Paul Christopher Lambert (born 7 August 1969) is a Scottish professional association football manager and former player who is the manager of Norwich City.

Lambert won numerous honours as a player, winning the Scottish Cup with St. Mirren as a 17-year-old, the UEFA Champions League with Borussia Dortmund, all the Scottish domestic honours with Celtic and 40 caps for Scotland.

He achieved success managing in England's lower divisions and guided Norwich into English football's Premier League.

Lambert started his playing career at Linwood Rangers Boys' Club in 1980 in his hometown of Linwood, before entering the professional game with St. Mirren in 1985. With St Mirren the 17 year old Lambert won his first senior winner's medal courtesy of the 1987 Scottish Cup Final. Saints beat favourites and that season's UEFA Cup Finalists, Jim McLean's Dundee Utd, in what turned out to be the last time the Scottish Cup was won by a team composed entirely of Scottish players. Lambert played with St Mirren for eight years.

Gabriel Imuetinyan Agbonlahor (born 13 October 1986) is an English footballer who plays for Aston Villa as a striker and is currently the team's interim captain. Agbonlahor is a product of Aston Villa's Academy and has earned three caps for the English national team. He is currently the longest-serving player at Villa Park, joining as a youth player in 1994 and playing professionally for the club since 2005. In addition to this, he is also Aston Villa's second-highest Premier League goalscorer of all time with 53 goals, behind Dwight Yorke who scored 60.

Born in Birmingham, West Midlands, Agbonlahor is of Nigerian and Scottish descent. Agbonlahor came through the youth ranks at local club Aston Villa. As an 18-year-old, he was loaned out to Sheffield Wednesday and Watford in 2005 to gain first team experience. Agbonlahor's Premier League debut for Villa came on 18 March 2006 at the age of 19, under manager David O'Leary, against Everton at Goodison Park. O'Leary was forced to delve into the youth academy because of a lack of senior strikers due to injury, thus earning Agbonlahor a rare start. He scored after 63 minutes, although Villa went on to lose the match 4–1.

Thomas Hitzlsperger (born 5 April 1982 in Munich) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder. He is currently without a club after being released by Bundesliga club Wolfsburg. Hitzlsperger spent the early part of his career playing for Aston Villa in England (accompanied by a short loan spell at Chesterfield), before returning to Germany to play for Stuttgart. In 2010 he signed for Italian side Lazio, before moving back to England to join West Ham United later that year. Hitzlsperger has also represented the German national team, earning 52 caps.

Hitzlsperger, the youngest child of Ludwig and Anneliese Hitzlsperger, grew up in Forstinning alongside his five brothers and one sister, In August 2000 he joined Aston Villa on a free transfer from the Bayern Munich Junior Team. He had spent a short trial period with Celtic after leaving Bayern Munich, but he opted to join Aston Villa.^{[citation needed]}

Alan Scott Pardew (born 18 July 1961 in Wimbledon, London) is an English football manager and former player who has managed Newcastle United since 2010.

His highest achievements in the sport include reaching the FA Cup Final twice, as a player with Crystal Palace in 1990 and as a manager with West Ham United in 2006, though he ended up on the losing side both times. He has also achieved promotion three times in his career, as a player with Crystal Palace and as a manager with Reading and West Ham. He managed Southampton to victory in the Football League Trophy in 2010. As Newcastle's manager, he won both the Premier League Manager of the Season and the LMA Manager of the Year awards after guiding the Magpies to European football for the first time since the club's return to the Premier League.

Pardew started his career as a part-time player in non-League football at Whyteleafe and Epsom & Ewell, whilst working as a glazier and a cab driver. He grew up as a Fulham fan and at one stage he gave up football for six months whilst working in the Middle East, but he returned to football at Corinthian Casuals before later having spells at Dulwich Hamlet and Yeovil Town. Pardew was also in the England Semi-Professional squad during this time.

Christopher William Gerard "Chris" Hughton (born 11 December 1958 in Stratford, London) is a professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Birmingham City.

After making his professional début at age 18, Hughton spent most of his playing career with Tottenham Hotspur as a left back, leaving in 1990 after 13 years. After relatively brief spells with West Ham United and Brentford, Hughton retired from playing in 1993 aged 34. He also earned 53 caps for the Republic of Ireland national team, becoming their first mixed-race international. He started all three games of UEFA Euro 1988 in West Germany.

From 1993 to 2007 Hughton served as a coach and then assistant manager for Tottenham. He joined Newcastle as first team coach in 2008, and following their relegation, Hughton as caretaker manager took charge of their first season in the Championship, before being announced as permanent manager in October 2009. He was sacked as manager by Mike Ashley on 6 December 2010.