Craig Maskell

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Craig Maskell
Full name	Craig Maskell
Date of birth	10 April 1968
Place of birth	Aldershot, England
Playing position	Centre Forward
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986-88 1986-87 1988-90 1990-92 1992-94 1994-96 1995 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-02 2002-03 2003-	Southampton Swindon Town (loan) Huddersfield Town Reading Swindon Town Southampton Bristol City (loan) Brighton and Hove Albion Happy Valley Leyton Orient Hampton & Richmond Borough Aylesbury United Staines Town	6 (1) 87 (43) 72 (26) 47 (22) 17 (1) 5 (1) 64 (20) 31 (3) 141 (66)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Craig Maskell (born 10 April 1968 in Aldershot) is a football Centre Forward currently playing for Staines Town and undertaking the role of assistant manager.

1 Playing career
2 Personal
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Playing career

Craig Maskell began his professional football career at Southampton to who he'd previously signed as an apprentice. After playing a handful of games for the club, he was loaned to Swindon Town before his eventual transfer to Huddersfield Town.

A prolific goalscorer for the team, Maskell was later included in the book The Fans' Favourites, a book which lists the 100 Huddersfield Town players voted by the fans as their favourite players at the time of their centenary in 2006.

A spell at Reading was followed with his move to Swindon Town, where under Glenn Hoddle; he scored at Wembley in the 1993 Division One Play-off Final to promote Swindon to the FA Premier League.

Following a poor season with the club in 1993-94 he was sold back to Southampton for £250,000, and then played for Bristol City, Brighton and Hong Kong team Happy Valley AA before arriving at Leyton Orient.

His 18-months at Orient ended when, as part of the losing team in the 1999 Division Three play-off final, he walked off the pitch at the end of the game vowing to not play for the team again. "I turned to one of my team-mates and said 'that's enough', I'd spent too much time away from my family and too little time on the pitch at Orient."^[1]

Leyton Orient released him at the start of the 1999-00 season and he became assistant-coach under manager Steve Cordery at Hampton & Richmond Borough. Maskell was leading goalscorer for the team at the end of the 1999-00 season and had helped the Ryman League Premier Division club to reach the first round of the FA Cup for the first time.^[1]

Maskell and Cordery moved to Aylesbury in Summer 2002 and he was again amongst the Premier Division's top marksmen with 26 league and cup goals for the team.

The pair took over at Staines Town in 2003, where they continue to play and manage the team.