He helped the club to win promotion out of the Southern Football League via the play-offs in 2006 but resigned later that year following a poor run of results in the Conference South.
He left his position at a bank to turn professional when he was signed by Bristol Rovers manager Bobby Gould in August 1982, who paid Bedford a transfer fee of £5,000.
[3] He played 53 games for the "Sky Blues", helping the Highfield Road club to finish two points above the relegation zone in 1983–84, and was voted as Player of the Year.
Finding the competition for first-team places greater in the 1985–86 season, Platnauer joined Reading on loan in January 1986, after Saunders was sacked and replaced by John Bond.
He joined newly relegated Cardiff City in the Fourth Division on a free transfer in September 1986, thereby completing the set of all four levels of the Football League.
The county would achieve promotion from the play-offs for a second successive season in 1990–91, though Platnauer would play little part in it.a He was loaned out to league rivals Port Vale in January 1991.
[1] He played fifteen games for the Burslem club, helping John Rudge to keep the "Valiants" in the Second Division, before returning to Meadow Lane in April.
Leicester would have another crack at the play-off final the following year, though Platnauer would have little contribution to the season, as he lost his first-team place at Filbert Street, and moved to Scunthorpe United on a free transfer in March 1993.
He scored two goals in 14 Third Division games for the "Iron" but did not win a longer stay at Glanford Park after Bill Green was sacked for failing to bring promotion.
[12] He took charge as manager again in 2011 and led the "Eagles" to a tenth-place finish in the Southern League in 2011–12 and 2012–13, before he was forced to resign as part of the club's cost-cutting measures in May 2013.