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Full name
  
Steven Banks

Role
  
Football player

Position
  
Goalkeeper

Name
  
Steve Banks

Career start
  
1990

Years
  
Team

Weight
  
83 kg

Playing position
  
Goalkeeper

Height
  
1.81 m


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Date of birth
  
(1972-02-09) 9 February 1972 (age 43)

Place of birth
  
Hillingdon, London, England

Current team
  
Blackpool (goalkeeping coach)

Number
  
15 (St. Johnstone F.C. / Goalkeeper), 13 (Dundee United F.C. / Goalkeeper)

Similar People
  
Alan Mannus, Steven Anderson, Scott Brown, David Robertson

Steve banks joins the seasiders


Steven Banks (born 9 February 1972) is an English football player and coach. He is currently employed as the goalkeeping coach at Bradford City.

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Club career

Born in Hillingdon, London, Banks began his career as a trainee with West Ham United. He made just one first team appearance, in the Anglo-Italian Cup, for West Ham, before joining Gillingham on a free transfer in March 1993.

Banks was a regular for the remainder of the season and his form the following season led to a £60,000 move to Blackpool in August 1995. He spent four years with the Seasiders, making more than 150 league appearances for the club. In March 1999, Banks moved to Bolton Wanderers for a fee of £50,000. Although a regular at the start of his time with Bolton he soon lost his place and had loan spells with Rochdale (December 2001 to May 2002) and Bradford City (August to November 2002) before joining Stoke City on loan in December 2002 for whom he played ten times in his loan spell

Banks joined Stoke on a free transfer in February 2003. However, he played just four times after his free transfer and was released at the end of the season.

Banks joined Wimbledon in August 2003 and was a regular in their struggling Championship side until returning to Gillingham on a free transfer in March 2004. During his second run with Gillingham he appeared in the film Green Street.

In August 2005, Banks joined Heart of Midlothian on a free transfer as back-up for regular goalkeeper Craig Gordon. He made his Hearts debut as a substitute in the 2–2 draw against Falkirk on 2 October 2005, after Craig Gordon's sending off. Two weeks later, Banks played in a 1–1 draw with Celtic at Celtic Park in which he made a number of saves to maintain the Jambos' unbeaten start to the season. He made another rare start against Dundee United on 23 December 2006 and kept a clean sheet as Hearts won by a single goal at Tannadice. Banks repeated the feat on 10 February 2007, in a 1–0 win against Caley Thistle at Tynecastle. Earlier in the day, Banks, who had recently become first-choice ahead of unsettled Gordon, signed a contract that will keep him at Hearts until the end of the 2007–08 season. Gordon returned to the starting line-up on 17 February in Hearts' 1–1 draw with St Mirren. Banks was forced to take control of the Jambos during a 1–0 defeat to Kilmarnock on 27 October 2007, when Stephen Frail was sent from the touchline.

On 16 August 2008, Banks was omitted from the Hearts squad to face Rangers at Ibrox, with Jamie MacDonald selected to start and recent signing Marian Kello on the bench. Hearts lost the game 2–0 and afterwards owner Vladimir Romanov told the Hearts players that Banks "could no longer be trusted" comparing him to former captain Steven Pressley and fellow defender Andy Webster, who both left Tynecastle under controversial circumstances. A statement on the club's official website stated that Banks was no longer available to play for the first-team and he was no longer first-team goalkeeping coach but he would take a similar coaching role with the youth team.

Hearts announced on 1 June 2009 that Banks had severed all ties with the club and he signed for Dundee United the next day. He replaced Craig Gordon, who played with Hearts for 7 years before transferring to the Premier League.

On 8 July 2013 Banks signed for St Johnstone in a one-year deal. He was an unused substitute as St Johnstone won the 2014 Scottish Cup Final. In May 2014 he signed a one-year extension.

Banks left St Johnstone in August 2015 to become goalkeeping coach at his former club, Blackpool.

On 4 July 2016 Banks was appointed as goal keeping coach at Bradford City.

Honours

Heart of Midlothian
  • Scottish Cup (1): 2006
  • Dundee United
  • Scottish Cup (1): 2010
  • St Johnstone
  • Scottish Cup (1): 2014
  • References

    Steve Banks Wikipedia