Richard Goddard-Crawley

Brentford

After beginning his youth career in the academy at Premier League club Arsenal in 1994,^[3][4] Goddard-Crawley joined Second Division club Brentford on trial in May 1996 and signed a two-year contract three months later.^[5] He was an unused substitute on three occasions, before making his senior debut in the final match of the 1996–97 regular season,^[6] as a 78th-minute substitute for Robert Taylor in a 1–0 defeat to Peterborough United.^[7]

Goddard-Crawley made two League Cup appearances early in the 1997–98 season,^[8] before moving away on loan in October 1997 and returning with a fractured foot one month later.^[9] Goddard-Crawley departed Brentford for the final time in March 1998,^[9] after making three appearances in just under two years at Griffin Park.^[10] He played the majority of his football at the club for the reserve team, for whom he made 36 appearances and scored two goals.^[11]

Non-League football

In March 1998, Goddard-Crawley returned to Conference club Woking for a £7,500 fee, after having been on loan at the Kingfield Stadium earlier in the 1997–98 season.^[5] Over the next decade he subsequently played in the Conference and Isthmian League for St Albans City, Chesham United, Harrow Borough, Thurrock, Yeading and AFC Hornchurch, before retiring in 2008.^{[4][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]}