Richard Carpenter
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-09-30) 30 September 1972
Place of birth Sheerness, England
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Gillingham
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1996 Gillingham 122 (4)
1996–1998 Fulham 58 (7)
1998–2000 Cardiff City 75 (2)
2000–2007 Brighton & Hove Albion 252 (20)
2007–2008 Welling United
2010–2011 Whitehawk 11 (1)
Managerial career
2008 Welling United (caretaker manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Richard Carpenter (born 30 September 1972) is an English footballer, born in Sheerness, who played as a midfielder for Gillingham, Fulham, Cardiff City and Brighton & Hove Albion. He made more than 500 appearances in the Football League over a 15-year professional career.[1]

Career

Carpenter began his football career with Gillingham, and was part of the team promoted to Division Two in the 1995–96 season.[2] He went on to make more than 250 appearances for Brighton & Hove Albion, and captained the side. In 2004, Carpenter was required to pay undisclosed damages to Chris Casper following a tackle in a league match on Boxing Day 1999, during his time playing for Cardiff City, that left Casper with a double fracture to his leg that subsequently saw him retire from professional football.[3]

In February 2007 his contract was terminated by mutual consent, and he signed for Conference South club Welling United,[4] where he became club captain and briefly caretaker manager,[5] before leaving the club at the end of the 2007–08 season.[2]

In February 2010, Carpenter played a one-off game for Whitehawk in a sixth round FA Vase tie at Gresley Rovers to solve an injury crisis, as a favour for the Hawks' manager Darren Freeman.[6] He then came out of retirement to play for Whitehawk during their first season in Isthmian League Division One South.[7]

Personal life

In 2012, Carpenter was sentenced to 200 hours of community service after pleading guilty to an assault charge following a brawl in The Red Lion pub in Hernhill.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Richard Carpenter". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  2. 1 2 Struthers, Greg (11 January 2009). "Caught in Time: Gills aloud and so proud". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  3. ↑ "Casper wins settlement". BBC Sport. 15 April 2004. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Carpenter explains Welling switch". BBC Sport. 27 September 2007. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  5. ↑ "In Temporary Charge!". Welling United F.C. 8 January 2008. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  6. ↑ "Whitehawk close in on Wembley dream".
  7. ↑ Ramsgate v Whitehawk, Official Matchday Programme, 9 April 2011
  8. ↑ "'Unfair' reputation distresses landlord". Canterbury Times. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2016.


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