fullname youthclubs years youthyears clubs caps birth_place goals nationalteam height position birth_date article_title name
david alan clarke notts county 1981 1993 -- 1994 1994 -- 1995 -- 1983 1987 -- 1988 1988 -- 1994 1981 -- 1983 notts lincoln city doncaster rovers gainsborough trinity county lincoln city '' -lrb- non-league -rrb- '' 123 30 147 16 1 nottingham , england 7 5 9 0 0 england youth 5 10 defender 3 december 1964 david clarke -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 david clarke
david clarke -lrb- footballer -rrb-

david alan clarke -lrb- born 3 december 1964 in nottingham , england -rrb- is an english retired footballer who played predominantly at left back but also in midfield .
clarke began his career as an apprentice with notts county , a club his father had appeared for in the 1960s .
on 6 october 1982 , he made his debut for the magpies as a goalscoring substitute in a football league cup tie away to aston villa and went on to 16 appearances that season in the then first division of the football league .
he would go on to play a further four seasons for notts county , the highlight being the 1983 -- 84 season when he was called up for the england youth team .
in the summer of 1987 he dropped out of the football league to join the newly relegated lincoln city , where he also made a goalscoring debut , this time against stafford rangers on 5 september 1987 .
he would go on to make 30 league appearances as lincoln secured promotion back to the league at the first attempt .
he would stay at lincoln for a further five and a half seasons before moving to doncaster rovers at the beginning of 1994 .
he remained at doncaster for the remainder of the 1993 -- 94 season before dropping out of the league .
he made a single substitute appearance for gainsborough trinity at the beginning of the 1994 -- 95 season before retiring .
