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April 2024

Thanks to Dave Rowntree for many of the player images after 1984.

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DAVID FOX

Full Name: David Lee Fox

Born: 13 December 1983

Came from: Crewe Alexandra Went to:

First game: 06 August 2016 Last game: 04 May 2019

Appearances: 142 (131/11) Goals: 3

The son of former Exeter City manager and player Peter Fox, David was born in Leek, Staffordshire when his father was keeping goal for Stoke City. He moved to Devon when dad rejoined former Stoke colleague Alan Ball at St James Park and the young Fox quickly became a rising star in the Grecians' youth set-up. He joined Manchester United in July 2000 as a 16-year-old but was unable to break into the Red Devils' first team set-up. After loans with United's Belgian feeder club Royal Antwerp and Shrewsbury Town, and captaining United's reserve team to the Premier Reserve League title, he joined Blackpool in January 2006.

After 108 appearances in three years with Blackpool, Fox signed for Colchester United in July 2009, before moving to Norwich City a year later. He helped the Canaries to promotion to the Premier League before rejoining Colchester in 2014 after four seasons (76 games) at Carrow Road. A year later he moved to Crewe Alexandra, for whom he made 41 appearances in the 2015-16 season.

After his release by Crewe, Fox returned to Devon to take up a trial with Argyle, which included appearances in three of the Pilgrims' pre-season friendlies. The 32-year-old midfielder impressed manager Derek Adams enough to become the 13th new Pilgrim (and third David) to join the club in the summer of 2016.

Fox became an almost ever-present in his first two seasons at the club, helping to win promotion in 2017, and his consistent and influential performances at the heart of midfield made him a popular member of the side. In the summer of 2018, despite his family remaining committed to life in the North West, he accepted the offer of a new contract to become part of Derek Adams' side for a third season.

Always a solid and industrious performer, adding some fluency to midfield, Fox finally rejected a further contract offer at the end of the 2018-19 season in order to return closer to home. However, unable to break back into full-time football, he joined his brother at Leek County School Old Boys in the Staffordshire County Senior League in 2019 and became a frequent guest commentator at northern away games on BBC Radio Devon. He combined these roles with becoming Loan Manager and being in charge of Academy Recruitment at Huddersfield Town from 2020.

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APPEARANCE DETAILS [reselect competitions]

The details below reflect appearances in all first-team competitions.

I'm very grateful to many who have helped write GoS-DB's player pen-pictures, and to Dave Rowntree, the PAFC Media Team and Colin Parsons for their help with photos. Thanks also to staff at the National Football Museum, the Scottish Football Museum and ScotlandsPeople for their valuable assistance.

The following publications have been particularly valuable in the research of pen-pictures: Plymouth Argyle, A Complete Record 1903-1989 (Brian Knight, ISBN 0-907969-40-2); Plymouth Argyle, 101 Golden Greats (Andy Riddle, ISBN 1-874287-47-3); Football League Players' Records 1888-1939 (Michael Joyce, ISBN 1-899468-67-6); Football League Players' Records 1946-1988 (Barry Hugman, ISBN 1-85443-020-3) and Plymouth Argyle Football Club Handbooks.

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