Mark Smith Sports manager
Mark Craig Smith (born 21 March 1960 in Sheffield) is a former professional footballer, who now works as Development Coach at Sheffield United. A England under-21 international, he posted 510 league appearances in a seventeen year career in the Football League. He spent the first ten years of his career at Sheffield Wednesday, and by the time he left for Plymouth Argyle in 1987 he had made 282 league appearances for Wednesday. During his time in Sheffield, Wednesday twice won promotion and twice appeared in the FA Cup semi-finals. He switched to Barnsley in 1990, before he signed with Notts County in 1992. He was loaned out to Port Vale, Huddersfield Town, and Chesterfield, before he finished his career at Lincoln City in 1994. He then began work as a coach, which included a one game stint in charge of Sheffield Wednesday in 2004, in a caretaker manager capacity.