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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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Guernsey
Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey ( /ˈɡɜrnzi/ GURN-zee; French: Bailliage de Guernesey, IPA: [bajaʒ də ɡɛʁnəzɛ]), is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, and Lihou. Furthermore, the Bailiwick includes Alderney and Sark, which each has its own parliament.
Although its defence is the responsibility of the United Kingdom, the Bailiwick of Guernsey is not part of the UK; and while it participates in the Common Travel Area, it is not part of the European Union.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is included (along with the Bailiwick of Jersey) in the grouping known as the Channel Islands.
The name of Guernsey, as well as that of neighbouring Jersey, is of Old Norse origin. The second element of Guernsey (-ey) is the Old Norse for "island". Guern similar to Spanish "Cuerno", French "Coi(r)n", Dutch "Hoorn", Frisian "Hoarn", Swedish "Hörn", Swiss "Gorn" means "Corner". - Corner Island.

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Lansdowne Road
Lansdowne Road (Irish: Bóthar Lansdúin, IPA: [ˈbˠoːhəɾˠ ˈl̪ˠan̪ˠsˠd̪ˠuːn̪ˠ]) was a stadium in Dublin owned by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) that has been the location of a number of sports stadiums. It was used primarily for rugby union and for association football matches as well as some music concerts. The stadium was demolished in 2007 to make way for the construction of the Aviva Stadium, which opened in 2010.
Lansdowne Road took its name from the adjacent street.
The stadium was situated in the neighbourhood of Ballsbridge in the city's Dublin 4 area. The stadium had convenient public transport links as the Lansdowne Road station of the Dublin Area Rapid Transit rail system is adjacent to the site and passed directly underneath the West Stand.
The stadium was named after the nearby road, which in turn was named after William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne. The Marquis was also the Earl of Shelburne, and nearby Shelbourne Road is also named after him.
The stadium had a total capacity of 49,250, with 25,000 seats. However, competitive international football matches could not use the entire capacity because the stands at both ends of the ground (North and South) were standing-only terraces. FIFA and UEFA both mandate that international matches be played in all-seated venues. A temporary capacity of 36,000 was the result for competitive soccer. The International Rugby Board does not impose this restriction on international rugby venues. For non-competitive international football matches (friendly matches), the FIFA/UEFA all-seated mandate does not apply.

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Saint Peter Port
Saint Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey as well as the main port. The population in 2001 was 16,488. In Guernésiais and in French, historically the official language of Guernsey, the name of the town and its surrounding parish is St Pierre Port. The "port" distinguishes this parish from Saint Pierre Du Bois.
As well as being a parish, St. Peter Port is a small town consisting mostly of steep narrow streets and steps on the overlooking slopes. It is known that a trading post/town has existed here since before Roman times, the pre-Christian name of which has not survived into the modern era.
The post code for addresses in this parish starts with GY1.
People from St. Peter Port, were nicknamed "les Villais" (the townspeople) or "cllichards" in Guernésiais.
St. Peter Port is located on the East coast of Guernsey. It borders St Sampson's in the North, The Vale in the North-West, St Andrew's in the West and St Martin's in the South.
The land in the North and by the harbour is low lying but in the South, the land gets much higher (but not as high as St Martin's or the Forest). This means that there are quite a few cliffs on the coast between Havelet and Fermain.

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Southampton Airport
Southampton Airport (IATA: SOU, ICAO: EGHI) is an airport in the UK, located 3.5 NM (6.5 km; 4.0 mi) north north-east of Southampton, in the Borough of Eastleigh within Hampshire, England.
The airport is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates five other UK airports, and is itself owned by ADI Limited, an international consortium, which includes Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and GIC Special Investments, that is led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group.
The airport handled 1,762,076 passengers during 2011, a 1.6% increase compared with 2010, making it the 18th busiest airport in the UK. Southampton Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P690) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.
The airport's runway is built over the remains of a Roman villa. It was excavated in May 1925 but the villa had been robbed of much of its material.
The site's connection with aviation can be traced back to 1910 when pioneer pilot Edwin Rowland Moon used the meadows belonging to North Stoneham Farm as a take-off and landing spot for his monoplane, Moonbeam Mk II. In 2010, the airport arranged a series of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first flight at the airport.

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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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Andrew Cole
Andrew Alexander Cole (born 15 October 1971 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire), more commonly known by the name Andy Cole (by which he was universally known in the 1990s), but in 2000, he allegedly asked to be known as Andrew Cole. is an English former professional footballer and coach at Football League One side Huddersfield Town.
As a player he was a striker from 1988 to 2008 and is mostly notably remembered for his time in the Premier League with Manchester United, where he spent six years of his career and winning numerous trophies in the process. He also played in the top division of English football for Arsenal, Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Manchester City, Portsmouth and Sunderland, as well as in the Football League for Bristol City, Birmingham City, Burnley and Nottingham Forest.
A former England international, Cole is the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history; in his career, Cole has scored a total of 187 Premier League goals, placing him behind Alan Shearer who has 260 goals. Cole has the distinction of being one of the few players in England to have swept all possible honours in the English game, including the PFA Young Player of the Year award, as well as the coveted UEFA Champions League title. Cole was also capped fifteen times for England between 1995 and 2001, scoring once, against Albania in a World Cup Qualifier.

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Ashley Young
Ashley Simon Young (born 9 July 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a winger for Manchester United and the English national team. Born and raised in Hertfordshire, Young started his career at Watford, making his first senior appearances in 2003 under the management of Ray Lewington. He became a first-team regular in 2004–05, and was one of Watford's key players in their promotion winning 2005–06 season. Young continued to play well for Watford in the Premier League, and in January 2007 he transferred to Aston Villa for a fee of £8 million, rising to £9.65 million with add-ons. He established himself in the first team at Villa Park, and has since earned 20 caps for England, scoring six goals. On 23 June 2011, Young signed for Manchester United for an undisclosed fee.
Despite having been turned away by Watford's Academy after an unsuccessful spell, Young endeavoured to improve himself as a player and was eventually offered a professional deal by the club. The 18-year-old was handed his first team début under Ray Lewington in September 2003, scoring as a substitute against Millwall. He achieved five substitute appearances that season, scoring three goals, and made his first start for the club in the League Cup. Young came to prominence in the 2004–05 season, playing a part in 34 of Watford's league matches as they struggled to survive in the Championship. Although he failed to find the net, his performance during this season earned him the club's Young Player of the Season award.

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Cesc Fàbregas
Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈsɛsk ˈfaβɾəɣəs]; born 4 May 1987) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club FC Barcelona.
Fàbregas started his career as a trainee with Barcelona but was signed by Premier League side Arsenal in September 2003 at the age of 16. Following injuries to key midfielders in the 2004–05 season, he went on to establish himself as Arsenal's starting central midfielder, playmaker, and captain. He broke several of the club's records in the process, earning a reputation as one of the best young players for his position. In 2011, he returned to Barcelona for an initial fee of £29m (€34m) with a further £4m (€5m) in variables.
In international football, the Spaniard's national career began when he represented the Under-17 side at the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Finland. As a result of his club performances, he was called up to the senior squad in 2006. He has played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008 and 2010 FIFA World Cup, helping Spain to become eventual winners in the two most recent tournaments.

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Chris Baird
Christopher Patrick "Chris" Baird (born 25 February 1982 in Rasharkin, County Antrim) is a Northern Irish footballer who plays for Fulham and the Northern Ireland national football team.
Baird started his career at Northern Irish club, Ballymena United, before moving to Southampton in 1998.
Baird made his debut for Southampton on 22 March 2003 as a late substitute for David Prutton in a 2–2 draw at home with Aston Villa. His second appearance came in a 6–1 defeat at Arsenal, when he came on after 26 minutes, with Arsenal already 5–0 up.
Baird's first start came on the final day of the 2002–03 League season, in a 1–0 win at Manchester City. A week later, he started for Southampton in the 2003 FA Cup Final, also against Arsenal. Southampton lost the match 1–0, but Baird was voted as the Saints man of the match.
He subsequently made two successful loan spells away from Southampton – two months at Walsall, where he played regularly in the first-team, and a month at Watford.
In the 2003–04 season, Baird made only four league appearances for Southampton, and none at all in the following season. Following Southampton's relegation from the Premiership, Baird re-established himself in the Southampton squad and was singled out for praise by Southampton manager George Burley.^{[citation needed]} He started 16 league games in the 2005–06 season.

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Chris Marsden
Christopher "Chris" Marsden (born 3 January 1969) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League and Premier League for Sheffield United, Huddersfield Town, Coventry City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Notts County, Stockport County, Birmingham City, Southampton and Sheffield Wednesday, and in the Korean K-League for Busan I'Park. He led Southampton to the 2003 FA Cup Final, which they lost 1–0 to Arsenal.
Marsden was born in Sheffield and started his career with Sheffield United, going on to play for Huddersfield Town, Coventry City, Wolves, Notts County, Stockport County, Birmingham City, Southampton and Busan I'Park in South Korea.
Chris ended his career playing for Football League One club Sheffield Wednesday, of whom he is a lifelong fan.
He made 424 appearances in the Football League and scored 22 goals as a left footed midfield player and occasional defender. He first made an impression with Huddersfield Town in the early 1990s before successful spells at Stockport County and Birmingham City.

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Chris Sutton
Christopher Roy "Chris" Sutton (born 10 March 1973) is an English football manager and former player.
In his career, Sutton played for Norwich City, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Celtic, Birmingham City and Aston Villa. Sutton scored over 150 career goals in over 400 league appearances spanning 16 years in the English and Scottish Premier Leagues. He was capped once by England.
Sutton played principally in midfield or attack, although usually in the latter role as a striker. A very physical player, Sutton was a fairly prolific goalscorer throughout his career and was joint top goalscorer (with Dion Dublin and Michael Owen) in the FA Premier League 1997–98 season. He is also known as being one of the foremost exponents of the glancing header. He scored many a goal with this technique which made him particularly effective from set-pieces.
In September 2009, Sutton was appointed manager of Lincoln City, but he resigned due to personal reasons twelve months later.
Sutton was born in Nottingham, the son of Mike Sutton, formerly a footballer with Norwich City. His younger brother John also became a footballer, and played for a number of clubs in both England and Scotland. As of February 2007, Sutton was married with five children.

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Claus Lundekvam
Claus Lundekvam (born 22 February 1973) is a former Norwegian footballer, who spent most of his career at English side Southampton. He played for Southampton in the 2003 FA Cup Final against Arsenal (which was lost 1-0).
Hailing from Austevoll, Norway, he joined Brann as a junior player with his senior debut coming in 1993. Lundekvam eventually gained a regular place as a central defender before being sold to English side Southampton in the autumn of 1996. He played over 350 Premier League matches for Southampton, which is more Premiership appearances than any other Norwegian. He was the team's first choice for captain for several years.
Lundekvam made his debut for Norway in November 1995, but did not become a regular until 2002. He was capped 40 times, scoring twice. His first international goal, against Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2002, was the 1,000th goal in the history of the Norwegian national team.
Claus scored only two goals during his Saints career. His first came against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 3 April 2004 in a 4–1 win, and his second against Cardiff in 2006 – both teams managed at the time by former Saints manager Dave Jones.

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Colin Hendry
Edward Colin Hendry (born 7 December 1965) is a retired Scottish footballer and manager, who played as a defender. Hendry started his career with Dundee in 1983 and spent spells at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Rangers, Coventry City, Bolton Wanderers and Blackpool. He was part of the Blackburn squad that won the Premiership in 1995 and the Rangers squad that won the domestic treble in 1999. His most recent stint in football was as manager of Scottish First Division side Clyde, from June 2007 until January 2008, when he chose to resign for family reasons.
Hendry first played for local clubs Keith and Islavale, mainly as a striker. He began his professional career in 1983 with Dundee, and in 1987 was picked up by Blackburn Rovers, where he was converted into a defender. One of his first appearances came in the Full Members Cup final, where he scored the only goal in the 1-0 Wembley win over Charlton Athletic.
He played over 100 games for Blackburn before joining Manchester City in 1989, where he was named Player of the Year in the 1989–90 season. His days at City were numbered, however, after he fell out of manager Peter Reid's plans when Reid took over in November 1990 on the departure of Howard Kendall to Everton.

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Craig Bellamy
Craig Douglas Bellamy (born 13 July 1979) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a winger/striker for Liverpool and the Welsh national team. Born in Cardiff, Bellamy was the captain of the Welsh national side for four years after taking over from Ryan Giggs in 2007, but stood down in January 2011 due to injuries. Since making his professional debut for Norwich City in 1997, he has played for a number of clubs in England, making his name at Newcastle United when signed by Bobby Robson in 2001 and has also had a loan spell with Scottish Premier League side Celtic in 2005. On 31 August 2011, Bellamy completed a move back to former club Liverpool from Manchester City.
During his career, Bellamy has won the Scottish Cup, the FA Community Shield and the Football League Cup. He has also been criticised for his behaviour both on and off the pitch, but has accumulated millions of pounds for various charities and has also established a football academy in Sierra Leone.
Bellamy began his footballing career as a three-year-old at Bristol Rovers, and spent two years at the club before being brought into the youth system of Norwich City. His first team debut for the Canaries came at Arsenal on 15 March 1997. The 18 year-old Bellamy became a first team regular during the 1997–98 season, making 38 appearances with 13 goals. On 22 August 1998, Bellamy scored Norwich's 5000th league goal in competitive football, scoring the second (a penalty) in the Canaries 4–2 win over Queens Park Rangers Despite this personal high, he missed two months of that season through injury after a clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Kevin Muscat, but still managed to have a successful season, amassing 17 goals in 38 appearances.

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Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro,OIH, (born 5 February 1985), commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Portuguese national team. Ronaldo became the most expensive footballer in history after moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer worth £80 million (€93.9 million/$131.6 million). In addition, his contract with Real Madrid, in which he is paid €12 million per year, makes him one of the highest-paid footballers in the world, and his buyout clause is valued at €1 billion as per his contract.
Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he played for two years, before moving to C.D. Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal. Ronaldo's precocious talent caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, who signed him for £12.24 million (€15 million) in 2003. The following season, Ronaldo won his first club honour, the FA Cup. He also played at Euro 2004 with Portugal and scored his first international goal in the opening game of the tournament against Greece, in addition to helping Portugal reach the final. He was featured in the UEFA Euro All-Star Team of this competition.

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Cyrille Regis
Cyrille Regis, MBE (born 9 February 1958) is a French-born English former footballer. His professional playing career spanned 19 years, where he made 610 league appearances and scored 159 league goals, most prolifically at West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City.
Regis was born in Maripasoula, French Guiana, to Robert and Mathilde Regis. His father moved to England in 1962, with the rest of the family, including Cyrille, following a year later. The family lived initially in the Portobello Road area of London, later moving to Stonebridge. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Regis attended Kensal Rise Primary School and later, Cardinal Hinsley RC Secondary School in Harlesden. At Cardinal Hinsley he participated in athletics, cricket and football, and was called up to represent the Borough of Brent boys football team. He was also offered a trial by Chelsea, but was unable to take advantage due to a hamstring injury. Regis progressed to playing Sunday league football for Ryder Brent Valley. He then moved to Oxford & Kilburn Boys before re-joining Ryder Brent Valley. After leaving school, Regis trained as an electrician, earning a City and Guilds diploma; he continued to practice the trade until his move into professional football. Cyrille is the cousin of John Regis MBE, the former English athlete, who still holds the UK record for the 200 metres.

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Dave Beasant
David John "Dave" Beasant, (born 20 March 1959 in Willesden, London) is a retired English football goalkeeper who began his career in the late 1970s. A well-travelled player, Beasant's former clubs include Wimbledon, Newcastle United, Chelsea, Southampton, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion and Wigan Athletic. He is best remembered for his part in Wimbledon's 1988 shock FA Cup victory, during which he was the first goalkeeper to save a penalty in an FA Cup final. His nickname was 'Lurch' due to his resemblance to the butler in the TV show The Addams Family. He made two appearances for the England national football team.
He entered the Football League in 1979 at the age of 20 when Wimbledon, newly promoted to the Third Division, signed him from non league Edgware Town. He made his debut for them against Blackpool on 12 January 1980 and played once again that season, in which Wimbledon were relegated. He became a regular player the following campaign when they were promoted and stayed loyal to the club even when they were relegated again in 1982, being a key player in the side that won the Fourth Division title in 1983, won promotion from the Third Division a year later, and completed a four-season rise to the First Division in 1986 when they gained promotion from the Second Division in only their ninth season as a Football League team.

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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 Peach
David Sidney Peach (born Bedford, 21 January 1951) is a former footballer, who played at left back for Southampton in the FA Cup Final 1976.
Peach played briefly as an associate schoolboy for Chelsea, before moving to Gillingham as an apprentice in May 1966, turning pro in February 1969. He also played minor counties cricket for Huntingdonshire. He was rated the best player in the Fourth Division and came to the attention of Lawrie McMenemy who made him his first signing for Southampton in January 1974, for a reported fee of £50,000.
He made his debut in a match that is memorable to Saints fans for all the wrong reasons as Southampton lost 7-0 away to Ipswich. Peach soon settled into the team initially in midfield before becoming an imaginative, quick thinking attacking left-back and the club’s regular penalty taker. His first penalty was probably the most famous, when he belted home the second goal against Crystal Palace in the F.A. cup semi-final on 3 April 1976, which took the Saints to the final against Manchester United.

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Derek Statham
Derek James Statham (born 24 March 1959 in Wolverhampton) is a former English footballer who played at defensive left-back. He played for West Bromwich Albion, Southampton, Walsall and Stoke City.
Statham won three international caps for England in 1983 under the management of Bobby Robson.
Regarded as a solid, classy defender with excellent passing ability, Statham's professional career spanned 16 years, making almost 500 professional league appearances and scoring 11 goals. He made over 330 league and cup appearances for WBA, playing for several years alongside Bryan Robson and the 'Three Degrees' of Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendon Batson in an impressive side assembled by Ron Atkinson.
Statham left WBA for Southampton in 1987, playing alongside a young Alan Shearer (in his first professional season) and Matthew Le Tissier, and was an immediate success. He was the club's Player of the Season for 1987-1988. He later played for Walsall, where he played his final professional game in the 1992-93 season.

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Dick Jol
Dick Jol (born 29 March 1956 in Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland) is a football referee from the Netherlands, best known for supervising three matches during the 2000 UEFA European Football Championship held in Belgium and the Netherlands. He also was the referee of the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship final between Corinthians^{[disambiguation needed ]} and Vasco da Gama. He was the referee in charge of the Friendly International between the Republic of Ireland and England in Lansdowne Road in 1995 which was abandoned due to violent disorder from England supporters. He officiated his first international A-match in 1993, and played professional football himself for NEC Nijmegen. Jol was assigned for the final of the 2001 UEFA Champions League between Bayern Munich and Valencia CF.
Dick Jol started as a footballer and played several matches for NEC Nijmegen in the Dutch league before moving on to Belgium where he played for the teams like Menen, Berchem Sport and KV Kortrijk.

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Egil Østenstad
Egil Johan Østenstad (born 2 January 1972), nicknamed "Østen", is a Norwegian former football player. He started and ended his career at Viking, where he was director of football after his retirement. His playing career also included spells at Southampton and Blackburn among others.
Born in Haugesund, Østenstad started his career with local club Torvastad IL. He arrived at Viking in 1990, and helped the club to win the Norwegian Premier League title in 1991, when he featured in 10 out of the 22 league games. He played a total of 280 games for the club, scoring 88 goals, before moving to Southampton in the FA Premier League in October 1996.
Østenstad was signed by manager Graeme Souness for £800,000 on 3 October 1996 and made his debut at Coventry City on 13 October 1996. In only his third game for the Saints he opened his goal-scoring account in spectacular fashion with a hat-trick in the 6–3 win against Manchester United on 26 October 1996. Subsequently the "dubious goals" panel credited his third goal to an own goal by Phil Neville, who touched the ball last in a vain attempt to prevent it from crossing the goal-line, although Østenstad retained the match ball.

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Gary Pallister
Gary Andrew Pallister (born 30 June 1965) is an English former professional footballer, sports television pundit and operations director of Conference National side Darlington.
As a player he was a defender from 1984 to 2001 and is most noted for his nine-year spell at Manchester United from 1989 until 1998. He also played for Middlesbrough and Darlington and was also capped 22 times by England between 1988 and 1996.
His footballing career started at non-league Billingham Town, but at the age of 19, he joined his boyhood heroes Middlesbrough as a defender, making 156 League appearances over nearly five seasons (helping them win promotion to the Football League Second Division in 1987 and First Division in 1988), with a seven-game loan spell at Darlington in 1985, before he moved to Manchester United on 29 August 1989 for £2.3 million, by which time Middlesbrough were back in the Second Division after relegation.
It was the national record for a defender at the time, as well as being the highest fee between British clubs and the second highest fee to be paid by a British club – second only to Ian Rush's return to Liverpool from Juventus a year earlier.

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Gary Shaw
Gary Shaw (born 21 January 1961) was an English football striker who played for Aston Villa in the early 1980s. His goals helped Aston Villa win the English First Division championship in 1980–81 and the European Cup the following year - the only Birmingham-born player in the team. In 1981 he was voted PFA Young Player of the Year. He was also included in the 40-strong preliminary England World Cup squad for the 1982 finals; however, he was not picked in the final 22.
His promising Villa career was effectively ended after sustaining a knee injury in an away game at Nottingham Forest. After a heavy tackle, he was helped to his feet by Ian Bowyer and, in Shaw's words, something in his knee 'clicked'. After his recovery, he continued to play for Villa until 1987–88, when he was sold to Klagenfurt in Austria. He finished his career off at Kilmarnock, Shrewsbury, Walsall and the Hong Kong-based Ernest Borel FC.
Shaw gained seven caps for the England under-21s.
As a boy he lived in Meriden Drive, Kingshurst, and spent hours kicking a football round on a patch of grass opposite the Punch Bowl public house known locally as 'The Island'.

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Glenn Cockerill
Glenn Cockerill (born 25 August 1959) is a retired English footballer who played more than 700 games in The Football League in a 22-year career. He is perhaps best remembered from his eight-year spell at Southampton. He was a skilful central midfielder renowned for his passing and shooting skills.
Cockerill began his career at non-league Louth United, and made his name in the professional game at Lincoln City. He also played for Swindon Town and Sheffield United before joining Southampton in October 1985. He left the Saints in December 1993, having played 358 matches for the club in all competitions, and later spent three seasons at Leyton Orient, before finishing his career with spells at Fulham and Brentford.
In 2002, Cockerill was appointed manager of Conference side Woking. He spent five seasons as manager at Kingfield, before being relieved of his duties in March 2007. He now works as a full-time painter.
In August 2008 Brighton and Hove Albion Manager Micky Adams added Glenn to his scouting network.

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Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957, Hayes, London) is an English former footballer and manager who played as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, AS Monaco, Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England.
In 2007 he was inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame which cited him as one of the most gifted English footballers of his generation exhibiting "sublime balance and close control, unrivalled passing and vision and extraordinary shooting ability, both from open play and set pieces".
He is currently running the Glenn Hoddle Academy in Spain, set up to help young British players return to professional football after being released by their clubs. Hoddle's younger brother Carl was also a footballer and died at the age of 40 from a brain aneurysm on 2 March 2008.
He has been manager of Swindon Town (earning promotion to the Premier League), Chelsea (taking them to the FA Cup final), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur (reaching a League Cup final) and most recently Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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Graeme Le Saux
Graeme Pierre Le Saux ( /ləˈsoʊ/ lə-SOH; born 17 October 1968 in Jersey) is a retired English footballer of French ancestry who played for the Premier League clubs Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers and Southampton, and for the England national football team. Primarily a left back, he was sometimes also played in midfield or on the left wing.
After beginning playing in Jersey, he moved to England and debuted for Chelsea in 1989. He left Chelsea in 1993 to join the Blackburn side being built by wealthy benefactor, Jack Walker, and was part of their 1994–95 Premier League winning team. In 1997 he returned to Chelsea, staying there for six seasons until moving to Southampton in 2003. He announced his retirement from football upon Southampton's relegation from the Premier League in 2005.
In his club playing career, he scored 20 goals from 403 club appearances. He was twice named in the Professional Footballers' Association Team of the Year, in 1995 with Blackburn and in 1998 with Chelsea. His return to Chelsea in 1997 in a £5 million transfer made him the most expensive defender in English football. As an England international, he made 36 senior appearances from 1994 until 2000, including starting all four England games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, and scoring one international goal, against Brazil.

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Harry Kewell
Harold "Harry" Kewell (born 22 September 1978) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Melbourne Victory in the A-League. Internationally he has received 55 caps, and scored 16 goals, while playing for the Australian national team. An exceptional dribbler on the wing, also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder and as a second striker, he is often regarded within the media as "Australia's finest football export", despite his career being blighted with injury.
Kewell scored a goal against Croatia which took Australia through to the knockout stages of the 2006 World Cup, the Australian national team's second World Cup. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Professional Footballers' Association. Kewell also has a British passport through his father's heritage. Former Middlesbrough midfielder-turned pundit Robbie Mustoe named Kewell as one of the greatest players he had played against but questioned his consistency after his initial injuries. Former German international Michael Ballack has also highlighted Kewell's ability and inconsistency.

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Ian Rush
Ian James Rush, MBE, (born 20 October 1961 in Flint) is a Welsh former footballer. He is best remembered as a player for Liverpool, where he was among the top strikers in the English game in the 1980s and 1990s. He also had spells playing at Chester City, Juventus, Leeds United, Newcastle United, Sheffield United, Wrexham and Sydney Olympic. Rush made 73 appearances for the Wales national football team and he remains the record goalscorer for Wales with 28 goals between 1980 and 1996.
Since retiring as a player in 1999, Rush has had a stint as manager of Chester City (2004–05), and has worked as a television football pundit. He was also very well known for his moustache.
Rush's reputation was enhanced by scoring for Chester in a shock 2–0 FA Cup third round win at Second Division giants Newcastle United in January 1980, with Chester equalling their best run by reaching the last 16 where they narrowly lost to Ipswich Town two rounds later. His last game for Chester was a 2–1 win over Southend United at Sealand Road on 26 April 1980 in which he did not score.

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Ivan Golac
Ivan Golac (Cyrillic: Ивaн Гoлaц) (born 15 June 1950) is a former Yugoslav football player and manager.
A Yugoslav international right back, he is best known as a player and manager of FK Partizan, of Belgrade. In the United Kingdom he is remembered as one of Southampton's first foreign imports and as a Scottish Cup-winning manager with Dundee United.
Golac was born in Koprivnica, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia, the son of a soldier in President Tito's guard. He moved to Belgrade where he joined the youth section of FK Partizan aged 12 and eventually graduated to the first team. He made over 350 appearances for the club and won League championship medals in 1976 and 1978. During this era, he also made his debut for the national team, but that match against Algeria in 1976 proved to be his only one at international level.
"The Yugoslavian League was one of the best in the world; every game was really tough. It was a kind of war because there was a lot of talent and ambition. We had a very good crowd for all the games and more or less all the clubs, especially Partizan Belgrade, Red Star Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb. You could put them among the ten biggest derbies in the world . . . we would play in front of crowds of 90–100,000"

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Jack Wilshere
Jack Andrew Garry Wilshere (born 1 January 1992) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Arsenal and the England national team.
Wilshere came up through Arsenal's youth academy and impressed from an early age. He made his first team debut in 2008, at the age of 16, and was Arsenal's youngest ever league debutant. In his short career thus far Wilshere has earned a number of accolades including the PFA Young Player of the Year, PFA Team of the Year, and Arsenal's Player of the Season as voted on by the fans for his performances in his first full campaign for Arsenal during the 2010–11 season.
Wilshere was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and currently lives in Hitchin, where he grew up, attending Whitehill Junior School and The Priory School. He captained The Priory School Football team to County Cup and District Cup glory from Year 7 through to Year 10, and also added the Under 15s National Cup to his list in Year 8, playing alongside Leyton Orient's Jake Argent-Martin and Jack Reeves.

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James Milner
James Philip Milner (born 4 January 1986) is an English footballer who plays as a winger or central midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team. He previously played for Leeds United, Swindon Town, Newcastle United and Aston Villa. He is mainly a winger but is versatile and can deputise at both full-back positions when needed. In the 2009–10, season he was utilised in a more central position by Aston Villa.
Milner's talent in football, cricket, and long-distance running was recognised at a very young age. He represented his school in these sports and played football for amateur teams from Rawdon and Horsforth. He supported Leeds United from a young age and was a season ticket holder at the club. In 1996 he joined the Leeds United youth academy and worked his way up. He made his debut for the first team in 2002, aged only 16, and gained prominence as the youngest player to score in the Premier League.
While at Leeds United, he spent time on loan at Swindon Town to gain experience as a first-team player. Following his move to Newcastle United, he was loaned to Aston Villa for a season. He had since established himself as a regular starter in the Newcastle, and later the Villa and Manchester City first teams. He made more than 100 appearances for Newcastle, as well as making a record number of appearances for the England under-21 team. He made his debut for the full team against Netherlands in August 2009 and also played at the 2010 World Cup.

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Jeff Stelling
Robert Jeffrey "Jeff" Stelling (born 18 March 1955, Hartlepool, County Durham) is an English sports journalist and sport television presenter. He currently presents Gillette Soccer Saturday for Sky Sports and other programming for the satellite broadcaster. In January 2009 he took over as host of the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown, but in May 2011 it was announced that he would leave the show at the end of the year due to his commitments with Sky Sports.
Stelling was brought up in a council house in Hartlepool. He attended Rift House Primary School and West Hartlepool Grammar School. After leaving school his first job was as a journalist at the Hartlepool Mail where he remained for four years.
His first broadcasting position was as a reporter on Middlesbrough F.C. on Radio Tees in the late 1970s. He was a sports presenter on London's LBC Radio Sportswatch programme in the early 1980s before moving to BBC Radio 2's weekend sports programme Sport On 2, covering the Los Angeles and Seoul Olympic games.

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Jermaine Jenas
Jermaine Anthony Jenas ( /ˈdʒiːnəs/ JEE-nəs; born 18 February 1983 in Nottingham) is an English footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League. He is of mixed African-Caribbean and English descent.
Jenas began his career at Nottingham Forest where he immediately impressed during the 2001–02 season. After a single season at the City Ground, which produced four goals in 33 games, Jenas was sold to Newcastle United for £5 million in February 2002.
Despite an impressive first full season with Newcastle United, in which he won the 2002–03 PFA Young Player of the Year award, Jenas failed to repeat his initial form with the club and his two subsequent seasons were disappointing considering his early promise. Known for his strong "box-to-box" play and ability to score from midfield, Jenas' last two years with Newcastle were marked by a series of inexplicably bland displays, but goals and energy started to dry up, leading to Jenas starting fewer games. Despite temporarily regaining his form and gaining the vice-captaincy under new manager Graeme Souness early in the 2004–05 season, Jenas' form dipped again with only two goals in 48 appearances. He scored a total of 12 goals in 152 appearances for Newcastle United.

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Jimmy Case
James Robert Case (born 18 May 1954) is a retired English football player who shot to fame with the all-conquering Liverpool side of the 1970s and became known as a player with one of the hardest shots in the game.
Case was brought up in Allerton and was a distant neighbour of musician Paul McCartney on the council estate which had been built in the interwar years. He was a keen member of the local scouts. As a young teenager he was quite small for his age.
His credentials, however, were established locally when during a football game between the Garston Church Choir and the Allerton Scouts he gave the goalkeeper of the choir a hefty kick when the score was 23-22, with coats as goalposts. Jimmy established his reputation as a winner, if not a bad loser.
Even though Jimmy's team lost, his legend was born. There were subsequent games on Springwood Park where Jimmy played with such aces as John Gidman (Everton) and Billy Ashcroft (Middlesbrough).
Although small in stature, Jimmy graduated through the schools teams and then joined a tough dockers' side, Blue Union. The physical nature of these early games would have an impact on the rest of his football career.

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José Fonte
José Miguel da Rocha Fonte (born 22 December 1983 in Penafiel) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Southampton in the Premier League, as a central defender.
After playing for a host of teams in his country, he has spent the vast majority of his career in England, where he represented Crystal Palace and Southampton.
Fonte finished his football formation (after already having played there from ages 10–13) at Sporting Clube de Portugal, but only appeared with the reserve side as a senior, in the third division. In 2004, he signed with Sport Comércio e Salgueiros but the club was in several financial difficulties and ended shortly after. As a result, he terminated his contract and transferred to F.C. Felgueiras, in the second level.
In the 2005 off-season, Fonte made his top flight debut with Vitória de Setúbal, where his performances attracted the eye of national powerhouse Sport Lisboa e Benfica, who signed him in January 2006, immediately loaning him out to fellow first-division side F.C. Paços de Ferreira; he finished the season with 26 league appearances and one goal, as both Paços and Setúbal managed to maintain its division status.

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Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann (born 30 July 1964 in Göppingen) is a German football manager and former player who is currently the coach of the United States men's National team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the German one that won the 1996 UEFA European Championship. One of West Germany's/Germany's premier strikers during the 1990s, Klinsmann scored in all six major international tournaments he participated, from Euro 1988 to 1998 World Cup.
He managed the German national team to a third-place finish in the 2006 World Cup. On 12 July 2006, Klinsmann officially announced that he would step down as Germany's coach after two years in charge and be replaced by assistant coach Joachim Löw. He took over as coach of Bayern Munich in July 2008, when Ottmar Hitzfeld stepped down to take over as the head coach of the Swiss National Team. On 27 April 2009 he was released early, even though he had won five of the previous seven league games and was only three points behind league leader VfL Wolfsburg. In the jointly initiated reforms at Bayern it emerged there was a severe clash of opinions between coach and club management.

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Kelvin Davis
Kelvin Geoffrey Davis (born 29 September 1976) is an English footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Championship club Southampton. Born in Bedford, Davis began his career with Luton Town as a youth player in 1991 and remained there until 1999. Davis later played for Wimbledon, Ipswich Town and Sunderland before moving to Southampton in 2006. With over 200 league appearances for the club, Davis has been the captain of Southampton since Michael Svensson's departure in 2009.
Davis was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire and started his career as a trainee with Luton Town, turning professional in July 1994. He joined Torquay United on loan in September 1994 as cover for the injured Ashley Bayes, making his debut in the 3–3 draw at home to Colchester United on 17 September. He also played in the 2–1 defeat at home to Barnet the following week before returning to Luton. He had a further loan spell, with Hartlepool United in August 1997.
He joined Wimbledon in July 1999 for a fee of £600,000. He joined Ipswich Town on a free transfer in July 2003, where he enjoyed the acclaim of Championship Goalkeeper of the year, helping steer Ipswich to third in the table.

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Kevin Beattie
Thomas Kevin Beattie (born 18 December 1953) is an English former footballer, who played at both professional and international levels as a central defender.
Born in Carlisle, Beattie joined Ipswich Town in July 1971, making his senior debut in August 1972. At Ipswich, Beattie was the 1973–74 PFA Young Player of the Year (the very first winner of the award), and he also won the UEFA Cup in 1978 and 1981. He received his 1981 UEFA Cup winners medal in 2008, following a petition organised by Rob Finch, the ghostwriter of Beattie's autobiography, after he had missed the final due to injury.
He retired due to injury in December 1981, but later returned to play for Colchester United, Middlesbrough, Harwich & Parkeston, Sandvikens IF, Kongsberg IF, Nybergsund IL-Trysil and Clacton Town.
He also earned nine caps for the England national team between 1975 and 1977. He was once described by Bobby Robson as the best England player he had ever seen.
In May 2012, Beattie was convicted of benefit fraud, and given a 12-week curfew. He later apologised and described it as a "silly mistake."

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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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Kyle Walker
Kyle Andrew Walker (born 28 May 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, and the England national football team.
Walker was born in Sheffield and grew up in the Sharrow district of the city. He attended Porter Croft Infant & Junior School, followed by High Storrs School until 2006.
Walker joined boyhood club Sheffield United at the age of seven after being recommended by Football Unites, Racism Divides and progressed through the ranks to become a regular fixture in the reserves by 2008.
In November 2008 he was allowed to join League One side Northampton Town for a month's loan to gain first team experience, making his debut on 15 November 2008 in a defeat at the hands of Oldham Athletic. His one month loan was later extended into January, before eventually returned to Bramall Lane having played nine games for the Cobblers.
Soon after returning to his parent club, Walker made his full debut for Sheffield United on 13 January 2009 starting in a third round FA Cup tie against Leyton Orient. With the Blades losing a number of players to injury in the closing weeks of the season, Walker was a surprise inclusion in the starting line up for the crucial last two games of the season. He made his full league debut for the club on 25 April 2009 against Swansea City. After two outstanding performances he retained his place as Sheffield United entered the play offs, starting both games against Preston North End and the final against Burnley at the end of May. By playing in the final, Walker became the youngest Sheffield United player ever to play at Wembley Stadium.

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Lee Sharpe
Lee Stuart Sharpe (born 27 May 1971 in Halesowen, Worcestershire) is an English former professional footballer, sports television pundit and reality television personality, who as a player was predominantly a left winger from 1988 to 2004.
Sharpe joined Manchester United from Torquay United as a youngster in 1988, playing for the club up until 1996. He won a total of eight caps for England, but his later career failed to live up to its potential after leaving Manchester United in his mid-twenties. Sharpe moved to Leeds United in 1996, but persistent knee injuries kept him from making an impact on the squad, and he was loaned to Sampdoria at the start of the 1998–99 season. Another loan to Bradford City in March 1999 turned into a permanent deal at the end of the season. He stayed at Bradford for three seasons, but he gradually slipped down the league ladder, eventually moving to Iceland to play for Grindavík in 2003. He retired from professional football in 2003, but achieved renewed fame after a number of reality television appearances. He briefly returned to football in 2004, playing for Garforth Town, but his return was short-lived.

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Malcolm Waldron
Malcolm Waldron born 6 September 1956 is a former footballer who played for various clubs, including Southampton and Portsmouth. He played as a Centre back during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Born in Emsworth, Hampshire, Waldron was initially spotted playing for Havant and Hampshire school teams and was snapped up by Southampton, joining them as an apprentice in July 1973 before signing professional papers on reaching 18 in September 1974.
He made his debut on 12 April 1975 in a 0-0 draw away to Nottingham Forest. He made 3 appearances that season and 2 the following before establishing himself as a regular member of the Saints' defence in 1976-77. Although he could player anywhere in the back four, his best position was as sweeper, with his strength lying mainly in heading and tackling.
Waldron is described in Holley & Chalk's The Alphabet of the Saints as being "extememly agile and lithe for a big man, he also packed a thunderbolt of a shot and scored some memorable gals for the club".

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Mark Crossley
Mark Geoffrey Crossley (born 16 June 1969) is a former English-born Wales international football goalkeeper, who is currently employed as the Goalkeeping Coach of Football League One side Chesterfield.
As a player his career lasted from 1988 until 2011 and he has previously played for numerous clubs in England's top flight, notably for Nottingham Forest, where he became the only goalkeeper to stop a Matthew Le Tissier penalty kick. He has also played for Manchester United, Milwall, Middlesbrough, Stoke City, Fulham, Sheffield Wednesday, Oldham Athletic and Chesterfield.
"Norm", as he was known by Nottingham Forest fans during his stay at the City Ground (thanks to his supposed resemblance to the former Manchester United player Norman Whiteside), started his football career in 1987 as a trainee with The Reds.
He had a loan spell at Manchester United during the 1989-90 season but was never selected for the first team, although he played several games for the reserves.
He was a huge favourite with the fans, despite being prone to occasional mistakes, and made just under 400 appearances in thirteen years with the club, becoming first-choice 'keeper at the start of the 1990-91 season. This was strengthened by Steve Sutton's move to Derby County in 1992. Crossley played in the 1991 FA Cup Final loss to Tottenham Hotspur. He missed a run of games including the Zenith Data Systems Trophy and Rumbelows League Cup finals against Southampton and Manchester United respectively due to a breach of club rules. Andrew Marriott wore the gloves in his place, although Crossley regained his place for the next league game after the second final.

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Mark Hughes
Leslie Mark Hughes, OBE (born 1 November 1963), is a former Welsh international footballer and the current manager of Queens Park Rangers having joined on 10 January 2012. As an international footballer, he made 72 appearances and scored 16 goals.
During his playing career he was most noted for two spells at Manchester United, but he also played for Barcelona and Bayern Munich, as well as the English clubs Chelsea, Southampton, Everton and finally Blackburn Rovers, before retiring in 2002.
He won a host of medals during his playing career, including two Premier League title medals, four FA Cups, three League Cups and two European Cup Winners' Cups. He also collected an FA Cup runners-up medal and a League Cup runners-up medal.
His reign as Wales manager was his first managerial post; he was appointed in 1999 and remained in the role until 2004. He failed to qualify for a World Cup or European Championship during his five years in charge, although his reign coincided with a marked improvement in results; he came particularly close to securing European Championship qualification in 2004.

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Matthew Le Tissier
Matthew Le Tissier ( /ləˈtɪsi.eɪ/) is a retired, Guernsey-born, English footballer. Le Tissier spent his entire club career with Southampton and gained eight caps for the England national football team. An attacking midfielder with exceptional technical skills, Le Tissier is the second-highest ever scorer for Southampton behind Mick Channon and was voted PFA Young Player of the Year in 1990. He was the first midfielder to score 100 goals in the Premier League. He is notable for his record at scoring penalty kicks, converting from the spot 47 times from 48 attempts and is considered one of the greatest ever from the 12 yard spot.
In spite of interest from bigger clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur in 1990 and Chelsea in 1996, Le Tissier remained at Southampton for his entire professional career, his loyalty garnering special affection from Southampton's fans who nicknamed him "Le God".
Following the end of his playing career, Le Tissier became a football pundit, and currently works as a panelist on Sky Sports show Soccer Saturday. In 2011 he became Honorary President of Guernsey FC.

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Mel Blyth
Melvin Bernard "Mel" Blyth (born Norwich, England on 28 July 1944) is a former footballer, who played for several clubs, including Southampton with whom he won the FA Cup in 1976.
Mel Blyth started his football career with non-league Great Yarmouth. He then joined Norwich City, although he never made an appearance in the first team.
When, in October 1967, former Norwich manager, Ron Ashman, took up the reins at Scunthorpe United, then struggling at the foot of Division 3, he returned to his old club to sign several players, including Steve Deere, Geoff Barnard and Mel Blyth to shore up the holes in the defence.
Unfortunately, Scunthorpe were relegated at the end of the 1967-68 season and in July 1968, Mel moved on to Crystal Palace.
Mel joined Crystal Palace in the summer of 1968 as an old-style wing-half, but he developed into a centre-back. He immediately became a regular member of Palace’s 1968-69 Division 2 promotion side, and the in their first ever match in Division 1, he scored Palace’s first goal in the top flight with a looping header against Manchester United. He followed this with another goal against Everton on the following Saturday.

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Mervyn Day
Mervyn Day (born 26 June 1955 in Chelmsford, Essex) is a former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a goalkeeper for West Ham United, Leyton Orient, Aston Villa, Leeds United, Luton Town, Sheffield United and Carlisle United. He later managed Carlisle United. He was formally chief scout at Leeds United.
He was educated at Kings Road Primary School, attended also by another famous West Ham player, Geoff Hurst, and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford.
He represented Essex Schools at all levels and was picked for the England Schools squad six times, though he did not play. At aged 15 Ipswich Town, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United sent scouts to watch Day. Ron Greenwood's West Ham United signed Day on a youth contract in July 1971.
In February 1973 he signed a professional contract with West Ham and on 29 August 1973 he made his debut in a draw against Ipswich Town. Day became the first team goalkeeper soon after. In 1975, aged 19 he became the youngest goalkeeper ever to appear in an FA Cup Final, in their victory over Fulham. He received the PFA Young Player of the Year Award that same season, the only goalkeeper to have won the award. He was tipped as the next great England goalkeeper. In 1976 he appeared in the Cup Winners' Cup Final which West Ham lost 4–2 to Anderlecht at a sold out Heysel Stadium. However, a loss of form and injuries saw him drop out of the side, and Phil Parkes' performances were good enough to keep Day out when he regained fitness.

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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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Mick Channon
Michael Roger "Mick" Channon (born 28 November 1948) is a sportsman who enjoyed a career as a striker with Southampton and England in the 1970s and later became a hugely successful racehorse trainer.
Channon was born in Orcheston, Wiltshire and made his debut for Southampton as a 17 year old in 1966, scoring in the match against Bristol City. Within three years he had established himself as the club's main goalscorer and was consistent in front of goal at a time when Southampton were one of the more unglamorous teams in English football's First Division. However, despite a record season tally of 21 goals for Southampton in 1974, the club were relegated to the Second Division at the end of the season.
Channon stayed loyal to Southampton despite obvious concerns for his international chances and was rewarded in 1976 which was a special year for Channon. Southampton were still in the Second Division but nevertheless enjoyed a dream run to the FA Cup final where they played Manchester United. Although Southampton were a lower division side, they were considerably more experienced than Manchester United's youthful team. Southampton won 1–0, with Channon playing a part in the winning goal scored late in the game by Bobby Stokes. It was his first domestic honour in the game.

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Neil Shipperley
Neil Jason Shipperley (born 30 October 1974 in) is an English former professional footballer turned manager.
As a player he played as a centre-forward from 1992 until 2007 notably in the Premier League for Chelsea, Southampton, Crystal Palace, Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United. He also played in the Football League for Watford, Barnsley, Wimbledon and Brentford. He was also capped 7 times by the England U21 team, scoring 3 goals. Following retirement he moved into management with Bedfont before becoming manager of Walton Casuals of the Isthmian League Division One South.
Shipperley began his career as a trainee at Chelsea on leaving school in 1991 and was an occasional member of the first team, making his debut in the 1992–93 season and scoring once in three games that season. He played 24 times and scored four goals for them in 1993–94, although he was not selected in their squad for the 1994 FA Cup Final, which they lost 4–0 to Manchester United. He played a further 10 games in 1994–95, scoring twice, but he was unable to get a regular place in the team due to the presence of Mark Stein, Paul Furlong and John Spencer. He was loaned out to Watford during the autumn of 1994, and soon after returning to Stamford Bridge, he was transferred to Southampton, in January 1995.

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Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Sébastien Anelka (French pronunciation: [nikɔlas anɛlka]) (born 14 March 1979 in Le Chesnay, France) is a professional football player who is currently a player and assistant manager of Shanghai Shenhua. Anelka was also a regular starter for the French national team. Former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has described him as a quick player with good aerial ability, technique, shooting, and movement off the ball.
Anelka began his career at Paris Saint-Germain, but soon moved to Arsenal. He became a first team regular and won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award the following season. Real Madrid signed him for £22.3 million in 1999, a record fee at the time, but he did not settle in well and returned to Paris Saint-Germain in a £20 million deal. Despite regular first team football in Paris, Anelka set his eyes upon the Premier League once more; he went on loan to Liverpool in January 2002 but joined Manchester City for £13 million at the start of the 2002–03 season.
After three seasons in Manchester, he moved to Fenerbahçe for two seasons before returning to England to join Bolton Wanderers – in deals worth £7 million and £8 million, respectively. He transferred to Chelsea from Bolton for a reported £15 million in January 2008. During his transfers over the years, he has built an aggregate transfer cost of just under £90 million. On 12 December 2011, Shanghai Shenhua announced that they have reached an agreement with Anelka to join the team when the winter transfer window opens.

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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 Merson
Paul Charles Merson (born March 20, 1968) is an English former professional footballer, manager and current sports television pundit. As a player he played as a forward who later in his career dropped into the midfield playmaker position in a career that lasted from 1985 until 2006.
He notably played in the Premier League for Arsenal, Middlesbrough and Aston Villa, as well as appearing in the Football League for Brentford and Portsmouth. He also played for Walsall where he spent two years as player-manager before finishing his career in non-league football with Tamworth. He briefly came out of retirement in 2012 for Welshpool Town where he played in a one-off game. Merson earnt 21 caps for England, scoring 3 times.
Born in Harlesden, North West London, Paul Merson started his career at Arsenal, joining the club as an apprentice in 1984. After a loan spell at Brentford, then under manager Frank McLintock, he made his debut for the Gunners on 22 November 1986 against Manchester City, and gradually established himself in George Graham's successful Arsenal side of the late 1980s. By the 1988-89 season he was a regular on the right wing, at the end of which Arsenal secured the First Division title with a last gasp Michael Thomas goal in the final game of the season against Liverpool. Merson scored ten times that season, made his debut for the England U21 side, and was voted PFA Young Player of the Year.

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Paul Walsh
Paul Anthony Walsh (born 1 October 1962 in Plumstead, London) is an English former professional footballer and sports television pundit.
As a player he was a diminutive and pacy centre forward who played from 1979 to 1996 and shot to fame in the 1980s during spells with Charlton Athletic, Luton Town, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur. He also went on to play for Queens Park Rangers, Manchester City and Portsmouth. He was capped 4 times by England scoring 1 goals.
Walsh began his career at Charlton where he quickly established himself in the team, he made his debut as a 16 year-old substitute in a Second Division fixture with Shrewsbury Town during the 1979–80 season and went on to appear in nine league games as Charlton failed to hold to their Second Division status. Walsh was given a chance in Division Three and struck up a brilliant front line with Addicks great Derek Hales. Walsh notably scored a hat-trick against Brentford, Charlton won the League Cup tie 5–0. Charlton went on to gain promotion as well as reach the 5th round of the FA Cup. Walsh enjoyed himself in the higher division bagging a respectable 13 goals as the Addicks finished mid table.

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Peter Crouch
Peter James Crouch (born 30 January 1981) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Stoke City and the England national team.
Crouch started his career as a trainee with Tottenham Hotspur. However he failed to make a first team appearance for the club, leaving it in 2000 and playing for several teams including four Premier League clubs – Portsmouth, Aston Villa, Southampton and Liverpool – before returning and finally making his senior Tottenham debut in 2009. He was the second top-scorer in the 2006–07 Champions League season, behind AC Milan's Kaká.
Crouch was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, but his family moved to Singapore when he was one year old, where they stayed for three years before returning to Great Britain and settling in Ealing, London. A keen footballer from an early age, he became a ball boy at the age of ten. As a child, he attended some Chelsea games. Later, he told the Liverpool official website that despite this, he and his friends at the time were fans of Queens Park Rangers.

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Peter Shilton
Peter Leslie Shilton OBE (born 18 September 1949 in Leicester, England) is a former English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He currently holds the record for playing more games for England than anyone else, earning 125 caps.
His 30-year career included eleven different clubs, three World Cups, two European Cup finals and more than 1,000 competitive matches. He has the rare distinction of having played over 100 league games for five different clubs. Shilton did not make his World Cup finals debut until the age of 32 but he played in 17 finals matches and shares the record 10 clean sheets in World Cup finals with French keeper Fabien Barthez.
During his time at Nottingham Forest he won two European Cups, a UEFA Super Cup, the First Division championship, the Football League Cup and many other honours.
Shilton also holds the all-time record for the most competitive appearances in world football.
Shilton was a 13 year old pupil at King Richard III Boys School, Leicester, when he started training at schoolboy level with his local club Leicester City in 1963. He caught the eye of first-team goalkeeper Gordon Banks, who commented to the coach about how promising he was. Within four years, Shilton had forced Banks' own departure from Leicester after the teenager gave the club an ultimatum over which goalkeeper should be first choice.^{[citation needed]}

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Phil Boyer
Philip John "Phil" Boyer (born 25 January 1949) is an English former footballer who played for various clubs during his career, including Southampton, Norwich City, Bournemouth and Manchester City. He has the rare distinction of having played over 100 league games for four different clubs. He also made one appearance for England.
Born in Nottingham, Boyer attended Musters Road School, Nottingham, from where he joined Derby County as a trainee in August 1965. Although he signed as a professional in November 1966, manager Brian Clough allowed him to leave the Baseball Ground in July 1968, without having made a first team appearance.
After completing his apprenticeship with Derby County, Boyer moved to York City in July 1968 for a fee of £3,000. In 125 appearances, Boyer scored 34 times but played an important role in creating opportunities for forward partner Ted MacDougall, with whom he was later to play at three other clubs. At the end of his first season at Bootham Crescent, York successfully applied for re-election to the Fourth Division, and their fortunes then gradually improved and they achieved promotion at the end of the 1970–71 season (after Boyer had left).

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Rickie Lambert
Rickie Lee Lambert (born 16 February 1982) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Southampton. Lambert began his professional career with Blackpool in 1998 and later played for Macclesfield Town, Stockport County, Rochdale and Bristol Rovers before moving to Southampton for £1 million in August 2009.
Lambert proved a key signing for Southampton, scoring 21 goals in the league to seal promotion to the nPower Championship in 2010, and 27 league goals the following season to secure the Saints' promotion back to the Premier League after their seven year absence. He has won the "Golden Boot" award in 3 of the last 4 seasons, and was named the nPower Championship Player of the year for 2011-12.
Lambert is known for his large stature and physical performances, and his ability to score both from open play and set-pieces. He has drawn comparisons with Southampton legend Matt Le Tissier for his physical appearance, remarkable ability in front of goal and penalty taking ability. Lambert has converted from the spot successfully at every attempt for the club; Le Tissier converted 47 out of 48 times.

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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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Ryan Giggs
Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE (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.
Giggs is the most decorated player in English football history. He also holds the club record for competitive appearances. 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.

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Scott Parker
Scott Matthew Parker (born 13 October 1980) is an English footballer who plays for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He is the FWA Footballer of the Year for the 2010–11 season. He has represented England at every level from under-16 to senior. Uniquely, he won his first four England caps while playing for four different clubs. He is known as a tough tackling central midfielder.
Parker was born in Lambeth, London, and attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross Gate. As a 13 year old, he appeared in a well-known British advert for McDonald's, in which he played keepie uppie, during the 1994 FIFA World Cup campaign. Parker is a graduate of The Football Association's now-defunct national School of Excellence at Lilleshall.
After graduating from Lilleshall, Parker signed for Charlton Athletic as a trainee and made his first team debut as a substitute against Bury in the First Division on 23 August 1997, a game which ended 0–0. He signed his first professional contract with the club two months later. Over the next couple of years he made only a few sporadic substitute appearances for Charlton, although he was one of the brightest prospects in English football. In October 2000 Charlton, then in the Premier League, loaned Parker to First Division side Norwich City for two months to give the England under-21 international some first team experience. At Norwich he scored once against Sheffield Wednesday. On his return to The Valley, Parker was immediately called into the first team to replace injured captain Mark Kinsella. Parker played so well for Charlton that, upon his return from injury, Kinsella could not regain his place in the starting line-up. Parker soon became the linchpin of Charlton's midfield, combining tenacious tackling with an ability to carry the ball quickly from defence to attack and play telling passes, creating many chances for his teammates. He played 145 times for Charlton, scoring 10 goals.

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Steve Moran
Stephen James "Steve" Moran, (born Croydon 10 January 1961) was a pacy mobile striker who was one of the stars for Southampton during the mid 1980s. Moran was one of the finest strikers that Southampton has possessed. He had a knack of scoring some crucial goals for the club and had a fine understanding with midfielders Steve Williams and David Armstrong.
Moran attended Prices School in Fareham and appeared regularly for his school team, where he was spotted by scouts. He signed for Southampton in August 1979 and made his debut as a substitute in a 4–1 home win against Manchester City in January 1980, scoring with his very first touch of the ball.
In the 1980–81 season, Moran scored 18 goals in 30 starts in the league, and in 1982 he was voted PFA Young Player of the Year.
Among the 99 goals that Moran scored for the Saints were a hat-trick in an 8–2 victory over Coventry City at The Dell in April 1984, during the club's most successful ever league season, when they finished as runners-up to Liverpool. In the same year, Moran scored an injury-time winner in the 4th Round of the FA Cup, away to arch rivals Portsmouth. David Armstrong crossed from the right and Moran arrived at the back post to volley left-footed past the Pompey 'keeper Alan Knight.

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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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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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Tim Flowers
Timothy David "Tim" Flowers (born 3 February 1967) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper from 1984 until 2003. He is currently employed as a goalkeeper coach at Football League Two side Northampton Town.
As a player he was notably part of the Blackburn Rovers side that won the Premier League in 1995 and earnt 11 caps for England. He also played for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Southampton, Swindon Town, Leicester City, Stockport County, Coventry City and Manchester City.
Flowers was born in Kenilworth and began his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1984. He quickly broke into the first team, becoming their regular goalkeeper by his 18th birthday, but his breakthrough came at the bleakest time in the club's history, as the two seasons he spent there both ended in relegation (in 1984–85 to the Third Division and in 1985–86 to the Fourth. After Wolves fell into the Fourth Division to complete a hat-trick of successive relegations, they had to sell Flowers as part of the effort to avoid bankruptcy.

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Tim Sherwood
Timothy "Tim" Sherwood (born 6 February 1969 in St Albans) is an English former professional footballer and current assistant first-team coach of Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur.
As a player he was a midfielder from 1987 until 2005, he was notably the captain of Blackburn Rovers' Premiership title-winning side in 1995. He also played for Watford, Norwich City, Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth and Coventry City. He also made three appearances for the England national team.
Sherwood made his debut for Watford against Sheffield Wednesday on 12 September 1987. 31 more league appearances followed in Division Two. He moved to Norwich City in July 1989 and notched up a total of 88 games and 13 goals in Norwich colours before joining Blackburn Rovers in February 1992.
As one of Kenny Dalglish's first signings for Blackburn, he initially struggled to make the first team but became an integral part of Dalglish's big spending Rovers side. Under Sherwood's captaincy, Blackburn finished second in the Premiership in 1993-94 before winning it the following season. At this point it was a surprise that he did not gain international recognition, adding only an England B cap to the England Under 21 honours he picked up whilst at Norwich. During his time at the club Dalglish had wanted to sign both Zinedine Zidane and Christophe Dugarry who were playing in France for FC Girondins de Bordeaux, however Rovers Chairman Jack Walker reportedly said to Dalglish: "Why do you want to sign Zidane when we have Tim Sherwood?"

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Tony Cottee
Anthony Richard "Tony" Cottee (born 11 July 1965 in Plaistow, England) is an English former professional footballer and manager who now works as a television football commentator.
As a player he was a striker from 1982 until 2001, notably playing in the top flight of English football for West Ham United, Everton and Leicester City. He was capped seven times by England, and played in the Football League for Birmingham City, Norwich City and Millwall. He also had a spell in Malaysia with Selangor and spent a season as player/manager of Barnet.
He played in the 1989 FA Cup Final for Everton and won the League Cup with Leicester City in 2000. His final career tally was 579 league games and 226 goals. In all competitions, he managed 712 games and 293 goals. He exceed his ambition to score 200 league goals in his career, but fell just short of his target of 300 goals in all competitions. Still, he was one of the most prolific goalscorers that English football saw during the 1980s and 1990s.
Cottee began his career at West Ham, where he made his first team debut in the First Division against Tottenham Hotspur on 1 January 1983, at the age of 17, scoring in the process. He played a total of eight games in the 1982–83 season, scoring five goals. He established himself in the first team during the 1983–84 season, when still only 18, and scored 15 times in the league. He did even better in 1984–85, when he scored 17 First Division goals. By the age of 20, he had already managed an impressive 37 league goals.

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Tony Woodcock
Anthony Stewart "Tony" Woodcock (born 6 December 1955) is a retired English international footballer who played professionally in both England and Germany as a striker. He won the European Cup in 1979 with Nottingham Forest.
Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, Woodcock started his career at Nottingham Forest, whom he joined as an apprentice in 1974. After loan spells at Lincoln City and Doncaster Rovers, Woodcock broke into the Forest first team in 1976-77, helping the team to promotion to the First Division. Under Brian Clough, Forest went on to win the First Division title and Football League Cup in 1978 (Woodcock winning the PFA Young Player of the Year award that year as well), and the European Cup in 1979. He also scored in Forest's victory over Southampton in the 1979 Football League Cup Final.
He made his debut for England in 1978 against Northern Ireland; he would go on to win 42 caps for his country (scoring 16 goals), and play in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Woodcock was signed by West German side 1. FC Köln for the 1979/80 season, where he spent three seasons. He scored 28 goals in 81 matches for the German side.

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Wayne Bridge
Wayne Michael Bridge (born 5 August 1980) is an English footballer who plays as a left back for Manchester City. A graduate of the Southampton Academy where he made his debut in 1998, he has also played for Chelsea, West Ham, Manchester City and Fulham during his Premiership career. Bridge made 36 appearances for the England national team, including representing England in the World Cup.
Bridge was born in Southampton, but moved to Winchester at an early age. He attended Oliver's Battery Primary and Kings' School, Winchester. When playing for Olivers Battery he was spotted by Micky Adams, who recommended him to Southampton, who signed him as a trainee in July 1996. He made his reserve team debut, as a centre-forward against Portsmouth on 13 August 1997 and turned professional in January 1998.
He made his first-team debut on 16 August 1998 (the opening day of the 1998–99 season) coming on as a replacement for John Beresford, who had badly damaged his knee. Bridge made his first senior start in the next match on 22 August in a 5–0 defeat away to Charlton Athletic. As Southampton struggled to pick up points (with only two points after the first nine games), Bridge played (on the left wing) in most of Saints' league games until early December before losing his place to Hassan Kachloul. For the remainder of the 1998–99 Premier League season Bridge was only used occasionally, as Saints narrowly completed their "Great Escape" from relegation. He completed his first season as a first-team player with 15 starts and 8 substitute appearances.

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Wayne Rooney
Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
Rooney made his senior international debut in 2003 becoming the youngest player to represent England (a record later broken by Theo Walcott). He is England's youngest ever goalscorer. He played at UEFA Euro 2004 and scored four goals, briefly becoming the competition's youngest goalscorer. Rooney featured at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups and is widely regarded as his country's best player. He has won the England Player of the Year award twice, in 2008 and 2009. As of September 2011, he has won 73 international caps and scored 28 goals. Along with David Beckham, Rooney is the most red carded player for England, having been sent off twice.
Aged nine, Rooney joined the youth team of Everton, for whom he made his professional debut in 2002. He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club, before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window. The same year, Rooney acquired the nickname "Wazza". Since then, with Rooney in the team, United have won the Premier League four times, the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and two League Cups. He also holds two runner-up medals from both the Premier League and the Champions League. In April of the 2011–12 season Rooney scored his 180th goal, making him United's fourth highest goal-scorer of all time.

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Xavi
Xavier Hernández i Creus (born 25 January 1980), commonly known as Xavi Hernández or simply Xavi (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈʃaβi]), is a Spanish footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club FC Barcelona, where he has spent his entire 15-year career.
Xavi came through La Masia, the Barcelona youth academy, at the age of 11. He made his first-team debut in 18 August 1998. Since then he has played 680 matches, scored 77 goals and made more than 160 assists for above 50 players. He was an integral part of the sextuple-winning Barcelona side in 2009, the only time which a club has achieved six titles in a year.
Since making his international debut in 2000, he has been capped 108 times for the Spanish national team, with whom he won UEFA Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup. He was named Player of the Tournament by UEFA at UEFA Euro 2008.
Xavi has received five Ballon d'Or nominations, and finished on third place in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He won the World Soccer Player of the Year in 2010.

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Matthew Le Tissier - Football Genius

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Matt Le Tissier Goals

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Legends of the Barclays Premier League - Matt Le Tissier

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Mozart + Matt Le Tissier

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Matt Le Tissier - Unbelievable

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Matt Le Tissier & Chris Kamara KeepyUppy Challenge | FATV #KeepyUppy

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Matt Le Tissier lobs Peter Schmeichel

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Fantasy Football League - Matt Le Tissier/Terry Venables England Sketch

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Matthew Le Tissier the best shooter of the world

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Matt Le Tissier recounts the Ali Dia saga

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Matthew Le Tissier VS Great Players

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Imperial Lockstep

CounterPunch

27 Dec 2012

Imperial adventures are nothing new in the Middle East. Neither is their glorification, as Peter O’Toole’s pained Lawrence of Arabia eternally reminds us. But for a decade or so now, things have been heating up, as if to coincide with climate change and fears of declining petroleum reserves ... The Belly for Belligerence? ... The question loomed over beltway intelligentsia like an ephemeral Gordian knot ... We’re All Hawks Now ... While George W ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)

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Six dead as winter snowstorms pound US

Zeenews

27 Dec 2012

Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)

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Members of Myanmar Fire Brigade team gather near a damaged Air Bagan passenger plane in Heho, Shan State, Myanmar, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012.

Two killed and 11 injured in Burma emergency landing

BBC News

25 Dec 2012

Two people, including a young child, have been killed and another 11 injured during an emergency landing in Burma, officials say. The Air Bagan plane was carrying more than 60 passengers, many of whom were foreign nationals ... "The cause of the accident is not clear yet ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)

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FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 file photo, an elderly Egyptian man shows his inked finger after casting his vote on the second round of a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi in Fayoum, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Cairo , Egypt.

Egypt constitution passes, economic crunch looms

The Salt Lake Tribune

26 Dec 2012

Cairo • The official approval of Egypt’s disputed, Islamist-backed constitution Tuesday held out little hope of stabilizing the country after two years of turmoil and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi may now face a more immediate crisis with the economy falling deeper into distress ... Join the Discussion. The battle over the constitution left Egypt deeply polarized at a time when the government is increasingly cash-strapped ... The U.S ... " ... ....(size: 5.7Kb)

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Pakistan marks fifth anniversary of Benazir Bhutto murder

BBC News

27 Dec 2012

Large crowds of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters are gathering to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack during her 2007 election campaign. Hundreds of thousands of people have set up camp near the Bhutto family's ancestral home in Sindh province ... He cannot contest an election until his 25th birthday. Show of strength ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)

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Paine set for presidential role

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26 Dec 2012

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17 Dec 2012

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Taarabt turns from fruitcake to QPR wizard

DNA India

17 Dec 2012

Wizard? Fruitcake? Catastrophe? Whatever they say about Adel Taarabt, it is no surprise that the man from Fes can be a magician and he made his mark on Queens Park Rangers' chaotic season in the most emphatic way by scoring twice to see off Fulham. QPR's first win of the season, at the 17th attempt, took them off the bottom of the table and Taarabt was outstanding ... It was like watching Matthew Le Tissier at his best ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)

Wonder strikes to rival Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Telegraph Sport writers pick their favourites

The Daily Telegraph

16 Nov 2012

Telegraph Sport writers pick the best goals they have witnessed as debate rages over whether Zlatan Ibramhimovic's goal against England was the greatest ever. Boy wonder. Ryan Giggs celebrates his stunning goal against Arsenal in 1999 Photo. GETTY IMAGES ... Matthew Le Tissier, Southampton v Newcastle, Oct 1993. Iain Dowie headed the ball just behind Le Tissier, who had been dropped for the previous three games, 40 yards from goal ... View....(size: 11.1Kb)

Five of the worst: Penalty misses (PFA - Professional Footballers' Association)

noodls

15 Nov 2012

Published 2012/11/15 04.06 by Will Haine ... Players like Matthew Le Tissier and Julian Dicks forged reputations for being formidable from the spot, but others - with Neymar now included in that bracket - will forever be reminded of their embarrassing penalty failures ... To make Neymar feel slightly more chipper, GMF highlights some of the most memorable penalty misses of recent times…. David Beckham. ENGLAND v Portugal ... Wayne Rooney ... (noodl....(size: 6.1Kb)

Under-capped?

Sky Sports

17 Oct 2012

Matthew Le Tissier. It's often been said that Le Tissier was "too good" for England, after the attacking midfielder made only eight appearances for the Three Lions between 1994 and 1997 ... Not only would Le Tissier's creativity have been a huge boost for England, but his spot-kick record of 47 goals in 48 attempts could have proved invaluable in a team that exited both Euro 96 and World Cup 98 on penalties....(size: 8.3Kb)

Under-capped Englishmen

Sky Sports

16 Oct 2012

Tomkins on the great Barnes (Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds plc)

noodls

16 Oct 2012

In an excerpt from a new eBook which aims to put together the best starting XI from Liverpool's rich history, columnist Paul Tomkins pays a glowing tribute to former Reds star John Barnes ... An outstretched left boot, planted on halfway-line chalk. a perfectly executed block-tackle ... Matthew Le Tissier - himself no lightweight - once remarked that, in going shoulder to shoulder, he just bounced off Barnes ... distributed by ... (noodl....(size: 13.4Kb)

Tomkins on the great John Barnes (Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds plc)

noodls

16 Oct 2012

Southampton spend big but hope youth policy will pay dividends

The Guardian

14 Sep 2012

Photograph ... Mick Channon, Matthew Le Tissier, Alan Shearer, Wayne Bridge, Gareth Bale and – two players Southampton are set to face at the Emirates on Saturday – Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, are just some of the graduates of the club's Staplewood academy, which has recently undergone a £15m refurbishment, spearheaded by the club's late benefactor Markus Liebherr and current chairman Nicola Cortese ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)

BotN: Van Persie accused of stealing Arsenal's shooting boots

FourFourTwo

29 Aug 2012

The North Londoners are having difficulty hitting the target since the loss of the Dutchman, Back of the Net's John Foster explains exactly why... “I even called Pat Rice in Las Vegas, but he couldn’t say where they might be,” he continued ... Gone are the days of Matthew Le Tissier and his shooting pipe-and-slippers combo, let alone Duncan Ferguson, whose suit of shooting armour, though effective, left him relatively immobile ... ....(size: 3.3Kb)

Claus Lundekvam's Southampton spot-fixing claims denied by ex-players

The Guardian

12 Jul 2012

• Lundekvam claimed spot-fixing was rife during time with club. • Matthew Le Tissier and Francis Benali deny allegations Southampton's former Norwegian defender Claus Lundekvam, left, jumps alongside Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Photograph. Dan Chung/Reuters ... Matthew Le Tissier, who did admit to one isolated incident of attempted spot-fixing in his autobiography, Tweeted ... That wasn't the case ... "I know nothing about what Claus has said," he said ... ....(size: 3.5Kb)

Former Saints dismiss Lundekvam claims

York Press

12 Jul 2012

Claus Lundekvam played for Southampton from 1996 to 2008 ... However, many of Lundekvam's Saints colleagues have denied involvement in any such schemes. Matthew Le Tissier, who did admit to one isolated incident of attempted spot-fixing in his autobiography, Tweeted ... ....(size: 1.6Kb)

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Matthew Le Tissier
Personal information

Full name	Matthew Le Tissier
Date of birth	(1968-10-14) 14 October 1968 (age 43)
Place of birth	St. Peter Port, Guernsey
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position	Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1978–1985	Vale Recreation
1985–1986	Southampton
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1986–2002	Southampton	443	(162)
National team
1988–1990	England U21	21	(3)
1990–1998	England B	6	(3)
1994–1997	England	8	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Matthew Le Tissier ( /ləˈtɪsi.eɪ/) is a retired, Guernsey-born, English footballer. Le Tissier spent his entire club career with Southampton and gained eight caps for the England national football team. An attacking midfielder with exceptional technical skills,^[1] Le Tissier is the second-highest ever scorer for Southampton behind Mick Channon and was voted PFA Young Player of the Year in 1990. He was the first midfielder to score 100 goals in the Premier League. He is notable for his record at scoring penalty kicks, converting from the spot 47 times from 48 attempts and is considered one of the greatest ever from the 12 yard spot.^[2]

In spite of interest from bigger clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur in 1990 and Chelsea in 1996, Le Tissier remained at Southampton for his entire professional career, his loyalty garnering special affection from Southampton's fans who nicknamed him "Le God".^[3]

Following the end of his playing career, Le Tissier became a football pundit, and currently works as a panelist on Sky Sports show Soccer Saturday. In 2011 he became Honorary President of Guernsey FC.

1 Club career
2 International career
3 Career statistics
4 Post-retirement
5 Personal life
6 Honours
7 References
8 External links

Club career [link]

Le Tissier was born in Guernsey, and played youth football on the island with Vale Recreation between the ages of ten and seventeen. On leaving school in 1985, he had a trial at Oxford United, but nothing came of it.

Signing for Southampton the following year, Le Tissier made his club debut in a 4–3 defeat at Norwich City in the Football League First Division, and by the end of that season had scored six goals in 24 games. He made 19 first team appearances in 1987–88, failing to score, but in 1988–89 scored nine times in 28 league games. He was voted PFA Young Player of the Year for the 1989–90 season, in which he was one of the league's top goalscorers with 20 goals.^[4]

Le Tissier's top scoring season was 1994–95, when he scored 30 goals. The following season he won the Match of the Day Goal of the Season award for his drifting 40-yard lob against Blackburn Rovers, scoring against his long term friend, and former Southampton keeper, Tim Flowers.

On 2 April 2000, Le Tissier scored a last minute penalty for Southampton in a 2–1 defeat to Sunderland. This brought his tally of Premiership goals to 100, making him only the sixth player and first midfielder to reach this milestone.^[5]^[6]

He scored the last goal in the final competitive match played at The Dell on 19 May 2001, against Arsenal.^[7] This turned out to be his last goal for Southampton. He played several games for the club during 2001–02, the first season at the new St Mary's Stadium, in an eventual 11th-place finish. His final competitive appearance for the Saints came against West Ham on 30 January 2002.^[8] He announced on 29 March 2002 that he would retire from playing at the season's end after limping off with a recurrence of a calf strain during a reserve team game against Charlton.^[9]

His final match, a testimonial against an England XI in May 2002, ended in a 9–9 draw, with Le Tissier playing 45 minutes for each side, while his 10-year old son Mitchell came on as a substitute in the second half, scoring four times.^[10]

After leaving Southampton, he had a brief spell with non-league side Eastleigh, where he played alongside his former Southampton teammate David Hughes.^[11]^[12]

Throughout his career, Le Tissier had a fearsome reputation for scoring from the spot, converting 47 of the 48 penalties that he took for Southampton.^[13]^[14] His sole failure to convert came on 24 March 1993 in a match against Nottingham Forest, his spot kick being saved by Forest keeper Mark Crossley,^[15] the feat being so unique that Crossley describes it as the save of which he is most proud.^[16]

Le Tissier made a cameo appearance for Southampton in Claus Lundekvam's testimonial against Celtic, on 18 July 2008.^[17] Lundekvam had previously played with him at Southampton from 1996 to 2002.

In 2010, Spanish superstar Xavi revealed that Le Tissier had been one of his childhood inspirations, claiming that: "His talent was simply out of the norm. He could simply dribble past seven or eight players but without speed - he just walked past them. For me he was sensational".^[18]

International career [link]

As a Channel Islander, he was eligible for any of the Home Nations teams. Electing to play for England, he earned eight caps over three years, but failed to score at international level.

Le Tissier was picked by the then manager Terry Venables to start the ill-fated friendly match against the Republic of Ireland at Lansdowne Road, on 15 February 1995. With Ireland leading from a 22nd minute goal by David Kelly, a group of England fans began to riot, causing the Dutch referee Dick Jol to abandon the match.^[19]

In the run up to the 1998 World Cup, Le Tissier scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 victory for England B against Russia B, at Loftus Road;^[20] despite this, he was controversially overlooked by manager Glenn Hoddle for the final squad, a decision that the player himself cited as a hiatus in his career after which his form never fully recovered.^[21] Ironically, given his reputation for penalty taking, England exited the tournament after losing to Argentina in a penalty shoot-out.

Career statistics [link]

^[22]

Season	Club	League	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Full Mem.		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1986–87	Southampton	First Division	24	6	1	0	4	2	2	2	31	10
1987–88			19	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	22	2
1988–89			28	9	2	0	4	2	2	0	36	11
1989–90			35	20	2	1	7	3	–		44	24
1990–91			35	19	3	2	4	2	1	0	43	23
1991–92			32	6	7	1	6	1	6	7	51	15
1992–93		Premier League	40	15	1	1	3	2	–		44	18
1993–94			38	25	2	0	0	0	–		40	25
1994–95			41	20	5	5	3	5	–		49	30
1995–96			34	7	5	1	4	2	–		43	10
1996–97			31	13	1	0	6	3	–		38	16
1997–98			26	11	1	0	3	3	–		30	14
1998–99			30	7	1	0	2	0	–		33	7
1999–2000			18	3	0	0	3	0	–		21	3
2000–01			8	1	0	0	2	1	–		10	2
2001–02			4	0	1	0	0	0	–		5	0
Career total			443	162	33	12	52	27	12	9	540	210

Post-retirement [link]

Le Tissier had one of the hospitality suites at the St Mary's Stadium named after him, and also an apartment block built on the old site of The Dell.

On 7 February 2007, he had a plane in the Flybe fleet named after him, on his home island of Guernsey.^[23]^[24]

On 29 June 2009, he made his debut as the guest in Dictionary Corner on the Channel 4 game show Countdown, hosted by Soccer Saturday presenter Jeff Stelling.

After Southampton's relegation to level three in 2008–09, Le Tissier initially offered to help with a bid to take over the club, but later withdrew,^[25] amidst some controversy.^[26]

In September 2009, Le Tissier revealed in his autobiography that he had placed a spread bet on a match he was involved in during his playing career. During an April 1995 match at Wimbledon, Le Tissier stood to win "well into four figures" after betting on the time of the first throw-in. After kicking off, he tried to overhit a pass to unsuspecting teammate Neil Shipperley, but due to nerves, underhit it and Shipperley was able to keep the ball in play. Le Tissier revealed he had "never run so much" in his life as he tried to put the ball out of play to avoid losing money, with the ball eventually going out of play after 70 seconds, meaning Le Tissier and his associates neither won nor lost money.^[27] The event was investigated by Hampshire Police but the Crown Prosecution Service refused to take the case further, citing that it did "not represent appropriate use of police resources" and "would not be in the public interest".^[28]

Personal life [link]

Le Tissier married childhood sweetheart Cathy and had two children; Mitchell and Keeleigh, but the couple divorced in 1997 and Cathy and the children moved back to Guernsey.

All three of Le Tissier's brothers – Mark, Kevin and Carl – also played football, but never professionally.^[29] Mark is currently secretary of Guernsey FC.^[30]

Honours [link]

Southampton

Full Members Cup Finalist: 1992

References [link]

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^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1227264/THE-LIST-Footballs-greatest-penalty-kings--Nos-10-1.html
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^ Ged, Scott (3 April 2000). "Inspired United put the hammer down". The Birmingham Post. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-61199736.html.
^ "Schole joins century club". The Premier League. http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~1987266,00.html. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
^ "Le Tissier caps Dell farewell". BBC. 19 May 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/1338713.stm. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
^ "Fernandes sinks Hammers". BBC. 30 January 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/1782571.stm. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
^ "Did Le Tissier fulfil his potential?". BBC News. 29 March 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/1900530.stm.
^ "Goal feast at Le Tissier farewell". BBC. 14 May 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/1985402.stm. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
^ "Eastleigh lure Le Tissier". BBC. 13 August 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/2191279.stm. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
^ Wigmore, Simon (22 October 2002). "Le Tissier coup for Eastleigh". London: The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/3036530/Non-League-Le-Tissier-coup-for-Eastleigh.html. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
^ Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (2003). In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology. p. 539. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.
^ Weekes, Richard (7 November 2008). "Who's the Daddy from 12 yards out?". London: The Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1083580/Whos-Daddy-12-yards-Tell-favourite-penalty-taker-time.html. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
^ http://es.eurosport.yahoo.com/futbol/ruben-uria/article/438/
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^ "Friendlies round-up". www.skysports.com. 18 July 2008. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_3836089,00.html. Retrieved 19 July 2008.
^ Kastrinakis, Antony (5 June 2010). "Matt's Amore". London: The Sun Newspaper. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/worldcup2010/3000647/Spain-star-Xavi-says-his-football-hero-was-Matt-Le-Tissier.html. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
^ "EnglandStats.com | A database of England Internationals since 1872". http://www.englandstats.com/matchreport.php?mid=709. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
^ "Le Tissier hat-trick fires England B". 22 April 1998. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/81702.stm. Retrieved 22 April 1998.
^ Little, Tony (25 June 2010). "Matt: I was Tissed Off". London: The Sun Newspaper. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2990608/Matt-Le-Tissier-Hoddle-axe-destroyed-me.html. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
^ In That Number. pp. 196, 201, 206, 213, 219, 223, 228, 235, 241, 245, 250, 255, 259, 264, 269 & 277; 386–413; 290–296; 301.
^ "Tiss takes off". www.saintsfc.co.uk. 7 February 2007. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=8152. Retrieved 19 July 2008.
^ Olding, Peter (23 February 2007). "Photo of FlyBe plane". De Havilland Canada DHC-8Q-402 Dash 8, G-JECT, Flybe (BE / BEE). Southampton Airport: Air Britain Photographic Images Collection. http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1043218/. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
^ Fifield, Dominic (30 June 2009). "Southampton on the brink as Matthew Le Tissier pulls out of takeover". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jun/30/le-tissier-pinnacle-withdraw-southampton-takeover. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
^ Szczepanik, Nick (1 July 2009). "Football League deny Matthew Le Tissier claims". The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/football_league/article6616179.ece. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
^ "Le Tissier in failed betting scam". BBC Sport. 3 September 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8236108.stm. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
^ "Le Tissier bet inquiry is dropped". BBC. 22 September 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8269028.stm. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
^ "Succeeding was hard - Le Tissier". BBC Sport. 25 March 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7963488.stm. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
^ "Green light for Green Lions". This Is Guernsey. 13 April 2011. http://www.thisisguernsey.com/sport/guernsey-fc-sport/2011/04/13/green-light-for-green-lions/. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

External links [link]

Jeremy Wilson (2006). Southampton’s Cult Heroes. Know The Score Books. ISBN 1-905449-01-1.
Matthew Le Tissier England profile at Englandstats
Matt Le Tissier career stats at Soccerbase
Matthew Le Tissier index at Sporting-heroes.net

Southampton F.C. – Player of the Season

1973–74 Channon
1974–75 Blyth
1975–76 Peach
1976–77 Williams
1977–78 Ball
1978–79 Waldron
1979–80 Boyer
1980–81 Golac
1981–82 Keegan
1982–83 Wright
1983–84 Armstrong
1984–85 Shilton
1985–86 Shilton
1986–87 Cockerill
1987–88 Statham
1988–89 Case
1989–90 Le Tissier
1990–91 Shearer
1991–92 Flowers
1992–93 Flowers
1993–94 Le Tissier
1994–95 Le Tissier
1995–96 Beasant
1996–97 Østenstad
1997–98 Jones
1998–99 Beattie
1999–00 Richards
2000–01 Bridge
2001–02 Marsden
2002–03 Beattie
2003–04 Niemi
2004–05 Crouch
2005–06 Lundekvam
2006–07 Baird
2007–08 Davies
2008–09 Davis
2009–10 Lambert
2010–11 Fonte
2011–12 Lambert

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 1994–95 FA Premier League PFA Team of the Year

GK: Tim Flowers DF: Rob Jones DF: Gary Pallister DF: Colin Hendry DF: Graeme Le Saux MF: Tim Sherwood MF: Matthew Le Tissier MF: Paul Ince FW: Jürgen Klinsmann FW: Chris Sutton FW: Alan Shearer

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Chris Kamara
Personal information

Full name	Christopher Kamara
Date of birth	(1957-12-25) 25 December 1957 (age 54)
Place of birth	Middlesbrough, Teesside, England
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Defender / Midfielder
Youth career
1975	Royal Navy
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1975–1977	Portsmouth	63	(7)
1977–1981	Swindon Town	147	(21)
1981	Portsmouth	11	(0)
1981–1985	Brentford	152	(28)
1985–1988	Swindon Town	87	(6)
1988–1990	Stoke City	60	(5)
1990–1991	Leeds United	20	(1)
1991–1993	Luton Town	49	(0)
1992–1993	→ Sheffield United (loan)	8	(0)
1993	→ Middlesbrough (loan)	5	(0)
1993–1994	Sheffield United	16	(0)
1994–1995	Bradford City	23	(3)
2012	Welshpool Town	2	(0)
Total		643	(71)
Teams managed
1995–1998	Bradford City
1998	Stoke City
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Chris Kamara (born 25 December 1957 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire) is a retired English footballer. He ended his playing career in 1995 but made a brief comeback in 2012 for Mid Wales Football League side Welshpool Town. He last managed a club in 1998. He is now a presenter and football analyst on Sky Sports.

1 Early life
2 Playing career
3 Managerial career
4 Managerial statistics
5 Commentator and presenter
6 Change of surname
7 Computer games
8 Charity work
9 References
10 External links

Early life [link]

Kamara was born in Middlesbrough to a father of Sierra Leonean roots in 1957. Before starting his footballing career at Portsmouth in 1975 Kamara served with the Royal Navy. Chris remains a great friend of Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson with whom he grew up on Middlesbrough's Park End council estate. He and Gibson regularly attended matches together.^[1]

Playing career [link]

Kamara's football career started when he joined Portsmouth in 1975, beginning a professional footballing career that saw him move between nine clubs, scoring 71 goals in 641 league appearances. The clubs he played for included Brentford, Luton Town and Leeds United – where he won the Division Two championship title.

Kamara became the first English player to be convicted of assault for an on-pitch incident, after breaking Shrewsbury Town player Jim Melrose's cheekbone with a punch straight after the final whistle of a game in 1988.^[2]

In 2012, he made a one-off appearance for Mid Wales Football League side Welshpool Town, after his Sky Sports colleague Jeff Stelling mocked the strugglers following the club's 10–1 loss to Waterloo Rovers the previous week. Welshpool manager David Jones emailed Sky explaining how the club nearly folded, and Sky made amends by arranging for Kamara to play for them. He played the full 90 minutes, in midfield in a 6–1 defeat, assisting a goal with a corner.^[3]

Managerial career [link]

Kamara spent short spells as manager of Stoke City and Bradford City, which saw him nearly relegated with the former but gaining promotion with the latter. He steered The Bantams to promotion in the 1995–96 season after winning 2–0 in the play-off final against Notts County.

Managerial statistics [link]

Team	From	To	Record
Team	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Bradford City	27 November 1995	6 January 1998	122	40	26	46	32.79
Stoke City	22 January 1998	8 April 1998	14	1	5	8	7.14
Total			136	41	31	54	30.15

Commentator and presenter [link]

Kamara presents Sky Sports' Goals On Sunday show and provides additional commentary on some of Sky's televised matches. He also appears on the Soccer Saturday programme, where he usually appears over live video link providing brief updates on whichever match he is watching. He is well-known on the programme for his highly excitable nature, propensity for comical gaffes and tendency to come out with unusual sayings that baffle host Jeff Stelling and the other studio pundits, such as his observation that the Tottenham players were "fighting like beavers" in their match against Arsenal. In one of his more famous on-air gaffes, he failed to realise that Anthony Vanden Borre had been sent off in the game he was watching between Portsmouth and Blackburn.^[4] He has also coined the popular phrase "Unbelievable Jeff!".

Kamara also guest-stars on Soccer AM where he brings live link ups hours before games from various stadia. Since the beginning of the 2010-2011 season he has appeared weekly on Soccer AM fronting a challenge sketch titled "Kammy do it". This involves him going on various challenges, at the request of the viewers, across the UK against professionals or other celebrities. So far his activities have included clay pigeon shooting, weight lifting and challenging Bolton Wanderers manager Owen Coyle to a game of table tennis. Kamara was formerly the chairman of the panel which chooses the Football League Championship Manager of the Month award,^[5] but left the role for the beginning of the 2009-2010 season.

Change of surname [link]

Before the 2010 World Cup, Kamara changed his name by deed poll to Chris Cabanga in response to a Facebook campaign supported by 20,000 people.^[6]^[7]^[8] Cabanga is an African word meaning ‘to think’ or ‘imagine’. Before the World cup UK-based neuropsychologist Dr David Lewis conducted a number of experiments into the field of positive thinking. In the experiments, conducted at Sussex University March 2010, Dr Lewis found ‘Cabanga’ to be a particularly resonant word. Many England fans supported the Facebook campaign in the hope that it could help England win the World Cup.^[9]

Computer games [link]

In September 2000, Chris Kamara's Street Soccer was released for the Sony PlayStation, for which Kamara provided both commentary and some basic motion capture for player animation,^[10] with the concept of the game pre-dating the EA Sports' FIFA Street series. He was also a commentator for 2005's This Is Football, alongside Peter Drury.^{[citation needed]}

Charity work [link]

In December 2011, Kamara was awarded the 'The Above & Beyond in Memory of Sir Bill Cotton award' for his contributions to Marie Curie Cancer Care.^[11] He, and a team of Football League ambassadors, including Brendan Rodgers, Aidy Boothroyd, and Middlesbrough Chairman Steve Gibson managed to raise £385,000 for the charity and to climb to the peak of Kilimanjaro.

As well as being an Ambassador for Marie Curie Cancer Care, Kamara became an Ambassador of the Special Olympics Great Britain Organisation in April 2011^[12] after taking part in the Special Olympics Unity Cup^[13] as a celebrity partner before the Germany v Argentina quarter-final match in Cape Town, during the 2010 World Cup. As well as being an Ambassador for Marie Curie Cancer Care, Kamara also represents the Special Olympics GB as an Ambassador.^[14]

References [link]

^ Guardian Football "InterView with Chris"
^ "Kamara My race hate hell". The Sun (London). 29 April 2010. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2951945/Chris-Kamara-reveals-his-race-hate-hell.html.
^ "Sky Sports' Chris Kamara plays for Welshpool Town after 10-1 ribbing". BBC News. 28 January 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-16773252.
^ Chris Kamara gaff on Portsmouth v Blackburn sending off on Soccer Saturday becomes YouTube hit Metro
^ Young, Colin (2 March 2007). "Boss of the month, but Keane says its rubbish". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-439496/Boss-month-Keane-says-rubbish.html.
^ "Whats in a name". Sky Sports. 9 June 2010. http://www.skysports.com/tv_show/story/0,20144,12975_6197087,00.html. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
^ "Chris Cabanga". http://www.bristolcity.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=200392. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
^ "When vital met Cabanga". http://www.england.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=201079.
^ "Cabanga chant to help England win world Cup". http://newslite.tv/2010/05/03/cabanga-chant-to-help-england.html.
^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Kamaras-Street-Soccer-Value/dp/B00004ZCVH
^ http://www.mariecurie.org.uk/en-gb/press-media/news-comment/annual-volunteer-awards-2011/
^ http://www.specialolympicsgb.org.uk/news-media_news-stories/?archive=1&aID=303
^ http://sinkusphotography.com/kickabout/?p=2502
^ http://www.specialolympicsgb.org.uk/news-media_news-stories/?archive=1&aID=303

External links [link]

Chris Kamara career stats at Soccerbase
Chris Kamara management career stats at Soccerbase
Photos and stats at sporting-heroes.net
Chris Kamara's funniest moments
Chris Kamara at the Internet Movie Database

Bradford City A.F.C. – managers

Campbell (1903–05)
O'Rourke (1905–21)
Menzies (1921–26)
Veitch (1926–28)
Foster (1928)
O'Rourke (1928–30)
Peart (1930–35)
Ray (1935–37)
Westgarth (1938–43)
Sharp (1943–46)
Barker (1946–47)
Milburn (1947–48)
Steele (1948–52)
A. Harris (1952)
Powell (1952–55)
P. Jackson (1955–61)
Brocklebank (1961–64)
B. Harris (1965–66)
Watson (1966–67)
Hair (1967–68)
McAnearney & Hallett (1968)
Wheeler (1968–71)
Wilson (1971)
Edwards (1971–75)
Kennedy (1975–78)
Napier (1978)
Mulhall (1978–81)
McFarland (1981–82)
Cherry (1982–87)
Dolan (1987–89)
Yorath (1989–90)
Docherty (1990–91)
Stapleton (1991–94)
Lawrence (1994–95)
Kamara (1995–98)
Jewell (1998–2000)
Hutchings (2000)
McCall (2000)
Jefferies (2000–01)
Smith (2001)
Law (2002–03)
Atherton, Jacobs, Wetherall and Windass (joint caretakers) (2003)
Robson (2003–04)
Todd (2004–07)
Wetherall (2007)
McCall (2007–10)
Jacobs (2010)
Taylor (2010–11)
P. A. Jackson (2011)
Cooper (2011)
Parkinson (2011–)

Stoke City F.C. – managers

Slaney (1874–83)
Cox (1883–84)
Lockett (1884–90)
Bradshaw (1890–92)
Reeves (1892–95)
Rowley (1895–97)
Austerberry (1897–1908)
A.Barker (1908–14)
Hodge (1914–15)
Schofield (1915–19)
Shallcross (1919–23)
Rutherford (1923)
Mather (1923–35)
McGrory (1935–52)
Taylor (1952–60)
Waddington (1960–77)
Eastham (1977–78)
A'Court (1978)
Durban (1978–81)
R.Barker (1981–83)
Asprey (1983–85)
Lacey (1985)
Mills (1985–89)
Ball (1989–91)
Paddon (1991)
Macari (1991–93)
Jordan (1993–94)
Hartford (1994)
Macari (1994–97)
Bates (1997–98)
Kamara (1998)
Durban (1998)
Little (1998–99)
Megson (1999)
Thordarson (1999–2002)
Cotterill (2002)
Kevan (2002)
Pulis (2002–05)
Boskamp (2005–06)
Pulis (2006–)

Swindon Town F.C. – Player of the Season

1964: McPherson
1965: Summerbee
1966: Nurse
1967: Rogers
1968: Harland
1969: Downsborough
1970: Butler
1971: Noble
1972: Burrows
1973: Butler
1974: Trollope
1975: Eastoe
1976: Anderson
1977: Moss
1978: Trollope
1979: Carter
1980: Kamara
1981: Lewis
1982: Stroud
1983: Rideout
1984: Endersby
1985: Gordon
1986: Calderwood
1987: Digby
1988:
1989:
1990:
1991: Shearer
1992: Taylor
1993: Bodin
1994: Moncur
1995: Taylor
1996: Taylor
1997: Digby
1998: Digby
1999: Ndah
2000: Talia
2001: Mildenhall
2002: Heywood
2003: Parkin
2004: Mooney
2005: Parkin
2006: Evans
2007: Peacock
2008: Comminges
2009: Cox
2010: Douglas
2011: Ritchie
2012: McCormack

Stoke City F.C. – Player of the Year

1978: Kendall
1979: Doyle
1980: Dodd
1981: Fox
1982: Fox
1983: Thomas
1984: Bould
1985: McIlroy
1986: Bertschin
1987: Dixon
1988: Parkin
1989: Kamara
1990: Fox
1991: Thomas
1992: Biggins
1993: Stein
1994: Cranson
1995: Sigurðsson
1996: Wallace & Prudhoe
1997: Griffin
1998: Whittle
1999: Keen
2000: O'Connor
2001: Gunnarsson
2002: Thomas
2003: Shtanuk
2004: Akinbiyi
2005: Hill
2006: Hoefkens
2007: Higginbotham
2008: Lawrence
2009: Faye
2010: Etherington
2011: Huth
2012: Crouch

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Name	Kamara, Chris
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Date of birth	25 December 1957
Place of birth	Middlesbrough, England
Date of death
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Peter Schmeichel
Personal information

Full name	Peter Bolesław Schmeichel
Date of birth	(1963-11-18) 18 November 1963 (age 48)
Place of birth	Gladsaxe, Denmark
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)^[1]
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1972–1975	Høje-Gladsaxe
1975–1981	Gladsaxe-Hero
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1981–1984	Gladsaxe-Hero	46	(0)
1984–1987	Hvidovre	78	(6)
1987–1991	Brøndby	119	(2)
1991–1999	Manchester United	292	(0)
1999–2001	Sporting CP	50	(0)
2001–2002	Aston Villa	29	(1)
2002–2003	Manchester City	29	(0)
Total		643	(9)
National team
1987–2001	Denmark	129	(1^[2])
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Peter Bolesław Schmeichel MBE (Danish pronunciation: [ped̥ɐ ˈsmɑɪ̯ˀɡ̊l̩]; born 18 November 1963) is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and was voted the "World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993. He is best remembered for his most successful years at English club Manchester United, whom he captained to the 1999 UEFA Champions League to complete the Treble, and for winning UEFA Euro 1992 with Denmark.

Born in Gladsaxe, Copenhagen, Schmeichel was famous for his intimidating physique (he is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall and weighed about 105 kg (16 st 7 lb) during his playing days. He wore specially made size XXXL football shirts. Unusual for a goalkeeper, Schmeichel scored 11 goals during his career, including one for the national team. He is also the most capped player for the Denmark national team, with 129 games between 1987 and 2001. In addition to Euro 92, he played for his country at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and three additional European Championship tournaments. He captained the national team in 30 matches.

The IFFHS ranked Schmeichel among the top ten keepers of the 20th century in 2000,^[3] and in 2001, Schmeichel won a public poll held by Reuters, when the majority of the 200,000 participants voted him as the best goalkeeper ever, ahead of Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks.^[4] In 2003, Schmeichel was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his impact on the English game. In March 2004, he was named as one of the "125 greatest living footballers", at the FIFA 100 celebrations.

He holds the record for the greatest clean sheets-to-games ratio in the Premier League with 42% of the games he played in the league ending without his team conceding.

He also represented Gladsaxe Hero, Hvidovre, Brøndby, Sporting CP, Aston Villa and Manchester City in a career that lasted from 1981 until 2003. His son, Kasper, is also a professional football goalkeeper.

1 Biography
2 Career statistics
3 Honours
4 Literature
5 References
6 External links

Biography [link]

Early years [link]

Born in Søborggård parish, Gladsaxe, Denmark to a Polish father and a Danish mother, Peter Schmeichel held Polish citizenship until 1970 when he, his father, and his siblings became Danish citizens. He inherited his second name – Bolesław – from his great-grandfather.^[5] He spent his early years growing up in the town of Buddinge, Copenhagen, and began his football career playing for a team in the adjacent suburb of Høje-Gladsaxe. His first match came on 7 August 1972 at the age of 8.^[6] After a two-and-a-half-year unbeaten run, Schmeichel was approached by Hero, a team from a few divisions above Høje-Gladsaxe and with one of the largest youth football schemes in Denmark. Hero later merged with Gladsaxe to form Gladsaxe-Hero BK, and Schmeichel was presented with the opportunity to play for the Zealand FA's junior representative team.^[7]

Eventually graduating to the Gladsaxe-Hero senior squad, Schmeichel met his first mentor in Svend Aage Hansen, the first team coach at the club, and later to become his father-in-law. With Gladsaxe-Hero already relegated from the Danish Third Division with three games to go, Hansen promoted Schmeichel and six others from the youth team for a match against Birkerød. The team lost 1–0, but Schmeichel received mentions in local newspapers for his personal performance.^[8] At the end of the season, Hansen explained to Schmeichel his plan for the future, which involved Schmeichel spending two more seasons with Gladsaxe-Hero before moving on to Hvidovre, playing for the Danish national team, and eventually having a successful career abroad. Schmeichel admits that he had received an offer to play for B1903's youth team, but he turned it down as the club "seemed a bit boring".^[9]

The following season Gladsaxe-Hero needed only to avoid defeat to Stubbekøbing to prevent relegation from the Danish National League. In the end, Schmeichel played one of the games of his career and Gladsaxe-Hero won the match. At the end of the game, Hansen's daughter, Bente, ran onto the pitch and hugged Schmeichel. The two ended up going out as a couple, and they eventually got married.^[10]

Before becoming a professional footballer, Schmeichel had to work a number of jobs to make ends meet. His first job came in the dyeing department of a textile factory, but his concerns with the factory's policy on safety eventually forced him to hand in his notice. He then spent 12 months as a cleaner at an old people's home, before taking up an office job with the World Wildlife Fund. He originally worked in the organisation's shops, but three weeks after he joined, the store manager quit and Schmeichel was promoted to the position of sales manager. Soon after, Schmeichel was called upon to do his four weeks of compulsory military service. However, this coincided with Hvidovre's summer training camp in Portugal, which he was permitted to go on with the proviso that he completed his military service the following month. Nevertheless, the delicate organisational situation that arose between the WWF, the Danish defence department and Hvidovre prompted Schmeichel to give up working for the WWF. A job with his father-in-law's flooring firm came next, until he realised that his knees could not support his 15 stone (95 kg) frame for eight hours a day, and he was offered a job with the advertising firm owned by Hvidovre's chairman, Niels Erik Madsen. This was to be his last job outside football, as he was offered a contract with Brøndby the following spring.^[11]

Professional career [link]

Brøndby [link]

Despite the fifth best defence in the league, conceding 40 goals in 30 games,^[12] Schmeichel and Hvidovre finished in 14th place and were relegated in 1985. After only a single season, the club bounced right back to the 1st Division, but Schmeichel was lost by Hvidovre to Danish runners-up Brøndby IF before the 1987 season. Winning the Danish league in his first year, he joined a club which he helped turn into a success. He debuted for the Danish national team in May 1987, under national manager Sepp Piontek, and was selected for the Euro 88 tournament, where he eventually became Denmark's starting goalkeeper.

In all, Schmeichel and Brøndby won four championships in five seasons. The climax of his Brøndby career would come in the European 1991 UEFA Cup competition, which saw Schmeichel as an important part of the team that reached the semi-finals. The club was eliminated by AS Roma with a last-minute goal by Rudi Völler. Following the tournament, Schmeichel was voted 10th in "The World's Best Goalkeeper 1991" poll by the IFFHS.^[13]

Manchester United [link]

Following his showings on the international scene, Manchester United bought him in 1991 for £505,000,^[14] a price which was described in 2000 by Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as the "bargain of the century."^[15] Schmeichel played the bulk of his career for United, eight years in total. With United, Schmeichel won five FA Premier League titles, three FA Cups, one League Cup, and the UEFA Champions League.

Manchester United finished as runners-up in Schmeichel's first season (also winning the Football League Cup for the first time in the club's history), but it was on the international stage that Schmeichel enjoyed his biggest success that year. In the Danish national team under new national manager Richard Møller Nielsen, Schmeichel was Denmark's starting goalkeeper at the Euro 92 tournament which they won. He saved a penalty kick from Marco van Basten in the semi-final, and held a cross with one hand in the final. He made a string of important saves during the tournament, and was elected "The World's Best Goalkeeper 1992".^[16]

In the 1992–93 season, 22 clean sheets from Schmeichel helped United win the Premier League championship for the first time in 26 years. Schmeichel was once again named "The World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1993. In January 1994, Schmeichel fell out with Ferguson, as United had squandered a 3–0 lead to draw 3–3 with Liverpool. The two had a row where Schmeichel "said the most horrible things",^[17] and he was subsequently sacked by Ferguson. A few days later, Schmeichel made an improvised apology to the other players. Unknown to him, Ferguson was eavesdropping on this, and he let Schmeichel stay at Manchester United.^[15] Schmeichel and United repeated the Premier League championship win at the end of the season.

Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a 1995 UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd. He scored in the last minutes of the game, though United were eliminated from the tournament on the away goals rule.

In April 1996, during a game against Coventry City, Coventry defender David Busst collided with United defender Denis Irwin and suffered a compound fracture of the leg. The break was so bad that the bone pierced through the skin and blood had to be cleared off the pitch. Schmeichel, who witnessed the incident, reportedly vomited at the sight and had to receive counselling afterwards.^{[citation needed]}

Schmeichel played for Denmark at the Euro 96 hosted by England. The defending European Champions went out in the preliminary group stage, despite delivering results equivalent to the Euro 92 tournament.^[18]

Following a February 1997 match against Arsenal, Schmeichel was accused of racism by Arsenal striker Ian Wright. During the game, Schmeichel and Wright had a number of controversies, and at the end of the game, the two players confronted each other on their way off the pitch. After the game, news emerged of a police inquiry into a November 1996 match between the two clubs, where it was alleged that Schmeichel had made a racist remark. After months of politicising by The FA and The PFA, who wanted a "converted" Schmeichel as their posterboy of the "Kick Racism out of Football" campaign, no evidence was found and the case was dropped.^[19]

Under new national manager Bo Johansson, Schmeichel was a part of the Danish squad at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He was one of the leading members of the Danish campaign, which ended in a 3–2 quarter-final defeat to Brazil.

Schmeichel ended his Manchester United career on the highest note, when Schmeichel and United won the Treble, the FA Premier League title, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League, in the same season. In that year's FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal, Schmeichel saved a penalty kick by Dennis Bergkamp in the last minutes of the game, to send the game into extra time. In the absence of the suspended Roy Keane, he captained United in the UEFA Champions League final in May 1999. German opponents Bayern Munich had a 1–0 lead until the dying minutes of the game, when United received a corner kick. Schmeichel ran into the attack attempting to cause confusion, and Teddy Sheringham scored the equalising goal. A few seconds later, Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored the 2–1 winner for United to ensure that Schmeichel's United career ended on the highest possible note. In an unforgettable celebratory moment, Schmeichel was shown cartwheeling gleefully in his area after Solskjær's winning goal.

With his departure, Manchester United had trouble finding a replacement for him, going through several high-profile goalkeepers including Mark Bosnich, Massimo Taibi, Fabien Barthez, Tim Howard and Roy Carroll before finally buying Edwin van der Sar, who Sir Alex Ferguson considers the best goalkeeper to have played for the club since Schmeichel.^[20]

Sporting CP [link]

Schmeichel decided to leave English football at the end of the 1999 season, as the gruelling 60 game league and cups season, which came with playing with a successful club, was threatening to undermine his high standards at the age of 36. Seeking a slower pace of football, he moved to Sporting Clube de Portugal, where he won the 1999–2000 Portuguese Liga title in his first season with the club. He scored his only goal for the Danish national team, a penalty kick against Belgium, in a June 2000 warm-up match for UEFA Euro 2000. He represented Denmark at Euro 2000, where the team was eliminated in the group stage. He retired from the national team in April 2001, when he played a planned farewell match against Slovenia.

His second year with Sporting would be remarkable in that it was the first time in 14 years, since his Hvidovre days, that Schmeichel's club would finish below second place in the domestic league competition. Schmeichel stated his wish to activate a contract option of a further year at Sporting in January 2001,^[21] but eventually decided to leave the club when his contract ran out in June 2001.^[22] He considered a number of options for the future, before deciding to keep on playing.

Aston Villa [link]

He returned to England with Aston Villa in July 2001.^[23] On 20 October 2001, Schmeichel became the first goalkeeper to score a Premier League goal, in a 3–2 defeat away to Everton. A goalkeeper scoring in the Premier League is a feat only repeated three times: by Blackburn Rovers' Brad Friedel on 21 February 2004, also from a corner kick; by Tottenham Hotspur's Paul Robinson from a free-kick on 17 March 2007; and by Everton's Tim Howard on 4 January 2012. Schmeichel failed to complete his single season at Villa due to a clause in his contract stipulating that he would get to play in every game for which he was fit. Villa and Schmeichel decided to terminate Schmeichel's contract in order to let Schmeichel leave.

Manchester City [link]

Schmeichel played his last active year for Manchester City during the 2002–03 season. Schmeichel's record in the Manchester derby is exceptional, in that he was never on the losing side. During his nine years with Manchester United, they were unbeaten against Manchester City, while in his single season with City, they won at Maine Road and drew at Old Trafford.

Retirement [link]

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In December 1999, Schmeichel became the club owner of his childhood club Hvidovre IF.^[24] He withdrew from the club in June 2002. He worked as a pundit for the BBC after retiring, being a regular analyst on Match of the Day until 2005. He then began hosting live UEFA Champions League matches on Danish television channel TV3+, with Preben Elkjær and Brian Laudrup the studio pundits. However, he still works occasionally as a pundit for the BBC. Most recently, Schmeichel appeared as a pundit during the FA Cup Third Round match between two of his former clubs, Manchester United and Aston Villa on 5 January 2008 alongside host Gary Lineker, and pundits Alan Hansen and Alan Shearer. Schmeichel's tough line of punditry has often been praised by critics and fans alike.

He has a son named Kasper who plays as goalkeeper for Leicester City. Kasper was called up for the Danish U19 squad in August 2003 and got his first experience of first team football on loan at League 2 side Darlington in 2005.

His popularity in Britain is perhaps best measured by Chesney Brown on the Manchester-based soap Coronation Street, naming his former dog (a Great Dane) "Schmeichel".

He also took part in Soccer Aid, and played for the Rest of the World team, who lost 2–1 after he was substituted at half-time. Schmeichel was a contestant on the 2006 series of the BBC's popular Saturday night TV programme Strictly Come Dancing, but was voted out by the public on his 43rd birthday. He recently appeared on The Weakest Link in the UK, but he was voted off as the weakest link in the first round.

Schmeichel has not made any ventures into music, despite previously owning a recording studio in his garage and recording a single in Denmark for UEFA Euro 1996.

On 31 August 2007, an investor group including Schmeichel announced their intention to invest 250 million DKK (€ 33.5 million) in the football club Brøndby IF and make Peter Schmeichel sports director. This was announced in a press conference in Danish at a hotel in Copenhagen. The offer fell through when Brøndby failed to accept the offer within the group's deadline.^[25]

In February 2007, he became the host in a new quiz, on TV3 named 1 mod 100 (the Danish version of 1 vs. 100). In 2008, he became the host of the European version of the Discovery Channel programme, Dirty Jobs.^[26]

Career statistics [link]

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Denmark			League		Danish Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
1984	Hvidovre	1st Division	20	0
1985		1st Division	28	6
1986		2nd Division	30	0
Total			78	6							78	6
1987	Brøndby	1st Division	23	2					2	0
1988			26	0					4	0
1989			26	0					2	0
1990			26	0					2	0
1991		Superliga	18	0					10	0
Total			119	2					20	0	139	2
England			League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
1991–92	Manchester United	First Division	40	0	3	0	6	0	4	0	53	0
1992–93		Premier League	42	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	48	0
1993–94			40	0	7	0	8	0	4	0	60	0
1994–95			32	0	7	0	0	0	3	0	43	0
1995–96			36	0	6	0	1	0	2	1	45	1
1996–97			36	0	3	0	0	0	9	0	49	0
1997–98			32	0	4	0	0	0	7	0	44	0
1998–99			34	0	8	0	0	0	13	0	56	0
Total			292	0	41	0	17	0	43	1	393	1
Portugal			League		Taça de Portugal		Taça da Liga		Europe		Total
1999–2000	Sporting CP	Portuguese Liga	28	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	32	0
2000–01	Sporting CP	Portuguese Liga	26	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	30	0
Total			54	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	62	0
England			League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
2001–02	Aston Villa	Premier League	29	1	1	0	2	0	4	0	36	1
Total			29	1	1	0	2	0	4	0	36	1
2002–03	Manchester City	Premier League	29	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	31	0
Total			29	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	31	0
Total	Denmark		197	8					20	0	217	8
	England		350	1	43	0	20	0	47	1	460	2
	Portugal		50	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	54	0
Career total			597	9	45	0	20	0	53	1	739	10

^[27]

Denmark national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1987	5	0
1988	11	0
1989	12	0
1990	10	0
1991	7	0
1992	12	0
1993	9	0
1994	7	0
1995	8	0
1996	10	0
1997	6	0
1998	10	0
1999	11	0
2000	10	1
2001	1	0
Total	129	1

Honours [link]

Club [link]

Brøndby

Danish 1st Division (3): 1987, 1988, 1990
Danish Superliga (1): 1991
Danish Cup (1): 1989

Manchester United

Premier League (5): 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99
FA Cup (3): 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99
Football League Cup (1): 1991–92
FA Charity Shield (4): 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997
UEFA Champions League (1): 1998–99
UEFA Super Cup (1): 1991

Sporting CP

Portuguese Superliga (1): 1999–2000
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (1): 2000–01

Aston Villa

UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 2001

International [link]

Denmark

UEFA European Football Championship (1): 1992

Individual [link]

UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year: 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998
IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper: 1992, 1993
UEFA Club Football Awards: 1997–98
Danish Football Player of the Year: 1990, 1993, 1999
English Football Hall of Fame: 2003
Det Gyldne Bur (Danish Goalkeeper of the Year): 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992
UEFA Champions League 10 Seasons Dream Team (1992 to 2002): 2002
PFA England League Team of the Century (1907 to 2007): 2007
Premier League 10 Seasons Awards (1992–93 to 2001–02)
- Overseas Team of the Decade
- Save of the Decade (vs. Newcastle, 21 December 1997)

Literature [link]

Schmeichel, Peter (2000) [1999]. Schmeichel: The Autobiography (2nd edition ed.). London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0-7535-0444-8.

References [link]

^ http://www.dbu.dk/landshold/landsholdsdatabasen/LBasePlayerInfo.aspx?playerid=1554
^ Peter Schmeichel at National-Football-Teams.com
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v t e FIFA 100

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v t e IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper

1987: Pfaff 1988: Dasaev 1989: Zenga 1990: Zenga 1991: Zenga 1992: Schmeichel 1993: Schmeichel 1994: Preud'homme 1995: Chilavert 1996: Köpke 1997: Chilavert 1998: Chilavert 1999: Kahn 2000: Barthez 2001: Kahn 2002: Kahn 2003: Buffon 2004: Buffon 2005: Čech 2006: Buffon 2007: Buffon 2008: Casillas 2009: Casillas 2010: Casillas 2011: Casillas

v t e Danish Football Hall of Fame

Teams:0 Danish Dynamite team (1980-89, represented by coach Piontek and captain M. Olsen) · Euro 1992 team (June 1992, represented by coach R.M. Nielsen and captain L. Olsen) Players:0 Præst (1945-49) · H. Nielsen (1959-60) · Simonsen (1972-86) · Elkjær (1977-88) · M. Laudrup (1982-98) · P. Schmeichel (1987-2001)

Danish Football Player of the Year

1961: H. Nielsen
1963: Petersen
1964: Madsen
1965: K. Poulsen
1966: L. Nielsen
1967: J. Hansen
1968: H. Jensen
1969: Michaelsen
1970: Larsen
1971: Pedersen
1972: Røntved
1973: Aabech
1974: Holmstrøm
1975: H. Jensen
1976: Ahlberg
1977: A. Hansen
1978: Kjær
1979: Bertelsen
1980: Bastrup
1981: A. Hansen
1982: M. Laudrup
1983: M. Olsen
1984: Elkjær
1985: M. Laudrup
1986: M. Olsen
1987: J. Jensen
1988: L. Olsen
1989: B. Laudrup
1990: Schmeichel
1991: Vilfort
1992: B. Laudrup
1993: Schmeichel
1994: Helveg
1995: B. Laudrup
1996: A. Nielsen
1997: B. Laudrup
1998: Sand
1999: Schmeichel
2000: Henriksen
2001: Sand
2002: Tomasson
2003: Wieghorst
2004: Tomasson
2005: C. Poulsen
2006: C. Poulsen
2007: Agger
2008: Laursen
2009: Kjær
2010: Kvist
2011: Kvist

Danish Football Goalkeeper of the Year

1984: Qvist
1985: Rasmussen
1986: Høgh
1987: Schmeichel
1988: Schmeichel
1989: Høgh
1990: Schmeichel
1991: Høgh
1992: Schmeichel
1993: Høgh
1994: Høgh
1995: Windfeld
1996: Nielsen
1997: Boye
1998: Nielsen
1999: Kjær
2000: Onyszko
2001: Zaza
2002: Zaza
2003: Zaza
2004: Nielsen
2005: Christiansen
2006: Christiansen
2007: Christiansen
2008: Andersen
2009: Carroll
2010: Wiland
2011: Wiland

v t e Premier League Player of the Season

1995: Shearer 1996: Schmeichel 1997: Juninho 1998: Owen 1999: Yorke 2000: Phillips 2001: Vieira 2002: Ljungberg 2003: van Nistelrooy 2004: Henry 2005: Lampard 2006: Lampard 2007: Ronaldo 2008: Ronaldo 2009: Vidić 2010: Rooney 2011: Vidić 2012: Kompany

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 Denmark squad – UEFA Euro 1988

1 Rasmussen 2 Sivebæk 3 Busk 4 M. Olsen (c) 5 Nielsen 6 Lerby 7 Helt 8 Frimann 9 Heintze 10 Elkjær 11 Laudrup 12 L. Olsen 13 Jensen 14 J. Olsen 15 Povlsen 16 Schmeichel 17 Berggreen 18 Eriksen 19 Kristensen 20 Vilfort Coach: Piontek

v t e Denmark squad – UEFA Euro 1992 Winners (1st Title)

1 Schmeichel 2 Sivebæk 3 K. Nielsen 4 Olsen 5 Andersen 6 Christofte 7 Jensen 8 Mølby 9 Povlsen 10 Elstrup 11 Laudrup 12 Piechnik 13 Larsen 14 Frank 15 Christensen Arensøe 16 Krogh 17 Christiansen 18 Vilfort 19 P. Nielsen 20 Bruun Coach: R.M. Nielsen

v t e Denmark squad – UEFA Euro 1996

1 Schmeichel 2 Helveg 3 Rieper 4 Olsen 5 Høgh 6 Schjønberg 7 B.S. Nielsen 8 Thomsen 9 Beck 10 M. Laudrup (c) 11 B. Laudrup 12 Piechnik 13 Larsen 14 Risager 15 E.B. Andersen 16 Høgh 17 A. Nielsen 18 Vilfort 19 Tøfting 20 Laursen 21 S. Andersen 22 Krogh Coach: R.M. Nielsen

v t e Denmark squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup

1 Schmeichel 2 Schjønberg 3 Rieper 4 Høgh 5 Heintze 6 Helveg 7 Nielsen 8 Frandsen 9 Molnar 10 M. Laudrup 11 B. Laudrup 12 Colding 13 Laursen 14 Wieghorst 15 Tøfting 16 Krogh 17 Goldbæk 18 Møller 19 Sand 20 Henriksen 21 Jørgensen 22 Kjær Coach: Johansson

v t e Denmark squad – UEFA Euro 2000

1 Schmeichel 2 Schjønberg 3 Henriksen 4 Høgh 5 Heintze 6 Helveg 7 A. Nielsen 8 Grønkjær 9 Tomasson 10 Jørgensen 11 Sand 12 Colding 13 Laursen 14 B.S. Nielsen 15 Tøfting 16 Sørensen 17 Goldbæk 18 Molnar 19 Bisgaard 20 Gravesen 21 Beck 22 Kjær Coach: Johansson

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Roy Keane	Manchester United captain 1997–1998	Succeeded by Roy Keane
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Bodo Illgner	UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year 1992, 1993	Succeeded by Michel Preud'homme
Preceded by Jens Lehmann	UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year 1998	Succeeded by Oliver Kahn

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Terry Venables
Personal information
Full name	Terence Frederick Venables
Date of birth	(1943-01-06) 6 January 1943 (age 69)
Place of birth	Dagenham, England
Playing position	Midfielder (retired)
Youth career
1958–1960	Chelsea
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1960–1966	Chelsea	202	(26)
1966–1969	Tottenham Hotspur	115	(19)
1969–1974	Queens Park Rangers	179	(19)
1974–1976	Crystal Palace	14	(0)
1976	St Patrick's Athletic	2	(0)
National team
1964	England	2	(0)
Teams managed
1976–1980	Crystal Palace
1980–1984	Queens Park Rangers
1984–1987	Barcelona
1987–1993	Tottenham Hotspur
1994–1996	England
1997–1998	Australia
1998–1999	Crystal Palace
2000–2001	Middlesbrough (joint role with Bryan Robson)
2002–2003	Leeds United
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

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.

Early life [link]

Venables attended Lennards Secondary School (now The Ockendon Maths And Computing College) In South Ockendon, Essex.^{[citation needed]}

Club career [link]

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.

He played 115 League games and scored 19 goals for Spurs, with the highlight being an FA Cup Final win over his old side in 1967. In June 1969, he transferred to Queens Park Rangers for £70,000 playing 179 games and scoring 19 goals, eventually in 1974 he transferred to Crystal Palace for the same fee, but only played 14 games for them before being appointed manager in June 1976.^[1]

International career [link]

As well as receiving two International Caps, Venables held the distinction of being the first footballer to play for England at all international levels (schoolboy, youth^{[disambiguation needed ]}, amateur, Under-23, and for the full international team).^[2]

Managerial career [link]

Crystal Palace (1976–1980)[link]

Having been signed as a player in 1974, appearing in only 14 games for Palace during the next two years provided Venables the opportunity to carve-out out an increasingly important coaching role under Malcolm Allison. When Palace missed promotion from the Third Division for the second successive year in 1975/76, Malcolm Allison departed, and Venables was appointed manager in his place.

His first season as manager of Crystal Palace (1976/77) was a success, albeit with promotion only being achieved on Wednesday 11 May 1977 with a dramatic away win at promotion rivals Wrexham in Palace's last game of the season. Palace wanted to win by two clear goals. With one minute remaining in the game, the score was 2-2, but Rachid Harkouk scored in the last minute and Jeff Bourne scored in injury time for Palace to win 4-2. As a consequence, Wrexham had to win their last game of the season the following Saturday, and failed. Looking back on the match 30 years later, Venables said: "It's the most memorable game for me out of all the clubs and memories I have. It was just eery, amazing, just like it was meant to be. It was quite amazing."

Palace's promotion-winning team had been built with typically astute key strategic signings and the youth players who had been coached by Venables.

Venables' successful youth policy continued through 1978, and in the 1978/79 season developed to full fruition with the Palace team which was labelled by the media as the ‘Team of the Eighties’ due to their young age and a presumption that the team would stay together during the next decade. Venables’ young team was promoted on 11 May 1979 in the last game of the season against Burnley before a club-record crowd of 51,801. Palace, requiring a draw for promotion, won 2–0 and consequently became Second Division Champions.

Venables’ first season as a manager in the top tier, 1979/80, started successfully, and on 29 September 1979, Crystal Palace were top of the English Football League for one week. This remains (as of 2010) the only time Palace have led the top division. Venables’ team ended the 1979/80 season 13th, Palace’s highest position in their history up to that date.

The following season started badly for Venables; expensive high-profile signings failed to gel, and by October 1980, Palace were bottom of the First Division, and in financial difficulties. Venables left during October to join Second Division Queens Park Rangers; the exact details behind this sudden departure are not clear.

Queen's Park Rangers (1980–1984)[link]

Venables left Palace, in the top division, for Queens Park Rangers, who were in the Second Division. His departure from Selhurst Park coincided with a decline in form for Palace, who were relegated at the end of the season and did not regain their top flight status for another eight years.

He took QPR back into the First Division as Second Division champions in 1983. He also guided Rangers to the FA Cup final in 1982 whilst still a Second Division side, but lost in a replay against his former club Tottenham.

His final season as QPR manager, 1983–84, brought more success as they finished fifth in the league (their highest finish since they were runners-up in 1976) and qualified for the UEFA Cup. Venables then moved to Spain to take over at Barcelona, while Alan Mullery took over from him at Loftus Road in an ill-fated arrangement that lasted just six months.

In October 2008, Venables was linked with a return to QPR if the incumbent Ian Dowie could not improve the club's form.^[3]

Barcelona (1984–1987)[link]

Venables gained a good reputation as a manager with his successes at Crystal Palace and QPR, and this attracted offers from some of Europe's most prestigious clubs and in 1984, he took the role of manager at Barcelona, earning the sobriquet "El Tel". Venables was recommended by Bobby Robson, a good friend of the Barcelona President and who himself, years later, would take over the team. Venables used a very English system, a classic 4–4–2, which took advantage of outstanding defenders like Gerardo, Migueli and Julio Alberto and a hard-working midfield led by German Bernd Schuster. During his three seasons in Catalonia, Venables led the club to the Spanish league title in 1985 (their first since 1974), and the Copa de la Liga in 1986. Barcelona also reached 1986 European Cup final, although they lost to Steaua Bucharest in a penalty shootout following a 0–0 draw.

Venables also brought two British strikers to Barcelona in 1986 — Gary Lineker from Everton and Mark Hughes from Manchester United. Lineker was a great success at the Camp Nou and spent three years there, until Venables brought him back to England with his new club Tottenham Hotspur in 1989. Hughes, however, was less successful and spent just one season in the Barcelona side, before being loaned to Bayern Munich.

Venables was dismissed by Barcelona in September 1987, after failing to repeat his title success at the Camp Nou and losing home and away to eventual finalists Dundee United in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup six months earlier.^[4]

Tottenham Hotspur (1987–1993)[link]

On 23 November 1987, he returned to England to manage Tottenham Hotspur. His success with the north London team was varied, with the side finishing in mid-table for most of his tenure, though they did win the FA Cup in 1991 and finished third in the league in 1990. Venables had brought both Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne to Spurs and was a favourite to replace Bobby Robson as England national football team manager when the job became vacant in 1990, but doubts about his probity led him to be passed over in favour of Graham Taylor. Venables did not even make it onto the shortlist of three managers selected by the Football Association - surprisingly this included Joe Royle of Oldham Athletic, who by that stage had yet to even manage a club in the top flight, let alone win any silverware or qualify for a European competition.^[5]

After a failed £20m bid to take over Spurs with Larry Gillick, Venables was appointed chief executive by Alan Sugar, who had won the takeover battle against Robert Maxwell in June 1991.^[1] Over the next two seasons, the Spurs team was managed by Peter Shreeves and then the joint management team of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore, with the final arrangement seeing Venables having more involvement with the first team. A clash of personalities developed and Sugar dismissed Venables on 14 May 1993, over his business dealings. After gaining a temporary injunction, he was reinstated, but lost a 3-day high court hearing and ordered to pay costs.^[1]

England (1994–1996)[link]

By November 1993, the England national football team was at low point, having failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup under previous manager Graham Taylor. Venables, though not active in the game, seemed to have the presence and charisma that could re-ignite some patriotic pride and achievement. He was appointed manager on 28 January 1994.

However, the speculation coincided with Venables coming under scrutiny and censure in connection with several of his business dealings. The Football Association struggled to identify an alternative candidate but their discomfort with his soiled reputation for probity was articulated in their appointment of him as England 'coach' rather than under the traditional title of 'manager'. However, Venables decided in January 1996 that he was going to leave the England job after the European Championships that summer, as he wanted to concentrate on clearing his name in connection with off-the-field business dealings.

As hosts, England did not need to qualify for Euro 96. There were plenty of highs and lows during the finals, where England won three of their five games (including one on penalties). The highest point came with the 4–1 defeat of the Netherlands in the final group game. England under Venables suffered penalty shoot-out heartache again in the semi-finals, losing to Germany as they had done in the 1990 World Cup semi-final. During his 23 match tenure as England manager, the team only lost once. Alan Shearer has spoken highly of Venables' tenure as England manager, stating: "The best England team I played in was the one under Terry Venables before Euro 96. Terry's knowledge and tactical know-how were spot-on and he knew how to get the best out of us too. We responded to him, believed in him and played some outstanding football in that tournament."^[6]

Australia (1996–1997)[link]

Venables became manager of Australia in November 1996, following the resignation of Eddie Thomson. In the 1997 Confederations Cup, Venables led Australia to the final before defeat to Brazil. His side swept through the Oceania World Cup qualifiers, but were beaten in a play-off by Iran on away goals, a match often referred to as the most tragic moment in Australian football history. With the team having drawn 1–1 in Tehran, Australia led the second leg 2–0 at half time, but the partisan crowd were left stunned when they conceded two late goals to miss out on qualification for the 1998 World Cup on away goals. Venables decided to quit the Socceroos as the National Governing Body had bank-rolled the Federation in the hope of reaching their first World Cup since 1974.

Portsmouth; chairman (1997–1998)[link]

Venables combined his duties with Australia for a period as consultant and then chairman at Portsmouth. He purchased a 51% controlling interest in the club for £1 in February 1997, but left in controversial circumstances 11 months later. His company Vencorp received a £300,000 bonus in the summer of 1997 and he is thought to have been paid around £250,000 upon leaving the club, but he left them bottom of Division One.^[7]

Although Portsmouth avoided relegation 1997–98, their financial situation worsened and they were in real danger of bankruptcy, until being taken over by Milan Mandarić in late 1999.

Return to Crystal Palace (1998–1999)[link]

In March 1998, he returned to Crystal Palace who had just been taken over by Mark Goldberg, and then relegated from the Premier League, for a brief period, before leaving acrimoniously in January 1999, as the south-London club went into administration. His appointment had created a media frenzy, with Goldberg boasting that he was going to turn Palace into a European force within the next five years. But the dream was over within a year, and Palace narrowly avoided going out of business, although they did at least finish in a secure position in Division One.

Middlesbrough (2000–2001)[link]

Despite being linked with vacant managerial positions with Wales and Chelsea, Venables remained out of football for nearly two years until December 2000, when he was appointed Head Coach to assist and co-manage Middlesbrough with the incumbent manager Bryan Robson in a bid to help the club avoid relegation. The club eventually finished 14th and survived. However, Venables felt Teesside was too remote a base for his media and business interests and he left at the same time as Robson in June 2001.

Leeds United (2002–2003)[link]

In July 2002, Venables joined Leeds United as manager. Although the extent of Leeds' disastrous financial problems were only beginning to become clear with club captain Rio Ferdinand sold to Manchester United only a fortnight into Venables appointment, he still inherited a stronger squad than the one that had qualified for the UEFA Champions League two years earlier (effectively, since Ferdinand was bought after qualification. Despite this, by December of that year the side had crashed out of both the League Cup and the UEFA Cup and were languishing in the bottom half of the table. Leeds were further weakened in January 2003, when Jonathan Woodgate was sold to Newcastle United without Venables being informed, in an attempt to pay off mounting debts. Venables threatened to leave if Woodgate was sold, but was persuaded to stay by Peter Ridsdale.^[8] With the club spiralling towards relegation, and amid later substantiated rumours of further player sales by the board Venables was sacked in March 2003.^[9]^[10] The fortunes of Leeds turned around temporarily after his sacking as they escaped relegation under Peter Reid, securing safety with a remarkable 3–2 win away to reigning Premier League champions Arsenal.

England Assistant Manager (2006–2007)[link]

Venables was linked with Australian club Newcastle United Jets in 2005, but his commitments in the UK prevented him from taking up a role within the club, and his agent announced that he did not sign any deal with the club. At the end of the 2005–06 season, he was linked with a return to Middlesbrough,^[11] but decided that at his age he would be unable to manage a Premier League club full time. Later in the year, Venables returned to the England set-up as assistant to new manager Steve McClaren. He was later sacked from this role in November 2007, along with McClaren, after England failed to qualify for Euro 2008.^[12]

Future [link]

Since 2007, Venables has been linked in the media with many managerial vacancies, including those at the Republic of Ireland,^[13] Bulgaria,^[14] Hull City^[15] and Wales.^[16] In 2012 he was hired by Non-League Wembley FC as a technical adviser. ^[17]

Other interests [link]

Venables is also well known for his business interests, most notably with English clubs Queen's Park Rangers (as Managing Director), Tottenham Hotspur (as Chief Executive) and Portsmouth (as Chairman). However, on 14 January 1998 he was disqualified by the high court from acting as a company director for seven years under section 8 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 for mismanagement of four companies – the London drinking club Scribes West Ltd, Edenote plc, Tottenham Hotspur plc and Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company Ltd.^[18]

The case was brought by the Department of Trade and Industry who cited instances of bribery, lying, deception, manipulation of accounts and taking money that should have been given to creditors.^[19]

In addition to his widespread business interests, Venables also co-authored four novels with writer Gordon Williams and is credited as co-creator of the ITV detective series Hazell. Having been a football pundit for BBC since the mid-80s, he left for ITV in 1994, following a legal dispute with the corporation over allegations made against him in a Panorama programme. In 1990 Venables co-devised the board game, "Terry Venables invites you to be... The Manager". This is a football management game and is a cross between the Game of Life, Risk and Trivial Pursuit. In 1995, a photograph of Venables from his playing days appeared on the cover of Morrissey single "Dagenham Dave". In 2002 Venables recorded a single for the World Cup together with the band Rider. "England Crazy" reached number 46 in the UK charts. In May 2006, Venables guided the England Legends and Celebrities squad to victory in the charity Soccer Aid programme.^[20]

In 1996, Venables appeared on a television advert for Yellow Pages, along with his predecessors as England coach, Bobby Robson and Graham Taylor, who are seen ordering a cake from a bakery found via the business directory to send as a good luck gift to Venables prior to Euro 96.

Venables is also the Chairman of Welsh League side Cambrian Sky Blues who are based in the Rhondda, South Wales.^[21]

In 2010 Venables recorded a cover of the Elvis Presley song "If I Can Dream" in association with British newspaper The Sun. It featured a 60-piece Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Harry Redknapp and Ian Wright filmed at Wembley Stadium.^[22] The song reached number 23 in the UK charts on 13 June.^[23]

Venables is currently brand ambassador for Isle of Man based gaming company, 188BET and produces a show with Sky Sport' Charlie Webster covering the Premier League and other big sporting events.^[24]

Honours [link]

Chelsea

Football League Cup: 1965

Tottenham Hotspur

FA Cup: 1967

Manager

Crystal Palace

Third Division (promotion, third placed): 1976–77
Second Division: 1978–79

Queens Park Rangers

Second Division: 1982–83

Barcelona

Tottenham Hotspur

FA Cup: 1991
Charity Shield (shared): 1991

Individual honour [link]

Don Balón Award Coach of the year in La Liga : 1985

Managerial statistics [link]

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
G	W	D	L	Win %
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Queens Park Rangers		Oct 1980	Nov 1984	&10000000000000166000000166	&1000000000000008400000084	&1000000000000003300000033	&1000000000000004900000049	&1000000000000005060000050.60
Barcelona		Jul 1984	Sep 1987	&10000000000000116000000116	&1000000000000006400000064	&1000000000000003500000035	&1000000000000001700000017	&1000000000000005517000055.17
Tottenham Hotspur		Nov 1987	May 1993	&10000000000000164000000164	&1000000000000006700000067	&1000000000000004600000046	&1000000000000005100000051	&1000000000000004085000040.85
England		Jan 1994	Jul 1996	&1000000000000002300000023	&1000000000000001100000011	&1000000000000001100000011	&100000000000000010000001	&1000000000000004782999947.83
Australia		Nov 1996	Jan 1998	&1000000000000002300000023	&1000000000000001500000015	&100000000000000050000005	&100000000000000030000003	&1000000000000006521999965.22
Crystal Palace		Jun 1998	Jan 1999	&1000000000000003100000031	&1000000000000001100000011	&100000000000000080000008	&1000000000000001200000012	&1000000000000003547999935.48
Middlesbrough		Dec 2000	Jun 2001	&1000000000000002500000025	&100000000000000080000008	&1000000000000001100000011	&100000000000000060000006	&1000000000000003200000032.00
Leeds United		Jul 2002	Mar 2003	&1000000000000004200000042	&1000000000000001600000016	&100000000000000070000007	&1000000000000001900000019	&1000000000000003810000038.10
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Bibliography [link]

Football [link]

Venables, T & Hanson, N (1995) Venables: The Autobiography ISBN 0-14-024077-2
Venables, T (1996) Venables' England: The Making of the TeamISBN 0-7522-1664-3
(1997) The Best Game in the World ISBN 0-09-918562-8

Fiction [link]

(all co-written with Gordon Williams)

(1973) They Used to Play on Grass ISBN 0-583-12077-6
As “P.B. Yuill” (1974) The Bornless Keeper
As “P.B. Yuill” (1974) Hazell Plays Solomon ISBN 0-14-024416-6
As “P.B. Yuill” (1975) Hazell and the Three Card Trick ISBN 0-14-024419-0
As “P.B. Yuill” (1976) Hazell and the Menacing Jester ISBN 0-14-024418-2

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Terry Venables factfile". The Guardian (London). 8 July 2002. http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,751390,00.html. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
^ "Ask Albert – Number 5". BBC Sport. 19 February 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/1179349.stm. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
^ "QPR 'consider return of former England boss Venables' as pressure mounts on Dowie". Daily Mail (London). 15 October 2008. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1077798/QPR-consider-return-ex-England-boss-Venables-Dowie-feels-heat.html. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
^ Jacques, Arab (3 March 2007). "Barcelona Plan Scottish Pre-Season?". Vital Football. http://www.dundeeunited.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=54887. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
^ [1]
^ "Alan Shearer gives his damning verdict on England’s World Cup flops". London: The Sun. 29 June 2010. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/worldcup2010/3033617/Alan-Shearer-gives-his-damning-verdict-on-Englands-World-Cup-flops.html#ixzz0uFoK3BR3.
^ "Venables quits Portsmouth taking a tidy profit". BBC Sport. 13 January 1998. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/46933.stm. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
^ "Venables' Leeds career". BBC Sport. 21 March 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/photo_galleries/2871585.stm. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
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^ "Leeds United Manager Profile: Terry Venables". Leeds Fans. http://www.leeds-fans.org.uk/leeds/managers/20.html. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
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^ Terry Venables emerges as leading contender to replace Phil Brown at Hull Telegraph, 16 March 2010
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^ Dizzee Rascal and James Corden score World Cup hit BBC News, 13 June 2010
^ Venables and Webster video for 188BET, 8 April 2011

External links [link]

Terry Venables career stats at Soccerbase
Terry Venables management career stats at Soccerbase
Leeds United Managers – Terry Venables (2002–03) Leeds United Web Ring
Interview^{[dead link]} The FA
Venables in line for 'one last big job' on Teesside Times Online, 17 May 2006
THEY PLAYED HERE TOO! STIG Online

Preceded by Tord Grip	England Assistant Manager 2006-2007	Succeeded by Franco Baldini

La Liga Coach of the Year - Don Balón Award

1976: Miljanić
1977: Aragonés
1978: Molowny
1979: Molowny
1980: Molowny
1981: Ormaetxea
1982: Ormaetxea
1983: Clemente
1984: Clemente
1985: Venables
1986: Molowny
1987: Clemente
1988: Beenhakker
1989: Toshack
1990: Toshack
1991: Cruyff
1992: Cruyff
1993: Iglesias
1994: Fernández
1995: Iglesias
1996: Antić
1997: Cantatore
1998: Irureta
1999: Cúper
2000: Irureta
2001: Mané
2002: Benítez
2003: Denoueix
2004: Irureta
2005: Rijkaard
2006: Rijkaard
2007: Ramos
2008: Manzano
2009: Guardiola
2010: Guardiola

Terry Venables international tournaments

v t e England squad – UEFA Euro 1996 Third Place

1 Seaman 2 G. Neville 3 Pearce 4 Ince 5 Adams (c) 6 Southgate 7 Platt 8 Gascoigne 9 Shearer 10 Sheringham 11 Anderton 12 Howey 13 Flowers 14 Barmby 15 Redknapp 16 Campbell 17 McManaman 18 Ferdinand 19 P. Neville 20 Stone 21 Fowler 22 Walker Coach: Venables

v t e Australia squad – 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup Runners-up

1 Bosnich 2 Horvat 3 Lazaridis 4 Ivanović 5 Tobin 6 Zelić 7 Slater 8 Foster 9 Viduka 10 A. Vidmar 11 Kewell 12 Bingley 13 Hooker 14 T. Vidmar 15 Skoko 16 Trimboli 17 Mori 18 Aloisi 19 Tapai 20 Kalac 21 Muscat Coach: Venables

Terry Venables managerial positions

Crystal Palace F.C. – managers

Robson (1905–07)
Goodman (1907–25)
Maley (1925–27)
Maven (1927–30)
Tresadern (1930–35)
Bromilow (1935–36)
Moyes (1936–36)
Bromilow (1936–39)
Irwin (1939–47)
Butler (1947–49)
Rooke (1949–50)
Dawes (1950–51)
Slade (1950–51)
Scott (1951–54)
Spiers (1954–58)
G. Smith (1958–60)
Rowe (1960–62)
Graham (1963–66)
Head (1966–72)
Allison (1973–76)
Venables (1976–80)
Walley (1980)
Allison (1980–81)
Gradi (1981)
Kember (1981–82)
Mullery (1982–84)
Bassett (1984)
Coppell (1984–93)
A. Smith (1993–95)
Coppell (1995–96)
Bassett (1996–97)
Coppell (1997–98)
Lombardo and Brolin (1998)
Noades and Lewington (1998)
Venables (1998–99)
Coppell (1999–2000)
A. Smith (2000–01)
Kember (2001)
Bruce (2001)
Kember and Bullivant (2001)
Francis (2001–03)
Kember (2003)
Symons (2003)
Dowie (2003–06)
Taylor (2006–07)
Symons (2007)
Warnock (2007–10)
Hart (2010)
Burley (2010–11)
Freedman (2011–)

Queens Park Rangers F.C. – managers

Cowan (1913–20)
Howie (1913–20)
Liddell (1920–25)
Hewison (1925–31)
Mitchell (1931–33)
O'Brien (1933–35)
Birrell (1935–39)
Vizard (1939–44)
Mangnall (1944–52)
Taylor (1952–59)
Stock (1959–68)
Dodgin (1968)
Docherty (1968)
Allen (1968–71)
Jago (1971–74)
Anderson (1974)
Sexton (1974–77)
Sibley (1977–78)
Burtenshaw (1978–79)
Docherty (1979–80)
Venables (1980–84)
Mullery (1984)
Sibley (1984–85)
Smith (1985–88)
T. Francis (1988–89)
Howe (1989–91)
G. Francis (1991–1994)
Wilkins (1994–96)
Houston (1996–97)
Hollins (1997)
R. Harford (1997–98)
Dowie (1998)
G. Francis (1998–2001)
Holloway (2001–06)
Waddock (2006)
Gregory (2006–07)
M. Harford (2007)
De Canio (2007–08)
Dowie (2008)
Ainsworth (2008)
Sousa (2008–09)
Ainsworth (2009)
Magilton (2009)
Hart (2009–10)
M. Harford (2010)
Warnock (2010–12)
Hughes (2012–)

FC Barcelona – managers

Barrow (1917)
Greenwell (1917–24)
Poszony (1924)
Kirby (1924–26)
Domby (1926–27)
Forns (1927–29)
Bellamy (1929–31)
Greenwell (1931–33)
Domby (1933–34)
Plattkó (1934–35)
O'Connell (1935–40)
Planas (1940–41)
Guzmán (1941–42)
Nogués (1942–44)
Samitier (1944–47)
Fernández (1947–50)
Daučík (1950–54)
Puppo (1954–55)
Plattkó (1955–56)
Balmanya (1956–58)
Herrera (1958–60)
Broćić (1960–61)
Orizaola (1961)
Miró (1961)
Kubala (1961–63)
Gonzalvo (1963)
C.Rodríguez (1963–64)
Sasot (1964–65)
Olsen (1965–67)
Artigas (1967–69)
Seguer (1969)
Buckingham (1969–71)
Michels (1971–75)
Weisweiler (1975–76)
Ruiz (1976)
Michels (1976–78)
Muller (1978–79)
Rifé (1979–80)
Herrera (1980)
Kubala (1980)
Herrera (1980–81)
Lattek (1981–83)
Romero (1983)
Menotti (1983–84)
Venables (1984–87)
Aragonés (1987–88)
Cruijff (1988–91)
Rexach (1991)
Cruijff (1991–96)
Robson (1996–97)
van Gaal (1997–2000)
Serra Ferrer (2000–01)
Rexach (2001–02)
van Gaal (2002–03)
De la Cruz (2003)
Antić (2003)
Rijkaard (2003–08)
Guardiola (2008–12)
Vilanova (2012–)

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. – managers

Brettell (1898–1899)
Cameron (1899–1907)
Kirkham (1907–1908)
Turner (1908–1912^s)
McWilliam (1913–1927)
Minter (1927–1930)
Smith (1930–1935)
Hardinge (1935^c)
Tresadern (1935–1938)
McWilliam (1938–1942)
Turner (1942–1946)
Hulme (1946–1949)
Rowe (1949–1955)
Anderson (1955–1958)
Nicholson (1958–1974)
Neill (1974–1976)
Burkinshaw (1976–1984)
Shreeves (1984–1986)
Pleat (1986–1987)
Hartley & Livermore (1987^c)
Venables (1987–1991)
Shreeves (1991–1992)
Livermore & Clemence (1992–1993)
Ardiles (1993–1994)
Perryman (1994^c)
Francis (1994–1997)
Hughton (1997^c)
Gross (1997–1998)
Pleat (1998^c)
Graham (1998–2001)
Pleat (2001^c)
Hoddle (2001–2003)
Pleat (2003–2004^c)
Santini (2004)
Jol (2004–2007)
Allen (2007^c)
Ramos (2007–08)
Redknapp (2008–)

England national football team – managers

Winterbottom (1946–62)
Ramsey (1963–74)
Mercer (caretaker) (1974)
Revie (1974–77)
Greenwood (1977–82)
Robson (1982–90)
G. Taylor (1990–93)
Venables (1993–96)
Hoddle (1996–99)
Keegan (1999–2000)
Wilkinson (caretaker) (2000)
P. Taylor (caretaker) (2000–01)
Eriksson (2001–06)
McClaren (2006–07)
Capello (2008–12)
Pearce (caretaker) (2012)
Hodgson (2012–)

Australia national association football team – managers

Gillespi (1947)
Langridge (1947)
Jack (1950)
Brophy (1954–55)
Marston (1958)
Jelisavcic (1965)
Vengloš (1965–67)
Vlatsis (1967–69)
Rašić (1970–74)
Worthington(a.i.) (1975)
Green (1976)
Shoulder (1976–78)
Gutendorf (1979–81)
Scheinflug (1981–83)
Arok (1983–90)
Scheinflug(a.i.) (1983)
Scheinflug(a.i.) (1990)
Thomson (1990–96)
Scheinflug(a.i.) (1992)
Fernandez(a.i.) (1992)
Scheinflug(a.i.) (1994)
Blanco(a.i.) (1996)
Venables (1997–98)
Blanco (1998–99)
Farina (1999–2005)
Hiddink (2005–06)
Arnold (2006–07)
Baan(a.i.) (2007)
Verbeek (2007–10)
Berger(a.i.) (2010)
Osieck (2010–)

Middlesbrough F.C. – managers

J.Robson (1899–1905)
Mackie (1905–06)
Aitken (1906–09)
Gunter (1909–10)
Walker (1910–11)
McIntosh (1911–19)
Howie (1920–23)
Bamlett (1923–26)
McWilliam (1927–34)
Gillow (1934–44)
Jack (1944–52)
Rowley (1952–54)
Dennison (1954–63)
Carter (1963–66)
Anderson (1966–73)
Charlton (1973–77)
Neal (1977–81)
Murdoch (1981–82)
Allison (1982–84)
Maddren (1984–86)
Rioch (1986–90)
Todd (1990–91)
Lawrence (1991–94)
B.Robson (1994–2001)
Venables (2001)
McClaren (2001–06)
Southgate (2006–09)
Strachan (2009–10)
Mowbray (2010–)

Leeds United A.F.C. – managers

Ray (1919–20)
Fairclough (1920–1927)
Ray (1927–35)
Hampson (1935–47)
Edwards (1947–48)
Buckley (1948–53)
Carter (1953–58)
Edwards (1958^(c))
Lambton (1958–59)
Taylor (1959–61)
Revie (1961–74)
Clough (1974)
Lindley (1974^(c))
Armfield (1974–78)
Lindley (1978^(c))
Stein (1978)
Lindley (1978^(c))
Adamson (1978–80)
Lindley (1980^(c))
Merrington (1980^(c))
Clarke (1980–82)
Gray (1982–85)
Gunby (1985^(c))
Bremner (1985–88)
Hunter (1988^(c))
Wilkinson (1988–96)
Graham (1996–98)
O'Leary (1998–2002)
Venables (2002–03)
Reid (2003)
Gray (2003–04^(c))
Blackwell (2004–06)
Carver (2006^(c))
Geddis (2006^(c))
Wise (2006–08)
Williams (2008^(c))
McAllister (2008)
Grayson (2008–12)
Redfearn (2012^(c))
Warnock (2012–)

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Not to be confused with Ali Daei.

Ali Dia
Personal information
Full name	Ali Dia
Date of birth	(1965-08-20) 20 August 1965 (age 46)
Place of birth	Dakar, Senegal
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1988–1989	Beauvais
1989–1990	Dijon
1990–1991	La Rochelle
1991–1992	Saint-Quentin
1995	FinnPa	5	(0)
1995	PK-35
1995	VfB Lübeck	2	(0)
1996	Blyth Spartans	1	(0)
1996	Southampton	1	(0)
1996–1997	Gateshead	8	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Ali Dia (born 20 August 1965 in Dakar) is a former professional Senegalese footballer who once played for the English FA Premier League club Southampton after falsely claiming to be a cousin of Liberian international George Weah.^[1]

Career [link]

After a playing career at the lower levels in France and Germany, and having already had failed trials at Port Vale, Gillingham, and Bournemouth, Dia joined non-league club Blyth Spartans, where he made only one substitute appearance – on 9 November 1996 in a Northern Premier League game against Boston United.^{[citation needed]}

Days later, Dia was signed by Southampton manager Graeme Souness, after Souness received a phone call purporting to be from Liberian international and former FIFA World Player of the Year, George Weah. "Weah" told Souness that Dia was his cousin, had played for Paris Saint-Germain, and had played 13 times for his country. None of this was actually true, and the phone call was made by a fellow university student of Dia's to Souness, suggesting that he should give Dia a chance with Southampton.^[2] Souness was convinced, and signed Dia on a one-month contract.

Dia played just one game for Southampton, wearing the number 33 shirt, against Leeds United on 23 November 1996; he had originally been scheduled to play in a reserve team friendly against Arsenal, but the match was cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch. In the match against Leeds, he came on as a substitute for Matthew Le Tissier after 32 minutes, but was later substituted himself (for Ken Monkou) after playing for 53 minutes;^[3] Leeds won the match 2–0. Le Tissier said: "He ran around the pitch like Bambi on ice; it was very embarrassing to watch."^[4]

Dia was released by Southampton two weeks into his contract.^{[citation needed]} He briefly played for non-league Gateshead, before leaving in February 1997.^[1] Dia only played 8 games for the North East outfit, including scoring on his debut in a 5–0 win over Bath City.^[5]

He went on to study business at Northumbria University in Newcastle, graduating in 2001.^[6]

Legacy [link]

Dia has achieved a notorious status amongst English football fans for his lack of ability, and is regularly featured in lists of bad players or bad transfers.^[1]^[7] He was named at Number 1 in a list of "The 50 worst footballers" in The Times newspaper.^[8]

He was also named the Number 1 in a list of the "Top 10 rubbish footballers" in The Sun newspaper,^[9] and again at Number 4 in a list for the Top 50 worst strikers according to the Daily Mail.^[10]

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c Hills, David (6 August 2000). "The 10 worst foreign signings of all time". The Observer (London). http://observer.guardian.co.uk/toptens/story/0,14034,1078421,00.html. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
^ "Never again...". BBC Sport. 1 April 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/2902411.stm. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
^ Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (2003). In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology. pp. 248 & 504. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.
^ Gibbs, Thom (7 February 2011). "Five terrible debuts to make Fernando Torres feel better". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/8309048/Five-terrible-debuts-to-make-Fernando-Torres-feel-better.html. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "Gateshead F.C. Season 1996/97". Unofficial Gateshead Football Club Statistics Database. http://gfcstats.webs.com/9697.htm. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
^ "Meet the BBC's guest editor (and other accidental heroes)". The Independent (London). 17 May 2006. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/meet-the-bbcs-guest-editor-and-other-accidental-heroes-478556.html. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
^ "Premiership's Top 10 Foreign Flops". whoateallthepies.tv. Archived from the original on 25 May 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080525134155/http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/2006/11/premierships_to.html.
^ Murphy, Alex (4 July 2007). "The 50 worst footballers". The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2025420.ece. Retrieved 20 July 2007.
^ Glicksman, Gavin (23 February 2009). "Top 10 rubbish footballers". The Sun (London). http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/top10s/article2261603.ece?offset=10. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
^ Bellwood, Tom (9 October 2009). "Top 50 Worst Strikers in the Premier League". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1219047/THE-LIST-The-worst-strikers-played-Premier-League-Nos-10-1.html. Retrieved 9 October 2009.

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Persondata
Name	Schmeichel, Peter
Alternative names
Short description	Danish footballer
Date of birth	18 November 1963
Place of birth	Gladsaxe, Denmark
Date of death
Place of death

Persondata
Name	Venables, Terry
Alternative names
Short description	English footballer and manager
Date of birth	6 January 1943
Place of birth	Dagenham, England
Date of death
Place of death

Persondata
Name	Dia, Ali
Alternative names
Short description	Senegalese footballer
Date of birth	20 August 1965
Place of birth	Dakar, Senegal
Date of death
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