CLIVE GOODYEAR

Born: 15 January 1961

Came from: Luton Town   Went to: Wimbledon

First game: 25 August 1984   Last game: 02 May 1987

Appearances: 125 (116/9)   Goals: 7

Born in Lincoln, Goodyear started his career with local non-league side Lincoln United, before earning a move and a Football League breakthrough with Luton Town in 1979.

He made his first team breakthrough in the Hatters' 1981-82 promotion season under David Pleat, and was a regular for the next two seasons in the top-flight. Goodyear had made 90 appearances and scored four goals when Argyle manager Johnny Hore signed him, as he was looking for a new centre-half.

Making his debut at the start of the 1984-85 season, his time at Home Park would prove to be the most stable of his career, making more appearances in green than for any other club. Playing regularly across three seasons, including a key role in Dave Smith's promotion season in 1985-86, he started the following season, in the Second Division, well, but then lost his place in the latter parts of the season to Nicky Law.

Argyle had enjoyed a great season, toying with the play-offs and reaching the top-flight for the first time, before fading and finishing 7th - still one of the club's highest finishes. However, it was to be Goodyear who beat the club to the top-flight, returning via a move to Wimbledon in 1987. He never became a true first-team regular at Plough Lane, making just 26 appearances across three seasons. However, he did start the Dons' famous 1988 FA Cup Final win over Liverpool. Indeed, it was Goodyear who was adjudged to have fouled John Aldridge, which led to the penalty (taken by Aldridge himself), which was famously saved by 'keeper Dave Beasant (the first penalty save in an FA Cup Final) helping Wimbledon to their epic 'David vs Goliath' 1-0 win, and a resulting in a winners' medal for Goodyear.

After three years at Wimbledon and that seminal moment, he was sold to Brentford in 1990, where he spent a single season and played just 10 matches in the 1990-91 season.

He then elected to move to play football in burgeoning Hong Kong, signing for Ernest Borel FC with Dons' team-mate Carlton Fairweather, and alongside another ex-Pilgrim, Raphael Meade, as the club spent big, attracting foreign talent, many from England. The club were formerly Sea-Bee, and had taken the name of their sponsors, a Swiss watch manufacturer, in the Hong Kong First Division. 'The Beautiful Orange' won their only major trophies in 1991-92 by winning the Viceroy Cup and the Hong Kong FA Cup as Ernest Borel, before the club and the league were dissolved in 1994. Goodyear played in two of the club's three seasons as Ernest Borel, during which he suffered a serious knee injury, which effectively ended his playing career.

Returning to the UK, perhaps prompted by the impact of the injury, he studied physiotherapy and returned to Luton Town as their physio in 1993, and subsequently performed the same role for Cardiff City and Chester City.

In June 2006, he set up his own physiotherapy/sports injury clinic based in Bletchley, near Milton Keynes and also ran the 2008 & 2009 London Marathons for charity.