Dean Windass (born 1 April 1969) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He officially announced his retirement from the game on 19 October 2009, but hoped to carry on with a career in coaching.

Following this rejection he worked packing vegetables in a frozen food factory for a while and it is the unhappy memory of this that surely drove him on to become a professional footballer.Will highly recommend to other club's who ask who we have had as a guest speaker and also pass your details on.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He shares hilarious stories from his playing days and can talk in-depth about his struggles with and recovery from depression. After leaving Barton Town, Windass signed for Scarborough Athletic, a side where his brother-in-law Darren France is assistant manager, [68] Initially Sky Sports commitments prevented him from playing for the "Seadogs" and he left, re-signing for the club in October 2011 and making his debut (as a substitute) on 15 October 2011.A straight-talking Yorkshireman, he pulls no punches, – and shows retirement from the game comes with its own wins and losses.

Windass scored his last Premier League goal at the age of 39, becoming Hull City's oldest-ever scorer. Commentary on everyday challenges and hassles, great insight to the Nations favourite sport, as well as plenty of hilarious stories as you might imagine from the natural born joker (DOB: April 1st). Then as a junior he was rejected by the football team that he loved, Hull City, for being too small (haven't those fools heard of Alan Ball?But in fact, Gipsyville is not a generic, and racist, term for a bad place, it was the actual name of his early junior team. It dances through his first spell at Hull, and his time at Aberdeen and Oxford at breakneck speed only slowing down once he reaches the Premier League with Bradford. In a radio interview after the game, Windass described the casino incident as a " storm in a teacup". Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the book is the extent of the ‘Oxford mafia’ that spread across English football during the 90s.