Tom Heaton

Heaton playing for Cardiff City (2011)

Thomas David "Tom" Heaton ( born April 15, 1986 in Chester ) is an English football goalkeeper, who is under contract with the English second division side Burnley FC since 2013.

Career

Heaton came in 2002 as a young player at Manchester United and played in the following years for the U -17 and U- 19 of clubs. In 2003 he was at winning the FA Youth Cup reserve goalkeeper behind Luke Steele. In the season 2004/ 05 he was a regular Keeper of the reserve team and won with the team the championships in the Premier Reserve League and the Central League and the Central League Cup.

At the beginning of the season 2005 /06 he was awarded jointly with Colin Heath at Swindon Town After a knee injury of the root goalkeeper Rhys Evans Heaton moved in late August in the starting eleven and came to the end of November for a total of 19 missions. A sending-off in the FA Cup replay against Boston United Evans brought back into the goal of Swindon and kept this place in December. Heaton returned at the end of the lending agreement from 1 January 2006 to Manchester back. He spent the second half on loan at Belgian club Royal Antwerp partner, came there for the first team but not used. The following two seasons spent Heaton continued in the reserve team of United, was due to injuries from Edwin van der Sar and Tomasz Kuszczak also nominated several times as a substitute for portions of the first team without are used here.

The entire 2008/09 season was awarded Heaton at Cardiff City in the Football League Championship and sat down to the position in the goal against the Finnish goalkeeper Peter Enckelman by. Due to a November 22, suffered against Plymouth Argyle calf injury Enckelman returned to the gate and kept this place after a series of ten games without defeat after Heaton's return. As Enckelman turned out longer time due to a knee injury, Heaton came in mid-February in a 0-4 defeat against Arsenal in the FA Cup for the first time to use, but injured his again and fell for several weeks out. The space in the goal then took over Stuart Taylor, the Heaton replaced again only for the last three games of the season. After just one point from three games this Cardiff slipped even from the play-off places, and thus missed the possible promotion to the Premier League. For the 2009/10 season Manchester gave the keeper again, initially for three months at the Queens Park Rangers, for which he came to two appearances in the League Cup, and then to the fourth division Rochdale AFC.

In February 2010, the next lending and Heaton followed joined to the end of the season Wycombe Wanderers. There, he won a regular place at once, but could not avoid relegation in the Football League Two.

In June 2010, he rejected a new contract offer from Manchester United, since he is counting on more match practice at another club, and shortly thereafter signed a contract with the second division Cardiff City.

In the years 2008 and 2009 Heaton came to three appearances for the English U- 21 team, but was not considered by team coach Stuart Pearce for the U- 21 Championship 2009. Previously, he played in the age groups U- 16 to U- 19th