Peter Handyside
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Peter David Handyside | ||
| Date of birth | 31 July 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Dumfries, Scotland | ||
| Height | 6 ft 01 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1990 | Heston Rovers | ||
| 1990–1991 | Grimsby Town | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–2001 | Grimsby Town | 201 | (4) |
| 2001–2003 | Stoke City | 78 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Barnsley | 28 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Northwich Victoria | 29 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Hucknall Town | ||
| Total | 325 | (4) | |
| National team | |||
| 1993–1995 | Scotland U21 | 8 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Peter David Handyside (born 31 July 1974) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a defender from 1992 until 2007.
Despite being Scottish, Handyside played his entire career in England, having initially came through the youth ranks at Heston Rovers he was scouted by Grimsby Town who signed him as a junior before promoting him to the first team in 1992. Handyside went on to make over 200 appearances for Grimsby in all competitions and was in the team that won the Football League Second Division play-offs and Football League Trophy during the 1997–98 season. In 2001 after nine years at Blundell Park, Handyside joined Stoke City who he went on to captain and eventually earning promotion out of the Second Division like he had previously done at Grimsby. In 2003, he signed with Barnsley where he remained for a year before dropping into non-league football with Northwich Victoria. In 2006, he signed with Hucknall Town before retiring at the end of the 2006–07 season at the age of 33.
Handyside was a product of the youth system at Heston Rovers a local side from his home town of Dumfries. He also had a spell on the books of the youth team of Queen of the South including playing in a BP Youth Cup second round tie against Celtic on 31 October 1990.
Handyside was trialed by Grimsby Town and was signed by the club's youth team in 1990. He took his step up into the first team in 1992 and was eventually the club's long term replacement for veteran centre back Paul Futcher and made an excellent pairing with Mark Lever. Handyside's maturity grew and he became an integral part of Grimsby's defensive setup, and along with Lever, John McDermott, Tony Gallimore, Graham Rodger, Kevin Jobling and Richard Smith was part of arguably Grimsby's best ever defence. The 1997–1998 Handyside continued to be the nucleus of Town's strong defence that helped achieve a promotion to back to the First Division via the play-offs, and victory in the Football League Trophy. He bowed out at Grimsby after the 2000–01 season. An injury troubled campaign, he was often replaced by loan signing Zhang Enhua. At the end of the season, he rejected the chance to stay on with Grimsby and moved to Second Division Stoke City.
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