John Hodge (English footballer)

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John Hodge
Personal information
Date of birth (1969-04-01) 1 April 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth Ormskirk, England
Position(s) Winger
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1990–1991 Falmouth Town 3 (4)
1991–1993 Exeter City 65 (13)
1993–1996 Swansea City 102 (10)
1996–1998 Walsall 76 (13)
1998–2000 Gillingham 52 (1)
2000 → Northampton Town (loan) 1 (0)
2000–2003 Northampton Town 59 (2)
2003 Kidderminster Harriers 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Hodge (born 1 April 1969) is an English former professional footballer who played as a right winger.

He went on trial with Manchester United from November 1989 to December 1989. While at Swansea, he was a part of the team that won after a penalty shoot-out in the 1994 Football League Trophy Final. [1] He joined Gillingham in July 1998. [2]

His only league goal was a second-half injury-time equaliser against Macclesfield on 3 October 1998. He was regarded as a "supersub", often coming off the bench to great effect, including setting up Robert Taylor for a last-minute goal against Fulham on 28 November 1998, and Andy Thomson for a 100th-minute winner against Walsall in a FA Cup replay on 8 January 2000.

He was the only Gillingham player to successfully convert a penalty in their 3–1 penalty shoot-out defeat to Manchester City in the 1998–99 Division Two play-off final. Hodge was signed by Kidderminster Harriers in January 2003. [3]

Honours

Individual

Notes

  1. ↑ White, Clive (25 April 1994). "Football: Sublime Swansea glide to victory: Welsh pride stirred at Wembley". The Independent. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  2. ↑ Hugman, Barry J. (2005). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946-2005. Queen Anne Press. p. 292. ISBN   1-85291-665-6.
  3. ↑ "Britton signs Hodge". BBC Sport. 7 January 2003. Retrieved 4 September 2007.
  4. ↑ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1998). The 1998–99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile. Harpenden: Queen Anne Press. p. 352. ISBN   978-1-85291-588-9.


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