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Steve Book

English footballer

Summary

English footballer

Field	Value
name	Steve Book
full_name	Steven Kim Book
birth_date
birth_place	Bournemouth, England
height
position	Goalkeeper
years1	1988–1989
years2	1989–1990
years3	1990–1991
years4	1992–1993
years6	1993–1994
years7	1993–1994
years9	1994–1995
years10	1994–1997
years11	1997–2004
years12	2004–2005
years13	2005–2006
years14	2005–2006
years15	2006–2007
years16	2007–2008
years17	2008–2010
years18	2010–2012
clubs1	Welton Rovers
clubs2	Paulton Rovers
clubs3	Frome Town
clubs4	Weston-super-Mare
clubs5	Bath City
clubs6	Brighton & Hove Albion
clubs7	→ Slough Town (loan)
clubs8	Frome Town
clubs9	Lincoln City
clubs10	Forest Green Rovers
clubs11	Cheltenham Town
clubs12	Swindon Town
clubs13	Cirencester Town
clubs14	Bristol Rovers
clubs15	Mangotsfield United
clubs16	Bristol Rovers
clubs17	Tiverton Town
clubs18	Cheltenham Town
caps1	36
caps2	28
caps3	52
caps4	89
caps6	0
caps7	2
caps8	16
caps9	0
caps10	125
caps11	307
caps12	2
caps13	12
caps14	1
caps15	36
caps16	0
caps17	96
caps18	0
goals6	0
goals7	0
goals9	0
goals10	0
goals11	0
goals12	0
goals13	0
goals15	1
goals1	0
goals17	0
goals18	0
totalcaps	802
totalgoals	1
nationalyears1	1999
nationalteam1	England C
nationalcaps1	3
nationalgoals1	0

Steven Kim Book (born 7 July 1969) is an English former professional football goalkeeper who is the former goalkeeping coach at Cheltenham Town.

Book represented a number of clubs in the English football league system during a career which began in 1988 at Welton Rovers and concluded with a two-year stint as player-goalkeeping coach at Cheltenham Town between 2010 and 2012. He then retired from playing to focus on coaching at Cheltenham Town.

Career

Early career

The son of former professional goalkeeper Kim Book and nephew of the former Manchester City manager Tony Book, Book began his career on the South-West non-league circuit with clubs such as Paulton Rovers, Welton Rovers, Frome Town and Weston-super-Mare. He moved on to Bath City and spent the initial part of the 1993–94 at Brighton without breaking into the first team though he did make a couple of appearances for Slough Town whilst on loan there. A change of management saw him return to the non-league scene with Frome Town before a period at Lincoln City where he was an unused substitute in a couple of League Cup ties in the 1994–95 season.

Forest Green Rovers

In September 1994 Book joined Forest Green Rovers. He spent three years at the Nailsworth club making 125 appearances, before an £8,000 transfer took him to Cheltenham Town in July 1997.

Cheltenham Town

Book was the first-choice goalkeeper at Cheltenham for seven years, leading them to promotion into the League, a FA Trophy win, then into the Football League Second Division via the playoffs in 2002. His career at Cheltenham also seen him win England semi-pro honours and The Conference Team of the year 1998–99.

He left Cheltenham in the summer of 2004 and joined Swindon Town.

Swindon Town, Bristol Rovers and non-League football

In July 2005, and without a professional club, the Emersons Green-based Book linked up with Bristol Rovers for training and also to assist coaching the club's younger goalkeepers. On 16 August 2005, he was appointed goalkeeping coach at Bristol Rovers on a permanent basis, succeeding Phil Kite in the role to allow Kite to concentrate fully on his role as physio. Book combined his coaching role with a playing role with Cirencester Town, debuting for the club in the 2–0 Southern Football League Premier Division victory at Chesham United on 13 August 2005. He made twelve league appearances for the club, the final one in a 1–0 defeat at Aylesbury United on 22 November 2005, before leaving the club and signing non-contract terms with Bristol Rovers where he was given the squad number 25.

As a player, he joined Mangotsfield in the summer of 2006 and on 26 August scored the first goal of his career when a sliced free-kick from his own area managed to outfox the Rugby Town goalkeeper. In June 2007, he departed the club by mutual consent after being told he didn't figure in the plans of newly appointed manager Frank Gregan.

In 2008, he joined Southern League Premier Division side Tiverton Town. Is still goalkeeping coach at Bristol Rovers and holds the level two coaching badge, UEFA C goalkeeping and UEFA B goalkeeping licence. On 10 June 2010, he agreed to join his former club Cheltenham Town as a part-time goalkeeping coach. At this time, Steve Book was given the worst ever Fifa Ultimate Team rating at 40 on Fifa 12 and he is still the worst to date. In August 2011, at the age of 42, Book was again registered as a goalkeeper at Cheltenham for a League Cup match against MK Dons where he sat on the bench.

Career statistics

Club	Years	League	FA Cup	League Cup	Other	Total	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps
Brighton & Hove Albion	1993 to 1994	Football League	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slough Town(Loan)	1993 to 1994	Football Conference	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Lincoln City	1994 to 1995	Football League	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forest Green Rovers	1995 to 1997	Football Conference	125
Cheltenham Town	1997 to 2004	Football League	171	0	20	0	7	0	9	0	207	0
Swindon Town	2004 to 2005	Football League	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	4	0
Bristol Rovers	2005 to 2006	Football League	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Mangotsfield United	2006 to 2007	Southern League	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
Bristol Rovers	2007 to 2008	Football League	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tiverton Town	2008 to 2010	Southern League Premier Division	84	0	2	0	1	0	12	0	57	0

Honours

As a player

Cheltenham Town

Football League Third Division play-offs: 2002
Football Conference: 1998–99
FA Trophy: 1997–98

Tiverton Town

Devon St. Luke's Cup runner-up: 2008–09

References

(2003). "The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004". Queen Anne Press.
(12 July 2005). "Two new faces in training". Bristol Rovers F.C..
(16 August 2005). "Steve booked in for coaching". Bristol Rovers F.C..
"Steve Book league appearances, 2005–2006 season". SoccerFactsUK.co.uk.
(1 December 2005). "Book signs non-contract forms".
(13 June 2007). "Book released – three more to go?". NonLeagueDaily.com.
(10 June 2010). "Booky back at Robins". Cheltenham Town F.C. Official Website.
"Booky on the bench". Cheltenham Town F.C. Official Website.
(6 May 2002). "Cheltenham crack Diamonds".

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