- Paul Peschisolido
Paolo Pasquale Peschisolido, commonly known as Paul Peschisolido (born May 25, 1971 in Scarborough, Canada) is a professional footballer, He currently plays for Luton Town. He has played for several English Football League sides and 52 times for the Canadian national team, scoring 10 times. Peschisolido has proved to be a popular player with supporters, becoming a crowd favourite at all the clubs he has played at.
- Jon Parkin
Jonathan "Jon" Parkin (born December 30 1981 in Barnsley, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Stoke City.
- Mike Sheron
Mike Sheron (born 11 January, 1972 in Liverpool) is an English footballer who played as a striker for several football clubs, including Manchester City, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers and Stoke City. Sheron was capped by England at under-21 level. Sheron started his career with Manchester City, whom he joined as a schoolboy. His first league appearance came in March 1991 on loan at Bury, for whom he played five times.
- Ade Akinbiyi
Adeola (Ade) Peter Oluwatoyin Akinbiyi (born October 10, 1974 in Hackney, London) is an England born Nigerian footballer. He is a striker for Burnley in the Championship.
- Ian Allinson
Ian James Robert Allinson (born October 1 1957) is an English former football player and manager. Allinson was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and joined Colchester United as a schoolboy in 1974. He spent nine years with them, playing usually as a striker. He was the club's top scorer for two seasons, as Colchester were first relegated from the Third Division to the Fourth in 1976, only to bounce back a year later, before getting relegated again in 1981.
- Carl Hoefkens
Carl Hoefkens (born October 6, 1978 in Lier) is a Belgian international footballer. He is currently playing as a defender for Stoke City and has played for his country fifteen times. He represented Belgium in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. He started his career at K. Lierse S.K. and played there for six years before taking a move to Lommel but his move turned into a nightmare, when Lommel went broke in 2003. In the summer of 2003, he came to Germinal Beerschot, …
- Marcus Hall
Marcus Hall, (born in Coventry 24 March 1976), is a former England Under 21 football player, who currently plays football for Coventry City. He has played for the club for most of his career, coming through the ranks to make his debut in 1994. He left the club briefly for Nottingham Forest and Southampton, yet only played once for both clubs combined. He then spent 3 seasons at Stoke City but returned to Highfield Road after only 2 years away from his home town club.
- David Rowson
David Andrew Rowson (born 14 September, 1976 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish football player who last season 2005/6 played for Northampton as a midfielder after coming from Partick Thistle in the summer of 2004. He recently signed for Darlington on a free transfer. He started his professional career at his hometown club Aberdeen, and was a key player during his time there, winning Scottish Under-21 caps, before leaving for Stoke in 2001.
- Frode Kippe
Frode Kippe is a Norwegian international footballer. He usually plays as a central defender, and currently plays for Lillestrøm S.K. in the Norwegian Premier League. Kippe started his career playing amateur football for Kolbotn I.L., but moved to Lillestrøm S.K. at the age of 19 to play proffesionaly. At the end of the 1998-season Kippe was signed by English FA Premier league club Liverpool. After four years in England, including two loan-deals with Stoke, …
- Karl Henry
Karl Henry (born November 26 1982, Wolverhampton, England) is a professional footballer, playing with Football League Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers. A midfielder, Henry began his career as a youth player with Stoke City, making his first team debut during the 2001-2002 season, and has been selected for England under 18, 20 and 21 squads. He spent a spell on loan at Cheltenham Town F.C. in the 2002-2003 season, …
- Joe Corrigan
Joseph Thomas Corrigan (born November 18, 1948 in Manchester), is a former football goalkeeper who played for Manchester City and England. He is currently the goalkeeping coach at West Bromwich Albion. Corrigan joined Manchester City as a youth player in 1966. He made his debut in 1967, in a League Cup match against Blackpool. Corrigan established himself in the first team during the 1969/70 season, …
- Stanley Matthews
Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (February 1 1915 - February 23 2000) was a football player. Often regarded as one of the greats of the English game, he was the first footballer to be knighted (and is, as of 2006, the only player to have been knighted while still playing), as well as the first European Footballer of the Year and the first Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year. Gaining the nicknames "The Wizard of the Dribble" and "The Magician", …
- Andy Cooke
Andrew Cooke (born 20 January 1974 in Shrewsbury) is a professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Shrewsbury Town.
- John Ritchie
John Ritchie (born in Kettering, 12 July1941 - 23 February 2007) was an English footballer.
- John Gidman
John Gidman was an English football player. His favoured position was right back. Gidman played for Liverpool before joining Aston Villa in 1971. He was signed by Everton in 1979 for £650,000. He then became Manchester United's new manager Ron Atkinson's first signing as he moved to United in 1981 as part of a £450,000 swap deal, with Mickey Thomas moving to Everton. He helped United win the FA Cup in 1983 and 1985.
- Jonathan Fortune
Jonathan Jay Fortune (born August 23, 1980 in Islington, London) is a professional footballer currently playing for Stoke City on loan from Charlton Athletic. Fortune plays in the centre of defence and his squad number for Charlton Athletic is 24. After coming through the Charlton youth ranks and two loan spells at Mansfield Town, Fortune made his Charlton debut during the 2001-02 season and has been a regular figure in the Charlton first team since.
- Paul Connor
Paul Connor (born January 12 1979 in Bishop Auckland, England) is an English footballer who currently plays for Cheltenham Town.
- George Antonio
George Rowlands Antonio (Born 20 october 1914, in Whitchurch, Shropshire - Died 1997), was an English professional footballer who started with non-league Oswestry Town F.C., then in 1935 signed for Stoke City playing 84 times and scoring 13 goals. During the 1945-1946 season, he guested for Ipswich Town, before joining Derby County in 1946. In the year he was at Derby he played 18 matches and scored twice.
- Peter Shilton
Peter Leslie Shilton MBE, OBE (born Leicester, England, 18 September 1949) was a goalkeeper who holds the record for playing more games than any other player. His international career earned him 125 caps, making him England's most capped player. In a 30-year career which took in eight clubs, three World Cups, two European Cup finals and more than 1,000 competitive matches, Shilton emerged as one of the English game's genuine legends.
- Tony Dorigo
Anthony Robert Dorigo is a retired football (soccer) player who played for Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds United and the England national side as a left-back. He is now a football pundit and appears on satellite television channel, Bravo, as part of their Serie A coverage. He signed for Chelsea from Aston Villa for £475,000 and he won the club's player of the year award in his first season, though they were also relegated.
- Garth Crooks
Garth Crooks OBE (born 12 March 1958 in Stoke-on-Trent) is a retired English football player of Jamaican ancestry. The striker began his career at Stoke City F.C., scoring 53 goals in 162 appearances. He became most famous following a 1980 transfer to Tottenham Hotspur, where he formed a successful striking partnership with Steve Archibald. With Crooks leading the line, Spurs won two FA Cups and the 1984 UEFA Cup.
- Gordon Banks
Gordon Banks, OBE (born December 30, 1937 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) is a former English footballer, elected in a poll by the IFFHS as the second best goalkeeper of the 20th Century. Banks' was a member of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup.
- Chris Kamara
Chris Kamara (born 25 December 1957 in Middlesbrough) is a former professional footballer in England. Since retiring from football in 1995 he is best known for his work at Sky Sports as a football analyst. After serving with the British Royal Navy, Kamara joined Portsmouth in 1975, beginning a professional footballing career that saw him move between 9 clubs, scoring 71 goals in 641 league appearances. After acquiring a reputation as a hard man as a player, …
- Andy Griffin
Andrew "Andy" Griffin, (born March 7, 1979 in Billinge Higher End, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan) is an English footballer at Portsmouth.
- Harry Gregg
Harry Gregg, MBE (born October 27, 1932 in Magherafelt) was a Northern Irish football player. Harry started his career with Linfield reserves ("the Swifts") before signing for his local club Coleraine. At the age of 18 he earned a move across the Irish Sea to Doncaster Rovers, before transferring to Manchester United in 1957. He earned 25 caps for the Northern Ireland national team. Gregg was a goalkeeper who had 48 clean sheets in his United career.
- Souleymane Oulare
Souleymane Oulare, is a professional football player. He was elected Footballer of the Year in Belgium in 1999, when he won the Belgian Championship as a striker with Racing Genk, scoring 17 goals during the season. He then went on to play for Fenerbahçe SK (Turkey), UD Las Palmas (Spain), Stoke City (England), K. Beringen-Heusden-Zolder and C.S. Visé (both Belgium). In November 2006, a girl and a woman have been intoxicated in a house in Brussels, …
- 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, …
- Mel Pejic
Mel Pejic (born 27 April 1959 in Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom) is a former footballer and current physiotherapist of Wrexham A.F.C. and the Wales national football team. As a player, he played in the positions of full-back and centre-back for Stoke City, Hereford United and Wrexham. He made his first team debut for Stoke in January 1980 against Ipswich Town, however he was released by Stoke at the end of the season.
- Herbert Smith
Herbert Smith (born November 22, 1879 in Witney - died January 6, 1951) was an English amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, playing at left-back. He was a member of the English team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament. He had previously made four appearances for the full England team in 1905 and 1906.
- Kevin Keen
Kevin Keen (born February 25 1967) was the caretaker manager of West Ham United following the sacking of Alan Pardew on December 11 2006. He returned to his position of first-team coach following the appointment of Alan Curbishley, and never actually managed the Hammers in a competitive match. He was a player at the club from 1983-1993, and is the son of former QPR midfielder Mike Keen. He started his playing career at Wycombe Wanderers from 1982-83, …
- Alan Biley
Alan Biley (born February 26, 1957 is an English former professional footballer. He was born in Leighton Buzzard. Until May 2007 he was manager of Rothwell Town. As a professional he played for Cambridge United, Derby County, Everton, Stoke City (on loan), Portsmouth, Brighton & Hove Albion and New York Cosmos after beginning his career as an apprentice with Luton Town. After retirement he set up a Health and Fitness Centre in Biggleswade, …
- Danny Higginbotham
Daniel John "Danny" Higginbotham (born 29 December 1978 in Manchester, England) is an English footballer who currently captains and plays as a defender for Stoke City.
- Steve Parkin
Stephen John "Steve" Parkin (born November 7, 1965 in Mansfield, England) is an English former footballer and manager, currently working as First Team Coach at Hull City, under manager Phil Brown. He joined the club in January 2007 on a deal that (initially) runs till the end of the season. He had been sacked as manager of Rochdale A.F.C. on December 16, 2006.
- Tony Scully
Tony Scully (born 12 June 1976 in Dublin) is an Irish football midfielder who currently plays for Crawley Town.
- Josip Skoko
Josip Skoko (born December 10 1975 in Mount Gambier, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder of Croatian descent who plays for Wigan Athletic in the Premier League. He is an Australian international and made his debut for Australia against Macedonia in 1997. Skoko has been a main-stay of the "Socceroos" side since his debut, participating in two World Cup qualifying campaigns.
- Geoff Hurst
Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst, MBE (born December 8, 1941 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is a legend of West Ham and England football, he is also a footballer enshrined in the game's history as the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final. His three goals came in the 1966 final for England in their 4-2 win over Germany at Wembley.
- Alan Hudson
Alan Anthony Hudson (born 21 June, 1951 in Chelsea, London) is a former English footballer. Hudson was one of the most naturally gifted midfielders of his generation, a skilful and natural playmaker with tremendous vision and comfortable using either foot, yet his career was marred by controversies and injury problems. World Cup-winning England captain Bobby Moore once said of him: "Alan Hudson could have conquered the world, …
- Bruce Grobbelaar
Bruce David Grobbelaar (born October 6, 1957 in Durban, South Africa) was a football goalkeeper for Zimbabwe and a number of clubs, most notably Liverpool F.C. during their dominant 1980s period.
- Marco Gabbiadini
Marco Gabbiadini is a former English-Italian football player whose career lasted 18 years from 1985 to 2003. He totalled nearly £3million in transfer fees and played for 12 different clubs.
- Lee Chapman
Lee Chapman (born Lincoln, December 5, 1959) is a former English footballer who scored more than 200 first-team goals as a striker. He is the son of former Lincoln City, Port Vale and Chester striker, Roy Chapman. Chapman is married to the actress Leslie Ash.