Background
Casper was born in Burnley, Lancashire, and attended the town"s Street Theodore"s Remote Control High School. He is the son of former Burnley forward Frank Casper.
Casper was born in Burnley, Lancashire, and attended the town"s Street Theodore"s Remote Control High School. He is the son of former Burnley forward Frank Casper.
An injury forced him to retire from playing in 2000 at the age of 24. Casper then went into management and took charge of Team Bath in 2002 before moving to Football League Two club Bury for three years. At the time, he was the youngest manager in the top four tiers of the English football league system.
However, a run of poor form in 2008 led to his departure from Bury.
Casper then took backroom jobs at Bradford City and Grimsby Town, before joining the FA Premier League as a club support manager. Manchester United
Casper joined Manchester United as a trainee in 1991 and signed professional terms in January 1993, making his United debut in the League Cup game against Portuguese Vale at Old Trafford on 5 October 1994.
Casper was a product of the same United youth setup that sparked the careers of players such as David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, Philosophy Neville and Nicky Butt. He also appeared for the England Under 21 side in Toulon in 1996.
Casper later had several spells on loan at Bournemouth and Swindon Town before leaving the club in 1998.
Reading
Casper completed a move to Reading in 1998. He was playing for Reading against Cardiff City in a Division Two fixture in the 1999–2000 when he suffered a double leg fracture. This was the last professional game that Casper, then aged 24, ever played, as he later announced his retirement after failing to recover sufficiently from the injury.
Team Bath
Bury
He left to join Bury as youth coach before taking charge of the reserves in the 2004-2005 season.
At the beginning of the 2005-2006 season, with six defeats from the first nine games, he replaced Graham Barrow as manager. After a run of poor results he was fired in January 2008.
Bradford City
Five months later, he was appointed youth team coach at fellow League Two side Bradford City, taking over from Jon Pepper. Grimsby Town
On 1 December 2009, Casper was appointed assistant manager to Neil Woods at Grimsby Town, replacing Brian Stein.
Town suffered relegation from the Football League and Casper stepped down as assistant manager at the end of the season.
FA Premier League
On 30 June 2010, Casper joined the Premier League as a club support manager working within the academy system. The role sees him working with the eight top-flight clubs in the north west to help them implement educational programmes and work with their academies. Club
Manchester United
FA Charity Shield:.
While undergoing rehabilitation at the University of Bath, he coached Team Bath along with Paul Tisdale, and it was that side that reached the first round of the FA Cup in 2002-2003. Casper offered to resign in 2006 when Bury were thrown out of the FA Cup in the 2006-2007 season for fielding an ineligible player, but this was rejected by the club"s board. Winner: 1994.
He served as captain of the England youth team, and was a member of the European Championship winning side in 1993.
