Matthew Philip "Matt" Heath (born 1 November 1981) is an English footballer who is currently playing for Harrogate Town. Heath has previously played in the Premier League for Leicester City and in the Football League for Stockport County, Coventry City, Leeds United, Colchester United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Southend United. He famously scored from a header via a corner against Burnley in 2007.
Heath began his career at his hometown club Leicester City in 2001. He made sixty appearances for the club, scoring six goals and gaining Premier League experience during his time at the Walkers Stadium. He was also loaned out to Stockport County in the 2003–04 season to gain first-team experience. Heath played a total of 13 league games in the Premier League as Leicester suffered relegation to the Championship. Nonetheless, he believed the club could regain promotion in May 2004.
Heath scored against Coventry City for Leicester in a 3–0 win in the 2004–05 season before being signed by Coventry City for a nominal fee in 2005, by his former Leicester boss Micky Adams.
Matt Heath is a New Zealand actor best known for his role of Danny Parker in Back Of The Y Masterpiece Television. He has also worked on animated shorts for MTV2 in the UK, and he and Back of the Y co-star Chris Stapp appear in season 6 of Eating Media Lunch. Matt Heath now does the breakfast show on Radio Hauraki.
In 2013 Heath was banned from France after a television incident whereby he explained the art of the 'thumbsquirt' to a dozen shocked children and their parents. He explained that the thumbsquirt involved the act of inserting one's thumb into one's own rectum and then "squeezing out a grunter". Following his expulsion from France Heath was forced to return to New Zealand in shame. He has now publicly commented on the incident, while commentating the cricket as part of the Alternative Commentary Collective.