Dean Whitehead played with Peter Crouch, was managed by Roy Keane, and coached Dele Alli before moving to Vicarage Road.
Any professional footballer that exceeds 500 career appearances must be doing something right, both in their performances and their fitness levels.
Watford’s assistant head coach, Dean Whitehead, is part of the 500+ club, having clocked up 622 appearances for Oxford United, Sunderland, Stoke City, Middlesbrough and Huddersfield between 1999 and 2018. “They’d just been relegated from the Premier League and they were changing the way they recruited. They wanted more hungry, younger lower-league players.
“Over a period of time, other players get to understand what your qualities are and what you bring, and then you earn respect.” “You looked at the squad they had there, and while the names on paper didn’t look the most glamorous within the squad there was a huge bond. “Of course you don’t expect that when you start out,” he said. “I was just trying to get by as a footballer.
“I was lucky to play for some very good clubs that had a decent history behind them. I was fortunate.” “Tony Mowbray got sacked, he came in and I was one of the more senior players. He had worked at Real Madrid and liked young players, and I was thinking ‘where do I fit in here?’ One question you have to ask anyone who has worked for him is whether Roy Keane is the same as the persona we now see in his career as a pundit...“If he’s got something to say, he’ll say it. If you’re not doing the job or performing to the standard he wants, then he’ll tell you.
“I went out there on my own. I’ve got two boys, and the age they were at it wasn’t right to uproot everything. You never know how long things will last at any club. “It was an unbelievable experience though, and the atmosphere they can generate in a stadium is awesome.”“Yeah, we had Wout Weghorst when we were there. He hadn’t gone to Man United at that point.
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