Steve Book
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Steven Kim Book | ||
| Date of birth | 7 July 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Bournemouth, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Cheltenham Town (goalkeeping coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1989 | Welton Rovers | 36 | (0) |
| 1989–1990 | Paulton Rovers | 28 | |
| 1990–1991 | Frome Town | 52 | |
| 1992–1993 | Weston-super-Mare | 89 | |
| – | Bath City | ||
| 1993–1994 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 0 | (0) |
| 1993–1994 | → Slough Town (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| – | Frome Town | 16 | |
| 1994–1995 | Lincoln City | 0 | (0) |
| 1994–1997 | Forest Green Rovers | 125 | (?) |
| 1997–2004 | Cheltenham Town | 307 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Swindon Town | 2 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | Cirencester Town | 12 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | Bristol Rovers | 1 | |
| 2006–2007 | Mangotsfield United | 36 | (1) |
| 2007–2008 | Bristol Rovers | 0 | |
| 2008–2010 | Tiverton Town | 96 | (0) |
| 2010–2012 | Cheltenham Town | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 802 | (1) | |
| National team | |||
| 1999 | England C | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Steven Kim Book (born 7 July 1969) is an English former professional football goalkeeper who is currently employed as the goalkeeping coach at Cheltenham Town.
Book represented a number of clubs in the English football league system during a career which began in 1988 at Welton Rovers and concluded with a two-year stint as player-goalkeeping coach at Cheltenham Town between 2010 and 2012. He then retired from playing to focus on coaching at Cheltenham Town.
The son of a former professional goalkeeper, Kim Book, and nephew of the former Manchester City manager Tony Book, Steve began his career on the South-West non-league circuit with clubs such as Paulton Rovers, Welton Rovers, Frome Town and Weston-super-Mare. He moved on to Bath City and spent the initial part of the 1993/4 at Brighton without breaking into the first team though he did make a couple of appearances for Slough Town whilst on loan there. A change of management saw him return to the non-league scene with Frome Town before a period at Lincoln City where he was an unused substitute in a couple of League Cup ties in the 1994/95 season.
In September 1994 he joined Forest Green Rovers. Although his number of appearances are unknown, he spent three years at the Nailsworth club before an £8,000 transfer took him to Cheltenham Town in July 1997.
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