- Michael Owen
Michael Owen (born 7 January 1980 in Pontypridd) is a Welsh rugby player. He plays for the Newport Gwent Dragons at club level and Wales internationally. Owen, who is 6'5" and 231 lb (1.96 m, 105 kg), most often plays Number 8, but is also versatile enough to play flanker or even lock. His ball handling is arguably his greatest asset. Michael Owen became the 1,000th player capped by Wales when he made his debut in the first Test against South Africa in June 2002.
- Lee Byrne
Lee Byrne (born 1 June, 1980 in Bridgend, Wales) is a Welsh rugby union footballer, currently playing for the Ospreys in the Magners League and Heineken Cup. He has also played for the Welsh national team, and has been capped 11 times. His usual position is at full-back, although he has played on the wing. Following his good performances for the Llanelli Scarlets in both the Celtic League and the Heineken Cup during the 2005-06 season, …
- Enzo Maccarinelli
Enzo Maccarinelli (born August 20, 1980 in Swansea, Wales) is a professional boxer in the cruiserweight division. His record is 24-1 (18 KOs). He is the current WBO world cruiserweight champion. On June 28, 2003, Maccarinelli won the vacant WBU cruiserweight title when he defeated Bruce Scott by fourth-round TKO. He has defended the title seven times since then.
- Thierry Dusautoir
Thierry Dusautoir is a French rugby union footballer. His usual position is flanker. He currently plays for Toulouse in the Top 14 club competition in France. He has played for France. Dusautoir's first club was Bègles-Bordeaux. He subsequently moved to the US Colomiers, and later signed with Biarritz. He played in the final of the 2005-06 Heineken Cup at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which was lost to Irish team Munster.
- Dafydd Jones
Dafydd Jones (born 24 June, 1979 in Wales) is a Welsh rugby union footballer, who plays for the Llanelli Scarlets in the Celtic League. Evans has also played for Wales. He plays in the back row. He is a product of Llanelli's youth system, and went onto play for Wales Development as well as the Sevens and 'A' teams. He made his Test debut for Wales on November 9, 2002 against Fiji at Millennium Stadium. Wales won the match 58 to 14.
- Juan Smith
Juan Smith (born 30 July 1981 in Bloemfontein, South Africa) is a South African rugby union footballer. His usual position is at blindside flank, and he has played for the Springboks. He played for the Central Cheetahs in the international Super 14 competition as well as the Free State Cheetahs in the Currie Cup. He is the current captain of the Central Cheetahs. Smith made his international debut for South Africa on June 7, 2003, …
- Donncha O'Callaghan
Donncha O'Callaghan (pronounced "Dunaca")(born March 23, 1979) is an Irish rugby union footballer, who was educated at Christian Brothers College, Cork, although he began his rugby education on the training pitches of Highfield Rugby Club, on the Model Farm Road in Cork, with expert tutelage in the ways of the 'Field from the likes of club talisman Ted Stack. He plays as a lock for Munster and Ireland. He is 6 ft 6 ins tall and weighs over 17 stone (238 lb).
- Iain Balshaw
Iain Robert Balshaw MBE (born April 14, 1979 in Blackburn) is a rugby union footballer who plays on the wing or at full back for Gloucester. Balshaw was educated at the Jesuit Stonyhurst College, at junior level he played for Preston Grasshoppers and joined Bath as a teenager in 1997. He made his senior debut in 1998, scoring thirteen tries in his first season. Balshaw burst on to the international scene in 2000, …
- Rodney So'Oialo
Rodney So'oialo (born 3 October, 1979 in Moto'otua) is a New Zealand rugby union player. His usual position is at no.8, where he has played for the All Blacks, he is also the captain of the Wellington Hurricanes team in the Super 14 competition. In 2001, So'oialo played for the New Zealand Rugby sevens team at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Mar del Plata, New Zealand winning the competition. The next year he was again a member of the New Zealand sevens team, …
- Anthony Foley
Anthony ("Axel") Foley (born on 30 October 1973) is an Irish rugby union footballer. Anthony Foley made his debut for Ireland against England on 21 January 1995 and is one of few players from the amateur era still involved at international level. Anthony was dropped straight after this try scoring debut for Ireland and didn't figure in the Irish international set up for a while.
- Alain Rolland
Alain Colm Pierre Rolland (born 22 August 1966 in Dublin) is a former Irish rugby union footballer and current international referee. Rolland had a French father and speaks fluent French, making him an ideal neutral referee for matches involving teams from Great Britain and France. During his playing days as a scrum-half, Rolland earned three caps for. He started the match on 27 October 1990 against, …
- Craig Morgan
Craig Morgan (born June 16, 1985 in St Asaph, Wales) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a defender for Peterborough United He is also a Welsh international. He made his debut for Wales against Cyprus on October 11th, 2006 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. He signed permanently for Peterborough United on January 1st 2007 on a free transfer, having been on-loan since November 23rd 2006. He scored his first goal for the club in the 2-0 victory over Bury.
- Keven Mealamu
Keven Mealamu (born March 20, 1979 in Tokoroa, Waikato, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He plays at hooker for the Blues in the Super 14, Auckland in the National Provincial Championship, and the New Zealand national team, All Blacks. His debut for the All Blacks was on November 23, 2002, against Wales at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. He played as a flanker for New Zealand Under-16s and New Zealand Schools before switching to hooker in 1998.
- Iestyn Thomas
Iestyn Thomas (born 15 December, 1976 in Pontypool, Wales) is a Welsh rugby union footballer, who plays for the Llanelli Scarlets in the Celtic League. Evans has also played for Wales. He is a prop. Thomas made his international debut for Wales on November 11, 2000 in Cardiff at Millennium Stadium against Samoa. Wales won the match 50 points to six. He then came off the bench in matches against the USA and South Africa. He was capped six times the following year.
- Seru Rabeni
Ratu Seru Raveive Rabeni is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He plays as a centre or wing. Seru Rabeni grew up in Bua, Fiji and has played rugby union since his early schooldays. He first played provincial rugby for Lautoka in 1998-99 while studying at Lautoka Teachers College, before moving on to the capital’s club Suva in 2000. Seru made his Sevens debut in Dubai in 1998, playing in two Hong Kong Sevens tournaments.
- Heather Small
Heather Small (born 20 January 1965) is an English soul singer. Heather Small has what some call a unique and distinctive voice which is quickly recognisable to many people. She is probably most famous for being the voice of Manchester based band M People. She was born and raised in West London and joined her first group, Hot House, while she was still a teenager. However after a chance meeting with a Manchester DJ called Mike Pickering, formerly of Quando Quango, …
- Max Boyce
Maxwell Boyce, MBE, (born 7 September 1945 in Glynneath) is a Welsh comedian, singer and former coal miner. He rose to fame in the United Kingdom during the mid-1970s with an act that combined musical comedy with his passion for rugby union and his origins in the mining communities of South Wales. Having sold more than two million albums in a career spanning four decades, and playing to full houses all around the world, …
- Alan Wiley
Alan G. Wiley (born May 27 1960) is an English football referee in the FA Premier League, and he is based in Burntwood, Staffordshire.
- Regan King
Regan Matthew King (born Thursday, 2 October 1980 in Cambridge) is a New Zealand rugby union player. He also holds a British Passport thanks to his British-born father, Paul King. He made his first and only Test appearance on 23 November 2002 against Wales at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. Following this, King suffered several injuries hindering the progress of his career in New Zealand and taking him out of the NPC and Super 12. Once fit and back on form, …
- Paul Sculthorpe
Paul Sculthorpe is a rugby league footballer. He is nicknamed Scully. He is the older brother of Wakefield Trinity Wildcats player Danny Sculthorpe. Paul joined Saints from Warrington Wolves as a 20 year-old in a £370,000 record deal for a forward, and has fulfilled that early potential, being named as Man of Steel in 2001 and 2002, becoming the first player to retain the award. He was Saints’ sole representative in the 2002 Super League Dream Team, …
- 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.
- 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 Gleeson
Martin Gleeson is a rugby league player from Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. He is rated as one of the top centres in international rugby league, his defining characteristic being an outstanding side-step; he also has a sound defensive technique. Gleeson was born in Wigan on 28 May, 1980. Much of his early rugby development took place in Australia, where he emigrated with his family at age 9 to live in Queensland.
- Andy Ritchie
Andrew "Andy" Ritchie (born November 28, 1960 in Manchester) is a former English footballer and currently manager of Huddersfield Town.
- Shane Howarth
Shane Paul Howarth (born 8 July 1968) was a New Zealand born international rugby union player who gained 4 caps and scored 54 points for the All Blacks before later switching allegiance to Wales, attaining 19 Welsh caps. An outside-half or full-back, he was a prolific goal-kicker and a fast elusive runner. He scored 23 points for Wales including a try in the 32-31 win against England in 1999 played at Wembley as the Millennium Stadium was under construction in Cardiff.
- Michael Jennings
Michael Jennings (born September 9 1977 in Preston, England) is a professional boxer, fighting out of the town of Chorley in Lancashire. Jennings turned pro in May of 1999, fighting club-level opposition until roughly 2003, when he defeated Jimmy Gould for the minor WBU intercontinental welterweight belt. He then won the BBBoC English championship from Chris Saunders, defending it several times on the road to winning the British championship in a bout with Jimmy Vincent.
- Stephen Bywater
Stephen Michael Bywater, (born June 7 1981 in Manchester), is an English football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Derby County.
- Vernon Cooper
Vernon Cooper (born 12 June, 1977 in Morriston, Wales) is a Welsh rugby union footballer, who plays for the Llanelli Scarlets in the Celtic League. Cooper has also played for Wales. His usual position is at lock. Cooper represented Wales at a number of national levels, including under-18, under-19 and under-21, as well as playing for the Wales 'A' team. He was elevated to the senior national team in 2002. He made his debut for Wales on November 16 at Millennium Stadium, …
- Paul McKenna
Paul McKenna (born 20 October 1977 in Chorley, Lancashire) is an English professional footballer currently is in his testimonial year at Preston North End. After making his debut in 1997 his appearance tally has now passed the 350 game mark and now at 28 years old he is North End's longest serving player. McKenna's intelligent passing and tenacious tackling partnered with his incredible workrate makes him a firm favourite with both fans and players alike.
- Phil Dowd
Phil Dowd (born 26 January, 1963) is an English football referee in the FA Premier League. He is based in Stoke-on-Trent.
- Curtis Woodhouse
Curtis Woodhouse (born April 171980) is a professional boxer and footballer, currently playing for Rushden & Diamonds. Woodhouse plays in the centre or on the left of the midfield. He was born in Driffield in the East Riding of Yorkshire and came through the ranks at Sheffield United. He made his debut for the Blades at the age of 17, as a substitute against Crewe Alexandra in November 1997. Woodhouse holds the record for being the club's youngest ever captain.
- Michael Dobson
Michael Dobson (born 9 April 1980, Isleworth, London) is an English professional footballer currently playing for Walsall in League Two, where he is currently Captain. Dobson came through the youth ranks at Brentford, a club whom his father George had played for, and spent six years at the club, including a couple of years as club captain.
- Ryan Hall
Ryan Hall is a rugby league player who plays for Leeds Rhinos. Hall's usual position is wing, but he has also played at fullback. He made his debut at the Millennium Stadium in the derby win over Bradford in the controversial last game of Millennium Magic.
- Michael Oakes
Michael Oakes is a footballer. His position is goalkeeper. He is currently playing for Cardiff City. He is the son of former Manchester City footballer Alan Oakes. Having previously played for Aston Villa (in which time he was loaned to Scarborough), Oakes joined Wolves in October 1999 for £450,000, and soon ousted long-serving Mike Stowell as number one at Molineux. He remained as the first-team goalkeeper until September 2002, …
- Simon Yeo
Simon John Yeo (born October 10, 1973 in Stockport, England) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Chester City whom he joined from Peterborough United in January 2007 for an Undisclosed Fee. He enjoyed two spells with Lincoln City separated by a period playing for the New Zealand Knights in the newly formed Hyundai A-League. Yeo severed his contract with the Knights because of personal issues.
- Chris Lucketti
Christopher James Lucketti (born September 28, 1971 in Littleborough, Rochdale, England) is an English footballer. He is a highly rated centre-back, and currently plays for Sheffield United.
- Lee Fowler
Lee Fowler (Born 10 June 1983) is a Welsh professional football player. Fowler is a midfielder who has played for Coventry City, Huddersfield Town and Scarborough amongst other clubs. He is most famous for scoring Huddersfield's winning penalty in the shootout against Mansfield Town in the Division 3 Play-Off Final on 31 May 2004 at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. He has 12 Wales Under-21 caps to his name.
- Bobby Hassell
Robert Hassell (born June 4, 1980 in Derby) is a professional English football player currently wearing the number 2 shirt for Barnsley.
- Wayne Thomas
Wayne Thomas is an English professional footballer born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire. He can line up both in the centre of defence and at right-back and is currently playing for Burnley F.C. Wayne first began his career playing for Torquay United. He would go on to make over one hundred league appearances for 'The Gulls', and one season managed to be an 'ever-present', starting all forty-four league games. His performances soon brought attention from larger clubs, …
- Ian Marshall
Ian Paul Marshall is a former professional footballer. Marshall made his name playing as a defender and striker for Oldham Athletic but started his career as an apprentice with hometown club Everton. After four years he signed for Oldham for £200,000 and scored nearly 50 goals in almost 200 appearances before joining Ipswich Town in 1993 for £750,000. At Portman Road he scored 38 times in just over 90 appearances before being sold to Leicester City for £800,000 in 1996.