Anthony Tonkin

Anthony Tonkin

File:Anthony Tonkin 11-09-2010 1.jpg Tonkin playing for Oxford United in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Anthony Richard Tonkin
Date of birth	(1980-01-17) 17 January 1980
Place of birth	Penzance, England
Height
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Frome Town
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Mousehole
	Falmouth Town
1998–2002	Yeovil Town	97	(2)
2002–2003	Stockport County	24	(0)
2003–2006	Crewe Alexandra	88	(0)
2006–2007	Yeovil Town	5	(0)
2007	→ Grays Athletic (loan)	12	(0)
2007–2008	Forest Green Rovers	38	(0)
2008–2010	Cambridge United	60	(0)
2010–2012	Oxford United	73	(0)
2012–2015	Aldershot Town	62	(0)
2015–	Frome Town	8	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:56, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Anthony Richard Tonkin (born 17 January 1980) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Southern League club Frome Town.

Career

Born in Penzance, Cornwall, Tonkin began his career at Mousehole and Falmouth Town, where he finished as runners-up to Truro City in the South Western League in the 1997–98 season. His success with Falmouth attracted Yeovil Town, who signed him up in 1998, where he made 95 appearances and scored one goal in three years at the club. In 2002 he moved to Stockport County, where he spent a year before being transferred to Crewe Alexandra in August 2003 for a reported fee of £150,000. After more than 90 appearances in under three years, he was released and subsequently returned to Yeovil.

On 2 March 2007, he joined Grays Athletic on loan for the remainder of the season. He was released by Yeovil upon his return in May 2007. Two months later, he signed for Conference National club Forest Green Rovers, reportedly turning down Football League clubs to stay in the Southwest. He made 38 league appearances as the club finished in their highest-ever league placing, but was released at the end of the season.

Tonkin joined Cambridge United on 1 July 2008. In January 2010, Tonkin joined Oxford United for an undisclosed fee. In May 2012, Tonkin was released by the club after being deemed surplus to requirements. On 25 May 2012, Tonkin joined Aldershot Town on a one-year deal which sees him join former team mate Josh Payne at the Recreation Ground.

The defender was released by Aldershot in February 2015, but was soon signed by Southern League side Frome Town initially until the end of the 2014–15 season.

Honours

Oxford United

• Conference National play-offs: 2009–10

External links

• Anthony Tonkin career statistics at Soccerbase