Noel Blake

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Noel Blake
Personal information
Date of birth	12 January 1962 (1962-01-12) (age 47)
Place of birth	Kingston, Jamaica
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position	Defender
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1978–1979 1979–1982 1982 1982–1984 1984–1988 1988–1990 1990–1992 1992 1992–1993 1993–1995 1995–2001	Sutton Coldfield Town Aston Villa → Shrewsbury Town (loan) Birmingham City Portsmouth Leeds United Stoke City → Bradford City (loan) Bradford City Dundee Exeter City Total	004 0(0) 006 0(0) 076 0(5) 144 (10) 051 0(4) 075 0(3) 006 0(0) 039 0(3) 054 0(2) 147 (10) 602 (37)
Teams managed
2000–2001	Exeter City
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Noel Blake (born 12 January 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a retired footballer. He played in the Football League for Aston Villa, Shrewsbury Town, Birmingham City, Portsmouth, Leeds United, Stoke City, Bradford City and Exeter City, and in the Scottish Football League for Dundee.^[1]

He became Exeter's player-manager in 2000, but left in 2001.^[1] He was the successful manager of the youth team at Stoke City.^{[citation needed]}

A qualified coach, holder of the UEFA Pro Licence,^[2] Blake was appointed in February 2007 as one of the Football Association's National Coaches to work with players in England's youth teams and to assist with coach education.^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Noel Blake career stats at Soccerbase
• Noel Blake management career stats at Soccerbase

Preceded by Neil Webb

Portsmouth F.C. Fans' Player of the Year 1986 and 1987

Succeeded by Barry Horne

v • d • e Exeter City F.C. – Managers Chadwick (1908–22) · Maven (1923–27) · D. Wilson (1928–29) · McDevitt (1929–35) · English (1935–39) · Roughton (1945–52) · Kirkman (1952–53) · Ward (1953) · Dodgin (1953–57) · Thompson (1957–58) · Broome (1958–60) · G. Wilson (1960–62) · Spiers (1962–63) · Edwards (1963–65) · Stuttard (1965–66) · Basford (1966–67) · Broome (1967–69) · Newman (1969–76) · Saxton (1977–79) · Godfrey (1979–83) · Francis (1983–84) · Iley (1984–85) · Appleton (1985–87) · Cooper (1988–91) · Ball (1991–94) · Cooper (1994–95) · Fox (1995–2000) · Blake (2000–01) · Cornforth (2001–02) · McNab (2002–03) · Peters (2003) · Dolan (2003–04) · Perryman (2004) · Inglethorpe (2004–06) · Tisdale (2006–)

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