Sonny Parker (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 28 February 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Middlesbrough, England | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ????–2002 | Birmingham City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2005 | Bristol Rovers | 30 | (1) |
| 2005 | Gateshead | 17 | (1) |
| 2005–2006 | Bishop Auckland | 12 | (0) |
| 2006 | Horden Colliery Welfare | ? | (?) |
| Osmotherley Rangers | 14 | (3) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Sonny Parker (born 28 February 1983) is a former professional footballer who played as a defender in The Football League for Bristol Rovers between 2002 and 2005.
Parker was a youth team player at Birmingham City, and although he progressed to become a regular in their reserves he never made the jump into the first team squad.[1] He joined Bristol Rovers in December 2002 following his release by Birmingham and he went on to make 30 appearances in the Football League Third Division, scoring once, as well as playing twice in the FA Cup and once in the Football League Cup.[2]
He was released by Rovers in the summer of 2005 and returned to his native North East England to join Gateshead. He played seventeen times and scored once in half a season with them, before moving to Bishop Auckland,[3] where he spent the remainder of the 2005–06 campaign. The following season he joined Horden Colliery Welfare,[4] but after the manager left the club late in 2006 he was released. He now works for his family-run business in Teesside and is a time-served[5] joiner.
References
[edit]- ^ Chris Barnes (9 September 2004). "Sonny Parker". Bristol Rovers Mad. Footy Mad. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ "Sonny Parker". Soccerbase. Racing Post. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ "Player review 2005–06 – Group 5". Gateshead Football Club. 19 July 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ "Problems mount at troubled Terriers". This is the North East. The Northern Echo. 7 July 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/time-served Definition of time-served
External links
[edit]- Sonny Parker at Soccerbase
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Middlesbrough
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- English Football League players
- Northern Premier League players
- Northern Football League players
- Bristol Rovers F.C. players
- Gateshead F.C. players
- Bishop Auckland F.C. players
- Darlington Town F.C. players
- 21st-century English sportsmen