 Flowers in 2020 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Timothy David Flowers[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1967-02-03)3 February 1967 (age 59)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Kenilworth, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[2] | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Bromsgrove Sporting (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1984–1986 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 63 | (0) |
| 1986–1993 | Southampton | 192 | (0) |
| 1987 | →Swindon Town (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 1993–1999 | Blackburn Rovers | 177 | (0) |
| 1999–2003 | Leicester City | 56 | (0) |
| 2001 | →Stockport County (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2002 | →Coventry City (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2002 | →Manchester City (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 504 | (0) | |
| International career | |||
| 1983 | England U17 | 2 | (0) |
| 1984 | England Youth | 1 | (0) |
| 1987 | England U21 | 3 | (0) |
| 1993–1998 | England | 11 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2010–2011 | Stafford Rangers | ||
| 2011 | Northampton Town (caretaker) | ||
| 2013 | Northampton Town (caretaker) | ||
| 2018–2020 | Solihull Moors | ||
| 2020 | Macclesfield Town | ||
| 2020–2021 | Barnet | ||
| 2021–2022 | Stratford Town | ||
| 2023 | Gloucester City | ||
| 2024 | Bromsgrove Sporting (caretaker) | ||
| 2024 | Redditch United | ||
| 2024–2025 | Alvechurch | ||
| 2025– | Bromsgrove Sporting | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Timothy David Flowers (born 3 February 1967) is an Englishfootballmanager and former player who currently managesBromsgrove Sporting.
He played as agoalkeeper from 1984 until 2003, notably in thePremier League forBlackburn Rovers where he was part of the side that won the1994–95 FA Premier League. He also played in the top flight forSouthampton andLeicester City as well as a brief stint atManchester City that yielded no appearances. He also played in theFootball League forWolverhampton Wanderers,Swindon Town,Stockport County andCoventry City. He earned eleven caps forEngland and was part of theirEuro 1996 and1998 World Cup squads.
Following his retirement, Flowers has largely worked as a goalkeeping coach in the professional game or as a manager in Non-League. He has managedStafford Rangers,Solihull Moors,Macclesfield Town,Barnet,Stratford Town,Gloucester City,Bromsgrove Sporting,Redditch United andAlvechurch, as well as working on the coaching staff at Leicester City, Manchester City, Coventry City,Queens Park Rangers,Northampton Town,Kidderminster Harriers,Nottingham Forest, andCheltenham Town.
Flowers was born inKenilworth,Warwickshire,[1] and began his career withWolverhampton Wanderers in 1984. He quickly broke into the first team, becoming their regular goalkeeper by his 18th birthday, but his breakthrough came at the bleakest time in the club's history, as the two seasons he spent there both ended in relegation (in1984–85) to the Third Division and in1985–86 to the Fourth. After Wolves fell into the Fourth Division to complete a hat-trick of successive relegations, they had to sell Flowers as part of the effort to avoid bankruptcy.[citation needed]
Flowers joined First Division clubSouthampton for £70,000 in June 1986.[citation needed] He was understudy toPeter Shilton in1986–87, but managed nine league appearances (the first in a 5–1 defeat toManchester United in mid September) and also played a further nine games on loan to Swindon Town in the Third Division.[citation needed] He made another nine league appearances in1987–88 (by which time Shilton had joinedDerby County) and returned to Swindon for a five-match loan spell, before becoming Southampton's regular goalkeeper in the1989–90 season.[citation needed] Within a couple of years of becoming Southampton's first choice goalkeeper, Flowers was regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the English league and inevitable rumours of a transfer to a bigger club began.[citation needed]
Flowers left Southampton on 4 November 1993 when a £2.4 million move toBlackburn Rovers made him the most expensive goalkeeper in Britain.[3] His excellent goalkeeping was not quite enough to win Blackburn thePremier League title in the1993–94 FA Premier League, but they did finish second to Manchester United, and went one betterthe following year when they won their first top division title since1914. He remained atEwood Park for another four seasons before Blackburn were relegated in 1999.
Flowers was transferred to Leicester City, where he collected aFootball League Cup winner's medal in his first season.[4] In August 2002 he went on loan toManchester City to provide cover forCarlo Nash after injuries toPeter Schmeichel andNicky Weaver.[5] He stayed with Leicester for one season after their relegation to Division One two years later before retiring as a player. His final appearance for Leicester City was against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux in May 2003. It was the final game of the season, and with Leicester 1–0 down, Flowers came on as a late substitute forIan Walker. Leicester were awarded a late penalty, and despite shouts from the travelling Leicester fans for Flowers to take the penalty, and Flowers himself signalling to the bench, managerMicky Adams ignored the fans and orderedTrevor Benjamin to take it, who scored.[6]
Flowers won 11caps withEngland between 1993 and 1998. He was in the squads for bothEuro 96 in England and the1998 FIFA World Cup in France.[7] He retired following the2002–03 season.
Following a spell as goalkeeper coach for bothLeicester City andManchester City, on 19 February 2007 Flowers was appointed as assistant manager toIain Dowie atCoventry City. Flowers left Coventry on 11 February 2008 after Dowie was sacked, before joining him again atQueens Park Rangers. He left the assistant manager's role at QPR as well after Dowie was sacked again.
In February 2010, he was appointed part-time goalkeeper coach atNorthampton Town,[8] as well as mentoring Dean Coleman and Yasbir Singh atKidderminster Harriers.[9]
On 17 March 2010, he re-joined Dowie when he was appointed as assistant manager atPremiership club,Hull City.[10]
On 14 October he was appointed manager ofConference North teamStafford Rangers.[11] However, Flowers resigned on 11 January 2011 after just nine games in charge.[12]
On 22 November 2011, Flowers become manager of his second club, this time being appointed caretaker manager ofNorthampton Town on 22 November 2011. He only managed the club for one game, losing 4–1 toPlymouth Argyle, beforeAidy Boothroyd became permanent manager at the club, although Flowers remained as goalkeeping coach.
When Boothroyd was sacked by Northampton in January 2014, Flowers continued on the coaching staff under caretaker bossAndy King, but he left the club on 30 January 2014 following the appointment earlier that week ofChris Wilder as the new manager ofNorthampton Town.
On 6 March 2014, he was appointed first-team coach atKidderminster Harriers.[13]
In July 2014, Flowers started working as a goalkeeper coach atNottingham Forest under his former teammate, Nottingham Forest managerStuart Pearce.[14] Flowers left Forest following the dismissal of Pearce in February 2015.[15]
On 11 September 2015, it was reported that Flowers had replaced Gary Whild as manager of Kidderminster Harriers,[16] but he left the club within a fortnight[17][18] to be replaced byDave Hockaday.[19]
On 20 June 2018, he returned to management withSolihull Moors replacingMark Yates, who had joined newly promotedFootball League sideMacclesfield Town.[20] He left Solihull Moors by mutual consent on 28 January 2020.[21]
On 28 August 2020, Flowers was appointed as manager of then newly relegated Macclesfield Town,[22] but the club was wound-up on 16 September 2020,[23] before playing a competitive first team game.
Flowers was appointed manager atBarnet on 14 December 2020.[24] He left Barnet by mutual consent on 10 March 2021 after losing 11 of his 12 games in charge.[25][26]
On 25 November 2021, Flowers was appointed manager atStratford Town.[27]
On 19 May 2023, Flowers was announced as manager ofNational League North sideGloucester City.[28] On 17 September 2023, Flowers left Gloucester City by mutual agreement.[29] After brief spells atBromsgrove Sporting[30][31] andRedditch United,[32][33] he joinedAlvechurch in November 2024,[34] only to resign a year later.[35][36]On 10 December 2025, Flowers returned to Bromsgrove Sporting.[37]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Wolverhampton Wanderers | 1984–85 | Second Division | 38 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0 |
| 1985–86 | Third Division | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2[a] | 0 | 28 | 0 | |
| Total | 63 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 72 | 0 | ||
| Southampton (loan) | 1985–86 | First Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |
| Southampton | 1986–87 | First Division | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 9 | 0 | |
| 1987–88 | First Division | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 11 | 0 | ||
| 1988–89 | First Division | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
| 1989–90 | First Division | 35 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | 45 | 0 | ||
| 1990–91 | First Division | 37 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | 49 | 0 | |
| 1991–92 | First Division | 41 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6[b] | 0 | 59 | 0 | |
| 1992–93 | Premier League | 42 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 46 | 0 | ||
| 1993–94 | Premier League | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 14 | 0 | ||
| Total | 192 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 241 | 0 | ||
| Swindon Town (loan) | 1986–87 | Third Division | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
| 1987–88 | Second Division | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | ||
| Total | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Blackburn Rovers | 1993–94 | Premier League | 29 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 33 | 0 | |
| 1994–95 | Premier League | 39 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3[c] | 0 | 48 | 0 | |
| 1995–96 | Premier League | 37 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7[d] | 0 | 49 | 0 | |
| 1996–97 | Premier League | 36 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 41 | 0 | ||
| 1997–98 | Premier League | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 31 | 0 | ||
| 1998–99 | Premier League | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2[e] | 0 | 15 | 0 | |
| Total | 177 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 217 | 0 | ||
| Leicester City | 1999–2000 | Premier League | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 37 | 0 | |
| 2000–01 | Premier League | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[e] | 0 | 24 | 0 | |
| 2001–02 | Premier League | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | ||
| 2002–03 | First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| Total | 56 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 66 | 0 | ||
| Stockport County (loan) | 2001–02 | First Division | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | |
| Coventry City (loan) | 2001–02 | First Division | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | |
| Manchester City (loan) | 2002–03 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |
| Career total | 504 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 612 | 0 | ||
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The club can also confirm that Tim Flowers was recently offered the position as Head Coach of the team but has declined that offer.
Harriers are in need of a new man to take charge of first-team affairs after the departure of Gary Whild and Tim Flowers last week.
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