Keith Oakes

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Keith Oakes

| image =

| fullname = Keith Brian Oakes

| height = 5 ft 10 in{{cite book |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88 |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Dunk |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |date=1987 |page=170 |isbn=978-0-356-14354-5}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1956|07|03}}

| birth_place = Bedworth, England

| position = Defender

| years1 = ?–1972

| years2 = 1972–1978

| years3 = 1978–1984

| years4 = 1984–1986

| years5 = 1986–1988

| years6 = 1988–1992

| years7 = 1992–1993

| clubs1 = Bedworth United

| clubs2 = Peterborough United

| clubs3 = Newport County

| clubs4 = Gillingham

| clubs5 = Fulham

| clubs6 = Peterborough United

| clubs7 = Boston United

| caps1 =

| caps2 = 62

| caps3 = 232

| caps4 = 86

| caps5 = 76

| caps6 = 97

| caps7 = 1

| goals1 =

| goals2 = 2

| goals3 = 27

| goals4 = 7

| goals5 = 3

| goals6 = 9

| goals7 = 0

}}

Keith Brian Oakes (born 3 July 1956) is an English former professional footballer. His clubs included Peterborough United, Newport County and Gillingham.{{cite book | first=Roger|last= Triggs | title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club|publisher=Tempus Publishing Ltd | year=2001| isbn=0-7524-2243-X|pages=236–237}}

At Newport County Oakes was selected in the 1980 Fourth Division PFA Team of the Year and captained the team that won promotion to the Football League Third Division, won the 1980 Welsh Cup and in the subsequent season reached the quarter-final of the 1981 European Cup Winners Cup.[http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/newport/newport.html Newport County A-Z of transfers]

He completed a bachelor's degree in physiotherapy at the University of Salford and in the summer of 1991 succeeded Bill Harvey as physiotherapist at Peterborough United.{{cite web

|url=http://www.theposh.com/page/NewsDetail/0,,10427~167111,00.html

|title=Sixty Years A Soccer Stalwart, Bill Harvey Dies At 81

|date=4 February 2002

|publisher=Peterborough United F.C. Official Website

|accessdate=12 January 2011

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724173555/http://www.theposh.com/page/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10427~167111%2C00.html

|archive-date=24 July 2011

|url-status=dead

}} In 1997, he became the physiotherapist at Lincoln City{{cite web

|url=http://www.redimps.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10440~67265,00.html

|title=Oakes signs two-year extension

|date=16 June 2001

|publisher=Lincoln City F.C. Official Website

|accessdate=12 January 2011

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404184213/http://www.redimps.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10440~67265%2C00.html

|archivedate= 4 April 2012

}} and had a brief spell as co-caretaker manager after the sacking of Phil Stant in 2001.{{cite web|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:LTIB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0F929E38987A78DE&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB57AB53DF815|title=Lincoln community board lets Stant go – Third division|work=The Times|accessdate=2008-08-11|date=2001-02-28|author=Peter Lansley}}

He returned to Peterborough United as physiotherapist in June 2006,{{cite web

|url=http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/oakes_is_back_14_6_06_1_63901

|title=Oakes is back

|publisher=Peterborough Evening Telegraph

|date=14 June 2006

|accessdate=12 January 2011}} but he left in May 2010.{{cite web

|url=http://www.theposh.com/page/NewsDetail/0,,10427~2059513,00.html

|title=Keith Oakes leaves club

|publisher=Peterborough United F.C. Official Website

|date=26 May 2010

|accessdate=12 January 2011

|url-status=dead