Keith Downing
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Keith Gordon Downing | ||
| Date of birth | 23 July 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Oldbury, West Midlands, England | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Chelsea | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1983–1984 | Mile Oak Rovers | ||
| 1984–1987 | Notts County | 23 | (1) |
| 1987–1993 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 191 | (8) |
| 1993–1994 | Birmingham City | 1 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | Stoke City | 16 | (0) |
| 1995 | Cardiff City | 4 | (0) |
| 1995–1999 | Hereford United | 45 | (0) |
| Total | 280 | (9) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2007–2008 | Cheltenham Town | ||
| 2013–2014 | West Bromwich Albion (caretaker) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Keith Gordon Downing (born 23 July 1965) is an English former footballer and football manager. He made the vast majority of his appearances for Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he was nicknamed "Psycho" for his robust style playing in central midfield.
A former Chelsea youth team player, he moved from Mile Oak Rovers into the Football League with Notts County in 1984. Three years later he joined Wolverhampton Wanderers. He spent six years with Wolves, winning the Football League Trophy in 1988 and successive Fourth Division and Third Division titles in 1987–88 and 1988–89. He joined Birmingham City in 1993, before moving on to Stoke City the following year. In 1995, he joined Hereford United via Cardiff City, and retired in 1999. He went on to become a coach, and also spent September 2007 to November 2008 as Cheltenham Town manager, and served West Bromwich Albion as caretaker-manager for a brief spell in the 2013–14 Premier League season.
Downing was a junior player at Chelsea, but left Stamford Bridge at the end of the 1982–83 season. He went on to spend a season with Mile Oak Rovers. He began his professional career in 1984 at Richie Barker's Notts County, who went on to be relegated out of the Second Division at the end of the 1984–85 season. The "Magpies" finished eighth in the Third Division in the 1985–86 season and then seventh in 1986–87 under the stewardship of Jimmy Sirrel.
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