Tony Coton

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Tony Coton

Full name	Anthony Coton
Date of birth	May 19, 1961 (age 45)
Place of birth	Tamworth, England
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Manchester United
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1977-1978 1978-1984 1979 1984-1990 1990-1996 1996 1996-1999 2003-2004	Mile Oak Rovers Birmingham City Hereford United (loan) Watford Manchester City Manchester United Sunderland Hereford United	- (0) 94 (0) - (0) 233 (0) 164 (1) 0 (0) 10 (0) - (0)
National team
1994	England B	1 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:50, 22 October 2006 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Tony Coton (born May 19, 1961 in Tamworth, England) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Tony is currently employed as Manchester United's goalkeeping coach. Working with the likes of Edwin van der Sar and Tomasz Kuszczak.

Tony started his Professional career at Birmingham City in 1978, having signed from Mile Oak Rovers, although he did not make his first league appearance until the 1980-81 season. By the 1982-83 season he had established himself as Birmingham's first choice goalkeeper.

Despite relegation at the end of the next season, Tony found his way back into the top flight with a transfer to high-flying Watford F.C., for a sum of £300,000, and soon he had replaced Steve Sherwood in Watfords goal. At the end of his second full season at Vicarage Road he won the Hornets' Player of the Season and Display of the Season awards, the latter for a cleansheet against Liverpool.

Before the start of the 1990-91 season, Coton was bought for just under £1,000,000 by Manchester City. By the end of the following season, his form had been so impressive that he won the City Player of the Year award (an award he received again in the 1993-94 season) and an England B cap.

His time at Manchester City was cut short by injury, and the signing of Eike Immel, and in 1996 made the move across the city to Manchester United for £500,000. He never broke into the United team and moved on to Sunderland after just six months, for a fee of £600,000.

He made a few impressive performances for his new club before he unluckily broke his leg during a league match against Southampton. The leg was fractured in five places and marked the end of a long career.