fullname youthclubs years clubs caps goals birth_place height position manageryears birth_date article_title name
gary ernest bennett ashton united 1981 1996 -- 1998 1998 -- 2000 2001 2001 -- 2002 -- 1984 1984 -- 1995 1995 -- 1996 ashton worksop town scarborough united cardiff city sunderland carlisle united scarborough darlington 0 87 442 26 88 34 ? 1 0 11 23 5 18 4 ? 0 manchester , england 6 defender 2000 -- 2001 4 december 1961 gary bennett -lrb- footballer , born 1961 -rrb-
 gary bennett
gary bennett -lrb- footballer , born 1961 -rrb-

`` for the former striker of chester city and wrexham , among others , see gary bennett '' gary ernest bennett -lrb- born 4 december 1961 in manchester -rrb- is a former english professional footballer who is most known for playing for sunderland from 1984 to 1995 .
he originally started his career with manchester city , but moved on to cardiff city in 1981 , without making any first team appearances , on a free transfer where he linked up with his brother dave .
he left cardiff for # 65,000 in july 1984 to join sunderland .
bennett went on to play 369 league games with sunderland scoring 23 goals before joining carlisle united 11 years later .
he later played in the football league for scarborough and darlington -lrb- where he was also manager until being released in october 2001 -rrb- .
whilst at sunderland , he played in the 1992 fa cup final where they lost to liverpool .
he now works as a radio pundit and has regularly commentates on sunderland games .
he also does some work for ` show racism the red card ' .
his son has recently joined the academy of middlesbrough , a local rival to his former team , sunderland .
he also coaches university of sunderland women 's fc in his spare time .
