Iain Turner
Turner in action for Everton (2009)
Iain Ross Turner ( born January 26, 1984 in Stirling ) is a Scottish football player. The goalkeeper stood from 2003 to 2011 with FC Everton. Since January 2014, he plays for FC Barnsley
Career
Turner came in 2000 from Riverside Boys Club at Stirling Albion, which at this point in the Scottish Football League Third Division play. In the season 2002/ 03 he came to his debut in the adult area, and graduated to the year 13 league games. After the trial with northern English first division club FC Everton boss David Moyes won in December 2002 by his abilities, joined Turner in January 2003 for £ 50,000 to the club from Liverpool.
At Everton he came first in the youth and reserve team to use and did time for injury- related absences in the season 2002/ 03, four times in Premier League games on the bench. In February 2004, he was for some time in the fifth-tier Chester City was awarded and contributed his part to the rise of clubs in the Football League Two at. While use of opportunities at Everton were a " number 3" behind Nigel Martyn and Richard Wright in the 2004/05 season out of reach, he was called several times in the Scottish U-21 national team and collected in the spring of 2005, more experience on loan at Doncaster Rovers. In the summer, with a new three- year contract, he was loaned in November 2005 for a month at the Wycombe Wanderers. On 8 February 2006 he finally came to a competitive debut for Everton. Because Wright had violated the warm-up against Chelsea before the fourth round replay of the FA Cup, Turner took his place between the posts, but could not prevent the 0-2 defeat at Stamford Bridge. A few days later he came also the first time in the Premier League action, as he stood in the 1-0 win against Blackburn Rovers in the grid. However, his league debut lasted just nine minutes, then he was dismissed because he had parried a header return of his front man Alan Stubbs outside the box by hand.
On the last two days of the 2005/06 season he came again to the train, the arrival of goalkeeper Tim Howard from Manchester United for the 2006/ 07 decreased further applications but significantly. In the course of the season he spent, as in previous years, loan period at unterklassigen professional clubs Crystal Palace and Sheffield Wednesday were the whereabouts. His only Premier League use in the course of the season took place in controversial circumstances. Because of a gentlemen's agreement between the coaches Alex Ferguson and Moyes, Everton renounced the use of Tim Howard in the game against Manchester United, his former club, of which he was firmly committed in February 2002. The debate about this process, which took place in the battle for the championship between United and Chelsea, received additional food after Turner by an error Manchester allowed the first goal with the score at 2-0 and this eventually won the game still 4-2.
In March 2007, Turner was first invited by the new national team coach Alex McLeish in the Scottish national team, in the subsequent European Championship qualifying matches against Georgia and Italy but were Craig Gordon and Allan McGregor in the Matchday squad. Injuries dominated the following two seasons, only 22 months after his operation against ManUtd he came in March 2009 during a stay on loan at Nottingham Forest back to a competitive game use. In May 2009, he also moved back into the circle of the national team in a B international against Northern Ireland, he came off the bench during the second half. Meanwhile, Everton were in the goalkeeper Carlo Nash and Howard hierarchy before him, a situation in which nothing changed after the departure of Nash and the obligation of the Slovakian international goalkeeper Ján Mucha in the summer of 2010. Although he did not it past in the sequence via inserts in the reserve team, he was re-nominated in August 2010 for a friendly game of the Scottish national team against Sweden and took the first time on the substitutes' bench. A few days later, a one-month loan to second division side Coventry City, during which he came to two inserts. In February 2011, he was awarded the eighth and final time during his Everton - time, lending club which was the relegation-threatened second division side Preston North End. There, he replaced Andy Lonergan in goal, but missed the league ultimately clear.
By season's end, he refused to renew his contract at Everton and he left the club after eight years and six competitive games. New employer of Turner was Preston North End, where he scored the first weeks with service providers and with a long tee shot against Notts County also scored his first Profitor. In early November 2011, he retired in training a broken leg and fell for several weeks out. Because of this violation committed Preston Thorsten stucco man who kept his place in goal even after Turner's recovery. In January 2012, Turner was therefore awarded to the Scottish first division club Dunfermline Athletic, where he is briefly represented the injured Paul Gallacher regular keeper. In May 2012, he was one of the 21 players who were singled out by coach Graham Westley.