6)
1989–1993 Swindon Town 135 (1)
1993 Leeds United 8 (0)
1993–1997 Tottenham Hotspur 37 (0)
1996–1997 → Swindon Town (loan) 8 (0)
1997 → Charlton Athletic (loan) 0 (0)
1997–1998 Ipswich Town 7 (0)
1997–1998 → Wycombe Wanderers (loan) 10 (0)
1998–1999 Swindon Town 24 (0)
Canvey Island
Total 287 (7)
National team
England Schoolboys
England Youth
1985 England U21 1 (0)
Teams managed
2013–2014 Cardiff City (Caretaker)
2017 Northampton Town (Caretaker)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Kerslake won 29 England youth caps, a record at the time. He made his debut for Queens Park Rangers against Newcastle United in April 1985. He went on to play 58 league games for Rangers, scoring 6 goals. He was transferred to Swindon Town in November 1989.

Kerslake moved on to Leeds United, for only 3 months in which he made 8 appearances before moving to Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs paid £450,000 for Kerslake, however he only made 34 appearances in 4 years for them. He was sent on loan to Swindon and Charlton Athletic, before being released whereupon he joined Ipswich Town in 1997.

Again he only made a handful of appearances for Ipswich, moving on to Wycombe Wanderers and then finishing his career back at Swindon.

Coaching career

He moved later into coaching becoming assistant manager at Northampton Town to former teammate Colin Calderwood in 2003. The pair reached the playoff semi finals in each of the first two seasons at the club and in their third and final season at the club achieved automatic promotion into league one in the 2005–2006 season finishing with a club record for clean sheets with 25. He then followed Calderwood to Nottingham Forest, again as assistant manager in the summer on 2006 after the Scot was named as Gary Megsons predecessor. The duo again reached the playoffs in their first season in charge (2006-2007) but were beaten on aggregate by Yeovil Town in the semi final. Forest achieved automatic promotion to the Football League Championship in the 2007–2008 season with a run of 6 wins from their remaining 7 games and in the process overcome a 9-point gap with 4 games to go on the teams in the automatic places. Kerslake left Nottingham Forest after Calderwoods sacking in December 2008.

Kerslake was appointed first team coach at Watford but on 30 June 2011 was announced the new coach of Cardiff City working under Malky Mackay but this time as assistant manager.[2] Following the sacking of Mackay in December 2013, Kerslake and Joe McBride were placed in charge of the first-team.[3] They were in charge until 2 January 2014, when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was appointed as the new Cardiff City manager.[4]

On 6 July 2015 Gillingham appointed Kerslake as Justin Edinburgh's new assistant manager.[5] On 15 January 2017 he was hired again by Edinburgh to be the assistant manager at Northampton Town.[6] On 27 September 2019 he was brought in by Michael Appleton to serve as the new Assistant Manager of Lincoln City.

Honours

Individual

References
  1. "David Kerslake". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  2. "Malky Mackay's New Appointments". Cardiff City F.C. Official Site. Cardiff City Football Club. 30 June 2011. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  3. "Kerslake and McBride in charge". Belfast Telegraph. Belfast. 27 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  4. "Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: Cardiff City hire former Man Utd striker as boss". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  5. "Gillingham FC name David Kerslake as Assistant Manager". www.gillinghamfootballclub.com. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  6. "DAVID KERSLAKE APPOINTED AS JUSTIN EDINBURGH'S NUMBER 2 AS NEW MANAGER MAKES STAFF CHANGES". Northampton Town F.C. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  7. Lynch. The Official P.F.A. Footballers Heroes. p. 148.
  8. Lynch. The Official P.F.A. Footballers Heroes. p. 149.
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