Flowers arrived at Filbert Street with his best days in goal perhaps behind him, but still with plenty to offer the Foxes in his twilight years, even in the Premier League.

A Premier League winner with Blackburn Rovers, where he perhaps enjoyed the best spell of his career, Flowers also arrived at the club with international experience. He started his career with Wolves but made his name with Southampton, where he was understudy to Peter Shilton, someone who he no doubt took plenty of experience from. Rovers quickly snapped up and he spent the majority of his career at Ewood Park before being allowed to move on to Filbert Street.

His first two years at the club were unfortunately disrupted by injury but he still performed well in goal and and won a League Cup winner's medal in 2000 for his efforts.

He featured regularly, fitness permitting, until the end of the 2000-01 season. But the arrival of Ian Walker saw him drop down the pecking order at the club and, after loan spells with Stockport County and Coventry City, he announced his retirement before taking up a coaching role at the club.

He left to take up a similar position at Manchester City and was also assistant manager to Iain Dowie at Coventry before following him to QPR.