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Gary West
Personal information
Full name	Gary West
Date of birth	25 August 1964 (age 60)
Place of birth	Scunthorpe, England
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Sheffield United
Senior career*
Years	Team
1982–1985	Sheffield United
1985–1987	Lincoln City
1987–1989	Gillingham
1989–1991	Port Vale
1990	→ Gillingham (loan)
1991	→ Lincoln City (loan)
1991–1992	Lincoln City
1992	→ Walsall (loan)
1992–1993	Boston United
Total
International career
1982	England Youth
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gary West (born 25 August 1964) is an English former footballer. He made 250 appearances in the English Football League between 1982 and 1993, playing for numerous clubs, most notably Sheffield United, Lincoln City and Gillingham.

Career

Sheffield United

West began his career with Sheffield United, playing 75 league games for the "Blades" between 1982 and 1985. The 1983–84 season saw the club promoted from the Third Division in third place. They consolidated their Second Division status the next season, though following this, West secured a £35,000 move to Lincoln City in August 1985.

Lincoln City

The "Imps" suffered relegation into the Fourth Division in 1985–86. They then crashed out of the Football League in 1986–87, finishing behind Torquay United thanks to their inferior goal difference; West was voted the club's Player of the Season.

Gillingham

West escaped Lincoln's fate of non-League football by signing with Gillingham of the Third Division for a £50,000 fee. He spent the 1987–88 and 1988–89 seasons with the "Gills".^[3] The club were relegation in his second season, West again escaped the fate of relegation, having been sold to Port Vale for £70,000 in February 1989.^[4]

Later career

His first Vale game was at Bramall Lane, a goalless draw on 28 February 1989. He played fourteen games for the club that season, as well as playing both the semi-finals and the final of the play-offs.^[4] He struggled with cartilage troubles and played just three games for Vale the next season, instead being loaned out to old club Gillingham in November 1990. He played just one league game for the "Gills" in his one-month loan. In January 1991, he joined another old club on loan, staying a month at Sincil Bank, where he played three games.^[4] In August 1991 he joined Lincoln City permanently for £25,000.^[4] He played eighteen league games for City in the 1991–92 season and also spent time on loan at Walsall before dropping into non-League football with Boston United.^[4]

Career statistics

Source:^[5]

Club	Season	Division	League		FA Cup		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Sheffield United	1982–83	Second Division	26	1	1	0	1	0	28	1
	1983–84	Second Division	24	0	5	0	2	0	31	0
	1984–85	Third Division	25	0	1	0	2	0	28	0
	Total		75	1	7	0	5	0	87	1
Lincoln City	1985–86	Third Division	38	2	1	0	3	0	42	2
	1986–87	Fourth Division	45	2	1	0	6	0	52	2
	Total		83	4	2	0	9	0	94	4
Gillingham	1987–88	Third Division	42	2	3	0	5	0	50	2
	1988–89	Third Division	10	1	0	0	3	0	13	1
	Total		52	3	3	0	8	0	63	3
Gillingham (loan)	1990–91	Fourth Division	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
Port Vale	1988–89	Third Division	14	1	0	0	3	0	17	1
	1989–90	Second Division	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
	Total		17	1	0	0	4	0	21	1
Lincoln City	1990–91	Fourth Division	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
	1991–92	Fourth Division	18	1	1	0	5	1	24	2
	Total		21	1	1	0	5	1	27	2
Walsall (loan)	1992–93	Third Division	9	1	1	0	2	0	12	1
Career total			258	11	14	0	34	1	306	12

Honours

Individual

Lincoln City F.C. Player of the Season: 1986–87

Sheffield United

Football League Third Division third-place promotion: 1983–84

Port Vale

Football League Third Division play-offs: 1989^[6]

References

^ "Gary West". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
^ Rollin, Jack, ed. (1980). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1980–81. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 218. ISBN 0362020175.
^ Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 332. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 305. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
^ Gary West at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
^ Kent, Jeff (1989). Port Vale Promotion Chronicle 1988-1989: Back to Where We Once Belonged!. Witan Books. ISBN 0-9508981-3-9.