Marske United appoint ex-Premier League player turned non league manager

Marske United appoint ex-Premier League player turned non league manager Curtis Woodhouse as their new boss on Wednesday morning. Woodhouse will take charge of the first team, coming in as the successor to the recently departured club legend Carl Jarrett. Having previously managed Tadcaster Albion and Gainsborough Trinity, Woodhouse returns to the sidelines with plenty […] The post Marske United appoint ex-Premier League player turned non league manager appeared first on Fan Banter.

Marske United appoint ex-Premier League player turned non league manager

Marske United appoint ex-Premier League player turned non league manager Curtis Woodhouse as their new boss on Wednesday morning.

Woodhouse will take charge of the first team, coming in as the successor to the recently departured club legend Carl Jarrett.

Having previously managed Tadcaster Albion and Gainsborough Trinity, Woodhouse returns to the sidelines with plenty of experience.

Marske currently sit 16th in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, taking 20 points from 14 games.

His managerial debut for the Seasiders will be at home this Saturday, as they take on Atherton Collieries, who are 15th with 20 points from 16 games.

CLUB STATEMENT:

The club are delighted to announce the appointment of Curtis Woodhouse as first team manager.

Curtis brings a plethora of management experience to the club, most notably during his time at Gainsborough Trinity, where he surpassed expectations in the NPL.

The new man provided us with his thoughts on the appointment: ‘I’m thrilled to be announced as the new Marske United manager, a fantastic football club with lots of potential.

‘After sitting down with Mark and the board I was left excited about the journey ahead of us.

‘It’s not going to be easy or instant but together we can get back on track and get moving forward again.

‘I like my teams to play fast and furious, be on the front foot forcing the pace, anything less than everything isn’t enough.

‘Talk is very cheap, let’s get to work.

‘See you all Saturday. Curtis Woodhouse’

Curtis Woodhouse played football as a central midfielder, and has also competed as a light-welterweight boxer.

He is the former British light-welterweight champion while in football, his career in the EFL spanned across nine seasons, earning four caps for the England under-21 football team.

Woodhouse’s professional boxing record stands at 29 fights 22 wins, 13 of which are by knock-out, and 7 defeats.

He started his footballing career with York City’s centre of excellence before joining Sheffield United.

In November 2001, he was transferred to Birmingham for a fee of £1 million, before joining Rotherham in January 2003, on loan for five months. He then joined Peterborough on a free transfer in October 2003. In May 2005, he signed for Hull City for £25,000, before heading to Grimsby just eight months later in January 2006. He retired at the end of the 2006–07 season.

Woodhouse had said that he had “fallen out of love” with football and decided to turn to professional boxing, despite no previous experience.

In September 2006, he won his first professional boxing match, defeating Dean Marcantonio, on points, knocking him down twice in the final round.

As a result of being convicted of assaulting a police officer and of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in April 2006, he had his boxing licence suspended for five months by the British Boxing Board of Control, despite the incident happening before he was under the BBBofC’s jurisdiction.

Woodhouse returned to football in November 2006, joining Rushden & Diamonds in the Conference National before moving to Mansfield Town in January 2009. After leaving them, he moved to Harrogate Town. At the end of February 2010, he joined Sheffield in the Northern Premier League. Before the start of the 2011–12 football season, he moved up two divisions in the football league system when he joined Conference North outfit Eastwood Town, then headed back to Sheffield.

It was announced ib May 2012, that Woodhouse would become the new manager of Northern Premier League Division One South club Sheffield.

He also made one cup appearance for the club as a substitute, adding to the 14 appearances he had made in all competitions during his first spell.

Woodhouse resigned in December 2012 after admitting having difficulty to managing a football team as well as being a professional boxer.

On the 14th of October 2013, Woodhouse was announced as the assistant manager at Northern Premier League Division One South club Goole, with former teammate David Holdsworth being appointed manager.

In January 2014, Woodhouse replaced Holdsworth as manager following Holdsworth’s resignation, only for Woodhouse to then leave Goole after some issues with the board, and took over at Hull United in January 2015.

On the 29th of September 2016 Woodhouse was appointed as manager at Bridlington Town, stayed their for two years and then in June 2019, Woodhouse was appointed manager of Tadcaster Albion.

In October 2019 he left Tadcaster to join Gainsborough Trinity as manager and on the 26 February 2021, Woodhouse parted from Gainsborough Trinity by mutual consent before being in charge of new non league outfit Great Driffield Town AFC up until he took the Marske job.

Here he is at the start of the video scoring for Sheffield United in a thrilling game against Bury back in 1998…

Twitter users had their say as Marske United appoint the ex-Premier League player turned non league manager…

@ste_pippen: Welcome aboard @curtiswoodhous8

@Raff963: Welcome Curtis @curtiswoodhous8

@kieranTwells22: Congrats @curtiswoodhous8 ????????

@RSCSpeckyB: Good luck fella @curtiswoodhous8 ????????

@thewelshgoat19: Great appointment, will be following the progress

@graham_naughton: Good luck Curtis. Always remember – Small club but big heart ❤

@andyalton1: Absolutely over the moon with this welcome to to Marske ????????????????

@mendi14: Love it, let’s go @curtiswoodhous8

@Walesy1981: Big lads back!!! @curtiswoodhous8

@DLawson6: Welcome to the club Curtis, looking forward to a new era! ????????????

@aboyd1888: Quality pal good luck ????????⚽

@PaddyMOliver: Master stroke by the club. Welcome to Marske!

@SStonehouse4: Wow, this is brilliant. Followed Curtis’ career when he moved to boxing and followed on Twitter for a long time , scholes is still better than Gerrard though. See you in Saltburn for a pint Curtis

@SteWaide: Yes @curtiswoodhous8! All the best mate ????

@kenadams777: Wow what an appointment ????

@owl_leonardo: Good gaffer real person. Good luck champ

@Michael_may83: Welcome to the club @curtiswoodhous8. Very excited to see what you can bring to our side. Good luck ????⚽⚽

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