Sligo Rovers
Mark Boyd (footballer) played for which team in Dec 2007?
Mark Boyd ( footballer ) Mark Edward Boyd ( born 22 October 1981 ) is an English former football player and manager . He scored 19 goals in 298 league and cup appearances in an 11-year career in the English Football League , Scottish Football League and Conference , and also later spent six years playing non-League football below the Conference level . Beginning his career as midfielder with Newcastle United , he never made the first team and instead signed with Port Vale in 2002 . After two years with the Vale he moved north to Scottish side Gretna via Carlisle United . Failing to make an impact he returned to the Football League with a Macclesfield Town loan in 2005 . After a short spell with Accrington Stanley in 2006 , he joined non-League side Southport . He joined Irish club Sligo Rovers in 2007 , before turning to the English non-League scene with Barrow the following year . He joined Workington via Droylsden in 2011 , before switching to Celtic Nation in June 2013 . He helped Celtic Nation to a second-place finish in the Northern League in 2013–14 , before taking up the management position for the 2014–15 season , after which the club was folded . He later played for Penrith and Carlisle City . Playing career . Mark was released from the Carlisle United school of excellence at the age of 14 and joined the Academy at Newcastle United after a successful trial . He left St James Park in May 2002 on a free transfer to League One side Port Vale after being recommended to the Valiants manager Brian Horton by Bobby Robson . However , he suffered a broken ankle with a couple of months of the season remaining . Boyd never really forced his way back into the reckoning the following season as Vale were challenging for the play-offs in League One and he was released by mutual consent in 2004 to join Carlisle United until the end of the season . For the next two seasons Boyd could not forge a longer-term deal with a club and ended up playing bit-part roles for Carlisle United , Gretna , Macclesfield Town , and finally Accrington Stanley , before eventually signing for Conference side Southport before the 2006–07 season . His Southport career began disappointingly with a missed penalty in the teams first game of the season . The next year he transferred to Sligo Rovers in the Republic of Ireland . In January 2008 he was back in England with Barrow of the Conference North . In May 2008 , Barrow beat Staylybridge Celtic 1–0 to gain promotion back into the Conference National via the Conference North play-offs . Boyd remained a key part of the Barrow squad during their first two seasons in the Conference National , culminating in the clubs 2–1 victory over Stevenage in the 2009–10 FA Trophy final . In the match itself Boyd replaced Paul Rutherford with just ten minutes of extra time remaining , Jason Walker having already scored Barrows winning goal three minutes earlier . In February 2011 Boyd signed a short contract at Droylsden of the Conference North , following a one-month loan spell . In the June that year he became Workingtons first summer signing , penning a one-year deal . The Reds finished 13th and 14th in the Conference North in 2011–12 and 2012–13 . He quit Workington in June 2013 to join Northern League side Celtic Nation . He helped Celtic Nation to a second-place finish in the Northern League in 2013–14 . After taking a career break , he joined Penrith of the Northern League Division One in March 2016 , and moved on to Northern Alliance Premier Division side Carlisle City later in the year . Coaching career . Boyd was appointed Celtic Nation player-manager in July 2014 ; at the time of his appointment the club were undergoing a crisis after a moneyed investor withdrew his support for the club . The club finished second-from-bottom in the 2014–15 campaign , before folding in the summer . He joined Northern League side Shildon as a coach in May 2017 , but left after four months . He returned to Penrith as a player-coach in July 2018 . Later life . After retiring as a player , Boyd went on to commentate on Barrow games for BBC Radio Cumbria . Honours . - Barrow - Conference North play-offs : 2008 - FA Trophy : 2010 - Celtic Nation - Northern Football League Division One runner-up : 2013–14