Gary Martindale (born 24 June 1971) is an English former professional

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who played as a striker. He has since moved into management, serving as manager and assistant manager at four non-league football clubs in the North West of England.

Playing career

Born in

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, Martindale began his senior career in non-League football with

Burscough Burscough () is a town and civil parish in West Lancashire in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. It is located to the north of Ormskirk and northwest of Skelmersdale. The parish also includes the hamlet of Tarlscough and the Martin M ...

. He later played in

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for

Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pike's ...

Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Peterborough have a long-standing ...

Notts County Notts County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Nottingham, England. The team participate in the National League (division), National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. Founded on the 2 ...

Mansfield Town Mansfield Town Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed 'The Stags', they ...

and

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, before returning to non-League football with Telford United and Burscough. Despite having played in the

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(now

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) with Notts County, his most outstanding moment came after he returned to Burscough. In May 2003 they reached the final of the

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against Tamworth. Having started the competition as 400–1 outsiders, they had narrowed the odds but were still far from favourites. They pulled off a shock 2–1 win, with Martindale scoring both their goals.

Coaching career

Formby

Martindale was appointed manager of

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in July 2010. Without time to rebuild the severely depleted squad before the season began, Formby had a disastrous first few games. Lacking a striker, Martindale reluctantly picked himself for the team. He scored in four out of his first five matches. Despite turning Formby's fortunes around, including signing notable players like

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, Adam Farley and John Lawless, he felt unsupported by the club and after internal restructuring of the club he resigned in January 2011. He expressed an immediate desire to continue his management career elsewhere.

Vauxhall Motors

Two months later he took up a backroom coaching role at

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, before being hired in June 2011 as Assistant Manager of

Vauxhall Motors F.C. Vauxhall Motors Football Club is a football club based in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. The club are currently members of the and play at Rivacre Park, known as the vanEupen Arena for sponsorship reasons. It was originally the works team ...

by their new manager Anthony Wright. During the 2011–12 season, he was once more registered as a player for Vauxhall Motors.

Marine

In 2014 he was appointed by

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as Assistant Manager, again alongside Carl Macauley who was appointed as manager. They left the club in February 2015.

Witton Albion

In October 2015 he was appointed, again as assistant manager, alongside Carl Macauley as manager at

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References

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