- Michael Chopra
Michael Chopra (born 23 December 1983 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English footballer playing professionally for the Premier League side Sunderland. A striker, he has previously played for Newcatle United and Cardiff City and has spent loan spells at Watford, Nottingham Forest and Barnsley. He has represented England at the Under-15, Under-16, Under-17, Under-18, Under-19, Under-20 and Under-21 levels. The son of an English mother and an Indian father, …
- Kieran Richardson
Kieran Edward Richardson (born 21 October 1984 in Greenwich, London) is an English footballer currently playing for Sunderland. He is a left-sided midfielder who is also comfortable playing in central midfield. He has also played at left back during Manchester United's 2006-07 injury crisis.
- Claudio Reyna
Claudio Reyna (born July 20, 1973 in Livingston, New Jersey) is an American soccer player. He was the captain of the U.S. national team before retiring from international soccer immediately following the USA's exit from the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Reyna currently plays for Red Bull New York of Major League Soccer, where he is team captain.
- Lilian Laslandes
Lilian Laslandes (born September 4, 1971 in Pauillac) is a French football striker, who currently plays for OGC Nice. He has been capped seven times (Debut on November 12, 1997 against Scotland in a 2-1 victory), and scored three goals for the France national team.
- Andy Gray
Andrew David Gray (born November 15 1977 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England) is a Scottish football player currently at Burnley F.C. He is the son of the former Scotland defender Frank Gray and nephew of Leeds United legend Eddie Gray. He started his career as a midfield player but later moved into a forward position. Andy began his career with Leeds United and has also played for Nottingham Forest, Bury, Preston North End, Oldham Athletic, Bradford City, …
- Chris Brown
Christopher Alan "Chris" Brown (born 11 December 1984, Durham, England) is an English footballer, who currently plays for Football League Championship side Norwich City.
- Dwight Yorke
Dwight Eversley Yorke (born November 3, 1971 in Canaan, Tobago) is a Trinidad and Tobagon football player. He currently plays for Sunderland A.F.C, having previously played for Aston Villa F.C. as his first club and most of his career, then Manchester United F.C., Blackburn Rovers F.C., Birmingham City F.C. and Sydney FC.
- Ben Alnwick
Benjamin Robert "Ben" Alnwick (born January 1, 1987 in Prudhoe, England) is a football goalkeeper currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur. He made a name for himself at the climax of Sunderland AFC's (2004-05) Football League Championship-winning season, replacing the injured Thomas Myhre for Sunderland's last three games. His performances against Leicester City and West Ham, the games that won Sunderland promotion to the Premiership and Championship win respectively, …
- Michael Reddy
Michael Reddy (born Kilkenny, March 24, 1980) is a professional footballer, most recently with Grimsby Town. A striker, Reddy's professional career began with Sunderland, who signed him from his hometown club, Kilkenny City. He spent five years with Sunderland, a time typified by many loan spells; between 2001 and his departure in 2004, he was loaned out to Swindon, Hull, Barnsley, York, and twice to Sheffield Wednesday.
- Tommy W. Smith
Thomas William "Tommy" Smith (born 22 May 1980 in Hemel Hempstead) is an English professional footballer. He currently plays for Watford in the Premier League.
- Kenny Cunningham
Kenneth Edward "Kenny" Cunningham (born June 28 1971 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is a footballer who has recently joined Cardiff City on a free transfer from Sunderland A.F.C.
- Dean Whitehead
Dean Whitehead (born January 21, 1982 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire) is a fast developing football midfielder. As a youngster he played for Abingdon Town F.C.'s youth team, before joining the YTS of his local league club, Oxford United. He progressed through the ranks at Oxford, developing a reputation as a tough-tackling midfielder with good passing skills. After playing for the club for around 5 seasons, …
- Patrick Collins
Patrick Collins is a footballer currently playing for League Two Darlington. He signed for the club in the summer of 2006 upon his release from Championship side Sheffield Wednesday. As a youngster Collins started at Sunderland AFC before being signed by Wednesday in the summer of 2004 after being released by the Black Cats. He made an appearance in the Owls' playoff final victory over Hartlepool United.
- Jamie Lawrence
Jamie Lawrence (b. 8 March 1970, Battersea, London) is a Jamaican soccer player who currently plays for Worthing in the English Isthmian League Premier Division, he often plays on the right, primarily as a winger but also in defence. He won 42 caps for Jamaica.
- Ian Bowyer
Ian Bowyer (born 6 June 1951 in Little Sutton near Ellesmere Port) is a former English footballer who spent much of his career at Nottingham Forest, and was part of their European Cup victories in 1979 and 1980. He has also had spells as a coach and manager. He joined Hereford United as a player-coach in July 1987, succeeding John Newman as manager three months later. He led Hereford to Welsh Cup glory in 1990 before leaving the club, …
- Stewart Downing
Stewart Jason Downing (born July 22, 1984 in Middlesbrough) is an English football player, who currently plays for Middlesbrough, and is in the England squad. A natural left-footer, Downing plays on the left side of midfield in a traditional winger's role.
- Greg Halford
Gregory "Greg" Halford (born 8 December 1984, in Chelmsford, England) is a professional footballer currently with Sunderland.
- Paul Heckingbottom
Paul Heckingbottom (born July 17 1977 in Barnsley) is an English footballer, currently playing for Bradford City on loan from Barnsley.
- Sam Raybould
Samuel Francis Raybould (born 1875; died ?) was an English professional football player. He played as a striker and is most renowned for his days playing for Liverpool.
- Jake Richardson
Jake Richardson (born 22 October 1987) is a football midfielder, currently contracted to Premier League side Sunderland. Richardson was originally part of the youth set-up at Sunderland, but was released by the club when his contract expired in summer 2006. After unsuccessful trials with Coventry City, Hartlepool United and York City, Richardson was re-signed by the club on a professional deal in September 2006.
- Joachim Björklund
Joachim Björklund is a Swedish footballer. For many years he formed a solid central defensive partnership with Patrik Andersson for the Swedish national team. Björklund was selected for the Euro 1992, 1994 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. He was also a member of the Swedish squad that competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Taking the leap from junior team obscurity to becoming a star in S.K. Brann, …
- Darren Holloway
Darren Holloway (born 3 October 1977 in Bishop Auckland) is a professional footballer, currently with Darlington F.C.. His former clubs include Bradford City A.F.C., Wimbledon F.C. and Sunderland A.F.C..
- Márton Fülöp
Fülöp Márton, (born May 3 1983), is a Hungarian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Sunderland. Fülöp signed for Tottenham in the summer of 2004 from MTK Hungária FC for an undisclosed fee. In the 2004-05 season he was loaned out to Chesterfield and played in seven games before being recalled to Spurs as cover for Radek Černý due to an injury to Paul Robinson. In the 2005-06 season he has been the first-choice for Coventry City.
- Alan Kennedy
Alan Phillip Kennedy (born 31 August 1954) was a footballer who played for Liverpool during their halcyon days in the late 1970s and early 1980s who had a knack of scoring in major cup finals.
- Marcus Stewart
Marcus Stewart (born 7 November 1972) is an English football centre forward currently at Yeovil Town. Formerly with Bristol Rovers, Huddersfield Town, Ipswich Town and Sunderland, Stewart has over 200 career goals to his name. He was the Premiership's second top goalscorer during 2000-01 with 19 goals for Ipswich Town, who finished fifth and qualified for the UEFA Cup.
- Russell Anderson
Russell Anderson (born 25 October 1978 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish football defender who currently plays for Sunderland in the Premier League. Anderson began his career with local club Aberdeen and broke through the ranks to make his debut in the first team in 1997, and scored his first goal for the club in 2000, in the 4-0 win over Hibernian. He went on to establish himself as a rock at the heart of the defence.
- Danny Simpson
Daniel "Danny" Simpson (born January 4, 1987) is an English football player who plays right fullback. He was born in Salford, Greater Manchester. As a youth he played for Parkwyddn A.F.C. in Eccles before being picked up by Manchester United. Simpson is a product of the Manchester United youth system, having come up through the ranks into the reserve squad in 2005. He has yet to make an appearance for the first team. In early January 2006 he was sent on loan, …
- Iain Hesford
Iain Hesford is an English footballer and one of the most famous foreign players in Hong Kong football league. His position is goalkeeper and he has played in Eastern, Sing Tao and South China. His Chinese nickname is 肥福, which literally means "fat but lucky guy".
- Darren Byfield
Darren Byfield (born 29 September 1976 in Birmingham, West Midlands) is an English professional footballer of Jamaican descent currently playing for Millwall. He was signed by Millwall during pre-season of the 2006-07 season on a free transfer after he left Gillingham. Perhaps the most consistent time of his career was spent at Walsall, where he scored a spectacular winning goal in their 2001 Play-off final victory against Reading.
- Dave Swindlehurst
Dave Swindlehurst (born 6 January 1956 in Edgware, Middlesex) is an English former footballer who played as a striker. He currently manages Isthmian League Division One South team Whyteleafe. Swindlehurst came up through the ranks at Crystal Palace, playing youth football in the early 1970s with future West Ham United team-mate Alan Devonshire. Starting his senior career in 1983, he played for Palace for eight seasons and amassed 81 goals in 278 appearances.
- Bob Kelly
Robert (Bob) Kelly was an English professional football player. He broke the British football transfer record when he moved from Burnley to Sunderland for £6,550 in 1925. He is also regarded as fans' favourite at Huddersfield Town, which he joined in 1927. He made 14 appearances for England between 1920 and 1928, scoring 8 goals.
- George Mulhall
George Mulhall was a footballer and manager. During his playing career he was involved in over 250 appearances for Sunderland as well as playing for Aberdeen, Cape Town City and Greenock Morton. He was also capped by Scotland. Since then he has managed Bradford City, Bolton Wanderers (where he was fired after one season amidst rumours that he was to be replaced by Pelé) and Halifax Town. He was manager at Halifax when they won the Conference National.
- John Mullin
John Mullin (born August 11 1975) is a footballer, currently playing for Tranmere Rovers. Mullin's career began at Burnley, and has taken in spells at Sunderland (where he had the distinction of scoring the winning goal in a Premiership game against Manchester United in 1997), a second spell at Burnley and Rotherham United. Mullin was released by Rotherham at the end of the 2005/06 season and joined the manager that brought him to the Millers, Ronnie Moore, …
- Stefan Schwarz
Stefan Schwarz is a Swedish former footballer. Born to a German father, he played as a midfielder. He was capped for the Swedish national side on 69 occasions, often as captain. He played at the World Cup 1990 and 1994 finals, and at the Euro 1992 finals. He began his career at his hometown club Malmö. In 1990 he played as a youthplayer in Leverkusen before moving on to Benfica where he played from 1990 to 1994,he also played for Arsenal, Fiorentina, …
- Alec Chamberlain
Alec Francis Roy Chamberlain (born June 20 1964) is a former English goalkeeper currently employed by Watford as the club's goalkeeping coach. He made 790 appearances during his 25-year playing career.
- Mart Poom
Mart Poom is an Estonian football goalkeeper. He currently plays for Watford, whom he joined on May 26, 2007 from Arsenal.
- Nyron Nosworthy
Nyron Paul Nosworthy (born 1980-10-11 in Brixton, South London) is an English footballer of Jamaican descent. He is currently playing as a defender for Sunderland in the Premier League. He is also known in many songs, including: you try to take the ball off nyron and he says a no, no, no. and... nuggsy for england.
- Jeff Whitley
Jeffrey Whitley (born January 28, 1979) is a football player who has played for Manchester City and Northern Ireland but is currently without a club. He has recently left Cardiff City. Born in Zambia, Whitley moved to England at the age of seven. He first played for the England under-17 team, and in 1996 joined Manchester City as a midfielder. As his father was born in Belfast he was eligible to play for three international teams: Northern Ireland, Zambia, or England.
- Anthony Le Tallec
Anthony Le Tallec (born October 3 1984 in Hennebont, Brittany, France) is a French football player, who plays as a forward or an attacking midfielder. He currently plays for Liverpool, but has spent much of the past few years out on loan. He was signed from Le Havre by Liverpool in 2001, along with his cousin Florent Sinama-Pongolle. This was after impressive performances for the French national youth team in the European Under-16 and World Under-17 Championships in 2001.
- Lee Clark
Lee Robert Clark (born October 27 1972 in Wallsend, England), is a professional footballer and coach currently playing for Newcastle United. He is most often seen in central midfield. In his early career, he was commonly known as 'Jigsaw' among the Geordie faithful, because he often 'went to pieces in the box'. This, however didn't seem to affect Clark's popularity during his initial 9 year stint at Newcastle United, …