nationalcaps manageryears birth_date currentclub years caps goals nationalyears image name fullname birth_place nationalteam height totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals clubs position managerclubs article_title
6 2010 -- 2011 8 october 1971 afc wimbledon -lrb- assistant manager -rrb- 1991 1999 -- 2005 2005 -- 2006 2006 -- 2008 2010 -- -- 2011 1994 1994 -- 1997 1997 -- 1999 17 40 106 80 219 27 58 4 1 3 3 7 20 2 1 0 1993 -- 1994 neil cox.jpg neil cox neil james cox scunthorpe , england england u21 6 0 551 37 0 aston alexandra leek town villa middlesbrough bolton wanderers watford cardiff city crewe defender leek town neil cox -lrb- footballer -rrb-

neil cox -lrb- footballer -rrb-

neil james cox -lrb- born 8 october 1971 -rrb- is a retired english professional footballer .
he spent most of his career playing as a central defender or right-back for watford but also made over 100 appearances for middlesbrough .
cox also played for scunthorpe united , aston villa and bolton wanderers , and was capped at under-21 level by england .
his final football league club was then league one outfit crewe alexandra .
cox retired from professional football in 2008 , going on to became a property developer in portugal .
cox subsequently returned to the game in 2010 after being appointed as the new manager of leek town .
when the club had injury concerns cox regsistered himself as a player with the league , making 4 appearances .
cox would be in charge just one season , however , before he would hand in his resignation for `` personal reasons '' .
on 10 october 2012 , it was announced that cox would reunite with former watford teammate neal ardley as his assistant manager at football league two outfit afc wimbledon .
