6'2"  14st.
b. Kenilworth  3 February 1967

 

Debut  6 November 1993 (26y 276d) Final Game 16 May 1999 (31y 164d)
CAREER: Park Hill Middle School;Abbey High School,Kenilworth;Coventry Dynamos;Coventry Sporting;Wolverhampton Wanderers Mar'81 (sc) Aug'83 (app) Jun'86[63];Southampton Apr'86 (loan) Jun'86 (£70,000)[192];Swindon Town Mar'87 (loan)[2] Nov'87 (loan)[5];Blackburn Rovers Nov'93 (£2,400,000);Leicester City Jul'99-Jun’03 (£1,100,000)[54+2];Stockport County Oct'01 (loan)[4];Coventry City Feb'02 (loan)[5];Manchester City Aug'02-Nov'02 (loan).
INTERNATIONALS    England    11 apps
’93 v Bra.’94 v Gre.’95 v Nig,Uru,Jap,Swe,Bra.’96 v Chn.’97 v Ita.’98 v Swi,Mor.
PLC (Blackburn Rovers) ’95.FLC win (Leicester City) ’00.
SQUAD NUMBER  26 Nov’93 1 Aug’94-Jul’99.

PL        175  + 2 apps  - 1 wdn                                                      20 ns   1 og
FAC       13  + 1 apps                                                                       3 ns
FLC        14 apps          - 1 wdn
UEFA     4 apps
EC           6 apps
CS           2 apps
Total   214  + 3 apps   - 2 wdn  +116m -30m  et 60m             23 ns   1 og
Penalty record  F 18 Sc 13 Sv 3 M 2  (SO)  F 4 Sc 4
Minutes per goal 80 Clean sheet % 33
Sent off  2 plus a technical sending off when he was a substitute who had not come on the field of play
Longest unbeaten  503m First conceded  82m
Most goals one game   4

It took a world record fee for a goalkeeper to bring Flowers to Ewood but Kenny Dalglish wanted the best man he could buy to cement the Rovers' position in the Premiership. Payback was quick as the supremely professional Flowers established himself as a vital component of the team that took the Premiership title in 1995. Possessing great reflexes and a careful student of angles and technique he might have enjoyed a longer career with the club if he had not suffered from injury and found John Filan a redoubtable opponent. A special place in the club's history will forever be reserved for Flowers and his performance on VE night when he was superb against Newcastle in preserving a lead and then became the first person at the club to respond to Alex Ferguson's mind games with his famous "bottle" interview that underlined the team's determination to hold on to their lead at the top of the table. Although he had to undergo hip replacement surgery he remained in the game as goalkeeping coach at Leicester and Manchester City and assistant manager at Coventry. Later he became manager at Solihull Moors.