Danny Potter

Danny Potter

Personal information
Full name	Daniel Raymond John Potter
Position(s)	Goalkeeper

Daniel Raymond John "Danny" Potter (born 18 March 1979 in Ipswich, England) is an English footballer, who is currently without a club (although training with Brighton), having been released by Cambridge United.

Career

Danny Potter started his career as a trainee at Premiership club Chelsea but after failing to make the grade there dropped into lower league football with short spells at Chelmsford City, Weymouth and Exeter City. He came to prominence when he joined Canvey Island in March 2003 along with Lee Boylan who later joined Cambridge United and Wayne Purser who was with him at Canvey Island, with whom he gained promotion to the Conference, and on a number of occasions proved to be a key player for them with his solid goalkeeping skills. After Canvey dropped out of the Conference, he was signed by Stevenage Borough by new manager Mark Stimson and promptly impressed in pre-season.

As the 2006-07 season began Danny was first choice, with previous first choice Alan Julian struggling with injury and Potter remained first choice until he was sent off against Crawley. After the Crawley game Potter only played in one more game for the first team, a 2-1 defeat to Burton Albion.

Potter left to join Cambridge United on 22 May 2007 but has since been let go (End of 09/10 season). Southern News reports he has signed as back-up keeper for Brighton and has already played for their reserves. 'I thought I played well and i'd be happy to stay down here. There's an arcade across the road with Daley Thompson's Decathlon and the fans seem very friendly. Not over friendly like you might expect with Brighton. The seagull poo is an issue but the club can't do a lot about that. Can they?'

Honours

• Isthmian League (VI): 2004
• FA Trophy: 2007

External links

• Danny Potter at Soccerbase
• Danny Potter at Soccerbase