Wolves, Southampton and Leicester City figure lands non-league manager's job

Former Wolves goalkeeper Tim Flowers has been appointed the manager of a non-league club.

The 57-year-old is taking over a club that plays in the Southern League Premier Central, which is the seventh tier of English football. Redditch finished fourth last season and he replaces Matt Clarke, who stepped down from his post earlier this month.

Flowers as manager of nearby Bromsgrove Sporting from February until April, leaving before their penultimate fixture. He had guided the club to survival but the club wanted to overhaul the playing aspect of the club, and now the 11-cap England international has landed on his feet.

“I’m delighted to be here,” Flowers told the club website. “I’m proud to be here and I’m looking forward to a challenge, it’s a tough league where anyone can beat anyone.

“I’m looking forward to meeting the fans, I came to the Needham game and there was a fantastic atmosphere, all sides of the ground were in good voice and the place was rocking.

“Hopefully, the fans will turn up like that again to watch us early doors to help us get the results and try to match what we did last year. The plan is to have a right good go.”

Flowers began his career at Wolves and played 63 times for the club from 1984 to 1986. He left for Southampton to play as an understudy to Peter Shilton but then cemented himself as their first choice goalkeeper.

The Kenilworth shot stopper moved on to Blackburn Rovers, joining for £2.4m in November 1993 which made him the most expensive goalkeeper in Britain at the time and he won the Premier League title at Ewood Park during a six-year spell in Lancashire. His career finished with him playing for Leicester City with loan spells at Stockport County and Coventry City also.

Since retiring in 2002, he's worked as a coach at Leicester and Manchester City, as well as working as assistant to Iain Dowie at QPR, Coventry City and Hull City. He was goalkeeping coach at Northampton Town and Nottingham Forest, as well as manging non-league clubs such as Stafford Rangers, Solihull Moors, Macclesfield Town, Barnet, Stratford Town and Gloucester City.