United Capture A Goalkeeping Coach
Last updated : 31 July 2006 By Thetashkentterror
New Blues boss Neil McDonald continues to build his own backroom staff, after already recruiting chief scout Colin Suggett and first-team coach Greg Abbott, as he snaps up 35-year old goalkeeping coach Neil Edwards. The Aberdare-born glovesman has been around the lower-league scene for many a year now since joining Stockport from Leeds, where he had been a trainee, in September 1991.
Six years at Edgeley Park followed before he moved on to Rochdale and spent eight seasons at Spotland, Edwards then joining Bury in the summer of 2005. Neil was released by the Shakers at the end of last season and now links up with Carlisle as their new goalkeeping coach. The Blues looking for a new man in the post after Dave Timmins, who worked part-time with the club last year, took on a full-time position at Preston under ex-United boss Paul Simpson, Timmins himself replacing Pete Williams at Deepdale who left North End to link up again with ex-Preston, and new Derby manager, Billy Davies, at Pride Park.
