Members News: ‘Boys Of 87’ Hero David Is Still A Winner!
Thanks to our friends at CovSupport News Service, a Facebook page run by Associate Member Kev Monks, for alerting us to the following news about our member David Phillips via a post (reproduced below) on Thursday last. David, of course, is a Sky Blue hero being one of the ‘Boys of 87‘ that brought the F.A.Cup back to the Sky Blue City in May 1987. He has supported the Association’s Golf Day several times and has been a matchday ‘special’ guest at Sky Blue games at the CBS Arena in the past.
David started out his footballing career in the early 1980s as a Plymouth Argyle apprentice before joining Manchester City in August 1984. He came to Highfield Road in June 1986 and as well as becoming a CCFC F.A.Cup winner the midfielder (sometimes full-back) netted 9 times in his 117 Sky Blue games before leaving for Norwich City for £0.5m in July 1989. Between 1993-2001 when he hung up his boots David then featured successively for Nottingham Forest, Huddersfield Town, Lincoln City and Stevenage Borough.
Though German born to an RAF family in 1963 David finished with a total of 62 caps (netting twice) for Wales between 1984-96 (including whilst with CCFC. Post retirement David coached CCFC’s Under 14s for a time and has continued in the coaching profession (see below) as well as doing media work co-commentating/ summarising for BBC Wales on games involving Swansea City, Cardiff City and Wrexham. Congrats to David from all at CCFPA for extending his current contract at Future Pro!
Some Sky Blue fans may have forgotten that David’s son Aaron Phillips has also played for CCFC (2012-16) furthering his career at Nuneaton Town (loan- 2013), Northampton Town (2016), Kidderminster Harriers (2018) and St Ives Town (2019).