Peter Fox (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Peter David Fox | ||
| Date of birth | 5 July 1957 | ||
| Place of birth | Scunthorpe, England | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1972–1978 | Sheffield Wednesday | 49 | (0) |
| 1977 | → Barnsley (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 1977 | → Team Hawaii (loan) | 25 | (0) |
| 1978–1993 | Stoke City | 409 | (0) |
| 1992 | → Linfield (loan) | ||
| 1993 | → Wrexham (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 1993–1999 | Exeter City | 108 | (0) |
| Total | 592 | (0) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1995–2000 | Exeter City | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Peter Fox (born 5 July 1957) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Barnsley, Exeter City, Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke City.
Fox was born in Scunthorpe and began his career with Sheffield Wednesday, making his debut aged just 15 years 8 months, a club record in a 2–0 victory over Leyton Orient. Unfortunately for Fox he broke his toe that day and lost his place to another younger keeper, Chris Turner. Following the arrival of Jack Charlton as manager in October 1977, Fox found himself in the reserves, Charlton liked big keepers who could kick the ball long into the opponents half. After spending time out on loan at Barnsley and a summer in the NASL with Team Hawaii, Stoke City paid £15,000 to sign Fox.
After spending the 1978–79 season in the reserves, Fox took over from Roger Jones as number 1 in April 1980 as Stoke battled against relegation. He kept two clean sheets in the final two games which City won to stay up. Taking advice from the experienced Denis Smith Fox was ever present for Stoke in 1980–81 and 1983–84 as he won the player of the year award in 1980–81, 1981–82 and 1989–90. Throughout his 15 years at the Victoria Ground Fox had to fight off competition and almost quit football after he felt he had been branded a cheat after being sent-off for handling outside of his area against Luton Town in September 1982. He was out injured for most of the awful 1984–85 season which saw Stoke relegated with a record low points tally. He was given a testimonial against Everton in 1989 and was appointed captain by Alan Ball in early 1990.
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