Peter Beadle

Peter Clifford William James Beadle (born 13 May 1972) is an English football manager and former player who was recently manager of club Yate Town.

A former player, Beadle played as a forward and he scored some 83 goals in 355 league games, mostly for the two Bristol clubs.

He started his career at Gillingham in 1989 and won a £300,000 move to Tottenham Hotspur two years later.

A striker, he made his debut at Fourth Division club Gillingham at the age of 16, against Cardiff City at Priestfield Stadium on 11 March 1989.

The loan was expected to last until the end of the 1989–90 season, however, he was recalled to Gillingham in early April and turned professional at the club the following month.

He joined Southern League Southern Division side Margate on loan and made his debut for the "Gate" on 31 March 1990, in a 2–1 defeat to Dunstable at Hartsdown Park.

He made 76 appearances in all competitions for Gillingham, scoring 15 goals, as Damien Richardson's "Gills" struggled in mid-table in 1990–91 and 1991–92.

His promise earned him a move to Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur in June 1992, who spent £300,000 to secure his services, a club record for Gillingham.

He had supported the club as a boy.

He was loaned out to Tony Pulis' Second Division side AFC Bournemouth at the end of the 1992–93 season, where he scored twice in nine games.

At the end of 1993–94 he joined First Division club Southend United on loan, scoring once in eight appearances for Peter Taylor's side.

However, he never made a first team appearance for "Spurs" and was instead loaned out to AFC Bournemouth and Southend United, before he was transferred to Watford in September 1994.

He never made it onto the pitch for a competitive game at White Hart Lane and in September 1994 he was allowed to join Glenn Roeder's Watford for £5,000 plus a 20% sell on fee.

This move was not a success, as proven by his record of just one goal in 24 league and cup appearances.

After missing out on the First Division play-offs in 1994–95, Watford were relegated at the end of 1995–96.

Beadle escaped Watford before the club were relegated, having signed for Bristol Rovers in November 1995, manager John Ward paying a £30,000 fee.

Rovers missed out on the play-offs by just three points in 1995–96.

Rovers struggled in 1996–97 under rookie manager Ian Holloway, and Beadle was the club's top scorer with 12 goals in 43 games, hitting a hat-trick past Bury at the Memorial Stadium.

He hit fifteen league goals in 1997–98 and his new strike partner Barry Hayles was the division's leading scorer with 23 strikes.

Thanks to Beadle and Hayles, Rovers outscored the rest of the clubs in the division, though a leaky defence cost them an automatic promotion place, and an aggregate 4–3 defeat to Northampton Town at the play-off semi-final stage lost them the chance of second-tier football.

He scored two hat-tricks throughout the campaign, the first coming in a 5–3 thriller at home to former club Bournemouth and the second coming in a 5–0 demolition of Wigan Athletic.

He moved on to Bristol Rovers a year later and after an impressive spell with the club was signed by Port Vale for £300,000 in August 1998.

Beadle joined John Rudge's First Division Port Vale for £300,000 in August 1998.

In total he scored nine goals in forty games in 1998–99 for both clubs.

He was sold on to Notts County in February 1999 for £250,000, before moving to Bristol City for £200,000 seven months later.

He scored six goals in 26 games, but new manager Brian Horton sold him on to Sam Allardyce's Second Division Notts County for £250,000 in February 1999.

After ten appearances in 1999–2000, he was sold to league rivals Bristol City for £200,000 in September 1999.

The move to Bristol City reunited him with former boss Tony Pulis.

Beadle scored ten goals in 34 games for City in 1999–2000, helping the club to reach the Football League Trophy final at Wembley by scoring in both legs of the semi-final against Exeter City.

He spent four years with the club, as City reached the Football League Trophy final twice, losing in 2000 and winning in 2003.

He retired after brief spells with Brentford, Barnet, Team Bath and Clevedon Town.

He entered management with Newport County in October 2005.

He kept the club in the Conference South, and led the club to the FAW Premier Cup final in 2007 and 2008, losing in 2007 and in 2008.

However, he was sacked in April 2008, after his team narrowly missed out on the play-offs for a second-successive season.

He then spent a brief spell in charge at Clevedon Town in 2010, and since then specialised in training roles with younger players, and was appointed director of youth football at Hereford United in April 2013.

He was named caretaker manager at Hereford in March 2014 following the departure of Martin Foyle as first team boss.

In April 2015 he was named as the first manager of new club Hereford and led the club to the Midland Football League title in 2015–16, as well as the Midland Football League Cup and Herefordshire County Cup, and the FA Vase final.

He then led Hereford to successive Southern League Division One South & West and Premier Division titles in the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons, before being sacked in September 2018.

He returned to management at Barnet in August 2020, though left the club four months later.

He returned to management with Yate Town for a brief spell from May to October 2022.