Dean West

English footballer (born 1972)
the Rapper and Cannabis advocate with the same birth name

It was at the end of the 1997/98 season when Ternent left Bury to become manager of Burnley, a club he had played for and had deep emotional ties to. In 1999, West followed Ternent, signing for Burnley on a free transfer under the Bosman ruling. West was initially very impressive and won over the Clarets' faithful with a series of excellent performances, culminating in his winning 11 of the 15 player of the season awards, handed out by Burnley supporters' clubs across the country, at the end of the 2001–2002 season.

He moved back to the club he had begun his footballing career at – Lincoln City, but failed to make any impression, starting just four games before being used in a player exchange deal.

West made the move to local rivals Boston United. He played for Boston up until the end of the 2004–2005 season after which he was released.

He subsequently joined King's Lynn where he spent three seasons making a total of 143 appearances (119 in the league), scoring three times.

In July 2008 he joined Corby Town. In May 2007, West made a return to Turf Moor to play in the testimonial of his former teammate Graham Branch.

In July 2011 Dean joined up with former Lincoln City teammate Danny George as Player Assistant Manager of Lincoln Moorlands Railway, with George being Player Manager.

Dean relinquished his duties as Lincoln Moorlands Railway manager during the summer of 2012, joining Stamford as a player & coach reforming his partnership with Graham Drury following recent seasons as player & coach at Corby Town.

A few months before his Boston United contract ended, West made the bold decision of venturing into business buying a children's nursery. In an interview with www. football league. co. uk, Dean said: "We needed something sustainable that was going to work. We looked at a nursing home but a nursery came up about six or seven miles from our house and it was a reasonable price. It wasn't doing too well, but we took it. "We had never run a business before, and had never owned a nursery, but we gave it a good go and we had it for seven years – we have just sold it."