Mitch Cook

Mitch Cook
Personal information
Full name Mitchell Christopher Cook[1]
Date of birth (1961-10-15) 15 October 1961 (age 63)[1]
Place of birth Scarborough, England[1]
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Position(s) Left-back[1]
Midfielder[1]
Team information
Current team
 Scarborough Town (Director of Football)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1984 Scarborough 230 (56)
1984–1985 Darlington 34 (4)
1985–1986 Middlesbrough 3 (0)
1986–1989 Scarborough 61 (10)
1989–1991 Halifax Town 52 (2)
1990 → Scarborough (loan) 2 (0)
1991–1992 Darlington 35 (3)
1992–1994 Blackpool 66 (0)
1994–1995 Hartlepool United 22 (0)
1995–1996 Guiseley ? (?)
1996 Scarborough 2 (0)
1996–1999 Whitby Town ? (?)
Managerial career
1996 Scarborough
2010–2011 Pickering Town
2011–2014 Bridlington Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mitchell Christopher Cook (born 15 October 1961) is an English retired professional footballer. He played for seven different Football League clubs during a twenty-year career, and had four separate spells at Scarborough, his hometown club. He later coached at the club and ran the club's Centre of Excellence and Football in the Community sections until the club's demise in 2007, whereupon he moved the youth system, community section and Under-19 team of Scarborough F.C. to George Pindar Community Sports College on the outskirts of town.

In 2008, Cook was appointed Director of Football for the newly formed Scarborough Town F.C., an adult extension of the Under-19 Academy and which he led to the championship of Teesside League Division Two in 2008–09, whilst his youth team won the "double" in the Northern Under-19 Alliance (Eastern Division). In 2009–10 he guided Scarborough Town to the championship of the Wearside League (Step 7) with the team also winning the prestigious Sunderland Shipowners Cup. The youth team retained its title in the Northern Under-19 Alliance.

In October 2010, Cook replaced Mark Wood as the manager of Pickering Town, taking control of both the first team and the under 19 side.[3] After one season at the club, he left in May 2011 to take over at Bridlington Town.[4]

Honours

As a player

Scarborough

Blackpool

Whitby Town

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mitch Cook". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  2. ^ Dunk, Peter (20 August 1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. Queen Anne Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-3561435-4-5. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  3. ^ Kelly, Tony (8 September 2010). "The Big Interview with Pickering Town manager Mitch Cook". The York Press. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
  4. ^ "Pickering Town search for new manager". BBC Sport. BBC. 3 May 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
  5. ^ Mitch Cook at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)