Starting his professional playing career as a 17-year-old in 1984 at Wolverhampton Wanderers, he went onto make over 500 first-team appearances for eight teams winning the Premier League title in 1995 with Blackburn Rovers and the League Cup with Leicester in 2000.

He also represented the England national side on 11 occasions between 1993 and 1998 and was a member of the 1996 European Championships squad and the 1998 FIFA World Cup finals squad.

Upon retiring from playing, he went straight into a career in coaching and had roles at both Manchester City and Leicester City before he was appointed assistant manager to Iain Dowie at Coventry City.

He followed Dowie to Queens Park Rangers and Hull City as his assistant manager before joining Stafford Rangers in his first managerial post.

Unfortunately, the move didn’t work out and he only lasted nine games before resigning in 2011.

Flowers then joined Northampton Town as goalkeeper coach where he stayed for just over two years before briefly joining Kidderminster Harriers in 2014 as first-team coach.

He then had a brief spells with Stuart Pearce at Nottingham Forest as goalkeeping coach and Kidderminster Harriers as one of their backroom coaching staff before joining Championship side Fulham as goalkeeping coach.

In November 2017 he was appointed as Mark Yates’ assistant manager at Vanarama National League side Solihull Moors and was promoted to manager when Yates left in June 2018.

Flowers guided the club to a best-ever finish of second place in the National League as well as reaching the Second Round of the Emirates FA Cup but he left the Moors in January 2020 by mutual consent with the team just one point off a play-off place.

Flowers made a return to football in August 2020 when he joined newly relegated Macclesfield Town but unfortunately the club folded and were expelled from the National League just weeks later without Flowers taking charge of a competitive game.

He was appointed manager at the Arden Garages Stadium in November 2021.

Chairman Jed McCrory told his club`s website: "I'd had a few discussions with Tim about the rest of the season. He'd indicated that he had some other projects that he was keen to work on and we amicably decided that for both parties it was a good time to move on. I'd like to thank Tim for his efforts during his time with us, he'll be welcome back anytime to the Arden Garages Stadium and we wish him good luck in the future."

Flowers said: "I came in to help in November with a brief from the club and with eight games to go this season it looks like were set for our status in the division. I thought it was a good time for someone to come in and start preparing for next season.

“I leave friends with Jed; I've got a lot of respect for him and he's doing a great job here. I wish the club, and everyone involved with it all the best going forward and I'll have my eye on results and I hope everything goes well."

Meanwhile, ahead of his departure, Flowers added Brennan Denness-Barrett and Paul Field to the Bards` squad.

Denness-Barrett, 18, joins on `work experience` from League One side Cheltenham Town.

The speedy attacker was named as a substitute for the first team in the Papa John's Trophy in August 2021.

The under-18s second year scholar is an attack-minded midfielder who joined the under-18s set-up at the start of his scholarship in the summer of 2020.

Field, 21, joins Stratford from United Counties League Premier Division North side Loughborough Students.

A centre-back, he came through League Two side Stevenage`s academy and was a regular in their under-18s and also had a spell on loan with Aylesbury FC (now Aylesbury Vale Dynamos) in 2018/19, who were then members of the Southern League Division One Central.

He was released by Stevenage in the summer of 2019.