Nick Barmby

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

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Boothferry Park
Boothferry Park was a football stadium in Kingston upon Hull, and was home to the football club Hull City for over 50 years from 31 August 1946 until December 2002, when they moved to the Kingston Communications Stadium.
In later years financial constraints forced Hull City to allow Kwik Save and Iceland supermarkets to embed themselves into part of the stadium's structure. Parts of the ground were finally demolished in early 2008, more than five years after the last game was played there, with the remainder finally demolished in the course of 2011.

The ground was originally planned in 1929, and work began on the site from 1932 based near the Humber Estuary. Financial difficulties severely hampered this development, with the playing area and part of the terracing appearing over the following 12 months before work and progress ground to a halt. A proposal in 1939 for a sports stadium on the site was the catalyst for further development, as even though this threw up doubt for the original stadium plans, no suitable financial offer for the land was forthcoming, and instead the Hull City board enquired after, and were granted, a Football Association loan to the sum of £6,600. This meant the new ground would be ready for the opening of the 1941 season.

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England
England ⁱ/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.

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Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull (ⁱ/ˌkɪŋstən əpɒn ˈhʌl/ KING-stən ə-pon HUL), usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of 263,900 (2010 est.). The Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) population stands at 573,300.
Renamed Kings town upon Hull by King Edward I in 1299, the town and city of Hull has served as market town, military supply port, a trading hub, fishing and whaling centre, and industrial metropolis.
Hull was an early theatre of battle in the English Civil Wars. Its 18th-century Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, played a key role in the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.
The city is unique in the UK in having had a municipally-owned telephone system from 1902, sporting cream, not red, telephone boxes.
After suffering heavy damage during the Second World War, Hull weathered a period of post-industrial decline, during which the city gained unfavourable results on measures of social deprivation, education and policing. In recent years the city has embarked on an extensive programme of economic regeneration, reconstruction and urban renewal. The economic crisis since 2008 has caused some setbacks to these developments.

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Aaron McLean
Aaron McLean (born 25 May 1983) is an English footballer who plays for Hull City as a striker.
Born in Hammersmith, London, McLean attended Robert Clack School in Dagenham. He started his career with the Leyton Orient youth system in 1998. He then played for Aldershot Town.
He then played for Grays Athletic before joining League Two side, Peterborough on loan, on 31 October 2006. McLean then joined Peterborough permanently, for £150,000, when the transfer window opened on 1 January 2007.
McLean was initially signed by Peterborough on loan from Grays Athletic, however was then signed permanently for £150,000 in the following January transfer window. During this period he made 20 appearances and scored 10 times in both the FA Cup and League Two.
McLean had his best statistical year in Peterborough's 2007–08 campaign,^{[citation needed]} which resulted in promotion to League One. McLean scored 29 goals in the league in 45 appearances that season, which made him the League's leading scorer and earned him the League Two Golden Boot. He also scored three goals in four FA Cup appearances that year.

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Adriano Basso
Adriano Basso (born 18 April 1975) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Hull City as a goalkeeper.
Basso began his playing career in his native Brazil before entering English league football with Bristol City for whom he remained for five years. After being released in 2010, he signed a short term deal with Wolves the following year.
Basso, a devout Christian, previously played for Ponte Preta and Atlético Paranaense in his homeland before moving to England. He had an unsuccessful three-month trial with Arsenal before joining non-league sides St Albans City and Woking.
He eventually signed for League One side Bristol City shortly after the 2005–06 campaign had begun, making his first team debut against Swindon Town on 11 November 2005. He quickly established himself as the club's first choice goalkeeper and was part of the team that won promotion to the Championship in the following season, also being crowned BBC West's Footballer of the Year.
The 2007–08 season saw Basso came within one game of reaching the Premier League, but the Robins lost the Championship Play-off Final to Hull City.

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Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer OBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is a retired English footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and for the England national team. He is considered by some as one of England's best strikers, being both Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. After retiring as a player in 2006, Shearer worked as a television pundit for the BBC. In 2009 he briefly left his BBC role to become Newcastle United's manager in the last eight games of their 2008–09 season, in an unsuccessful attempt to save them from relegation.
A native of Newcastle upon Tyne, Shearer made his professional debut with English top-flight club Southampton in 1988, scoring a hat-trick in the process. During several years on the south coast, he became known for his classic style of play, strength and goalscoring ability; he soon received an international call-up along with a transfer to Blackburn Rovers in 1992. Shearer established himself as a player in northern England; he became a regular in the England squad, and his 34-goal tally helped Blackburn secure the Premier League title in 1994–95. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. The 1995–96 season saw Shearer make his first Champions League appearances and finish as the top scorer in the Premier League with 31 goals. He was also top scorer at Euro 1996 with England, scoring five goals, and in the 1996–97 Premier League, with 25 goals. He scored 283 league goals in his career, including a record 260 in the Premier League, and a total of 422 in all competitions including international at all levels. Shearer has amassed a goals to game ratio of 0.667 throughout his career at every level.

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Ambrose Langley
Ambrose Langley (10 March 1870 – 29 January 1937) was the manager of Hull City Football Club from 1905 until 1913. He was born in 6 South Street, Horncastle and played over 300 games for Sheffield Wednesday.
Langley was a full-back who began his playing career with his local side Horncastle, moving to Football Alliance side Grimsby Town in 1889, and joining Middlesbrough Ironopolis in 1891, winning Northern League title medals in both seasons with the Teesside club.
He joined First Division Sheffield Wednesday in 1893 winning an FA Cup winners medal in 1896. They also won the Second Division title in 1900 and the Football League title in 1903 and 1904 while Langley was at the club.
Despite suffering a rib injury that curtailed his career in the top flight, Langley was appointed as player-manager of Hull City in 1905. In his first season in charge, City finished in fifth place in the second division. In 1908–09 he led them to fourth place. In 1909–10 they finished third, and only missed out on promotion to the top flight on goal average, losing 3–0 to promotion rivals Oldham in their final game of the season, having won eleven and drawn one of their previous twelve games.

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Andy Dawson
Andrew Stuart "Andy" Dawson (born 20 October 1978) is an English footballer who plays for Hull City as a defender.
Born in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, Dawson is a defender who joined Hull City on 16 May 2003 on a free transfer from Scunthorpe United. He is the elder brother of Michael Dawson (currently at Tottenham Hotspur) and Kevin Dawson (formerly of Chesterfield). Like his brothers, Andy started his professional career at Nottingham Forest, but he made only one senior appearance for them before moving to Scunthorpe.
After moving to Hull City, he was manager Peter Taylor's first choice at left-back during the two promotion seasons 2003–04 and 2004–05, and played regularly in the Championship in 2005–06 until picking up an injury. He is renowned for his long-range shots, particularly from free-kicks.
He was named Hull City's Player Of The Year in the 2006–07 season.
Along with teammates Ian Ashbee, Boaz Myhill and Ryan France he joins an elite band of players to have taken their club up through four divisions.

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Billy McCracken
Billy (Bill) McCracken (29 January 1883, Belfast – 20 January 1979) was a Northern Irish association football player. His position was defender.
McCracken played for the English club Newcastle United from 1904 to 1924, helping them win three League titles and the FA Cup. McCracken was so adept at catching the opposing teams forwards offside that he forced a change in the rules of the game.
In total he played 432 games for Newcastle, scoring 88 goals. After leaving Newcastle he went on to become Hull City manager in 1923 and he took them to the FA Cup semi-final in 1930. He left the club a year later.
He later had a short term in charge of Gateshead F.C., before managing Millwall F.C. from 1933–1936. He later went on to manage the now defunct Aldershot F.C.
McCracken is one of just a few players whose actions have brought changes the Laws Of Football when, as a centre-half at Newcastle, he masterminded the technique of making opposition forwards ruled "offside" when the rules stated that 3 defenders must be between the attacking player and the goal line. So successful was MacCracken's defensive ploy that the Offside Rule was changed to "2 defenders" between the foremost attacker and the goal line".

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Billy Russell
William McKnight "Billy" Russell (born 14 September 1959 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish former footballer who now works as Centre of Excellence Manager at Hull City, where he has been caretaker manager on three occasions.
As a player he was a defender, playing for Everton, Celtic, Doncaster Rovers, Scunthorpe United and Rotherham United, making over 450 league appearances.
Doncaster Rovers
Division 4 runners-up 1983–84
Rotherham United
Division 4 championship 1988–89

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Bob Brocklebank
Bob Brocklebank (8 April 1908 – September 1981) was an English footballer and manager.
He played for Aston Villa and Burnley, where he was top goalscorer in 1937-38 before becoming a manager, at Chesterfield, Birmingham City, Hull City and Bradford City.
Brocklebank was born in Finchley, England as one of eight brothers. He started his football career as an amateur with his hometown team Finchley, in the London League. In May 1929 he signed for Aston Villa. His chances were limited at Villa Park, and he signed for Burnley during the 1935–36 season where he developed into an inside right earning the nickname The Toff because of his gentlemanly approach to life and football.
Brocklebank made 121 appearances for Burnley, scoring 33 goals. During the 1937–38 he was the club's top goalscorer with 14 goals. He continued to play at Burnley throughout the Second World War.
Brocklebank became Chesterfield manager in September 1945. He established the club in Division Two before he joined Birmingham City in February 1949. The club was relegated in 1949–50 into Division Two. Brocklebank began to rebuild the side but resigned in 1954 just six months before they were promoted back to the top flight.

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Chris Hughton
Christopher William Gerard "Chris" Hughton (born 11 December 1958 in Stratford, London) is a professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Birmingham City.
After making his professional début at age 18, Hughton spent most of his playing career with Tottenham Hotspur as a left back, leaving in 1990 after 13 years. After relatively brief spells with West Ham United and Brentford, Hughton retired from playing in 1993 aged 34. He also earned 53 caps for the Republic of Ireland national team, becoming their first mixed-race international. He started all three games of UEFA Euro 1988 in West Germany.
From 1993 to 2007 Hughton served as a coach and then assistant manager for Tottenham. He joined Newcastle as first team coach in 2008, and following their relegation, Hughton as caretaker manager took charge of their first season in the Championship, before being announced as permanent manager in October 2009. He was sacked as manager by Mike Ashley on 6 December 2010.

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Chris Powell
Christopher George Robin "Chris" Powell (born 8 September 1969) is an English football manager and retired player, who had a long career as a left back, crowned by five caps for the English national team. He is currently manager of Charlton Athletic, where he had three successful spells as a player over eight seasons.
He served as chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association from November 2005 until he retired. He finished his playing career at Leicester City where he then became a first team coach. In October 2009 he was named as one of 50 ambassadors for England's 2018 World Cup bid. In April 2012, Charlton Athletic were promoted to The Championship as League One Champions in Powell's first full season as a manager.
After leaving Raynes Park High School, Powell spent the 1985/86 season playing for the Epsom & Ewell youth team alongside a young Matt Elliott. He began his professional career in December 1987 as a trainee at Crystal Palace with Ian Wright but failed to become a regular with the first team. He spent time on loan at Aldershot, where he made 11 appearances, before moving on a free transfer in August 1990 to Essex club Southend United. In six years at the club Powell made 288 first team appearances. In November 2004 a BBC poll of Southend United supporters voted Powell their all-time cult hero. One fan described him as "A very skilled, left-footed defender, who could quite possibly be considered one of the nicest men in football, a true gent."

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Cliff Britton
Clifford Samuel Britton was a footballer and football manager. He was born 29 August 1909 in Hanham in Bristol and died 1 December 1975.
After playing amateur football, his professional playing career began with Bristol Rovers and after making over 50 appearances Britton was signed by Everton in 1930. At first he was deemed too frail and so he was playing in the reserves in the 1931–32 Championship season, but he was one of the stars of Everton's 1933 FA Cup win. He was one of the classiest playmakers of his era, who could produce miracles with short or long passes. Dixie Dean said that he was the best crosser of the ball that he played with. Dean joked that Britton's precision ensured that the laces on the ball were turned away when Dean had to head it. Britton made 242 appearances for Everton though only scoring three goals. Between 1934 and 1937 Britton also played nine times for England.
After the war, Britton was made manager of Burnley in October 1945. He quickly steered Burnley to promotion from the Second Division in the 1946–47 season and to the 1947 FA Cup final. He was appointed manager of Everton in 1948 and was regarded as a big improvement over the previous manager Theo Kelly.

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Colin Appleton
Colin Appleton (born 7 March 1936 in Scarborough) is a former footballer who played as a wing-half. Appleton began his career at Scarborough, but made his name making 333 appearances for Leicester City during a 12-year period, where he formed a legendary half-back partnership with Frank McLintock and Ian King.
He was captain of the celebrated Leicester side nicknamed the "ice kings" which chased the double in 1962–63 and he also captained the club to their first ever major honour, winning the 1964 League Cup.
He later playing for Charlton Athletic and Barrow, before re-joining and managing Scarborough. He went on to manage Hull, Swansea and Exeter City.
Appleton began his career as a youngster with his hometown club of Scarborough before joining Leicester City in March 1954, just days after his 18 birthday, after being recommended to manager Norman Bullock by then Scarborough manager and former Leicester player Reg Halton. He made his first team debut just six months later against Manchester City, though made just 5 senior appearances over the next 2 years as he tried to balance his football schedule with his national service.

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Craig Hignett
Craig Hignett, (born 12 January 1970 in Whiston), is an English former professional footballer who now works as an agent and a commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live. He started his career as a striker but later moved into midfield.
After attending school at Page Moss secondary, now known as Bowring Community Sports College, in Huyton, Hignett started his career in the youth team at Liverpool before moving to Crewe Alexandra in 1988, making his debut on 8 October 1988 against Wrexham.
In his first spell with Crewe he made 150 appearances and scored 57 goals, helping them to promotion from the old division four in the 1988–89 season and to the play-offs in the 1991–92 season—his last season at Gresty Road—before moving to the Premier League with Middlesbrough in November 1992.
After the club were relegated in his first season with Middlesbrough, he helped them back up two seasons later. In 1996–97 Hignett again suffered relegation with Middlesbrough and was part of the team that lost in the FA Cup final and League Cup final the same season. He had however made sure of a place in the club's history by scoring the first goal at the Riverside Stadium, their new ground, in a 2–0 win over Chelsea at the start of 1995–96 Season.

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Darren Anderton
Darren Robert Anderton (born 3 March 1972 in Southampton) is a retired English footballer who spent most of his career with Tottenham Hotspur as a midfielder. He played 30 times for the England national football team, scoring 7 goals.
Anderton started his career in the Southampton Tyro League and played for Itchen Saints during a successful period for the side. His potential was evident and he was soon scouted and playing youth football at professional clubs. Renowned as a player of huge potential, Anderton's career has been constantly frustrated by injury earning him the nickname "Sicknote" which was coined by Portsmouth goalkeeper Andy Gosney.
Anderton was signed as an apprentice by Portsmouth manager Alan Ball, coming to prominence at 18 when he scored at Anfield in an FA Youth Cup match against Liverpool which ended 2–2. His first team debut came against Cardiff City in the second round of the Rumbelows Cup in October 1990 as a substitute for youth team colleague Darryl Powell. Anderton made his full league debut against Wolverhampton Wanderers in a 0–0 draw, making 20 appearances in the 1990–91 season. Under new manager Jim Smith, Anderton became a regular in the attacking side of the 1991–92 season, scoring his first club goal in the season opener against Blackburn Rovers. His performances soon drew the attention of bigger clubs and after an impressive FA Cup run, during which he scored in a semi-final clash with Liverpool, he joined Tottenham Hotspur for £1.75 million in 1992.

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Darren Ferguson
Darren Ferguson (born 9 February 1972) is a Scottish football manager and former player, currently in his second spell as the manager of Peterborough United. Between his first and second stints with Peterborough, he also managed Preston North End.
As a player, Ferguson was managed at Manchester United by his father Alex Ferguson, but spent most of his playing career at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Wrexham in the lower divisions of English football.
Ferguson's first managerial appointment was as player-manager of League Two Peterborough United in January 2007. After two successive promotions, and guiding the club to the second-tier of English football for the first time in 17 seasons, Ferguson was relieved of his duties on 9 November 2009, with Peterborough United at the foot of The Championship.
Ferguson was appointed Preston North End manager on 6 January 2010. He was dismissed on 29 December 2010 after a string of poor results. On 12 January 2011, he was again appointed as the manager of Peterborough United, where he took the club to the League One play-off finals at Old Trafford, and in this match won promotion to the Football League Championship, the club's third promotion in four years, with a 3–0 victory over Huddersfield.

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Dave Hickson
David "Dave" Hickson (born 30 October 1929 in Salford is an ex-football player, who played for Everton, Aston Villa, Huddersfield Town, Liverpool and Tranmere Rovers.
Hickson started his career with amateur team Ellesmere Port Town before signing for Everton in 1948, though he was not able to play for three years, having to complete National Service. In the Army he played in the Cheshire Army Cadets team, coached by former Everton centre-forward Dixie Dean. He made his league debut for Everton in September 1951, away to Leeds United. He was a 'physical' centre forward and his complete commitment won him adulation. Although he was good 'in the air', he was also quite skillful on the ground and possessed a powerful shot.
Hickson's reputation was confirmed in an epic 5th round FA Cup tie in 1953 against Manchester United when he had typically put his head where there were flailing boots and he was carried off with a serious gash. Nevertheless he returned to score the winner and played the rest of the match while losing blood copiously. Hickson also scored the winner in the following 6th round tie.

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David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE (born 2 May 1975) is an English association footballer who plays for Los Angeles Galaxy. He has played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Milan, and the England national team for which he holds the appearance record for an outfield player.
Beckham's career began when he signed a professional contract with Manchester United, making his first-team debut in 1992 aged 17. During his time there, United won the Premier League title six times, the FA Cup twice, and the UEFA Champions League in 1999. He left Manchester United to sign for Real Madrid in 2003, where he remained for four seasons, clinching the La Liga championship in his final season with the club. In January 2007, it was announced that Beckham would leave Real Madrid for the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy, signing a five-year contract with them on 1 July 2007. While a Galaxy player, he spent two loan spells in Italy with Milan in 2009 and 2010. On 20 November 2011, he joined an elite group of players to have won three league titles in three different countries, when Los Angeles won their third MLS Cup.

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David Seaman
David Andrew Seaman MBE (born 19 September 1963 in Rotherham, South Yorkshire) is an English former football goalkeeper who played for several clubs, most notably Arsenal. He retired from the game on 13 January 2004, following a recurring shoulder injury. He was awarded the MBE in 1997 for services to the sport.
The peak of his career was during his period as Arsenal and England goalkeeper in the 1990s and early 2000s; during his time at Arsenal he won many medals including three league championships (1991, 1998, 2002), four FA Cups (1993, 1998, 2002, 2003), the League Cup in 1993 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1994. During this time he also played in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, and Euro 96 and Euro 2000, and is England's second-most capped goalkeeper with 75 caps, after Peter Shilton.
Seaman's career highs came in his successful performance in UEFA Euro 96 and in Arsenal's UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Premier League and FA Cup (including a superb save from Paul Peschisolido for Sheffield United in the FA Cup 2002–03) campaigns in the mid-90s and early-2000s. Notable lows came with two costly errors, both from long-range efforts — conceding a last-minute goal in the 1995 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final to Nayim and conceding to a Ronaldinho free-kick in the 2002 FIFA World Cup quarter-final.

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Dele Adebola
Bamberdele "Dele" Adebola (born 23 June 1975) is a Nigerian footballer, who plays as a striker for Notts County on loan from Hull City. He is best known for his periods at Birmingham City and Coventry City.
Born in Lagos, Lagos State, Adebola was brought up in Liverpool after arriving in England with his family; as a schoolboy, he played in the same representative sides as Robbie Fowler. When offered a YTS place by Liverpool, the team he supported, he believed that trying to progress as a fellow left-footed striker at the club at the same time as Fowler would not be a good idea. Consequently he accepted a similar offer from Crewe.
He made his first team debut in the 1992–93 season in the Third Division at the age of 17, and in the following season gained experience by playing on loan at Bangor City in the Welsh Premier League and Conference side Northwich Victoria. He made a significant impact for Crewe in 1996–97, his 16 goals proving crucial in the club's gaining promotion to the First Division.

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Derek McInnes
Derek John McInnes (born 5 July 1971 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a former Scottish football player and current manager of Bristol City. McInnes featured prominently for Greenock Morton, Rangers, West Bromwich Albion and Dundee United during his playing career. He won two caps for the Scotland national football team while with West Brom.
McInnes became manager of St. Johnstone where he had been on the playing staff, in November 2007. He guided the club to promotion to the Scottish Premier League in 2009 and retained that status for two seasons.
McInnes was appointed manager of Bristol City on 19 October 2011., keeping them in the Championship in his first season in charge, despite taking over when Bristol City were bottom of the table.
McInnes began his professional career in 1988 at Greenock Morton, where he played in 221 league games in seven seasons before moving to Ibrox, where he spent almost five years, playing in 53 league matches for the club. During his time in Glasgow, McInnes had a loan spell at English club Stockport County, where he made 13 league appearances. He was also briefly at French side Toulouse. McInnes scored four goals for Rangers, with strikes against FC Alania Vladikavkaz in the Champions League and Hearts in the league. He also scored twice against Ayr United and Dunfermline in Rangers' route to the 1996 Scottish League Cup Final, but he did not feature in the final itself.

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Eddie Howe
Edward John Frank "Eddie" Howe (born 29 November 1977) is an English former footballer and manager of Burnley. A defender before retirement who spent much of his career at Bournemouth, he was the youngest manager in the Football League when appointed Bournemouth manager in January 2009.
Howe began his professional career at Bournemouth, after signing from local football team Parley Sports. He soon established himself as an important player. His performances earned him many admirers and he was selected for the Football League side that played their Italian counterparts in a special friendly, as well as being capped for the England Under-21 team in the Toulon Tournament in 1998.
In March 2002, Portsmouth signed Howe for £400,000, making him new manager Harry Redknapp's first signing. He had played 237 games for Bournemouth. Howe began well at Portsmouth, but shortly after signing a knee injury on his debut against Preston North End ended his season.
He returned for the opening game of the 2002-03 season against Nottingham Forest, but he injured his knee again after only nine minutes and was ruled out for the entire campaign. He did not return to full fitness until January 2004 after 18 months out. He was loaned to Swindon Town on transfer deadline day in March, although he did not feature for the club.

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Emile Heskey
Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey (born 11 January 1978) is an English footballer who is currently a Free Agent after most recently playing for Aston Villa as a striker.
Born in Leicester, Heskey started his career with hometown club Leicester City after progressing through their youth system, making his first team debut in 1995. After winning the League Cup in 1997 and 2000 he made an £11 million move to Liverpool in 2000, which, at the time, was the record transfer fee paid by the club. At Liverpool, he won multiple honours, including the FA Cup in 2001. He moved to Birmingham City in 2004 and after their relegation from the FA Premier League signed for Wigan Athletic for a club record £5.5 million fee in 2006. He signed for Aston Villa in 2009 and was released in 2012.
Heskey was an England international at under-16, under-18, under-21, B and senior levels. He made his England debut against Hungary in a 1–1 draw in 1999. He lost his place in the squad after UEFA Euro 2004, during which he failed to shine and was the subject of much criticism. After a long lay-off from international duty, Heskey was recalled to the England squad for UEFA Euro 2008 qualifiers in September 2007. He retired from international football following the 2010 FIFA World Cup, having attained 62 caps and scored seven goals for his country.

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Ernest Blackburn
Ernest Blackburn was an English football manager. He managed Hull City for a time period between December 1936 – January 1946 with a win percentage of 42.73%. He also managed Wrexham and Tranmere Rovers.

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Fred Stringer
Fred Stringer was manager of Hull City between September 1914 and July 1916. He succeeded Harry Chapman but was replaced by David Menzies. He had a win percentage of 51.16% from 43 competitive games: 22 wins, 6 draws and 15 losses. This is the best combined percentage of any Hull City manager.

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Gareth Barry
Gareth Barry (born 23 February 1981) is an English footballer who plays for Manchester City and the England national football team. Barry moved to Aston Villa from Brighton & Hove Albion as a youngster, and spent 12 years at the club. He captained Aston Villa and is ninth in their all-time list of appearances. In June 2009, he joined Manchester City. Barry is an England international, having won his first full cap in 2000 and captained the side in 2010 in a friendly against Egypt.
Barry was born in Hastings, East Sussex. He attended William Parker Sports College in the town at the same time as Sussex cricketer Michael Yardy.
Barry joined Aston Villa from Brighton and Hove Albion as a trainee in 1997 along with Michael Standing. The move was controversial as the Brighton board demanded £2.5 million for the two players; the Football Association's transfer tribunal panel came up with a deal which would have seen Brighton make £2.4 million in the event of Barry and Standing making international appearances for England, as well as sell-on clauses.^{[citation needed]} He played his first match for Villa on 2 May 1998 against Sheffield Wednesday. Initially, he played as a central defender, on the left-hand side of a back three alongside Gareth Southgate and Ugo Ehiogu. Barry became a highly versatile player and captain first as a centre-back, then a left-back. He then moved to left-midfield, before establishing himself in the centre of midfield.

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Garreth Roberts
Garreth Roberts (born 15 November 1960 in Hull) is a retired professional footballer who played his whole career for his hometown club Hull City and captained them to two promotions.
Roberts made his debut against Bury in March 1979, coming on as a substitute for the injured Alan Warboys. He was made Captain of the team in his early twenties. He played primarily in midfield, although in the later stages of his career he was also deployed in defence as a full-back or sweeper.
Roberts was forced to retire from professional football at the age of 31 due to injuries. His testimonial match saw Hull-born Nick Barmby make his debut for Tottenham Hotspur and score two goals against his hometown club.
Roberts was voted 17th in a list of the top 100 Hull City players compiled for the club's centenary.
Roberts still lives in the area and is a supporter of Hull City. He regularly provides live match commentary and expert analysis on local radio station KCFM.

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Gary Neville
Gary Alexander Neville (born 18 February 1975) is an English former footballer. He is England's most capped right-back and was Manchester United's club captain for five years.
Neville spent his entire playing career at Old Trafford, making him a rare one-club man. At the time of his retirement in 2011, he was United's second longest serving player in the squad, behind his long-time team-mate Ryan Giggs. He made his international debut in 1995 and was first-choice right-back for club and country for more than ten years.
He is the older brother of Premier League footballer and Everton captain Phil Neville, who was also a Manchester United player (from 1993 until 2005). His sister Tracey Neville plays netball for England, his mother Jill is a receptionist for Bury.
Since retiring from football at the end of the 2010-11 season, Neville has gone into punditry and is a commentator for Sky Sports. On 14 May 2012, Neville was appointed as a coach at England by new manager Roy Hodgson.
The older of the Neville brothers joined Manchester United as an apprentice upon leaving school in 1991, and captained the youth side to FA Youth Cup glory in his first season. He made his senior debut for United in September 1992 against Torpedo Moscow in the UEFA Cup. Neville emerged as part of Alex Ferguson's youth-oriented side of the 1990s (nicknamed Fergie's Fledglings, an updated take on the 1950s equivalent Busby Babes) that included his brother Phil, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes. In the 1994–95 season, he became first-choice right-back when Paul Parker was ruled out by injury, and remained so until his retirment, although in his first season as a regular player he often found himself on the sidelines as Denis Irwin was switched to right back with Lee Sharpe (normally a winger) filling the left-back role.

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Gus Poyet
Gustavo Augusto Poyet Domínguez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpoʝet]; born 15 November 1967) is a former Uruguay international footballer and current manager of English side Brighton & Hove Albion.
During his playing career, Poyet featured for teams including Real Zaragoza, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur.
After his playing career ended he moved into coaching, with spells as assistant manager to Dennis Wise at Swindon Town and Leeds United. Poyet was also assistant manager to Juande Ramos at Tottenham.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, a powerful goalscoring midfielder, Poyet moved to Zaragoza in 1990. His team won the Copa del Rey in 1994 and the Cup Winners' Cup a year later, beating Arsenal in the final. He became Zaragoza's longest-serving foreign player. He scored an impressive 60 goals in 240 games for the club. Poyet joined Chelsea on a free transfer in June 1997.
Not long into his first season at Chelsea, he suffered cruciate ligament damage, but recovered to play in the team's successful Cup Winners' Cup Final against VfB Stuttgart. The following year he contributed 14 goals – making him the club's 2nd highest scorer – to help Chelsea finish third in the Premiership, including a crucial headed goal in 1–0 win against Leeds United. He also scored the winner for Chelsea in the 1998 UEFA Super Cup against Real Madrid. In 1999–2000, he scored 18 goals (which again made him Chelsea's second highest scorer), with a scissors-kick volley against Sunderland, a long range strike against Lazio, and both of Chelsea's goals in the FA Cup semi-final against Newcastle United, among the most memorable, as the team won the FA Cup and reached the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.

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Haydn Green
Adrian "Haydn" Green (18 March 1887 – 8 February 1957) was an English football player and manager. After playing for Nottingham Forest, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Newport County and Reading, he went on to manage Ebbw Vale, Bangor, Hull City, Swansea Town and Watford.
At Hull City, whom he managed from May 1931 until March 1934, Green maintained a winning percentage of 49.59%.

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Iain Dowie
Iain Dowie (born 9 January 1965) is an English-born Northern Irish football manager, former professional footballer and sports television pundit.
As a player he was a striker from 1983 until 2001, notably in the Premier League for Southampton, Crystal Palace and West Ham United. He earned 59 caps for Northern Ireland, scoring 12 goals. He also played in the Football League for Luton Town, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers, and in Non-league for Cheshunt, St Albans City and Hendon. After retiring from playing he went on to manage Oldham Athletic, Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic, Coventry City, Queens Park Rangers and Hull City.
Born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Dowie was rejected by Southampton aged 16 and later went to the University of Hertfordshire to study for a M.Eng Degree in Engineering. On completion he became an employee of British Aerospace, whilst keeping up football at non-League level playing for Cheshunt alongside his brother Bob. He left Cheshunt to improve his fitness and signed for St Albans City, then moved on to Hendon. While playing for Hendon, Dowie was spotted by Luton Town who signed him in the 1988–89 season, when they were in the First Division. An old-fashioned centre-forward, he then moved in quick succession to Fulham (a brief loan spell), before establishing himself as a first team player in the 1989–90 season when his eight goals in 29 league games helped Luton finish seventh.

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Ian Holloway
Ian Scott Holloway (born 12 March 1963) is an English football manager and former player. He became the manager of Blackpool in May 2009, and has guided the club to The Championship play-offs in both of their seasons in the division during his tenure, the first resulting in promotion to the Premier League. Holloway is well-known amongst football fans for his off-the-wall interviews, with a wide selection of quotes and soundbites being printed. Holloway's playing career spanned 18 years from 1981 to 1999. A midfielder, he began his career at hometown club Bristol Rovers in 1981, going on to play for Wimbledon, Brentford, Torquay United (on loan), back to Bristol Rovers for a second spell, Queens Park Rangers and, finally, a third spell back at Bristol Rovers, where he became player-manager before ending his playing career in 1999. Before his current job as Blackpool manager, he had also previously managed QPR, Plymouth Argyle and Leicester City. He is known by the nickname "Ollie", which is also the title of his autobiography.

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Ilie Dumitrescu
Ilie Dumitrescu (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈli.e dumiˈtresku]; born 6 January 1969 in Bucharest) is a Romanian former football player and coach, who was last manager of Steaua Bucureşti. A tricky forward, he shot to fame when his frontline partnership with Gheorghe Hagi and Florin Răducioiu led the Romania national team to the 1994 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal, eliminating Argentina en route.
Dumitrescu joined the Steaua Bucureşti Academy in 1977 at the age of 8, making his way through all the youth teams and play for the first squad in April 1987. Even now he is renowned as the best player Steaua Bucureşti Academy ever produced along with Dan Petrescu.
After making his debut in Divizia A he is loaned to FC Olt to gain more experience. At Steaua, a team which won the European Cup in the previous year was no room for an 18-year-old. But at FC Olt was a different story, as Dumitrescu did catch the first eleven from the very beginning, playing as left full back. This was not, however, a position he enjoyed, as he was a creative player. During his time with FC Olt Mircea Lucescu the famous Romanian coach noticed him and predicted a fruitful career.

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James Ramster
James Ramster was the first manager of Hull City Football Club. He was the manager from August 1904 until April 1905. He never managed the team in a competitive match, however, he was in charge during some of the club's first friendly matches before the team competed in the football league. The first friendly match that he took charge of was Hull City's fixture against Notts County on the 1 September 1904. He was followed by Ambrose Langley.

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Jamie Devitt
Jamie Martin Devitt (born 6 July 1990) is an Irish footballer who plays for Football League Championship side Hull City as a midfielder.
He has also previously played for Darlington, Shrewsbury Town, Grimsby Town and Bradford City.
Born in Dublin, Devitt progressed through Hull City's youth system and was voted Young Player of the Year and Supporter's Club Player of the Year for the 2007–08 season. In 2009–10 he spent time on loan at three different League Two clubs.
He signed for Darlington on a month's loan on 15 September 2009. He made his debut on 19 September in a 2–0 home defeat to Bournemouth, and scored his first goal for the Quakers in the last game of his loan spell, a 2–1 win against Shrewsbury Town on 17 October.
On 22 October, only days after scoring against the club, he joined Shrewsbury Town on loan. He scored on debut on 31 October 2009 against Notts County. Despite a promising start, his formed dipped and he was deemed surplus to Shrewsburys promotion battle. He returned to Hull after being recalled in January 2010.

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Jan Mølby
Jan Mølby (born 4 July 1963) is a Danish former professional footballer, and manager.
As a player he was a midfielder from 1982 to 1998. He notably spent twelve years playing in England with Liverpool. After starting his career with Kolding, he moved on to Ajax and after his spell with Liverpool he finished his career in English football with Barnsley and Norwich City. He was capped 33 caps by Denmark, scoring twice. He became player-manager of Swansea City and in 1999 he took up a full time managerial role with Kidderminster Harriers and later managed Hull City until 2004.
Born in Kolding, Mølby started his senior playing career at the biggest football club of his hometown of Kolding (Kolding Football Club), where he became team captain at the age of 19, before joining AFC Ajax, where he won the Dutch Championship in 1983.
Liverpool manager Joe Fagan invited Mølby to have a 10-day trial and finally signed him on 22 August 1984. He made his debut three days later on the 25th in the 3–3 league draw with Norwich City at Carrow Road. His first goal for Liverpool came on the 1 December 1984 in the 3–1 league defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. He failed to shine for Liverpool in his first season as the team endured a comparatively poor season, failing to win a major trophy for the first time since 1975.

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Jay Simpson
Jay-Alistaire Frederick "Jay" Simpson (born 1 December 1988) is an English footballer who plays for Hull City as a striker or winger. He is a product of the Arsenal Academy.
Born in, Enfield, London, Simpson was with Norwich City before he joined Arsenal at the age of nine, and played in an under-18s game at just 13 years of age. He featured prominently for Arsenal's reserve team whilst at school at Islington Arts and Media School, and was on the bench for the first team's League Cup match against West Bromwich Albion on 24 October 2006, but did not play. On 19 February 2007, he made history by becoming the first player ever to score a hat-trick at the Emirates Stadium, for Arsenal's under-18 side in an FA Youth Cup match against Cardiff City, in a 3–2 win.
In August 2007 he was loaned from Arsenal to Millwall, for whom he made his first team debut as a substitute in a League One match on 1 September 2007, a 2–1 defeat to Huddersfield Town. He scored his first goal in a 3–2 loss to Swansea City in the first round of the Southern Section of the Football League Trophy on 4 September 2007, and his first league goal in a 2–1 defeat to Swindon Town on 29 September 2007. His loan was due to expire on 1 January 2008, but was later extended to the end of the season. Simpson scored eight goals in 44 appearances for Millwall and won the PFA Fans' League One player of the year award for 2008.

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Jeff Barmby
Jeffrey "Jeff" Barmby (born 15 January 1943) is an English former footballer.
Barmby began his career with Selby Town before joining York City as an amateur in March 1963. He made two appearances for the side and moved onto Goole Town in 1964, where he played until 1970 when the joined Scarborough. He finished his first season with the club as top scorer with 29 goals, and also was on two further occasions in the 1973–74 (joint top scorer with Malcolm Leask) and 1974–75 (31 goals). He also made four appearances at Wembley Stadium with Scarborough in the finals of the FA Trophy, in 1973, 1975, 1976 and 1977, in three of which he was on the winning team. He scored 14 Hat-tricks, in his Scarborough career.
He is the father of England international and Hull City player and manager Nick Barmby.

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Joe Dudgeon
Joseph Patrick "Joe" Dudgeon (born 26 November 1990) is an English-born Northern Irish footballer. Born in Leeds, Dudgeon plays as a left back for Hull City, although he can also play as a centre back.
Dudgeon played his first match for the Manchester United Under-18s side in April 2006, when he was still only 15 years old, coming on as a substitute for Oliver Norwood in a 3–2 defeat away to Sunderland. He then appeared in two matches at the 2006 Northern Ireland Milk Cup in August 2006 – a 1–0 win over County Tyrone and a 2–2 draw with Sheffield United – but didn't play for the club again until February 2007, when he appeared in eight of the club's last 10 Premier Academy League fixtures. His performances earned him a trainee contract with the club, which he signed in July 2007.
The following season, Dudgeon became a regular in the Under-18 team, appearing 21 times as they managed a third-place finish in the Premier Academy League and the Fourth Round of the FA Youth Cup. He also received his first taste of reserve team football during 2007–08, being named as an unused substitute for the reserves' 4–0 win over Oldham Athletic in the quarter-finals of the Lancashire Senior Cup. He retained his spot in the under-18 side for 2008–09, while continuing to establish himself in the reserves, mainly as a substitute, making his debut on 22 January 2009 in a 3–0 win over Accrington Stanley in the first round of the Lancashire Senior Cup, coming on as a half-time substitute for Fábio. At the end of the season, Dudgeon was named in the reserve squads for the finals of both the Manchester Senior Cup and the Lancashire Senior Cup; as an unused substitute in the former and playing the full 90 minutes in the latter.

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Ken Houghton
Ken Houghton (born 18 October 1939 in Rotherham) is a former football midfielder and manager.
After spending time as a schoolboy on the books of Sheffield United F.C. Houghton was released without turning professional and went to work as a miner in Silverwood Colliery, playing football for their amateur side alongside his work. He then signed for Rotherham United (initially as an amateur before going full-time) and established himself as a regular for the club, gaining a runner-up medal in the inaugural Football League Cup. He was signed for Hull City A.F.C. early in the 1964–65 season by manager Cliff Britton and became the link between City's defence and the attacking force of the mid to late sixties – Ken Wagstaff, Chris Chilton and Butler. Arguably the 1965–66 season was the most successful and vibrant season that Hull City fans have ever known and Ken Houghton was very much part of this era. He was well known for his pinpoint passes and possessed a blistering right footed shot.
The left-half departed Hull in close season 1973 to sign for Scunthorpe United F.C. for a year before signing as a player coach with Scarborough F.C., winning the FA Trophy with the club in 1973. He finished his playing career at Bridlington Town A.F.C..

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Kevin Keegan
Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born 14 February 1951) is a former international footballer and former manager of the England national football team and several English clubs, most notably Newcastle United.
As a player in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been described as "arguably the first superstar English player to attract the modern media spotlight". He began his playing career at Scunthorpe United in 1968, before moving to Liverpool of Division One in 1971. At Liverpool, Keegan won three First Division titles, two UEFA Cups, one FA Cup and the European Cup. He also gained his first England cap in 1972, and moved to German top-flight club Hamburger SV in the summer of 1977. At Hamburg he was crowned European Footballer of the Year in both 1978 and 1979, won the Bundesliga title in 1978–79, and reached the European Cup final the following year. Keegan moved to Southampton that summer, and spent two seasons at the club before a transfer to second-tier Newcastle United in 1982. He helped Newcastle to promotion in his second season, and retired from football in 1984, having been capped 63 times for England, scoring 21 goals.

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Kevin Kilbane
Kevin Daniel Kilbane ( /kɪlˈbæn/; born 1 February 1977) is an Irish association footballer who plays as a left back or left winger for Hull City and the Republic of Ireland national football team.
He played for the Republic of Ireland national football team through Irish parentage. With 110 caps, he is a member of the FIFA Century Club and has the third highest number of caps for the Irish national team after Shay Given and Robbie Keane. He competed in the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea, where his team progressed to the knockout stage, and helped Ireland qualify for UEFA Euro 2012. Irish supporters regard him as "Zinedine Kilbane", a reference to French playmaker Zinedine Zidane.
Kilbane has played for several English clubs, including Everton, West Bromwich Albion, Sunderland, Wigan Athletic, Huddersfield Town & Derby County (the latter two on loan from Hull City).
Since 2010, Kilbane has worked as a pundit for RTÉ Sport.
Born in Preston, Lancashire, Kilbane made his professional debut at his hometown club, Preston North End, after making his way through the youth system at Deepdale. It was not long before his performances began to attract attention from other clubs, and he was sold to West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £1 million in 1997. Kilbane was Albion's first £1 million player, breaking a club transfer record which had stood since 1979.

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Les Ferdinand
Leslie "Les" Ferdinand MBE (born 8 December 1966 in Paddington, London) is a former English footballer. His playing career included spells at Queens Park Rangers, Beşiktaş, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and Bolton Wanderers F.C., during which period he earned a number of appearances for England. He became the first player to score for 6 different Premier League clubs.
He is the cousin of current Premier League players Rio and Anton Ferdinand and his son Aaron currently plays for Harrow Borough in the Isthmian League. He also has a daughter, Lauren. Popularly nicknamed Sir Les, he was made an MBE in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours.
On 5 November 2008 Ferdinand joined fellow ex-Spur Tim Sherwood on the coaching staff of Tottenham Hotspur, utilising his experience to work with the strikers.
Ferdinand is the joint fifth highest scorer of all time in the Premier League with 149 goals.
Ferdinand started his career in non-league football, first at AEL (a KOPA Cypriot team in England) then to Southall then moving to Hayes. He was spotted by Queens Park Rangers and moved there for £30,000.

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Liam Cooper
Liam David Ian Cooper (born 30 August 1991) is an English-born Scottish footballer who plays for Hull City. Cooper is a centre back and has played for the youths and reserves at Hull.
Born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Cooper attended Malet Lambert school and joined Hull City at Under-12 level. He was in the youth team that won the Football League Youth Alliance Cup Final against Colchester 3–0, scoring the opening goal but later being sent off for a deliberate handball.
On 26 August 2008 he made his first team debut for Hull against Swansea City in the Football League Cup. On 30 August 2008, on his 17th birthday, he signed professional terms with the club, and featured on the bench as an unused substitute for the Premier League game against Wigan Athletic. He made his first Premier League start on 26 September 2009 at Anfield in the 6–1 defeat by Liverpool. Cooper signed a new three year contract at the KC Stadium in March 2010.
Having made three first team appearances for the 2010–11 season with little opportunity, Cooper was sent on loan to League One side Carlisle United on 10 January 2011 for a month long loan, as part of the deal which saw James Chester end his loan spell with Carlisle and join Hull City from Manchester United. The loan spell came to an early end when he sustained a hand injury in February in the match against Huddersfield Town. Following a return from injury, on 4 March 2011, Carlisle signed him on a further month loan with the option to extend it for the remainder of the season. Cooper decided to return to Hull at the end of the month loan rather than staying for the remainder of the season.

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Liam Rosenior
Liam James Rosenior (born 15 December 1984) is an English footballer who plays for Hull City as a defender. He is the son of former Brentford manager Leroy Rosenior, and spent time on loan at Torquay United, where his father was manager, during their promotion season (2003–04).
Born in London, Rosenior started his career with Bristol City as a promising midfielder. Arguably his best moment came when he scored the second goal in a 2–0 victory for Bristol City against Carlisle United in the 2003 Football League Trophy Final at the Millennium Stadium. This would prove to be his last appearance for City as Fulham soon snapped him up. Rosenior soon became popular amongst Fulham fans due to his Afro hairstyle. During a match against Manchester City Rosenior made a seemingly impossible goal line clearance while the score was at 1–1, Fulham going on to win the game 2–1 with Steed Malbranque scoring in the last minute. Rosenior later told reporters that he was able to clear the ball in that manner due to his Afro hairstyle. He scored once for Fulham, in a League Cup tie against Lincoln City on 21 September 2005.

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Malky Mackay
Malcolm George "Malky" Mackay (born 19 February 1972, in Bellshill) is a Scottish football manager and former player, who played as a central defender. He is currently the manager of Cardiff City. Mackay began his playing career in Scottish football, with Queen's Park and Celtic. He joined English side Norwich City in 1998, remaining there for six years. Between 2003 and 2006, he achieved consecutive promotions to the Premier League with Norwich, West Ham and finally Watford. He played for Watford in the Premier League, and after retiring as a player in 2008, reached the position of full-time manager in June 2009. He was appointed manager of Cardiff City in June 2011. Mackay won five caps for Scotland towards the end of his playing career.
Mackay began his career in his native Scotland, coming through the youth ranks of Queen's Park, before joining Scotlands vice champions Celtic in the summer of 1993. He made 46 appearances in 5 years with the Glasgow club, and in September 1998 moved to England, joining Norwich City for a fee of £350,000 after a one-game loan spell.

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Mark Hateley
Mark Wayne Hateley (born 7 November 1961 in Wallasey, Merseyside) is a retired English football player who played as a centre-forward. He was capped 32 times for the English national team (including games in the 1986 World Cup), and played in top-level football leagues in England, Italy, France and Scotland. His nickname is Attila.
Hateley started his career at Coventry City, playing over 90 games in the First Division before moving to Portsmouth in the summer of 1983. He scored 22 league goals in the 1983–84 season and on 28 June 1984 he was transferred to A.C. Milan for £1million.
However, his move did not come at one of the famous Italian side's greatest times, when they were still re-establishing themselves in Serie A after slipping out of it twice (the first time due to demotion as a result of a match fixing scandal) in the previous six years. That year he also helped England win the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, scoring six goals in the knockout stages, bringing his final tally for the Under-21 side to eight goals in 10 appearances.

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Mark Oxley
Mark Thomas Oxley (born 28 September 1990) is an English footballer who plays for Hull City as a goalkeeper.
Oxley joined Rotherham United as a youngster and was promoted to the club's first team during the 2007–08 season. After being scouted by several bigger clubs, he joined newly promoted Premier League club Hull City in August 2008 for a fee of £150,000. Oxley became the club's fifth choice goalkeeper, behind Boaz Myhill, Matt Duke, Tony Warner and Tom Woodhead.
For the 2009–10 season, Oxley moved up to number four keeper at the KC Stadium, but was to be sent out on loan to Walsall in October 2009. He would only manage to make the bench for The Saddlers, and he departed a month later after failing to make a single appearance. On 25 February 2010, Oxley signed a one month loan deal with Grimsby Town, becoming the third Hull player to be loaned out to Grimsby this season, following team mates Nicky Featherstone and Jamie Devitt. Oxley would go straight into the starting line up to face Dagenham & Redbridge on 27 February, after replacing regular number 1 Nick Colgan, who was rested by manager Neil Woods. The game ended in a 2–0 defeat for Grimsby, and during the clubs next match with Shrewsbury Town, Oxley was dropped to the bench in favour of Colgan.

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Martin Keown
Martin Raymond Keown (born 24 July 1966) is a former English footballer who played as a defender from 1984 to 2005 notably in the Premier League for Arsenal where he made over 300 appearances for the club and won nine major trophies.
He also played for Brighton & Hove Albion, Aston Villa, Everton, Leicester City and Reading. Keown made his England debut in 1992 against France and went on to win 43 caps for the national side over the next 10 years, gradually forming a respected defensive partnership with Arsenal team-mate Tony Adams at both club and international level. Keown represented England at four major international football finals including the 1998 and 2002 World Cups.
He is now a part-time scout and coach for Arsenal, as well as a pundit for the BBC, ESPN, TV3 Ireland, and Al Jazeera Sports +3.
A tough and uncompromising centre back from Oxford, Keown played for local sides and his local Gaelic football team as a boy, before joining Arsenal on a schoolboy contract in 1980, though he made his professional debut on loan at Brighton & Hove Albion in 1984.

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Matty Fryatt
Matthew Charles "Matty" Fryatt (born 5 March 1986) is an English footballer who plays for Hull City as a striker.
Fryatt currently holds the record for fastest-ever goal scored by a Leicester City player when he scored after 9 seconds in a 2–1 defeat to Preston North End on 15 April 2006. He also holds the record for the quickest ever Walsall goal, also 9 seconds in a 2–1 defeat to Bournemouth in the 2004–05 season. Fryatt broke two further records during his time at Leicester in the 2008–09 season. His first was becoming the first player in 42 years to score 20 goals before Christmas, and another being the first in 83 years to hit hat-tricks in successive matches.
Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Fryatt rose through the ranks at youth level at Walsall. He made his first team debut as a substitute in a 3–1 League Cup defeat to Bolton Wanderers on 24 September 2003. On 18 December 2003, he moved to Carlisle United on loan for a month to gain vital first team experience. The move proved successful, and Fryatt's loan was extended by another month He was recalled to Walsall after two months as the 2003–04 season came to a close.

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Michael Owen
Michael James Owen (born 14 December 1979 in Chester) is an English professional footballer who is currently a free agent after being released by Manchester United in June 2012.
The son of former footballer Terry Owen, Owen began his senior career at Liverpool in 1996. He progressed through the Liverpool youth team and scored on his debut in May 1997. In his first full season in the Premier League he finished as joint top scorer with 18 goals. He repeated this the following year and was Liverpool's top goal scorer from 1997–2004, despite a recurring hamstring injury. In 2001, Liverpool won a cup treble of the UEFA Cup, FA Cup and Football League Cup, and Owen was the recipient of the Ballon d'Or. He went on to score 118 goals in 216 appearances in the Premier League for Liverpool.
Owen moved to Real Madrid for £8 million in mid-2004; he was frequently used as a substitute. He scored 13 goals in La Liga and had the season's highest ratio of goals scored to number of minutes played. He returned to England the following season, joining Newcastle United for £16 million. After a promising start to the 2005–06 season, injuries largely ruled him out over the next 18 months. After his return he became team captain and was the team's top scorer for the 2007–08 season. After the final season of his four-year contract, Newcastle were relegated, and Owen moved to Manchester United as a free agent.

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Neil Warnock
Neil Warnock (born 1 December 1948) is an English football manager and retired player, currently manager of Leeds United. He played as a winger for Chesterfield, Rotherham United, Hartlepool United, Scunthorpe United, Aldershot, Barnsley, York City and Crewe Alexandra, scoring 36 goals from 327 career appearances. He has previously managed Gainsborough Trinity, Burton Albion, Scarborough, Notts County, Torquay United, Huddersfield Town, Plymouth Argyle, Oldham Athletic, Bury, Sheffield United, Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers, achieving promotion with seven of them, including taking Notts County, Sheffield United and Queens Park Rangers to the top tier of English football.
Born in Sheffield, he is a lifelong supporter of Sheffield United, with whom he had his longest managerial spell at eight years, taking them to the League and FA Cup semi finals in 2003.
Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire Warnock started his professional playing career with Chesterfield in 1967, before moving on to Rotherham United, Hartlepool United, Scunthorpe United, Aldershot, Barnsley, York City and Crewe Alexandra, making a total of 326 league appearances in an eleven-year playing career. At Hartlepool he won the club's Player of the Season award in 1972. He finished his career at Crewe Alexandra in 1979, aged only 30.

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Nick Barmby
Nicholas Jon "Nick" Barmby (born 11 February 1974) is an English former professional footballer and former manager of Football League Championship club Hull City.
As a player he played as a midfielder and at his peak he earned a total of 23 caps for England between 1995 and 2001. As well as two Premier League seasons with Hull, Barmby has appeared in England's top flight for Tottenham Hotspur, Middlesbrough, Everton, Liverpool and Leeds United having also represented Nottingham Forest outside the Premiership. Barmby is one of only five players to have scored for six different Premier League teams.
Growing up on the west side of Hull, he played for local teams Springhead and National Tigers as a boy showing talent from a very early age. Consequently, he ended his education at the local Kelvin Hall High School (where he started in 1985) early in order to complete his studies at the Football Association's School of Excellence, while also honing his skills for the professional game.^{[citation needed]} His father, Jeff Barmby, was also a player in his younger days and became his son's advisor and agent as his skills began to attract the attention of various clubs.

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Nigel Clough
Nigel Howard Clough (born 19 March 1966) is an English former footballer and the current manager of Derby County. Playing predominately as a striker, but later in his career was used as a midfielder, Clough was capped by England 14 times in the early 1990s.
Clough is most notable for his time at Nottingham Forest, where he played over 400 times in two separate spells, mostly under the managership of his father Brian and scored 131 goals, making him the second highest scorer in the club's history. He subsequently had spells with Liverpool, Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday before moving into non league football at the age of 32 when he became player manager with Southern Football League Premier Division side Burton Albion in 1998. Over the next decade, during half of which he continued to play a regular role on the field, Clough took Burton up from the seventh tier of the English football league system to the brink of promotion to League Two before leaving halfway through the 2008-09 season to follow in his father's footsteps and take over at Derby County.

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Nigel Martyn
Antony Nigel Martyn (born 11 August 1966), more commonly known as Nigel Martyn, is a former English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper from 1987 until 2006
Having started his career with Bristol Rovers he moved to Crystal Palace where he became the first £1million goalkeeper in British football and also won the Full Members Cup. Martyn then left to spend six seasons at Leeds United. He went on to win 23 England caps. An ankle injury forced him to retire in 2006, following three seasons at Everton.
Born in St Austell, Cornwall, Martyn started his career as a midfielder until invited to play as a goalkeeper for his brother's works team when he was sixteen. He started by playing amateur football for Cornish sides Heavy Transport F.C., Bugle and St Blazey while working in a plastics factory and for a coal merchant, before beginning his professional career with Bristol Rovers in 1987 after apparently having been "spotted" by Rovers' tea lady whilst she was on holiday.
While still in Cornwall he was also a cricketer, and played with Cornwall Schoolboys as a wicket keeper, as well as Fowey C.C. Since his retirement from professional football, he has returned to cricket, playing regularly for a local Leeds team.

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Nigel Pearson
Nigel Graham Pearson (born 21 August 1963) is an English football manager and former professional player. He is currently in his second spell as manager of Leicester City, having previously managed Hull City, Southampton and Carlisle United, and been assistant manager for England Under-21s and Newcastle United. During his playing career, he was a defender and played for Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough.
Pearson was born in Nottingham where he attended William Sharp Comprehensive school, and began his playing career with non-league Heanor Town before joining Second Division Shrewsbury Town in November 1981. He made his first team debut in a 1–0 defeat at Oldham Athletic on the opening day of the 1982–83 season. Pearson's first Football League goal came on 12 March 1983 in a 3–1 win against Barnsley at Gay Meadow. Pearson ended the season with 39 out of a possible 42 starts as Shrewsbury finished in ninth place in the table.
The following season, Shrewsbury finished one place higher but injuries restricted Pearson to 26 games. Injury prevented him from playing at all in 1984–85, when Shrewsbury again finished eighth in the table, but he returned in 1985–86 making 35 appearances as Shrewsbury dropped to 17th.

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Ossie Ardiles
Osvaldo César Ardiles (born 3 August 1952 in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team. He now runs his own soccer school in the UK called the Ossie Ardiles Soccer School.
A competitive and skilled midfielder, Ardiles became a cult hero in England, along with Glenn Hoddle and compatriot Ricardo Villa, as a player for Tottenham Hotspur. He left England for a period on loan as a result of the outbreak of the Falklands War in 1982, thus missing most of the 1982–83 English season.
As manager of Tottenham in the mid-1990s, he played several matches utilizing a formation that had five forwards, a formation that hadn't been used in English football since the 1950s.
In Ireland he has been a pundit for RTÉ Sport.
In January 2012, newly promoted J. League Division 2 side Machida Zelvia appointed Ardiles as their manager.
As a youngster, Ardiles played football in the streets and was given the nickname Pitón (python) by his brother because of his snake-like dribbling skills. He began his professional career in Argentina with Instituto de Córdoba, alongside with Mario Alberto Kempes. He also played for Club Atlético Belgrano and Huracán. After the 1978 World Cup he moved to England to play for Tottenham where he spent ten seasons.

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Owen Coyle
Owen Columba Coyle (born 14 July 1966) is a Scottish-born Irish international former professional player and professional association football manager . He is currently the manager of Bolton Wanderers.
Paisley-born Coyle began his career at Dumbarton. He played for a number of Scottish teams as well as a spell at English club Bolton Wanderers. Upon retiring from playing, he managed Falkirk and St. Johnstone before heading to then Championship side Burnley. In his first full season in charge, Burnley won promotion to the Premier League. He then moved to Bolton halfway through his first season in the Premier League.
He has one cap for the Republic of Ireland, having qualified through Irish descent. He also played for the Republic of Ireland national under-21 football team.
Coyle began his senior career with Dumbarton in 1985, where he played alongside his brothers Joe and Tommy. In 1988 he joined Clydebank, then in March 1990 a £175,000 transfer took him to Airdrieonians. This move was instantly successful, Coyle scoring a hat-trick on his debut and going on to finish as the Scottish League's top scorer for 1989–90. Over the next two seasons his goals helped Airdrie to promotion, a Scottish Cup final appearance, and an appearance in the 1992–1993 European Cup Winners' Cup – as Scottish Cup winners Rangers, had won the Scottish Premier Division title and qualified for the European Cup.

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Paul Gascoigne
Paul John Gascoigne (born 27 May 1967), nicknamed Gazza, is an English retired professional footballer.
Playing in the position of midfield, Gascoigne's career included spells at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers, Middlesbrough, Everton and Gansu Tianma, at all of which he scored at least one goal. He was capped 57 times for the England national football team.
Gascoigne was born in the Dunston area of Gateshead, England.
Gascoigne started playing football at the age of four, playing in the street and nearby park. He played for his school Brighton Avenue Primary School, Gateshead team from the age of eight, and later played for the local Redheugh Boys' Club although being underage. He later attended Breckenbeds Junior High School (which closed in September 1996) then the Heathfield Senior High School (also closed in September 1996), both in the Low Fell area of Gateshead.
He was noticed by football scouts while playing for Gateshead Boys, and given a trial at Ipswich Town although he failed to impress. Further trials at Middlesbrough and Southampton proved unsuccessful, before Newcastle United signed him as a schoolboy in 1980. At school he was once caught practising his autograph during a geography lesson, his reason being that he was "going to be a famous footballer". His teacher was unimpressed, telling him that "only one in a million becomes a professional footballer." Nevertheless, he was signed on as an apprentice at Newcastle in 1983, initially playing for the youth team under Colin Suggett.

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Paul Ince
Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (born 21 October 1967 in Ilford, Greater London) is an English football manager and a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder from 1982 to 2007.
He spent the majority of his playing career at the highest level, after leaving West Ham United he joined Manchester United where he played in the Premier League. After two years in Italian Serie A with Internazionale he returned to England to play in the top flight for Liverpool, Middlesbrough and Wolverhampton Wanderers. After a spell as player-coach of Swindon Town, he hung up his boots whilst player-manager of Macclesfield Town in 2007. He went on to manage Milton Keynes Dons (twice), Blackburn Rovers and Notts County. He was capped 53 times by England, scoring 2 goals.
As a player he won numerous honours with Manchester United, became the first black player to captain the England team and was also the first black Briton to manage a team in the highest tier of English football.
Ince grew up as a West Ham United supporter. He was spotted playing, aged 12, by West Ham manager John Lyall around the time that the club was in the Second Division and achieved a surprise FA Cup final triumph over Arsenal.

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Paul Jewell
Paul Steven Jewell (born 28 September 1964) is a former English footballer who is currently the manager of Ipswich Town.
His playing career started with Liverpool before moving to Wigan Athletic and then a ten-year spell with Bradford City. He had a short loan spell with Grimsby Town but when his playing career ended he became part of the coaching staff at Bradford.
He was appointed manager in 1998 and took City to the Premier League before resigning and becoming manager of Sheffield Wednesday. He returned to Wigan to win a second promotion to the Premier League, but resigned a day after he kept them up in the 2006–07 season. He later joined Derby County on 28 November 2007, before resigning 13 months later.
He was appointed manager of Ipswich Town in January 2011.
Born in Liverpool and educated at De La Salle School, Jewell began his career as an apprentice with home-city club Liverpool, but because of the dominance of Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish he never made a first-team league appearance and pursued his career elsewhere.

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Phil Neville
Philip John "Phil" Neville (born 21 January 1977) is an English footballer who captains Premier League club Everton. Neville also played for England from 1996 until 2007. He is the younger brother of former Manchester United defender Gary Neville, and the twin brother of England netball international Tracey Neville.
Neville won six Premier League titles, three FA Cups and the Champions League with his previous club, Manchester United. He can play in defence or midfield, and is often used as a full back. Due to this versatility he has operated in a number of different positions throughout his career.
Born in Bury, Greater Manchester, Neville, along with brother Gary, was one of "Fergie's Fledglings". Phil attended Elton High School where he was Deputy Head Boy. He started training with the Manchester United Academy along with his brother, then later joined as a trainee, making his first-team debut in the 1994–95 season but did not get many first-team opportunities until the following season.

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Phil Parkinson
Philip John "Phil" Parkinson (born 1 December 1967) is an English football manager and former player who currently manages Bradford City.
Parkinson, a former Southampton trainee, made his Football League debut in 1988 with Bury, and later joined Reading for £50,000 in July 1992.
A fearsome tackler who always led by example, he was named player of the season two years in a row (1997–98 and 1998–99) and was also a key member of the 1993–94 Football League Second Division championship-winning team. He captained the team to promotion from the Second Division in 2001–02 and soon after promotion success, Parkinson celebrated his testimonial year with a memorable night at Madejski Stadium, where 20,000 fans watched former Reading team-mates such as Shaka Hislop, Michael Gilkes and Jeff Hopkins take on an England XI including the likes of Paul Gascoigne, John Barnes and Chris Waddle.^{[citation needed]}
Although Parkinson rarely featured on the field in his final season as Reading returned to the First Division, he remained a hugely respected member of the squad until his departure to Layer Road.

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Raich Carter
Horatio Stratton "Raich" Carter (21 December 1913 – 9 October 1994) was an English sportsman who played association football for Sunderland from 1931 to 1939, for Derby County from 1945 to 1948 and for Hull City from 1948 to 1952. He also played first class cricket for Derbyshire in 1946. Later he became a football manager.
Carter was born at Hendon, Sunderland, the son of Robert Carter who played football for Port Vale, Fulham and Southampton.
Carter captained Sunderland to the Football League title in 1936, at that time the youngest man ever to have captained a First Division title-winning side. He followed that up with victory in the FA Cup final a year later, scoring the second Sunderland goal in a 3–1 win over Preston North End.
The Second World War, like many great players of his age, left him bereft of many of his peak years. Afterwards he picked up another Cup winners medal with Derby in 1946, becoming the only player to win Cup winners medals both before and after the war.
Carter was also capped 13 times for England as an inside forward.

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Richard Garcia
Richard Garcia (born 4 September 1981) is an-Australian association football player who is a Free Agent and plays internationally for Australia as a winger. He has previously played for West Ham United, Leyton Orient, Colchester United and Hull City. During his time in Perth he played for Balcatta FC, a local league club in Perth.
Born in Perth, Garcia was a product of the West Ham United youth academy, moving from Australia to England to join the Hammers at the age of 15 after being spotted by a scout who had initially gone to watch his brother. He signed a professional contract with West Ham in September 1998. He was a key member of the team that won the FA Youth Cup and FA Premier Youth League double in 1998–99, scoring in every round of West Ham's run to the Youth Cup Final, eight in total. He went out on loan to local side Leyton Orient in August 2000, making 21 appearances in League and Cup competitions and scoring four goals. Injury to his knee ligaments ended his season and he returned to West Ham in November 2000. He made his first team debut for West Ham in a League Cup match away at Reading in September 2001, but failed to gain a regular place in the team. After West Ham were relegated to the First Division in 2003, Garcia featured a few more times for the first-team, but made only 16 league appearances for the club before moving on to Colchester United in 2004.

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Robbie Fowler
Robert Bernard "Robbie" Fowler (born 9 April 1975) is an English professional footballer and manager who plays as a striker and is currently without a club
He is best remembered for his playing days at Liverpool and is the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier League. Fowler scored 183 goals in total for Liverpool, 128 of which were scored in the Premier League (162 Premier League goals in total). He subsequently played for Leeds United and Manchester City, before returning to Liverpool in January 2006.
He moved clubs 18 months later to sign for Cardiff City. He refused a one year "pay as you play" contract extension and signed with Blackburn Rovers on a three-month "pay as you play" deal instead. In December 2008, he departed Blackburn and forged a career in Australia with North Queensland Fury and Perth Glory. In 2011 he joined Thai side Muangthong United as a player, but later was appointed player/manager where he remained until 2012. He has been capped for England twenty-six times, scoring seven goals.

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Robert Koren
Robert Koren (born 20 September 1980) is a Slovenian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Hull City and as the captain for the Slovenian national team.
Koren played for Publikum, Dravograd and NK Celje in his home country, before transferring to Norwegian side Lillestrøm in 2004.
He became one of the most highly rated players of the Norwegian Premier League, many regarding him as the best foreigner in the entire competition. Koren was the definitive playmaker for Lillestrøm, and has often been compared to his former idol Zlatko Zahovič. During his time in Norway he was linked with a move to English club Leeds United.
On 4 January 2007, Koren signed for English Championship club West Bromwich Albion in a Bosman ruling, penning an 18 month contract with a further year's option in the club's favour. He made his debut two days later as a late substitute in the Baggies' 3–1 win over Leeds United in the FA Cup 3rd round. Koren scored his first goal for the club in a 7–0 home win against Barnsley on 6 May 2007, the last day of the league season. The victory ensured Albion's place in the Championship promotion play-offs. Koren started all three play-off games as Albion beat Wolves in the two-legged semi-final but lost 1–0 to Derby County in the Wembley final.

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Sean Dyche
Sean Dyche (born 28 June 1971) is an English former footballer, and subsequently a coach and manager. He played as a centre back.
Dyche started his playing career as an apprentice at Nottingham Forest under the management of Brian Clough, but didn't make a senior appearance and joined Chesterfield in 1990. Dyche played the majority of his professional games for Chesterfield. He was part of the side that won promotion in 1995, and captained and scored for Chesterfield in an FA Cup semi-final in 1997. He spent subsequent spells at Bristol City, Luton Town (on loan), Millwall, Watford and finally Northampton Town. He retired in 2007, having achieved promotions with four of the six clubs he had played for.
Dyche returned to Watford as youth team coach in 2007. He was promoted to assistant manager under Malky Mackay in 2009, and succeeded Mackay as manager in 2011.

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Seyi Olofinjana
Oluwaseyi George "Seyi" Olofinjana (born 30 June 1980) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Hull City as a midfielder. "Seyi" is a nickname for the Yoruba name "Oluwaseyi" (meaning "God made this").
Born in Lagos, Olofinjana started his football career at Crown FC, and later moved on to play in the Nigerian Premier League for Kwara United. During this time, he also broke into the Nigerian national team, making his debut in June 2000 in a 3–2 win over Malawi.
The midfielder moved to Norwegian club Brann in 2003 after graduating from the University, where he played one season, and went on to play in every game of the 2004 African Cup of Nations in Tunisia, as Nigeria finished third.
He moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers in July 2004 for a fee of £1.7 million, although he initially struggled with injuries. However, in the 2006–07 season he finished as the club's top goalscorer as they made the play-offs under Mick McCarthy.
In June 2008, following Wolves failure to reach the play-offs, Olofinjana signed for Premier League club Stoke City on a four-year deal for £3 million. He scored his first goal for Stoke City in a home game against Everton in September 2008. He did not play many games that season, and in the summer break Stoke accepted a £2.5 million bid from French side AS Monaco. Negotiations broke down with Monaco, allowing Hull City to sign Olofinjana for £3 million. He scored his first goal for Hull City in a 2–1 win against his old club, Stoke City, in November 2009.

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Simon Grayson
Simon Nicholas Grayson (born 16 December 1969) is an English former professional footballer and manager of Football League One side Huddersfield Town.
As a player he was a right back, but he was also utilised in midfield in a career that lasted from 1988 until 2006. Having started his career with Leeds United he went on to notably played in the Premier League for Leicester City, Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers, before moving into the Football League with Sheffield Wednesday, Stockport County, Notts County, Bradford City and Blackpool. He was appointed as player/manager of Blackpool in 2005, and a year later retired from playing to concentrate on the managerial side of his job. In 2008 he was appointed manager of Leeds United where he remained until being sacked in 2012.

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Sol Campbell
Sulzeer Jeremiah "Sol" Campbell (born 18 September 1974) is a retired English footballer. A central defender, Campbell has played for Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Portsmouth, Notts County and Newcastle United, as well as the English national team.
Born in east London to Jamaican parents, Campbell's professional debut was at the age of 18 for FA Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur in December 1992. Campbell spent nine years at Tottenham, scoring 10 goals in 255 appearances, and captaining the team to victory in the 1999 Football League Cup Final against Premier League side Leicester City. In 2001 he controversially joined Tottenham's North London rivals Arsenal, the first high profile free transfer within the Premier League under the Bosman ruling. In his five years and 195 appearances at Arsenal he won two Premier League winners medals and two FA Cup winners medals, encompassing the 2001–02 League and FA Cup double, and being part of the team that became known as The Invincibles for their undefeated 2003–04 Premier League campaign. Campbell was also part of the side that lost 2–1 to Barcelona in the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final, in which he scored the only goal for Arsenal. In August 2006 he joined Premier League side Portsmouth on a free transfer; his three years with the club included captaining them to success in the 2008 FA Cup Final against Championship side Cardiff City.

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Stan Ternent
Francis Stanley "Stan" Ternent (born 16 June 1946) is an English former footballer and manager. He managed Blackpool, Hull City, Bury, Burnley, Gillingham and Huddersfield Town. He is currently a scout for Sunderland.
In his playing days, Ternent donned the colours of Burnley and Carlisle United. Upon retiring, he became a coach at Sunderland, firstly, then Blackpool, assisting Bob Stokoe. Ternent himself became manager of the Tangerines in 1979, his first such role, and Blackpool's sixth manager in a decade.
Immediately upon his appointment at Bloomfield Road, Ternent began to reshape the team, spending large sums on new players. Jack Ashurst was purchased from Sunderland for a then-club-record £132,400. Fellow newcomers included Dave Bamber, Colin Morris, Peter Noble and Tom McAlister. Despite the fresh faces, the Seasiders' fortunes didn't improve, and by early 1980 they were in the bottom half of the Third Division. Ternent was sacked on 1 February 1980.
He was part of the coaching staff at Bradford City and served as assistant manager to Steve Coppell at Crystal Palace before his next role as manager came nine years later, at Hull City from 1989 to 1991. He lost his job in January 1991, a few months before the club suffered relegation from the Second Division. From 1991 to 1993 he was assistant manager to Ian Porterfield and then David Webb at Chelsea before again being made redundant.

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Steve Cotterill
Stephen "Steve" Cotterill (born 20 July 1964) is an English former footballer who is manager of Nottingham Forest.
Cotterill started his playing career in the non-leagues as a forward who could play centrally or in wide positions, playing semi-professionally at clubs like Cheltenham Town, Alvechurch and Burton Albion. He then signed his first professional contract, with Wimbledon, after a £120,000 deal was done with Burton. He made 44 appearances in four years at Wimbledon and went out on loan to Brighton & Hove Albion to recapture his fitness following a serious cruciate knee-ligament injury. This led to further games at the Dons and he turned down a £500,000 bid from Southampton before finally moving on again to Bournemouth.
Cotterill signed for Bournemouth in the summer of 1993 for the fee of £120,000. He was out of contract and this fee was set by the then Transfer Tribunal. In three years at Bournemouth he got his career back in good shape scoring 15 goals in 45 league starts for the club. While at the club he picked up three player of the season awards but had to finish his career in 1995 after another bad knee injury from which he was unable to fully recover.

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Steve Kean
Stephen "Steve" Kean (born 30 September 1967) is a Scottish football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Blackburn Rovers in the English Championship. He was a winger, playing in Scotland, England and Portugal in the 1980s and 1990s, before becoming a manager.
Kean grew up in Cumbernauld, a new town on the outskirts of Glasgow, attending St. Maurice's High School. Upon leaving school, he joined Celtic as a professional, but was unable to break into a first team then dominated by Celtic legends Tommy Burns, Murdo MacLeod and Paul McStay.
He joined Swansea City on loan in 1987, at the same time as Chris Coleman. They formed a lasting professional relationship, which carried on after both of their playing days had ended.
Kean then played for Academica Coimbra in Portugal, making 12 appearances, and scoring one goal.
Since retiring from playing Kean has worked as a coach for Reading, Fulham, Real Sociedad and Coventry City, working as an assistant to Chris Coleman at Fulham, Real Sociedad and Coventry.

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Steve McManaman
Steven McManaman (born 11 February 1972) is a retired English footballer who played as a midfielder, winger and playmaker. Having spent his playing career at two of European football's most successful clubs of the 20th century,Liverpool and Real Madrid, as well as a spell at Manchester City, McManaman is the most decorated English footballer to have played at any foreign club in terms of trophies won overseas.
McManaman was the first British player to win the UEFA Champions League title twice, and was also the first English footballer to win the Champions League with a non-English club. In 2008, he was ranked third in a Top 10 of greatest British footballers to play overseas, just behind Kevin Keegan and John Charles.
He is also notable for a contractual saga in the late 1990s, that resulted in his football transfer becoming one of the most controversial and high profile Bosman ruling related transfers of all time, with the deal resulting in McManaman once becoming the highest paid British player in history, for the years 1999 through 2001.

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Steven Gerrard
Steven George Gerrard MBE ( /ˈdʒɛrɑrd/; born 30 May 1980) is an English footballer who plays for and captains Premier League club Liverpool. He also has 91 caps for the England national team. He has played much of his career in a centre midfield role, but he has also been used as a second striker and right winger.
Gerrard, who has spent his entire career at Anfield, made his début in 1998 and cemented his place in the first team in 2000, succeeding Sami Hyypiä as team captain in 2003. His honours include two FA Cups, three League Cups, one UEFA Champions League, one UEFA Cup, and two Super Cups. In 2005, Gerrard came third in voting for the Ballon d'Or.
Gerrard made his international debut in 2000 and has represented England at the Euro 2000 and Euro 2004, as well as the 2006 World Cup where he was the team's top goalscorer with two goals. Gerrard first captained his country at the 2010 World Cup in the absence of regular captain Rio Ferdinand, who missed the tournament through injury. He was named again as England captain for the Euro 2012.

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Stuart Pearce
Stuart Pearce MBE (born 24 April 1962) is an English football manager and former player. He is currently manager of the England national under-21 team and most recently been made manager of the Great Britain Olympic football team. As a player, Pearce captained both the England national football team and Nottingham Forest, turning out 78 times for England between 1987 and 1999.
He retired as a player in 2002 while at Manchester City. He remained with the club as a coach under Kevin Keegan's managership until being promoted to the manager's job in 2005. He was manager of the club for two years before being dismissed. He is now full-time manager of the England U-21 team, a position he previously held part-time while still Manchester City manager.
Born in Shepherds Bush, London, Pearce first attended Fryent Primary School in Kingsbury, North West London before attending Claremont High School in Kenton. He failed a trial at Queens Park Rangers and then rejected an offer from Hull City, instead settling into a career in the non-league game with his local side, Wealdstone, while training and working as an electrician and plumber. For almost five years, he was the first choice full back for the team, then amongst the biggest names of non-league football in the Alliance Premier League.

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Ståle Solbakken
Ståle Solbakken (born 27 February 1968) is a Norwegian former international footballer, who has moved into management. He will become manager of English club Wolverhampton Wanderers from 1 July 2012.
As a manager, he was named 2004 Norwegian Manager of the Year, and has won five Danish Superliga championships with Copenhagen. Solbakken was also in charge of German club 1. FC Köln during the 2011–12 season.
During his playing career, Solbakken was named 1995 Norwegian midfielder of the year, and he won the Danish Superliga championship with both Aalborg BK and Copenhagen (in 1999 and 2001 respectively). He played 58 matches and scored nine goals for the Norwegian national team during the end of the 1990s, and represented Norway at the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship tournaments. He ended his active career in March 2001 following a heart attack.
Solbakken, a midfielder, started his career in Norway, playing for his local lower league team Grue. After five seasons with Grue he moved to HamKam, a then-second tier club, in 1989.

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Sven-Göran Eriksson
Sven-Göran Eriksson (Swedish pronunciation: [svɛnˈjœː.ˈran ˈeːrɪk.ˈsɔn] ( listen); born 5 February 1948), in Sweden commonly referred to just by his nickname Svennis, is a Swedish former football manager.
Eriksson won 17 major trophies as a manager, with a variety of league clubs in Sweden, Portugal and Italy, between 1979 and 2000, and became the first manager to win league-and-cup doubles in three different countries. He later managed the national teams of England, Mexico and Côte d'Ivoire, and three clubs in England.
Born in Sunne and raised in Torsby, in Värmland, Eriksson had an unremarkable playing career playing as a right-back in the lower divisions of Swedish football. The highest level he played at was Division 2 with Karlskoga, where he met Tord Grip, before being forced into an early retirement owing to a knee injury in 1975 aged 27.
Having retired as a player, Eriksson received an offer to become Tord Grip's assistant at Degerfors. A year later, Grip was appointed assistant manager of the Swedish national team, and Eriksson became Degerfors' manager, winning promotion to Division 2 in 1978.

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Teddy Sheringham
Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham MBE (born 2 April 1966) is a retired English footballer, and the father of footballer Charlie Sheringham. Sheringham played as a striker, and had a successful career at the club level, winning almost every domestic honour available with his clubs, most notably the Treble with Manchester United in the 1998–99 season. The pinnacle of his career came when he scored the equaliser and provided the assist for Manchester United's winning goal in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final against Bayern Munich. Sheringham also represented England at international level. He was awarded an MBE in June 2007. He retired from competitive football at the end of the 2007–08 season with Colchester United, at the age of 42, after a career lasting 25 years.
Sheringham began his professional career at Millwall in 1982 at the age of 16, after impressing a scout when playing for non-league club Leytonstone & Ilford during a youth team game against Millwall. He was signed up, initially as an apprentice and scored on only his second appearance for the club in a match away at Bournemouth in January 1984. After being loaned out by the club twice in 1985 to Aldershot and later a Swedish side, Djurgården, he quickly became a first choice selection at Millwall and during the late 1980s formed a striking partnership with Tony Cascarino. He was the club's top goalscorer in four seasons (1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89 and 1990–91) and played in every game of the season twice, in 1986–87 and 1990–91.

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Terry Venables
Terence Frederick "Terry" Venables (born 6 January 1943 in Dagenham), often referred to as "El Tel", is a former football player and manager, as well as being a media pundit. During the 1960s and 70s, he played for various clubs including Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers, and gained two caps for England. He was the national team manager of England from 1994 to 1996 (leading the team to the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championships), and of Australia from 1997 to 1998. He has also managed several club sides including Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United in England, and Barcelona in Spain.
Venables attended Lennards Secondary School (now The Ockendon Maths And Computing College) In South Ockendon, Essex.^{[citation needed]}
Venables left school in the summer of 1957 and signed for Chelsea as an apprentice. He became professional for them in 1960, after being left out of England's Olympic squad. He emerged as the captain and one of the key players in the Chelsea side which challenged for honours in the 1960s, narrowly missing out on Football League and FA Cup success, and winning the League Cup in 1965, scoring in the final against Leicester City. But a fall-out with manager Tommy Docherty culminated in him and seven other players being sent home for breaking a pre-match curfew and ultimately led to his sale to Tottenham Hotspur for £80,000 in 1966. He had made 202 appearances for Chelsea and scored 26 goals.

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Tom Cairney
Thomas "Tom" Cairney (born 20 January 1991) is a footballer who plays for Hull City as a midfielder. Born in England, he has played for Scotland at under-19 and under-21 level.
Born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Cairney was released from the Leeds United youth system at the age of 16 after being told he was too small. He had been with the club since the age of seven.Hull City gave Cairney a chance when they signed him to a youth contract in 2007. Cairney was named as Hull's Young Player of the Year for the 2008–09 season. He played for Hull against Tottenham Hotspur in the final of the pre-season Asia Trophy in Beijing on 31 July 2009. His made his first team debut against Southend United in the League Cup on 25 August 2009, when he opened the scoring as Hull won 3–1. He went on to make his Premier League debut on 30 January 2010 in a 2–2 draw against fellow relegation candidates Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first league goal for Hull in a 5–1 defeat against Everton on 7 March.

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Tony Mowbray
Anthony Mark "Tony" Mowbray (born 22 November 1963) is an English former professional football player, who is currently the manager of Middlesbrough. Mowbray played for Middlesbrough, Celtic and Ipswich Town as a defender.
The son of a steel worker and scaffolder, he began his coaching career with Ipswich Town and took his first managerial job at Scottish Premier League side Hibernian, where he won the Scottish Football Writers' Association Manager of the Year award in his first season. He moved on to West Bromwich Albion in 2006, where he won the Football League Championship in 2008, but then suffered relegation from the Premier League the following year. Mowbray was then appointed as manager of Celtic, but was dismissed after nine months. Mowbray subsequently took the manager's role at another of his former clubs, Middlesbrough.
After playing his first match for the club in 1982, Mowbray became captain of Middlesbrough in 1986 when he was just 22 years old. Affectionately known to Boro fans as "Mogga", Mowbray became a legend in Middlesbrough for being a local lad who led the club from liquidation back into the top league of English football within two seasons.

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Warren Garton Joyce (born 20 January 1965 in Oldham, Lancashire) is a former footballer who played in The Football League, and now works as a coach.
The son of Walter Joyce, the former Burnley, Blackburn Rovers and Oldham Athletic player, Joyce was born in Oldham, Lancashire, and began his career as a trainee with Bolton Wanderers in 1981. Working his way up into the first team he became known for being a tigerish midfielder who never gave less than 100%.^{[citation needed]} This made him a firm favourite with the Burnden Park fans^{[citation needed]} and in six years with the club made a total of 216+5 appearances for the Trotters scoring 21 goals.
In October 1987, however, Preston North End manager John McGrath came in for him offering £35,000 for his services. With Joyce's father Walter now a coach at Deepdale (he had previously coached at Oldham Athletic), Joyce decided to make the move. Preston at the time were struggling but the additions of Joyce along with Brian Mooney and Tony Ellis not only added flair to the team but also some much-needed bite.^{[citation needed]}

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William Henry "Will" Atkinson (born 14 October 1988) is an English footballer who plays for Football League Championship club Hull City. Having begun his professional career with Hull City in 2006, Atkinson has spent time on loan with Port Vale, Mansfield Town, Rochdale (twice), Rotherham United and Plymouth Argyle. Described as a tricky winger, he can play on either side of the midfield.
Born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, Atkinson started his career as a trainee with Hull City. In December 2006, at the age of eighteen, he penned a two-and-a-half-year professional deal with the club.
In October 2007, he joined Dean Glover's Port Vale in League One for a six week loan period. He made his senior debut on 13 October, in a 1–0 defeat by Brighton & Hove Albion at Vale Park. Fourteen days later he won his first start, in a 2–1 win over Swindon Town. Upon his return he made one substitute appearance for Hull, in an FA Cup defeat to Plymouth Argyle on 5 January. Later in the month he joined League Two Mansfield Town on a one month loan. Mansfield manager Bill Dearden later extended the deal into a further month, and handed Atkinson a total of ten starts and two substitute appearances.

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Nick Barmby
Personal information
Barmby pictured in 2011
Full name	Nicholas Jon Barmby^[1]
Date of birth	(1974-02-11) 11 February 1974 (age 38)^[2]
Place of birth	Kingston upon Hull, England
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	None
Youth career
000?–1992	Tottenham Hotspur
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1992–1995	Tottenham Hotspur	89	(21)
1995–1996	Middlesbrough	42	(8)
1996–2000	Everton	116	(18)
2000–2002	Liverpool	32	(2)
2002–2004	Leeds United	25	(4)
2004	→ Nottingham Forest (loan)	6	(1)
2004–2012	Hull City	180	(26)
National team
1994	England U21	3	(0)
1994–1998	England B	2	(0)
1995–2001	England	23	(4)
Teams managed
2011–2012	Hull City
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Nicholas Jon "Nick" Barmby (born 11 February 1974) is an English former professional footballer and former manager of Football League Championship club Hull City.

As a player he played as a midfielder and at his peak he earned a total of 23 caps for England between 1995 and 2001. As well as two Premier League seasons with Hull, Barmby has appeared in England's top flight for Tottenham Hotspur, Middlesbrough, Everton, Liverpool and Leeds United having also represented Nottingham Forest outside the Premiership. Barmby is one of only five players to have scored for six different Premier League teams.

1 Club career
2 Managerial career
3 International career
4 Personal life
5 Career statistics
6 Managerial statistics
7 Honours
- 7.1 Club
- 7.2 International
8 References
9 External links

Club career [link]

Growing up on the west side of Hull, he played for local teams Springhead and National Tigers as a boy showing talent from a very early age. Consequently, he ended his education at the local Kelvin Hall High School (where he started in 1985) early in order to complete his studies at the Football Association's School of Excellence, while also honing his skills for the professional game.^{[citation needed]} His father, Jeff Barmby, was also a player in his younger days and became his son's advisor and agent as his skills began to attract the attention of various clubs.

Tottenham Hotspur [link]

Barmby eventually signed for Tottenham Hotspur, joining them on leaving school in the summer of 1990. His first game for Tottenham was against Hull City at Boothferry Park in a testimonial match for Garreth Roberts, and he scored two goals.^[3]

Having turned professional in April 1991 under the management of Terry Venables, he made his competitive debut against Sheffield Wednesday^[3]on 27 September 1992 in the FA Premier League, and established himself as a regular player that season, when still only 18 years old.^[4]

During his time at the club he became one of Ossie Ardiles' five-man attack, along with Juergen Klinsmann, Teddy Sheringham, Darren Anderton and Ilie Dumitrescu. He played 100 games and scored 27 goals in all competitions for Spurs, playing on the losing side in two FA Cup semi-finals, before becoming Middlesbrough's most expensive signing in a £5.25 million deal in June 1995.^[5]

Middlesbrough [link]

He set up the first competitive goal at the new Riverside Stadium for Craig Hignett.^[6] Barmby stayed at Middlesbrough for 17 months, before heading to Everton, who paid a record fee of £5.75 million for him, a small profit on the price they paid for him.^[7] It was felt that the offer had to be accepted as Middlesbrough were embroiled in a relegation battle.^{[citation needed]}

Everton [link]

In his first full season at the club, Barmby and his new team found themselves in a Premier League relegation battle. However, they survived with a 15th place finish as Barmby made 25 league appearances and scored four goals. He managed just two goals from 30 appearances the following season as Everton finished just one place above relegation. Injuries restricted him to appearing in just 24 out of 38 league appearances in 1998-99, as he scored three goals. His final season at Goodison Park saw him miss just one league game and find the net nine times, though Everton finished only in 13th place.^[8]

After nearly four years at Everton, during which Barmby played 114 league games and scored 18 goals, headed across Stanley Park to Liverpool for a fee of £6 million on 19 July 2000. It was the first time since striker Dave Hickson in 1959 that Everton had sold a player to Liverpool - although six players had moved in the opposite direction in the 41 years between Barmby's transfer and that of Hickson.^[9]

Manchester United also expressed an interest in signing Barmby to cover for their missing players at the start of the 2000–01 season, but they were eventually outbid.^[10]

Liverpool [link]

He was involved in Liverpool's successful season of 2000–01 in which they won the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. He scored against his previous club Everton in the Merseyside derby,^[11] and scored a penalty kick in the shootout against Birmingham City in the League Cup Final.^[12] After persistent injury and lack of form blighted his second season at the club, Barmby was sold to Leeds United in August 2002 for a fee of £2.75 million, where he linked up with Terry Venables, his first manager at Tottenham. Barmby scored eight goals in his time at Liverpool, all of which came in the 2000–01 season: four in the UEFA Cup, two in the League, and one each in the FA Cup and the League Cup.

Leeds United [link]

Despite scoring on his debut,^[13] Barmby made little impact at a Leeds side quickly sliding down the Premier League table, and missed much of the action during his two seasons with them in the Premier League.^[14] He spent a loan spell at Nottingham Forest during the 2003–04 season,^[15] scoring once against Gillingham,^[16] before moving to his hometown club, Hull City.^[17]

Hull City [link]

Barmby playing for Hull City in 2009

In 2004, Barmby returned to his hometown team Hull City on a free transfer following Leeds's relegation from the top flight. Barmby helped City to promotion from League One in his first season at the club. He scored nine goals, including the fastest goal in City's history, after seven seconds in a match against Walsall on 6 November 2004.^{[citation needed]} He played for Hull in the 2007–08 Football League Championship campaign, which ended in promotion through the Championship play-offs to the Premier League; a season earlier they had come close to being relegated to League One. 2008–09 was the first season in which Hull City played top division football. He scored his first goal of Hull's first Premier League season against Sunderland on 20 December 2008, making him one of only five players to have scored for 6 different teams in the Premier League.

On 30 June 2010, it was announced by the incoming Hull City manager, Nigel Pearson, that Barmby would take his first steps into coaching, by being taken onto Pearson's staff at Hull City for the 2010–11 Championship campaign, combining the role of coach with his playing duties.^[18]

Managerial career [link]

After Pearson left Hull for Leicester on 15 November 2011, Barmby took over as player caretaker manager.^[19] His reign got off to a fine start against Derby County by defeating them 2-0 at Pride Park Stadium.^[20] He announced his retirement from playing on 6 January 2012 before being appointed manager permanently on 10 January.^[21]^[22]

It has been reported on 8 May 2012 that Barmby was sacked as manager following a disciplinary meeting with the owners.^[23]

International career [link]

Barmby's England career stretched to 13 starts and 10 substitute appearances accounting for four goals, including the first goals of both Glenn Hoddle's and Sven-Göran Eriksson's reigns as England manager, in a 3–0 World Cup qualifier victory against Moldova in 1996 and a 3–0 friendly victory over Spain at Villa Park in 2001. Barmby played for his country at Euro 96 and Euro 2000, and also played in England's historic 5–1 away victory over rivals Germany on 1 September 2001. Despite being a regular starter on the left of midfield during England's qualifying campaign Barmby was omitted from the final squad for the 2002 World Cup and was never called up thereafter.^[24]

Personal life [link]

Barmby is now coaching his local junior team Westella and Willerby Juniors which he manages on a Sunday morning. He also has a son, Jack Barmby, who plays for Manchester United

Career statistics [link]

^[25]

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
England			League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
1992–93	Tottenham Hotspur	Premier League	22	6	-		-		-		22	6
1993–94			27	5	-		-		-		27	5
1994–95			38	9	-		-		-		38	9
1995–96	Middlesbrough	Premier League	32	7	3	1	4	1	-		39	9
1996–97	Middlesbrough	Premier League	10	1	-		-		-		10	1
1996–97	Everton	Premier League	25	4	2	1	-		-		27	5
1997–98			30	2	1	0	1	3	-		32	5
1998–99			24	3	4	1	2	0	-		30	4
1999–2000			37	9	5	1	1	0	-		43	10
2000–01	Liverpool	Premier League	26	2	5	1	6	1	9	4	46	8
2001–02	Liverpool	Premier League	6	0	-		1	0	4	0	11	0
2002–03	Leeds United	Premier League	19	4	2	0	1	0	3	1	25	5
2003–04	Leeds United	Premier League	6	0	-		-		-		6	0
2003–04	Nottingham Forest	First Division	6	1	-		-		-		6	1
2004–05	Hull City	League One	39	9	2	0	-		-		41	9
2005–06		Championship	26	5	-		-		-		26	5
2006–07			20	4	-		2	1	-		22	5
2007–08			18^{[NB 1]}	3^{[NB 2]}	1	0	-		-		19^{[NB 1]}	3^{[NB 2]}
2008–09		Premier League	21	1	3	1	1	0	-		25	2
2009–10		Premier League	20	0			2	0	-		22	0
2010–11		Championship	31	5	1	2	1	0	-		33	7
2011–12		Championship	8	1	0	0	1	0	-		9	1
Total	England		491^{[NB 1]}	81^{[NB 2]}	29	8	23	6	16	5	559^{[NB 1]}	100^{[NB 2]}
Career total			491^{[NB 1]}	81^{[NB 2]}	29	8	23	6	16	5	559^{[NB 1]}	100^{[NB 2]}

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Includes 3 playoff appearances
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Includes 2 playoff goals

Managerial statistics [link]

As of 28 April 2012.

Team	Nation	From	To	Record
Team	Nation	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Hull City	England	15 November 2011	8 May 2012	33	13	8	12	39.39
Total				33	13	8	12	39.39

Honours [link]

Club [link]

Liverpool

FA Cup
- Winner: 2001
League Cup
- Winner: 2001
UEFA Cup
- Winner: 2001
FA Charity Shield
- Winner: 2001

Hull City

Football League Championship
- Play-Off Winner: 2008
Football League One
- Runner-up: 2004–05

International [link]

England

UEFA European Football Championship
- Semi-Finalist: 1996
Umbro Cup 1995: Runner-up

References [link]

^ "Statistics" (PDF). Premier League. http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/7b/53/0,,12306~152443,00.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2005). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–2005. Queen Anne Press. p. 42. ISBN 1-85291-665-6.
^ ^a ^b "Nick Barmby". City Magazine (Hull City A.F.C) (42): pp. 26–29. February 2009.
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Ryan Giggs
Personal information
Ryan Giggs in November 2009
Full name	Ryan Joseph Giggs^[1]
Date of birth	(1973-11-29) 29 November 1973 (age 38)
Place of birth	Cardiff, Wales
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)^[2]
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Manchester United
Number	11
Youth career
1985–1987	Manchester City
1987–1991	Manchester United
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1991–	Manchester United	638	(112)
National team
1989	England U16	1	(1)
1989	Wales U18	3	(0)
1990	Wales U21	2	(0)
1991–2007	Wales	64	(12)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:26, 13 May 2012. † Appearances (Goals).

Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE^[3] (born Ryan Joseph Wilson on 29 November 1973) is a Welsh footballer who plays for Manchester United. Giggs made his first appearance for the club during the 1990–91 season and has been a regular player since the 1991–92 season. He established himself as a left winger during the 1990s, and continuing in this position well into the 2000s, though he has been increasingly used in a deeper playmaking role in his latter years. Giggs is known for his tireless running, ball possession and ability to create goalscoring opportunities for those around him.^[4]

Giggs is the most decorated player in English football history.^[5] He also holds the club record for competitive appearances.^[6] During his time at United, he has won 12 Premier League winner's medals, four FA Cup winner's medals, three League Cup winner's medals and two Champions League winner's medals. He has two runner-up medals from the Champions League, three FA Cup finals and two League Cup finals, as well as being part of the team five times when it finished second in the Premier League. In recent years, Giggs has captained the team on numerous occasions, particularly in the 2007–08 season when regular captain Gary Neville was ruled out with various injuries.

Giggs has a number of personal achievements. He was the first player in history to win two consecutive PFA Young Player of the Year awards (1992 and 1993), though he did not win the PFA Player of the Year award until 2009. He is the only player to have played and scored in every season of the Premier League.^[7]^[8] He has been elected into the PFA Team of the Century in 2007,^[9] the Premier League Team of the Decade, in 2003, as well as the FA Cup Team of the Century. Giggs holds the record for the most assists in Premier League history, with 271.^[10]

At international level, Giggs played for the Welsh national team prior to his retirement from international football on 2 June 2007, and was once the youngest player to ever represent his country.

In addition to the many honours Giggs has received within football such as being named in the Football League 100 Legends (the last active player in the list), he was appointed an OBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours List, and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005, for his services to English Football. He was named as BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2009.^[11] On 31 January 2011, Giggs was named Manchester United's greatest ever player by a worldwide poll conducted by United's official magazine and website.^[12] On 10 October 2011, Giggs was honoured with the 2011 Golden Foot Award.

Early years [link]

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Born as Ryan Joseph Wilson^[13] (he later adopted his mother's maiden name as his professional surname) at St David's Hospital in Canton, Cardiff, to Danny Wilson, at the time a rugby union player for Cardiff RFC who would go on to become a Wales international representative in rugby league, and Lynne Giggs (now Lynne Johnson). As a child Giggs grew up in Ely, a suburb of western Cardiff. His younger brother, Rhodri, manages non-league Salford City.

He spent much time with his mother's parents and playing football on the roads outside their house in Pentrebane. In 1980, when Giggs was six years old, his father switched rugby codes and signed for Swinton RLFC, forcing the whole family to move north to Swinton, a town in Salford, Greater Manchester. The move was a traumatic one, as Giggs was very close to his grandparents in Cardiff, but he would often return there with his family at weekends or on school holidays. Giggs is mixed race – his paternal grandfather is from Sierra Leone – and has spoken of the racism he faced as a child.^[14]

After moving to Salford, Giggs appeared for the local team, Deans FC, who were coached by Manchester City scout Dennis Schofield. Schofield recommended Giggs to Manchester City, and he was signed up to their School of Excellence. Meanwhile, Giggs continued to play for Salford Boys, who went on to reach the final of the Granada Schools Cup competition at Anfield in 1987. Giggs captained the Salford team to victory over their Blackburn counterparts, and the trophy was presented to him by Liverpool chief scout Ron Yeats.

While playing for Deans, Giggs was observed regularly by local newsagent and Old Trafford steward Harold Wood. Wood spoke personally to Alex Ferguson who sent a scout, and Giggs was eventually offered a trial over the 1986 Christmas period. Giggs played in a match for Salford Boys against a United Under-15s side at The Cliff and scored a hat trick, with Ferguson watching from his office window. On 29 November 1987 (his 14th birthday), Ferguson turned up at Giggs's house with United scout Joe Brown and offered him two years on associate schoolboy forms. They offered to waive YTS forms, and persuaded Giggs to sign by offering the opportunity to turn professional in three years. Using the name Ryan Wilson, Giggs captained England at schoolboy level, playing at Wembley Stadium against Germany in 1989.^[15] He changed his surname at the age of 16, when his mother remarried. His parents had separated two years earlier.^[16]

Manchester United first team [link]

1990-1995: Debut and early career [link]

Giggs was offered his first professional contract on 29 November 1990 (his 17th birthday). He accepted the contract and became a professional two days later (1 December 1990).

At this time, United had recently won the FA Cup – their first major trophy since the appointment of Alex Ferguson as manager in November 1986. After two seasons in the league where they had finished mid table, they were finally starting to threaten the dominance of Liverpool and Arsenal, though they only managed to finish sixth that season. Ferguson's quest for a successful left winger had not been an easy one since the departure of Jesper Olsen two years earlier; he had initially signed Ralph Milne, but the player was not a success at United and lasted just one season in the first team before Ferguson secured the Southampton winger Danny Wallace in September 1989. Wallace had failed to shine at Old Trafford, and by the time Giggs turned professional Wallace was contending with 19-year-old Lee Sharpe for the role of first choice left winger.^{[citation needed]}

Giggs made his League debut against Everton at Old Trafford on 2 March 1991, as a substitute for the injured full-back Denis Irwin in a 2–0 defeat. In his first full start, Giggs was credited with his first ever goal in a 1–0 win in the Manchester derby on 4 May 1991, though it appeared to be a Colin Hendry own goal. However, he was not included in the squad of 16 that defeated Barcelona in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final 11 days later. Lee Sharpe, who had won the race to displace Danny Wallace, took to the field as United's left winger, while Wallace was selected as a substitute. Giggs became a first-team regular early in the 1991–92 season, yet remained active with the youth system and captained the team, made up of many of "Fergie's Fledglings", to an FA Youth Cup triumph in 1992.^{[citation needed]}

Giggs broke into the first team even though he was still aged only 17, and paved the way as the first of many Manchester United youth players to rise into the first team under Ferguson. As the youngest member of the United first team squad, Giggs looked to the older players such as Bryan Robson for advice. Robson recommended that Giggs sign up with Harry Swales, the agent that he himself had inherited from Kevin Keegan.^[17]

That season, Giggs played in the team that finished as runners-up to Leeds United in the final year of the old First Division before the advent of the Premier League. United had led the table for much of the season before a run of dismal results in April saw them overtaken by the West Yorkshire side. Giggs collected his first piece of silverware on 12 April 1992 as United defeated Nottingham Forest in the League Cup Final, after Giggs had set up Brian McClair to score the only goal of the game. At the end of the season, he was voted PFA Young Player of the Year – the award which had been credited to his colleague Lee Sharpe a year earlier.^{[citation needed]}

By the start of the 1992–93 season, the first season of the newly formed Premier League, Giggs had ousted Sharpe to become United's first-choice left winger. He was recognised one of English football's two best emerging young wingers, alongside Steve McManaman,^[18] who were notable for being a throwback to the Stanley Matthews era of the 1950s' wingers.^[19] Giggs helped United to their first top division title win for 26 years.

Giggs playing for United.

His emergence and the arrival of Eric Cantona heralded the dominance of United in the Premier League. Ferguson was protective of him, refusing to allow Giggs to be interviewed until he turned 20, eventually granting the first interview to the BBC's Des Lynam for Match of the Day in the 1993–94 season. United won the double that season, and Giggs was one of their key players alongside the likes of Eric Cantona, Paul Ince and Mark Hughes. Giggs also played for United in the Football League Cup final, where they lost 3–1 to Aston Villa.

Off the pitch, newspapers claimed Giggs had "single-handedly revolutionised football's image" when he appeared as teenager "with pace to burn, a bramble patch of black hair bouncing around his puppy popstar face, and a dazzling, gluey relationship between his impossibly fleet left foot and a football."^[20] As a result of this, he was afforded many opportunities not normally offered to footballers at his young age, such as hosting his own television show, Ryan Giggs' Soccer Skills, which aired in 1994, and also had a book based on the series. Giggs was part of the Premier League's attempt to market itself globally, and he featured on countless football and lad mag covers, becoming a household name and fuelling the era where footballers started to become celebrity idols on a par with pop stars,^[21] in and around the mid to late 1990s. Despite his aversion to attention, Giggs also became a teenage pin-up and was once described as the "Premiership's First Poster Boy",^[22] and the "boy wonder",.^[23] He was hailed as the first football star to capture the public imagination in a way unseen since the days of George Best;^[24] the irony was that Best and Bobby Charlton used to describe Giggs as their favourite young player, turning up at The Cliff training ground just to watch him. Best once quipped, "One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs."^[24]

At the end of the 1993–94 season, Giggs won a second title in a row, and became the first player in history to win two consecutive PFA Young Player of the Year awards, a feat equalled by Robbie Fowler and Wayne Rooney.^[25]

Giggs proved to be a scorer of great goals, with many of them being shortlisted for various Goal of the Season awards. Widely regarded as among his best were those against Queens Park Rangers in 1993, Tottenham in 1994, Everton in 1995, Coventry in 1996, and his solo-goal against Arsenal in the replay of the 1999 FA Cup semi-final. During extra time, Giggs picked up possession after Patrick Vieira gave the ball away, then ran from the half-way line, dribbled past the whole Arsenal back line, including Tony Adams, Lee Dixon and Martin Keown before launching his left-footed strike just under David Seaman's bar and beyond his reach. He famously whipped off his shirt as he ran to celebrate with his teammates. It also has the distinction of being the last ever goal scored in an FA Cup semi-final replay as, from the following season, the FA Cup semi-finals are decided in a single game, with extra time and a penalty shootout if required.^{[citation needed]}

1995-2000 [link]

1994–95 saw Giggs restricted through injury to 29 Premier League games and only 1 goal. Later in the season he recovered his form and fitness, though it was too late to help United to any major trophies. A failure to beat West Ham United on the final day of the season saw them lose the Premier League title to Blackburn Rovers. A week later, Giggs came on as a substitute in the FA Cup final against Everton, but United lost 1–0.

On a more positive side in the 1994–95 season, Giggs did get on the scoresheet twice in the opening Champions League game against IFK Gothenburg (a 4–2 win, although United ultimately failed to progress to the quarter-finals) and also managed a goal in the FA Cup fourth around victory over Wrexham, meaning that he had managed four goals in all competitions that season.

In 1995–96 Giggs returned to full form and played a vital part in United's unique second double, with his goal against Everton at Goodison Park on 9 September 1995 being shortlisted for the "goal of the season" award, though it was eventually beaten by a goal by Manchester City's Georgi Kinkladze. In November that season, Giggs scored two goals in a Premier League match against Southampton, where United won 4–1 to keep up the pressure on a Newcastle United side who actually went 10 points clear on 23 December but were finally overhauled by United in mid March. Giggs was also in the side for United's FA Cup final win over Liverpool on 11 May 1996, though Eric Cantona scored the only goal of the game. By now, Giggs had several new key colleagues in youngsters Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Paul Scholes. Beckham took over from Andrei Kanchelskis on the right wing and Butt succeeded Paul Ince in central midfield to complete a new look United midfield along with Giggs and Roy Keane.^{[citation needed]}

The following season, Giggs had his first real chance to shine in Europe. Having played a key role in United winning their third league title in four seasons, he helped them reach the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, the first United side in 28 years to achieve this. However, their hopes of European glory were ended by Borussia Dortmund, who edged them out by winning each leg of the semi-final 1–0. At the end of this season, Juventus' Alessandro Del Piero told Italian media that Giggs was one of his two favourite players, and gave the following memorable quote:"This is embarrassing to say but I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Roberto Baggio and the second was Ryan Giggs."^[26]

In 1997–98, United were pipped to the Premier League title by Arsenal, following a dismal run of form in March and early April, leaving them without a trophy for only the second time since 1989. The following season, Giggs missed a lot of games through injury, but when he was fit his form was excellent and he played in both of United's cup finals that season. Memorable moments were his extra-time goal in the FA Cup semi-final against arch-rivals Arsenal giving United a 2–1 win, and his 90th minute equaliser in the home leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final against Juventus.

The highpoint in the 1998–99 season was when Giggs set up the equalising goal scored by Teddy Sheringham in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final that set United on their way to the Treble.

Giggs was also the Man of the Match as United beat Palmeiras 1–0 to claim the Intercontinental Cup later that year.^[27]

2000–2005 [link]

Ryan Giggs, 2006

Giggs became United's longest serving player when Denis Irwin left in May 2002, and he became a pivotal part of the club, despite still being in his twenties. Giggs continued to excel in the four years that followed the Treble triumph of 1999. United were Premier League champions in three of the four seasons following the treble, as well as reaching the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals three times and the semi-finals once. He celebrated his 10-year anniversary at Old Trafford with a testimonial match against Celtic at the start of the 2001–02 campaign. However, this was one of the most disappointing seasons United had endured since Giggs made his debut for them, as a dismal run of form in early winter ultimately cost them the league title and they were surprisingly knocked out of the Champions League on away goals in the semi finals by German underdogs Bayer Leverkusen. A year later, in the autumn of 2002, he bagged his 100th career goal in a draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.^{[citation needed]}

He played in his fourth FA Cup triumph on 22 May 2004, making him one of only two players (the other being Roy Keane) to have won the trophy four times while playing for Manchester United. He has also finished with a runners-up medal three times (1995, 2005 and 2007). His participation in the victory over Liverpool in September 2004 made him the third player to play 600 games for United, alongside Sir Bobby Charlton and Bill Foulkes. He was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of his contribution to the English game.

2005-present [link]

Giggs signed a two-year contract extension with United when chief executive David Gill relented on his normal policy of not signing players over 30 to contracts longer than one year. Giggs benefited from being largely injury-free aside from a series of hamstring problems.

On 6 May 2007, with Chelsea only able to manage a 1–1 draw with London rivals Arsenal, Manchester United became the champions of England. In doing so, Giggs set a new record of nine league titles, beating the previous record of eight he shared with Alan Hansen and Phil Neal (who won all of their titles with Liverpool). Giggs played a starring role in United's 2007 Charity Shield victory after netting in the first half to bring the game to a 1–1 draw, which led to penalty triumph for the Red Devils after keeper Edwin van der Sar saved all of Chelsea's first three penalties.

In the 2007–08 season, Alex Ferguson adopted a rotation system between Giggs and newcomers Nani and Anderson.

Giggs after the match against Manchester City in February 2008

Giggs scored his 100th league goal for United against Derby County on 8 December 2007, which United won 4–1.^[28] More landmarks have been achieved: on 20 February 2008 he made his 100th appearance in the UEFA Champions League in a game against Lyon^[29] and on 11 May 2008 he came on as a substitute for Park Ji-Sung to equal Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 758 appearances for United.^[30] Giggs scored the second goal in that match, sealing his, and United's, tenth Premier League title. Ten days later, on 21 May 2008, Giggs broke Bobby Charlton's appearance record for United when coming on as an 87th minute substitute for Paul Scholes in the Champions League Final against Chelsea. United won the final, defeating Chelsea 6–5 on penalties after a 1–1 draw after extra time, with Giggs converting the winning penalty in sudden-death.

At the start of Manchester United's 2008–09 campaign, Sir Alex Ferguson began placing Giggs at central midfield, behind the forwards, instead of his favoured wing position. Sir Alex Ferguson said in an interview, "(Giggs) is a very valuable player, he will be 35 this November but at 35, he can be United's key player. At 25, Ryan would shatter defenders with his run down the flank, but at 35, he will play deeper."^[31] Giggs has begun taking his coaching badges and Ferguson has hinted that he would like Giggs to serve as his coaching staff after retirement like Ole Gunnar Solskjær did.^[32]

Following speculation earlier in the year,^[33] in February 2009, Giggs signed a one-year extension to his current contract – which was due to expire in June 2009.^[34] After a successful season, Giggs was short-listed along with four other Manchester United team mates for the PFA Player of the Year.^[35] On 26 April 2009, Giggs received the award, despite having started just twelve games throughout the 08/09 season (at the time of receiving the trophy). This was the first time in his career that Giggs had received the award.^[36] Prior to the awards ceremony, Alex Ferguson had given his backing for Giggs to win the award and stated that it would be fitting, given Giggs' long term contribution to the game.^[37] Giggs made his 800th appearance for Manchester United on 29 April 2009, in the 1–0 semi-final win over Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League.^[38] On 16 May 2009, Manchester United won the Premier League after a 0–0 draw against Arsenal, both United's and Giggs' 11th Premier League titles.

Giggs scored his first Manchester United hat-trick in a pre-season friendly against Hangzhou Greentown after coming on as a second-half substitute.^[39]

Giggs in a match against MLS All-Stars on 29 July 2010

On 12 September 2009, Giggs made his 700th start for United.^[40] Giggs scored his 150th goal for United, only the ninth player to do so for the club, against Wolfsburg in his first Champions League game of the season. On 28 November 2009, the eve of his 36th birthday, Giggs scored his 100th Premier League goal – all for Manchester United – scoring the final goal in a 4–1 victory over Portsmouth at Fratton Park, and becoming only the 17th player to reach the milestone in the Premier League.^[41]

On 30 November 2009, the day after his 36th birthday, it was reported that Giggs would be offered an additional one-year contract which would run until the end of the 2010–11 season and see him past the 20th anniversary of his first game and first goal for United.^[42] On the same day, Giggs was nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2009, which he subsequently won.^[43] On 12 December 2009, Giggs' surpassed countryman Gary Speed's outfield record of 535 Premier League games. On 18 December 2009, Giggs signed a one-year contract extension with United, keeping him at the club until June 2011, taking him past the 20th anniversary of his first professional contract and that of his first team debut – a rare occurrence of a player reaching the 20-year mark with the same club and with unbroken service.^[44] On 31 December 2009, Giggs was named the Manchester United Player of the Decade.^[45] On 24 April 2010, Giggs scored the first ever league penalties of his career, netting two penalties in a 3–1 home win over Tottenham Hotspur.^[46]^[47]

On 16 August 2010, Giggs kept up his record of scoring in every Premier League season since its inception as he netted United's third in their 3–0 home victory over Newcastle United in their opening fixture of the new campaign. As he found the net in the final two seasons of the old Football League First Division, he has now scored in 21 successive top division campaigns.^[48] On 17 January 2011, Giggs reached 600 league appearances (all for Manchester United), as he played in their goalless draw against Tottenham at White Hart Lane.^[49] Giggs signed a one-year contract extension with Manchester United on 18 February, keeping him at the club until June 2012.^[50] On 6 March 2011, Giggs surpassed the Manchester United league appearance record of Bobby Charlton by playing his 607th game against Liverpool. On 26 April, against Schalke 04 in the Champions League Semi-Final First Leg, Giggs scored the first goal from a Wayne Rooney pass, also making himself the oldest goalscorer in Champions League history to date.^[51] Giggs also played in the 2011 Champions League final, where Manchester United were defeated 3–1 by Barcelona.^[52]

Giggs made his first start of the 2011–12 season in the UEFA Champions League away at Benfica. He scored United's equalising goal in a 1–1 draw at the Estádio da Luz, in the process breaking his own record for the oldest goalscorer in Champions League history. He also became the first man ever to score in 16 different Champions League campaigns, moving clear of Raúl who was tied with Giggs on 15 seasons.Raúl though holds the record for scoring in 14 consecutive Champions league seasons. On 19 November, Giggs played in a league game in his home country of Wales for the first time in his distinguished career against Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium in a United 1–0 win. Giggs maintained his record of scoring in each of the past 22 top-flight seasons by scoring United's third goal against Fulham at Craven Cottage in a 5-0 win on 21 December, his first of the season in the league. On 10 February 2012, Giggs signed a one-year contract extension with Manchester United.^[53]

On 26 February 2012, Giggs made his 900th appearance for Manchester United, in a 2-1 away win against Norwich City. He marked the occasion by scoring the winning goal in the 90th minute, scoring from a cross by Ashley Young.^[54] After the match, Alex Ferguson told BBC Sport he believed that a player playing in 900 games for one club "won't be done again".^[55] Ryan Giggs has since played with 140 different players in the first team.^[56]

International career [link]

Giggs captaining Wales in the friendly against Brazil in September 2006

Born in Cardiff to Welsh parents, Giggs represented Wales at international level. As a youngster, Giggs captained England Schoolboys. Contrary to popular belief, he was never eligible for the full England team (eligibility at the schoolboy level depends solely upon the location of the school, in Giggs' case Moorside High School in Salford).^[57] He has stated that he would have chosen to play for Wales anyway.

When Giggs made his international debut in 1991, he broke the record as the youngest debutant for Wales and held it for some seven years when it was broken by Ryan Green in June 1998.^[58] He went on to win 64 caps, and scored twelve goals for the Welsh national team between 1991 and 2007. He was appointed captain of Wales in 2004.

His first senior goal for Wales came on 31 March 1993 in a 3–0 win over Belgium in Cardiff in a World Cup qualifying game, the same game in which Ian Rush scored for Wales for a record 24th time.^[59]

After his international debut in 1991 against Germany, Giggs did not attend a friendly international until some nine years later, after which he missed a further 18 consecutive friendly games. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had a policy of refusing to release the player for friendly games.^[60]

In a qualifier against England for the 2006 FIFA World Cup at Old Trafford where Wales lost 2-0, Giggs played against some present and former Manchester United teammates including David Beckham, Gary Neville, and Wayne Rooney.^[61]^[62]^[63] During a 2006 World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan on 12 October 2005, Giggs scored a rare double in a 2–0 win but Wales failed to reach the play-offs.^[64]

In September 2006, he played in a friendly against Brazil at White Hart Lane where Wales lost 2-0. Brazil coach Dunga complimented Gigg's performance by stating he would not look out of place playing for the five-time world champions alongside stars such as Kaká and Ronaldinho.^[65]

Giggs announced his retirement from international football on Wednesday, 30 May 2007, at a press conference held at The Vale of Glamorgan Hotel, drawing the curtain on a 16-year international career.^[32] He cited concentrating on his United career as the main reason for stepping down. His final game for Wales, and as captain, was the Euro 2008 qualifier against the Czech Republic on 2 June at Cardiff. He earned his 64th cap in this game and won the Man of the Match award as Wales drew 0–0.^[66] In November, he was one of three players in the final nomination by the FAW for the Wales Player of the Year award, which was ultimately won by Craig Bellamy.^[67]

In an interview with the Western Mail on 26 March 2010, Giggs hinted that he might be tempted to come out of international retirement for his country's UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying campaign, in order to cover for the injured Aaron Ramsey.^[68] He later clarified his position to BBC Radio Manchester, saying that he would only return to Wales duty in an emergency.^[69]

International goals [link]

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	31 March 1993	Cardiff, Wales	Belgium	2–0	Win	1994 FIFA World Cup Qual.
2	8 September 1993	Cardiff, Wales	Czech Republic	2–2	Draw	1994 FIFA World Cup Qual.
3	7 September 1994	Cardiff, Wales	Albania	2–0	Win	UEFA Euro 1996 Qual.
4	2 June 1996	Serravalle, San Marino	San Marino	5–0	Win	1998 FIFA World Cup Qual.
5	11 November 1997	Brussels, Belgium	Belgium	2–3	Loss	1998 FIFA World Cup Qual.
6	4 September 1999	Minsk, Belarus	Belarus	2–1	Win	UEFA Euro 2000 Qual.
7	29 March 2000	Cardiff, Wales	Finland	1–2	Loss	Friendly
8	29 March 2003	Cardiff, Wales	Azerbaijan	4–0	Win	UEFA Euro 2004 Qual.
9	8 October 2005	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	3–2	Win	2006 FIFA World Cup Qual.
10	12 October 2005	Cardiff, Wales	Azerbaijan	2–0	Win	2006 FIFA World Cup Qual.
11	12 October 2005	Cardiff, Wales	Azerbaijan	2–0	Win	2006 FIFA World Cup Qual.
12	21 May 2006	Bilbao, Spain	Basque Country	1–0	Win	Non-FIFA representative friendly
13	28 March 2007	Cardiff, Wales	San Marino	3–0	Win	UEFA Euro 2008 Qual.

Discipline [link]

Giggs has never been sent off when playing for Manchester United and only once when playing for Wales, on 5 September 2001 in a World Cup qualifier against Norway;^[70] Giggs received a second yellow card in the 86th minute.^[71] In November 2003, he was found guilty of improper conduct by the FA due to his behaviour during the Battle of Old Trafford game against Arsenal (one of two United and six Arsenal players charged over the incident);^[72] Giggs received a £7,500 fine but avoided suspension.^[73] In the same week, Giggs received a two-match suspension from international football for deliberately elbowing Russian player Vadim Evseev in the face during the first leg of the Euro 2004 play-offs.^[74] The offence was missed by referee Lucílio Batista, but Giggs was later charged using video evidence.^[74]

Career statistics [link]

Club [link]

Club	Season	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Other^{[nb 1]}		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Manchester United	1990–91	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
	1991–92	38	4	7	0	8	3	1	0	1	0	51	7
	1992–93	41	9	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	46	11
	1993–94	38	13	7	1	8	3	4	0	1	0	58	17
	1994–95	29	1	7	1	0	0	3	2	1	0	40	4
	1995–96	33	11	7	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	44	12
	1996–97	26	3	3	0	0	0	7	2	1	0	37	5
	1997–98	29	8	2	0	0	0	5	1	1	0	37	9
	1998–99	24	3	6	2	1	0	9	5	1	0	41	10
	1999–2000	30	6	–		0	0	11	1	3	0	44	7
	2000–01	31	5	2	0	0	0	11	2	1	0	45	7
	2001–02	25	7	1	0	0	0	13	2	1	0	40	9
	2002–03	36	8	3	2	5	0	15	4	0	0	59	14
	2003–04	33	7	5	0	0	0	8	1	1	0	47	8
	2004–05	32	5	4	0	1	1	6	2	1	0	44	8
	2005–06	27	3	2	1	3	0	5	1	0	0	37	5
	2006–07	30	4	6	0	0	0	8	2	0	0	44	6
	2007–08	31	3	2	0	0	0	9	0	1	1	43	4
	2008–09	28	2	2	0	4	1	11	1	2	0	47	4
	2009–10	25	5	1	0	2	1	3	1	1	0	32	7
	2010–11	25	2	3	1	1	0	8	1	1	0	38	4
	2011–12	25	2	2	0	1	1	5	1	0	0	33	4
Total		638	112	70	11	38	10	145	29	18	1	909	163

As of 22:26, 13 May 2012.^[75]

International [link]

^[66]^[76]

Wales national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1991	2	0
1992	3	0
1993	6	2
1994	1	1
1995	3	0
1996	3	1
1997	3	1
1998	1	0
1999	3	1
2000	4	1
2001	4	0
2002	5	0
2003	7	1
2004	3	0
2005	6	3
2006	5	0
2007	4	1
Total	64	12

Honours [link]

Club [link]

Manchester United

Premier League (12): 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11
FA Cup (4): 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04
Football League Cup (4): 1991–92, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10
FA Community Shield (8): 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010
UEFA Champions League (2): 1998–99, 2007–08
UEFA Super Cup (1): 1991
Intercontinental Cup (1): 1999
FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2008

Individual [link]

PFA Young Player of the Year (2): 1991–92, 1992–93
PFA Team of the Year (6): 1992–93, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2006–07, 2008–09
PFA Team of the Century (1): 1997–2007^[77]
PFA Players' Player of the Year (1): 2008–09
FWA Tribute Award: 2007
Bravo Award (1): 1993
BBC Sports Personality of the Year (1): 2009
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year (2): 1996, 2009
GQ Sportsman of the Year (1): 2010^[78]
Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year (1): 1997–98
Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year (2): 1990–91, 1991–92
Premier League 10 Seasons Awards (1992–93 to 2001–02): Overall Team of the Decade
Premier League 20 Seasons Awards (1992–93 to 2011–12): Most Player Appearances (596)
UEFA Champions League 10 Seasons Dream Team (1992 to 2002): 2002
Wales Player of the Year Award (2): 1996, 2006
Premier League Player of the Month (3): September 1993, August 2006, February 2007
Goal of the Season (1): 1998–99
English Football Hall of Fame Inductee: 2005
Golden Foot: 2011

Orders and special awards [link]

OBE for services to football: 2007^[3]
Honorary Master of Arts degree from Salford University for contributions to football and charity work in developing countries: 2008^[79]
Freedom of the City of Salford: 7 January 2010.^[80] He is the 22nd person to receive the Freedom of the City of Salford.^[80]

Records [link]

Ryan Giggs with the Premier League trophy

Has won a record 12 top division English league titles as a player, and only Manchester United player to have winner's medals from all 12 Premier League title wins.
Most Premier League appearances for a player, with 588.^[81]
Most Premier League assists (accurate records are only available from 2002 onwards).^[82]
Only player to have played and scored in every Premier League campaign.
Only player to have scored in sixteen different Champions League tournaments. (Includes eleven consecutive tournaments, 1996–97 to 2006–07; only Raúl has a better record with 14.)
Most goals by a British player in the Champions League/European Cup proper history, and 14th overall (not including preliminary rounds).^[83]
Most appearances by a Manchester United player.
Most starts by a Manchester United player, started in 757 games.
First player to score 100 Premier League goals for Manchester United.
Second midfielder to have scored 100 goals in the Premier League for a single club (first being Matt Le Tissier).
One of four Manchester United players to win two Champions League Medals (others are Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Wes Brown).
Oldest (37 years, 289 days) player to score in the Champions League, when he scored against Benfica on 14 September 2011.^[51]
One of two Manchester United Players to win at least 10 Top division medals (the other one is Paul Scholes.)

Endorsements and public image [link]

Giggs has been featured in adverts for Reebok, Sovil Titus, Citizen Watches, Givenchy, Fuji, Patek Phillipe, Quorn Burgers, ITV Digital and Celcom.^{[citation needed]}

According to an article by BBC Sport: "In the early 1990s, Giggs was David Beckham before Beckham was even holding down a place in the United first team. If you put his face on the cover of a football magazine, it guaranteed you the biggest sales of the year. Why? Men would buy it to read about 'the new Best' and girls bought it because they wanted his face all over their bedroom walls. Giggs had the million-pound boot deal (Reebok), the lucrative sponsorship deals in the Far East (Fuji) and the celebrity girlfriends (Dani Behr, Davinia Taylor) at a time when Beckham was being sent on loan to Preston North End."^[84]

Personal life [link]

Family [link]

Giggs married his longtime partner, Stacey Cooke, in a private ceremony on 7 September 2007.^[85] They have two children, both born in Salford: Liberty Beau (known as Libby, born 2003) and Zachary Joseph (known as Zach, born 2006),^[86]^[87] and live in Worsley, Salford, Greater Manchester.^[88]

Activism [link]

In August 2006 Giggs became an Ambassador for UNICEF UK, in recognition for his work with Manchester United's 'United for UNICEF' partnership with the children's organisation.^[89] Giggs visited UNICEF projects in Thailand and told the BBC: "As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine."^[90]

Post-playing career [link]

In October 2010, Giggs said he would "probably finish [his] career here [Old Trafford]", and that he could not see himself "dropping down leagues and playing at a lesser level." He said he wanted to go into coaching, calling managing Manchester United or Wales "the two ultimate jobs", and that he was halfway through his UEFA 'A' coaching licence.^[91]

Gagging order [link]

In May 2011, it was reported in non-UK media sources that Giggs was the identity of CTB in CTB v News Group Newspapers,^[92] a footballer who had obtained an anonymised gagging order in relation to an alleged extra-marital affair with model Imogen Thomas. Giggs took legal action against the social networking site Twitter after he was named by a user in a list of identities of individuals who had allegedly taken out so-called "super-injunctions".^[93] A blogger for Forbes magazine remarked that Giggs had "not heard of the Streisand effect", observing that mentions of his name had increased significantly after the case against Twitter had been reported.^[94]

On 22 May 2011, the Sunday Herald, a Scottish newspaper, published a thinly disguised photograph of Giggs on its front page, with the word "CENSORED" covering his eyes.^[95]^[96] Sunday Herald editor Richard Walker stated that the London High Court ruling had no force in Scotland, unless copies of the paper were sold in England or Wales.^[97]

On 23 May 2011, the gagging order set off a political controversy, with Prime Minister David Cameron commenting that the law should be reviewed to "catch up with how people consume media today".^[98] On the same day, Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming used parliamentary privilege to name Giggs as CTB.^[99]

Notes [link]

^ Includes other competitive competitions, including the FA Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, FIFA Club World Cup

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Awards

Awards
Preceded by Neville Southall Shane Williams	BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year 1996 2009	Succeeded by Scott Gibbs Gareth Bale
Preceded by Gary Neville	Manchester United F.C. vice-captain 2005–	Succeeded by Incumbent

v t e Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year

1988: McClair 1989: Robson 1990: Pallister 1991: Hughes 1992: McClair 1993: Ince 1994: Cantona 1995: Kanchelskis 1996: Cantona 1997: Beckham 1998: Giggs 1999: Keane 2000: Keane 2001: Sheringham 2002: Van Nistelrooy 2003: Van Nistelrooy 2004: Ronaldo 2005: Heinze 2006: Rooney 2007: Ronaldo 2008: Ronaldo 2009: Vidić 2010: Rooney 2011: Hernández 2012: Valencia

PFA Players' Player of the Year

1974: Hunter
1975: Todd
1976: Jennings
1977: Gray
1978: Shilton
1979: Brady
1980: McDermott
1981: Wark
1982: Keegan
1983: Dalglish
1984: Rush
1985: Reid
1986: Lineker
1987: Allen
1988: Barnes
1989: Hughes
1990: Platt
1991: Hughes
1992: Pallister
1993: McGrath
1994: Cantona
1995: Shearer
1996: Ferdinand
1997: Shearer
1998: Bergkamp
1999: Ginola
2000: Keane
2001: Sheringham
2002: Van Nistelrooy
2003: Henry
2004: Henry
2005: Terry
2006: Gerrard
2007: C. Ronaldo
2008: C. Ronaldo
2009: Giggs
2010: Rooney
2011: Bale
2012: van Persie

PFA Young Player of the Year

1974: Beattie
1975: Day
1976: Barnes
1977: Gray
1978: Woodcock
1979: Regis
1980: Hoddle
1981: Shaw
1982: Moran
1983: Rush
1984: Walsh
1985: Hughes
1986: Cottee
1987: Adams
1988: Gascoigne
1989: Merson
1990: Le Tissier
1991: Sharpe
1992: Giggs
1993: Giggs
1994: Cole
1995: Fowler
1996: Fowler
1997: Beckham
1998: Owen
1999: Anelka
2000: Kewell
2001: Gerrard
2002: Bellamy
2003: Jenas
2004: Parker
2005: Rooney
2006: Rooney
2007: C. Ronaldo
2008: Fàbregas
2009: Young
2010: Milner
2011: Wilshere
2012: Walker

v t e 1992–93 FA Premier League PFA Team of the Year

GK: Peter Schmeichel DF: David Bardsley DF: Paul McGrath DF: Gary Pallister DF: Tony Dorigo MF: Roy Keane MF: Gary Speed MF: Paul Ince MF: Ryan Giggs FW: Alan Shearer FW: Ian Wright

v t e 1997–98 FA Premier League PFA Team of the Year

GK: Nigel Martyn DF: Gary Neville DF: Gary Pallister DF: Colin Hendry DF: Graeme Le Saux MF: David Beckham MF: Nicky Butt MF: David Batty MF: Ryan Giggs FW: Michael Owen FW: Dennis Bergkamp

v t e 2000–01 FA Premier League PFA Team of the Year

GK: Fabien Barthez DF: Stephen Carr DF: Jaap Stam DF: Wes Brown DF: Sylvinho MF: Steven Gerrard MF: Roy Keane MF: Patrick Vieira MF: Ryan Giggs FW: Teddy Sheringham FW: Thierry Henry

v t e 2001–02 FA Premier League PFA Team of the Year

GK: Shay Given DF: Steve Finnan DF: Rio Ferdinand DF: Sami Hyypiä DF: Wayne Bridge MF: Robert Pires MF: Roy Keane MF: Patrick Vieira MF: Ryan Giggs FW: Ruud van Nistelrooy FW: Thierry Henry

v t e 2006–07 FA Premier League PFA Team of the Year

GK: Edwin van der Sar DF: Gary Neville DF: Rio Ferdinand DF: Nemanja Vidić DF: Patrice Evra MF: Cristiano Ronaldo MF: Steven Gerrard MF: Paul Scholes MF: Ryan Giggs FW: Didier Drogba FW: Dimitar Berbatov

v t e 2008–09 Premier League PFA Team of the Year

GK: Edwin van der Sar DF: Glen Johnson DF: Rio Ferdinand DF: Nemanja Vidić DF: Patrice Evra MF: Cristiano Ronaldo MF: Steven Gerrard MF: Ryan Giggs MF: Ashley Young FW: Nicolas Anelka FW: Fernando Torres

v t e BBC Sports Personality of the Year winners

1954–1959	1954 Christopher Chataway 1955 Gordon Pirie 1956 Jim Laker 1957 Dai Rees 1958 Ian Black 1959 John Surtees

1960–1969	1960 David Broome 1961 Stirling Moss 1962 Anita Lonsbrough 1963 Dorothy Hyman 1964 Mary Rand 1965 Tom Simpson 1966 Bobby Moore 1967 Henry Cooper 1968 David Hemery 1969 Ann Jones

1970–1979	1970 Henry Cooper 1971 HRH The Princess Anne 1972 Mary Peters 1973 Jackie Stewart 1974 Brendan Foster 1975 David Steele 1976 John Curry 1977 Virginia Wade 1978 Steve Ovett 1979 Sebastian Coe

1980–1989	1980 Robin Cousins 1981 Ian Botham 1982 Daley Thompson 1983 Steve Cram 1984 Torvill and Dean (Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean) 1985 Barry McGuigan 1986 Nigel Mansell 1987 Fatima Whitbread 1988 Steve Davis 1989 Nick Faldo

1990–1999	1990 Paul Gascoigne 1991 Liz McColgan 1992 Nigel Mansell 1993 Linford Christie 1994 Damon Hill 1995 Jonathan Edwards 1996 Damon Hill 1997 Greg Rusedski 1998 Michael Owen 1999 Lennox Lewis

2000–2009	2000 Steve Redgrave 2001 David Beckham 2002 Paula Radcliffe 2003 Jonny Wilkinson 2004 Kelly Holmes 2005 Andrew Flintoff 2006 Zara Phillips 2007 Joe Calzaghe 2008 Chris Hoy 2009 Ryan Giggs

2010–Present	2010 Tony McCoy 2011 Mark Cavendish

Bravo Award

1978: Case
1979: Birtles
1980: H. Müller
1981: Wark
1982: Shaw
1983: Bonini
1984: Righetti
1985: Butragueño
1986: Butragueño
1987: van Basten
1988: Ohana
1989: Maldini
1990: Baggio
1991: Prosinečki
1992: Guardiola
1993: Giggs
1994: Panucci
1995: Kluivert
1996: Del Piero
1997: Ronaldo
1998: Ronaldo
1999: Buffon
2000: Casillas
2001: Hargreaves
2002: Metzelder
2003: Rooney
2004: C. Ronaldo
2005: Robben
2006: Fàbregas
2007: Messi
2008: Benzema
2009: Busquets
2010: T. Müller
2011: Hazard

Manchester United F.C. – current squad

1 De Gea
3 Evra
4 Jones
5 Ferdinand
6 Evans
8 Anderson
9 Berbatov
10 Rooney
11 Giggs
12 Smalling
13 Park
14 Hernández
15 Vidić (c)
16 Carrick
17 Nani
18 Young
19 Welbeck
20 Fábio
21 Rafael
22 Scholes
23 Cleverley
24 Fletcher
25 Valencia
27 Macheda
33 Bébé
34 Lindegaard
35 Brown
36 Vermijl
37 Brady
38 M. Keane
39 Thorpe
40 Amos
41 King
42 Pogba
44 McGinty
45 Petrucci
46 Tunnicliffe
47 Norwood
48 W. Keane
50 Johnstone
51 Fryers
52 Cole
53 Lingard
54 Fornasier
55 Giverin
Manager: Ferguson

Persondata
Name	Giggs, Ryan Joseph
Alternative names
Short description	Welsh footballer
Date of birth	29 November 1973
Place of birth	Cardiff, Wales
Date of death
Place of death

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Gary Walsh
Personal information
Full name	Gary Walsh
Date of birth	(1968-03-21) 21 March 1968 (age 44)
Place of birth	Wigan, England
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Hull City (Goalkeeping coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1985–1995	Manchester United	50	(0)
1988	→ Airdrieonians (loan)	3	(0)
1993–1994	→ Oldham Athletic (loan)	6	(0)
1995–1997	Middlesbrough	44	(0)
1997	→ Bradford City (loan)	5	(0)
1997–2003	Bradford City	128	(0)
2000	→ Middlesbrough (loan)	3	(0)
2003–2006	Wigan Athletic	3	(0)
Total		242	(0)
National team
1987	England U21	2	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Gary Walsh (born 21 March 1968 in Wigan) is an English former professional footballer and goalkeeping coach of Football League Championship side Hull City.

As a player he was a goalkeeper from 1985 to 2006, notably playing Premier League football with Manchester United, Oldham Athletic, Middlesbrough, Bradford City and Wigan Athletic. He also played in Scotland for Airdrieonians, He became goalkeeping coach at Wigan under manager Paul Jewell before teaming back up with Jewell at Derby County.

1 Playing career
2 Coaching career
3 References
4 External links

Playing career [link]

Manchester United [link]

Walsh left school in 1984 and signed for Wigan Athletic as an apprentice. He was originally a striker but was fielded as goalkeeper in a game being watched by a Manchester United scout. He was promptly offered an apprenticeship by Manchester United manager Ron Atkinson, and accepted the offer. He kept goal for United as they finished runners-up to neighbouring Manchester City in the 1986 FA Youth Cup.

Walsh was given a professional contract for the 1986–87 season (during which Ron Atkinson was sacked in favour of Alex Ferguson) and make his first-team debut soon after. He played 14 league games that season.

For a short time in the 1987–88 season, a 19-year-old Walsh was made first-choice goalkeeper after Gary Bailey retired due to injury and Chris Turner was dropped from the team. He played in 16 league games before his run in the first team was halted by a head injury sustained in a mid-season friendly in Bermuda, and a succession of further injuries ruled him out until the 1990–91 season. He was on the substitutes bench as United lifted the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup that season, and the arrival of Peter Schmeichel that summer made his first-team opportunities even more limited.

The return of Les Sealey (who had been at United for 18 months until the end of the 1990–91 season) in January 1993 meant that Walsh was now third choice goalkeeper, and the following season he was transfer-listed. He had also been out the squad for a while before Sealey's arrival, as United had brought in Fraser Digby on loan from Swindon Town as an (unused) understudy to Peter Schmeichel.

However, United won the league title that season with three matches to spare, and to prepare his best players for the FA Cup final, Alex Ferguson selected Walsh as goalkeeper for the final three league games of the season and Walsh's form was so impressive that he gained a new contract, while the veteran Les Sealey was released. Walsh was on the substitute's bench as United triumphed 4–0 over Chelsea in the FA Cup Final on 14 May 1994 to complete the Double.

While at Old Trafford, Walsh went on loan to Airdrieonians and Oldham Athletic.

A back injury suffered by Peter Schmeichel in November 1994 saw Walsh selected for 10 subsequent Premier League games, during which he conceded just 12 goals, while the Dane recovered. Walsh also played in several Football League Cup and European Cup games that season, though when Schmeichel returned to fitness Walsh was back on the substitute's bench or in the reserves. Had United won the league title that season, Walsh would have collected the first (and ultimately the only) league title winner's medal of his career as he had met the minimum requirement for appearances to gain the accolade, but United were beaten to the league title by Blackburn Rovers on the final day of the season when they failed to get the better of a West Ham United side who held them to a 1–1 draw in east London.

Middlesbrough [link]

A little frustrated at the lack of first team opportunities available to him, Walsh moved to Middlesbrough (managed by his former team mate Bryan Robson) for £600,000 in August 1995, and played in 32 out of 38 Premier League games that season for a newly promoted side which went fourth in October but in the end could only manage a 12th place finish due to a terrible run of form during the winter. The following season, however, he managed just 12 league appearances due to the emergence of Ben Roberts and the arrival of Mark Schwarzer, and was not selected for the FA Cup final squad against Chelsea, who beat Middlesbrough 2–0. Walsh never played first team football for the Riverside club again.

Bradford City [link]

He signed for Bradford City on loan in October 1997 before a £500,000 fee made the transfer permanent.

Walsh produced his best form in a number of years in the 1997–98 season and crowned a superb campaign by picking up the club's Player of the Year award. However, injury and the form of Matt Clarke saw Walsh fall out of favour at Bradford City.

After several troubled months, he emerged at the start of the 2000–01 season campaign fully fit and ready to fight for his place (he also went on loan to former club Middlesbrough during this time).

Wigan Athletic [link]

He featured strongly over the next few years before joining Wigan Athletic in 2003 as back-up to John Filan. On Wigan's promotion to the Premier League in 2005, he signed a new one-year contract to see the club through their first as a top division side.

Having played three games in Wigan's Premier League debut season (in which they finished 10th in the league and were runners-up in the Football League Cup), Walsh announced his retirement from playing in the summer of 2006.

Coaching career [link]

Walsh started his goalkeeping coach role during his playing time at Wigan, before taking it up on a permanent basis after he retired at the end of the 2005–06 season. He teamed up with former Wigan manager Paul Jewell at Derby County on 3 January 2008.^[1] Following Jewell's departure from Derby, Walsh left in June 2009 and was appointed goalkeeping coach of Hartlepool United.^[2] On 15 December 2011, Walsh was recruited by his former Middlesbrough team mate Nick Barmby to take over as goalkeeping coach at Hull City.^[3]

References [link]

^ "New job for Gary Walsh". Telegraph & Argus. 3 January 2008. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/display.var.1941722.0..php. Retrieved 3 January 2008.
^ "Ex-goalkeeper joins Hartlepool's coaching ranks". The Football Network. 1 July 2009. http://www.thefootballnetwork.net/main/s237/st146412.htm. Retrieved 1 July 2009.
^ "Tigers Welcome New Goalkeeper Coach". Hull City F.C.. 15 December 2011. http://www.hullcityafc.net/page/NewsDetail/0,,10338~2547693,00.html. Retrieved 16 December 2011.

External links [link]

Gary Walsh career stats at Soccerbase

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Persondata
Name	Walsh, Gary
Alternative names
Short description	Football (soccer) player
Date of birth	March 21, 1968
Place of birth	Wigan, Greater Manchester, England
Date of death
Place of death

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