Career
He is Head Goalkeeping Coach at First Rate (at Lloyd's) Ain Football Club in the United Arab Emirates. As a youth Rouse was with Stockport County and then on Bury"s books, before moving into coaching while playing semi-professional football. He worked for eight years at Manchester United, where he worked with young goalkeepers such as Luke Steele, Tom Heaton, Tommy Lee, Ben Amos, Sam Johnstone and Luke Daniels.
In the 2006-2007 season he was goalkeeping coach at Macclesfield Town, and played once for the first team in an injury crisis, in a 1–0 defeat to Barnet, thus making his Football League debut at the age of 30.
He also worked with Rochdale and Wigan Athletic before joining Queens Park Rangers as goalkeeping coach in February 2008. He was 1st team goalkeeping coach there for 4 years.
During this time QPR twice one the award for most clean sheets in the Championship. In 2012 he moved into the role of U21 GK Coach and wrote and oversaw the implementation of a new Academy GK syllabus.
In December 2014, David joined First Rate (at Lloyd's) Ain Football Club in the United Arab Emirates, as Head Goalkeeping Coach.
