Wood, Darren

Darren Wood

Clubs played for: Middlesbrough, Chelsea, Sheffield Wednesday (1981-1990)

Born: 1964

Birthplace: Scarborough

Position: Full-back

Biography: Signed by his former Boro boss John Neal in September 1984 in a £50,000 deal plus Tony McAndrew, with the view to playing in midfield. Instead, he made the right back birth his own proving to be a valuable asset in the 1986 Full Members Cup winning side. He was at the club for the first half of the 1989 promotion winning campaign before moving to Sheffield Wednesday in a shock £450,000 transfer. An injury forced him to retire after just a handful of appearances. Returned to his home-town Scarborough where he helped his father in his fish wholesale business then started his own business supplying meat to delicatessen.

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Wood, Darren Sent some programmes to Darren Wood to be signed but recieved a message back sorry, I played for Chesterfield and Northampton and these Chelsea, Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday programmes are a different Darren Wood. Is there any chance you could give the right Darren Wood my email with a possibility of him signing these programmes for me. Iam 70 years of age and my life long hobby is getting my programme collection signed. They are all against Newcastle United. Thanking you Paul Whinham.
19-10-20 Paul Whinham