- Mark Hughes
Mark Anthony Hughes (born 16 September 1983 in Dungannon, Northern Ireland) is a tough tackling, Northern Irish footballer, currently a free agent after leaving Stevenage Borough on May 17th. He is predominantly a central midfielder player. Mark started his career at Tottenham Hotspur, coming through their youth system and breaking into the reserve side.
- Andy Robinson
Andy Robinson (born November 3, 1979 in Birkenhead, Liverpool, UK) is a professional football player, currently playing for League One side Swansea City. He is part of the Scouse connection at the club and also the free-kick specialist. Robinson began his football career playing for non-league Merseyside team Cammell Laird before being recruited by Tranmere Rovers on 1 December 2002. Rovers overlooked his potential however and soon released him, …
- Lee Trundle
Lee Trundle (born 10 October 1976 in Liverpool) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Swansea City in League One. He is eligible to play for either England or the Republic of Ireland but has not yet made an international appearance.
- John Ward
John Patrick Ward (born 7 April 1951 in Lincoln, England) is an English former footballer and is the current manager of League One club Cheltenham Town, having been appointed in 2003. As a player, Ward spent the bulk of his career as a forward at Lincoln City where he scored more than 100 goals between 1970 and 1979. He also had spells at Watford, Grimsby and Workington.
- Martin Ling
Martin Ling (born 15 July 1966) is the current manager of English football side Leyton Orient of League One. In the 2005/2006 league campaign he managed to get Leyton Orient promoted from League 2 into League 1 after a dramatic final day of the season when they secured their automatic promotion place right at the death. He first played for Orient in 1996, when he joined from Swindon Town.
- Leon Britton
Leon Britton is a professional footballer, currently playing for Swansea City in League One. A member of the England Development School at Lilleshall where he was a year behind Joe Cole, Britton began his career as an Arsenal trainee. When he signed for West Ham United for £400,000 in 1998, he attracted the highest transfer fee ever paid for a 16 year-old at that time. Unable to break into the first team at West Ham, Britton joined Swansea City on loan in December 2002, …
- Billy Sharp
William Louis "Billy" Sharp (born 5 February 1986 in Sheffield) is an English professional footballer currently playing a striker role at Sheffield United.
- Leon Constantine
Leon Constantine (born February 24 1978) is an English professional footballer. He currently has no club as he left Port Vale at the end of the season. Constantine was born in Hackney, London and played for Edgware Town before joining Millwall in September 2000. He made his debut for Millwall on September 30, 2000, coming on as a late substitute for Paul Ifill in a 4-1 win away to Peterborough United. He had loan spells with Leyton Orient and Partick Thistle, …
- Grant Holt
Grant Holt is an English footballer, currently playing for League One side Nottingham Forest. The Carlisle born striker, most notable for his time at Rochdale, has a high strike rate in front of goal. For Rochdale, he made 83 appearances and scored 42 goals. This made him a target for many upper league clubs, but it was Nottingham Forest who paid £300,000 to secure his services in January 2006. He played for several Conference League clubs in his early career, …
- Paul Smith
Paul Daniel Smith (born December 17, 1979 in Epsom, England) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Nottingham Forest Smith started his career at Charlton Athletic but was released in the summer of 1999 after one year as a professional. After a short period with Walton & Hersham, Paul moved to Carshalton Athletic in late 1999 but moved to Brentford in August 2000 after they spotted Smith guesting for Crawley Town in a pre-season friendly against The Bees.
- Gary Roberts
Gary Roberts (born February 2, 1987, Chester, England) is a professional footballer, currently playing for the League One club Crewe Alexandra F.C.. Roberts made his professional debut against Burnley. Roberts signed as a professional in 2004 on Roberts' 17th birthday after making good progress through the club's youth ranks. It wasn't until the 2005-06 season when Roberts started playing regular football for Crewe, making 32 appearances and scoring 2 goals in those games.
- Curtis Davies
Curtis Eugene Davies (born March 15, 1985 in Leytonstone, London) is an English professional footballer who plays as a central defender. He is currently the captain of West Bromwich Albion.
- Gary Hooper
Gary Hooper (born January 26, 1988) is an English footballer currently playing as a forward for Southend United. He began his career with Conference side Grays Athletic, scoring eight times in 37 Conference games in the 2005-06 season. He joined Southend United on trial in July 2006 and was rewarded with a one year contract by Southend manager Steve Tilson the following month.
- Keigan Parker
Keigan Parker (born 8 June 1982 in Livingston, West Lothian) is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing for English club Blackpool. Parker, a striker, started his career with Scottish club St. Johnstone, where he made a promising start to his career and was being tipped by many to have a big future. Unable to impress enough at McDiarmid Park, in 2004, after six years in Perth, he joined Blackpool, where he has found some consistency.
- Paul Reid
Paul Mark Reid (born February 18, 1982 in Carlisle, England) is an English football player. Reid wears the number 4 shirt for Barnsley where he is currently the team's captain.
- Bas Savage
Basir "Bas" Savage (born 7 January 1982 in London) is a professional footballer. He is currently at Football League One side Brighton & Hove Albion and is known for his trademark moonwalk goal celebration, which has gained cult fame on TV's "Soccer AM".
- Darius Henderson
Darius Alexis Henderson (born 7 September 1981 in Doncaster) is a professional footballer, currently playing for Watford. Henderson started his career at Reading, making his debut as a substitute on 18 March 2000 in a 3-0 loss to Burnley. After a further two substitiute appearances he made his first start, in a 2-1 victory over Wycombe Wanderers on 24 April 2000, although he was substituted at half-time. He made a further two appearances that season.
- Billy Jones
Billy Jones (born June 26, 1983 in Gillingham) is a footballer with Coca-Cola League 1 side Crewe Alexandra. A defender, he was Exeter's first signing of the 2005 pre-season, re-uniting with Alex Inglethorpe, whom he had worked with during his time in Leyton Orient's youth setup. His league debut came for Orient, in January 2001, when he was just 17. Over the next four seasons he played 79 games for the club, moving to Kidderminster Harriers in January 2005.
- Andy Kirk
Andy Kirk is a Northern Irish footballer, currently playing as a striker for Northampton Town. He is the son of former footballer and current Lisburn Distillery F.C. manager Paul Kirk. Kirk started his career with hometown Glentoran, having had several unsuccessful trials in England. His spell in the Irish Football League was to prove short-lived though, as Jim Jefferies signed him for Heart of Midlothian for £50,000 in February 1999.
- Simon Cox
Simon Richard Cox (born 28 April 1987 in Reading, England) is a footballer currently playing for Reading. He can play either as a midfielder or a striker.
- Ian Moore
Ian Moore (born 26 August 1976 in Birkenhead) is an English professional footballer, currently playing for League One side Hartlepool United. He mostly plays as a centre-forward but is also able to play on the right wing. He is the son of current Tranmere Rovers manager Ronnie Moore. Moore began his career at Tranmere, where he made over fifty appearances. He also spent a short period on loan at Bradford City to gain more first team experience.
- Wayne Gray
Wayne Gray (born 7 November 1980 in London) is an English professional footballer. He is a forward, currently playing for Leyton Orient. Gray began his career at Wimbledon in 1999, where he stayed for three years. From 2000 to 2002 he went on a series of loans at Swindon Town, Port Vale, Leyton Orient and Brighton & Hove Albion. In 2004, he was transferred to Southend United where he scored over 20 goals in two years. In June 2006 he moved to Yeovil Town.
- Robbie Williams
Robert "Robbie" Ian Williams (born 2 October 1984 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Barnsley in the Coca-Cola Championship. He plays at left-back. Williams came through the youth ranks with Barnsley, playing over fifty first-team games. He made his debut on 5 October 2002, against Brentford. On March 22, 2007, Williams joined Blackpool on loan until the end of the season.
- Paul McLaren
Paul McLaren (born November 17 1976, High Wycombe) is a footballer, currently playing as a midfielder for Tranmere Rovers. He began his career as a trainee for Luton Town playing over 160 games over 8 seasons. He left Luton to step up a Division for Sheffield Wednesday where he played 96 games and scored 6 goals. He was released however, by Chris Turner after faliure to gain promotion to The Championship.
- Caleb Folan
Caleb Colman Folan (born October 26 1982 in Leeds, England) is an Irish footballer, currently playing for Wigan Athletic. He qualifies for the Republic of Ireland through his grandfather who was from Innis Mor and his grandmother from Galway.
- Alan Tate
Alan Tate (born 2 September 1982 in Easington, England) is a professional footballer, currently playing for Swansea City in League One. Tate began his career as a trainee at Manchester United, earning himself a professional contract. Although he went on the captain United's reserve team including such players as Quinton Fortune, Luke Chadwick and Chris Eagles, he failed to break into the first team.
- Darryl Flahavan
Darryl James Flahavan [fla-haa-van] (born 28 November 1978 in Southampton) is an English football goalkeeper who currently plays for Southend United. He is renowned as one of the best goalkeepers in The Football League, winning the PFA League One player of the year and was named in the League One Team of the Year in 2005-06; he was also named Southend United Player's Player of the year in 2005-06. Though relatively short for a goalkeeper at 5'11", …
- Eddie Lewis
Edward (Eddie) Lewis (born May 17, 1974, in Cerritos, California) is an American footballer, who currently plays as a left midfielder for Leeds United in England's League One.
- Chris Porter
Christopher John "Chris" Porter is an English footballer, currently playing for Motherwell. He joined Oldham Athletic after moving from Bury for a final tribunal fee of £150,000. He was the second joint top scorer in the 2006-07 season with 22 League One goals that helped his side attain a playoff place. He is out of contract at Boundary Park and bigger clubs are just waiting to pounce for this player. There was controversy surrounding the player when, in June 2007, …
- Leon Knight
Leon Knight (born 16 September 1982 in Hackney, London) is a English dwarf currently playing for League Two "side" Milton Keynes Dons. He joined the club from Swansea City in January 2007, just one year after joining the Welsh club from Brighton & Hove Albion. Knight began his career as a rentboy at Chelsea, spending loan periods at Queens Park Rangers, Huddersfield Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Brighton & Hove Albion before joining Brighton on a permanent contract in 2003.
- James Brown
James Brown is a professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Hartlepool United in League One. James Brown joined the Hartlepool youth set-up from Cramlington Boys Club. However, he joined too late to through the Youth Scholarship system and was subsequently offered a temporally deal. He was part of Hartlepool’s under 19s side that won the Dallas Cup.
- Adebayo Akinfenwa
Saheed Adebayo Akinfenwa (born 10 May 1982) is a professional footballer. He is a large and imposing forward with a sometimes physical style. Akinfenwa was born in London, but, due to his parentage, is eligible to play for either Nigeria or England although he has made no international appearances. As a teenager, Akinfenwa joined the Lithuanian club FK Atlantas on the advice of his agent, whose Lithuanian wife's brother knew a member of the coaching staff there.
- Graeme Lee
Graeme Lee is a professional footballer currently playing for Doncaster Rovers. Graeme started his career at Hartlepool United, notching up almost 300 appearances at center back and helping the club secure promotion to League One. In 2003 he was snapped up by former boss Chris Turner for Sheffield Wednesday. He made 37 appearances for Wednesday and scored 5 goals in his first season and took up the captain's arm band when Dean Smith was injured, …
- Rory Fallon
Rory Fallon is a tall, powerful striker who plays for English Football League Championship team Plymouth Argyle. He is contracted until June 2009. In the January transfer window 2006 League One team Swansea City signed him from Swindon Town for a believed fee of £300,000 the second highest fee ever paid by the Welsh club, and in January 2007, Plymouth Argyle equalled its transfer record by bringing Fallon to Home Park for the same sum.
- Sammy Clingan
Sammy Clingan (born Belfast, January 13, 1984) is a Northern Ireland international professional footballer currently playing for Nottingham Forest in League One. He is 5'11" (1.80 metres) tall and weighs 11st 6lbs (72.6 kg). He plays primarily as a central midfielder, and can also play on the right wing. He is a set piece specialist for Northern Ireland, and takes many of the Forest free kicks, along with Kris Commons.
- Chris Coyne
Chris Coyne is an Australian football (soccer) player currently playing for Luton Town football club and is the older brother of Jamie Coyne of Perth Glory. Coyne started his career with Australian side Perth S.C. before a £150,000 move to England with West Ham United. He was part of the Hammers youth team that reached the FA Youth Cup final. After only one appearance for West Ham, and unsuccessful loan spells at Brentford and Southend, …
- Paul Hayes
Paul Edward Hayes (born December 9 1983 in Dagenham, England) is an English footballer with Football League Championship side Scunthorpe United. Hayes grew up in East London and went to Barclay Junior School in Leyton, where he captained the school football team from the age of 7. Hayes started his footballing career as a school boy with Norwich City where he spent 3 years, before signing for Scunthorpe United in 2002. He made over 115 appearances, scoring 33 goals.
- Gary McDonald
Gary McDonald (born 10 April 1982) is a professional footballer currently playing for English League One club Oldham Athletic. He started his career at Kilmarnock, making his debut in the 2001-02 season and has been capped by Scotland at Under-21 level. McDonald was also capped in a Scotland B international against Poland at his home ground, Rugby Park in 2005, scoring the opening goal in a 2-0 victory.
- Alan Knill
Alan Richard Knill (born 8 October 1964 in Slough) is a former footballer. He is presently a coach at Chesterfield. Between February 2006 and March 2007 he was manager of League One side Rotherham United. As a player, Knill was a central defender for Southampton (1982-84), Halifax Town (1984-87), Swansea City (1987-89), Bury (1989-93), Cardiff City (1993, on loan), Scunthorpe United (1993-97) and Rotherham United (1997-99).
- Ian Westlake
Ian Westlake (born 10 July, 1983 in Clacton) is an English professional footballer formerly of Ipswich Town, but currently playing for West Yorkshire team Leeds United. He was a trainee at Ipswich Town and signed as a professional in 2002. He won the coveted Player of the Year award in 2004. He moved to Leeds United in a part exchange deal for Dan Harding in August 2006. Westlake has featured many of Leeds' matches in the 2006-07 Championship season, …