- 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, …
- Tony Pulis
Anthony Richard "Tony" Pulis (born January 16, 1958 in Newport) is a Welsh former football player and is currently the manager of Stoke City. Pulis obtained his FA coaching badge at the age of 19, followed by his UEFA 'A' licence aged 21 - making him one of the youngest professional players ever to have obtained the qualification. Pulis took his first steps into management at Bounemouth, where he was a player/coach and then Harry Redknapp's assistant.
- Ricardo Fuller
Ricardo Dwayne Fuller (born October 31, 1979 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican football player who currently plays as a striker for English Championship club Stoke City and for the Jamaica national football team.
- Liam Lawrence
Liam Lawrence (December 14, 1981 in Retford, England) is a football right winger, who currently plays for Stoke City. Sunderland signed Lawrence from Mansfield Town F.C. in 2004 and he quickly won the fans over with his determined and committed style of play. Despite missing a penalty for Mansfield in the Division 3 Play-off final, it was clear that Lawrence was a great prospect and was spotted by Sunderland manager Mick McCarthy and his scouting staff.
- Ben Foster
Benjamin Anthony "Ben" Foster (born 3 April 1983 in Leamington Spa) is an English footballer. He is a goalkeeper who joined Manchester United from Stoke City on 19 July 2005. Since the beginning of the 2005-06 season, he has been on loan to Watford.
- Tom Huddlestone
Thomas Huddlestone is a professional English football player for Tottenham Hotspur. He can play either in defence or midfield, with the latter being the position considered his best. The North London club acquired his services from Derby County in July 2005 for an initial fee of £600,000 with possible add-ons taking the fee to around £2M, rumoured to be around £2.5 million.
- Steve Simonsen
Steve Simonsen (born 3 April 1979 in South Shields) is an English professional football goalkeeper currently playing for Stoke City.
- Ian Wright
Ian Wright is a retired English footballer who played as a central defender. He started his career at Stoke City and later played for Bristol Rovers and Hull City before dropping down into non-league football with Hereford United. On his arrival at Edgar Street a £10 bet was placed by two supporters, at odds of 250-1, that he would score 30 goals in his first season as they thought Hereford had signed the former Arsenal and England striker.
- Rory Delap
Rory John Delap is an English-born Irish footballer who currently plays for Stoke City. Previously, he was signed for Sunderland by ex manager Mick McCarthy on a free transfer, before becoming a marginal figure in new manager Roy Keane's squad. Prior to playing for Sunderland, Delap was Southampton's most expensive transfer, moving to the club for £4m from Derby County. He began his career at Carlisle United before joining Derby for £200,000.
- Mamady Sidibe
Mamady Sidibe (born December 18 1979) is a footballer, currently playing for Stoke City. Sidibe began his career at CA Paris before being signed by Swansea City on 25th August 2001. Whilst there he scored 8 times in 35 games before making being signed by Gillingham manager Andy Hessenthaler. From 6th September 2002 up to 23rd June 2005, Sidibe had scored 13 goals in 115 matches.
- Chris Eagles
Christopher Eagles (born 19 November 1985 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire) is an English footballer whose most favoured position is as an attacking right-sided midfielder. He currently plays for Manchester United. Originally coming through the youth system at Watford, he left when he was 14 to join the Manchester United academy. The compensation owed to Watford for this move would later form part of the package which took Danny Webber in the opposite direction.
- Dominic Matteo
Dominic Matteo (born April 4, 1974 in Dumfries, Scotland) is a Scottish football player who currently plays for Stoke City F.C. as a midfielder. Matteo won Under-21 and 'B' caps for England, but later was called up for the Scotland side, the nation of his birth. He won 6 caps for Scotland but was forced to retire from international football due to recurring injury problems. His first league team was Liverpool F.C., for whom he played between 1992 and 2000, …
- 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.
- Martin Paterson
Martin Paterson is an English footballer, who played as a striker for Grimsby Town during the 2006-2007 season on loan from Football League Championship club Stoke City. He has also played at international level for Northern Ireland's U21 side. Paterson made his début for Stoke as a late substitute for Chris Greenacre in the 2-0 win over Plymouth Argyle on 16 April2005. His first start came in March 2006 against Leeds United and he hit his first goal six months later, …
- James O'Connor
James O'Connor is a professional footballer. He currently plays for Burnley F.C.. The midfielder was signed by Burnley on transfer deadline day of 2005 for a fee of £175,000 from West Bromwich Albion. Before signing for WBA in the summer of 2003 for a fee of £250,000, he played for Championship side Stoke City. At Stoke City, he played under manager Steve Cotterill who is the current manager of Burnley FC. Before signing for Burnley F.C., …
- Salif Diao
Salif Alassane Diao (born February 10 1977 in Kedougou, Senegal) is a Senegalese football player, playing as a defensive midfielder. He currently plays for Stoke City, and is a Senegal international.
- Jon Parkin
Jonathan "Jon" Parkin (born December 30 1981 in Barnsley, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Stoke City.
- Keith Andrews
Keith Andrews (born 13 September 1980 in Dublin) is a professional footballer currently playing for Milton Keynes Dons. Prior to moving to Milton Keynes, Andrews spent just over a season at Hull City after nine seasons at Wolves, during which he had spells on loan at Oxford United, Stoke City and Walsall. In the last match of the 2000-01 season for Wolves against Queens Park Rangers, he was made their youngest captain for over a hundred years.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Paul Gallagher
Paul Gallagher (born August 9, 1984 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish football player who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers as a forward. Gallagher was brought up on the notorious Higher Croft council estate in Blackburn, playing for Roman Road youth teams before being snapped up by Blackburn Rovers. Gallagher made his debut performance as a substitute in a 2-0 defeat of Arsenal on March 15, 2003, as a replacement for Dwight Yorke.
- 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.
- Kris Commons
Kristian Arron "Kris" Commons (born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire on 30 August 1983) is a winger who currently plays for Nottingham Forest. Kris Commons joined Nottingham Forest at the start of the 2004 season from Stoke City. He started he career with the Potters as a trainee. Shortly after making his first team debut, he was out injured for a year due to a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. He went on to make 20 starts and just over 20 substitute appearances.
- Graham Kavanagh
Graham Kavanagh (born December 2, 1973 in Dublin) is an Irish international football player for Sunderland, having also played for Home Farm F.C., Middlesbrough, Stoke City, Cardiff City and Wigan Athletic. Kavanagh is well known for his hard tackling abilities as well as being able to add a creative dimension to his play. Nicknamed the 'Silver Fox' he has recently operated in a holding central midfield role, a slight contrast to his previous role at Cardiff, …
- Russell Hoult
Russell Hoult (born November 22 1972 in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire) is an English goalkeeper currently with Stoke City.
- Marlon Broomes
Marlon Broomes (born November 28, 1977 in Birmingham) is an English footballer, currently playing for Stoke City in the English Championship. His position is sweeper.
- Daryl Murphy
Daryl Murphy is an Irish football (soccer) player who is currently playing for Sunderland as a forward. He had a largely disappointing loan spell at Sheffield Wednesday last season where he failed to score a single goal and looked to be out of his depth before he was recalled by Sunderland. The 24-year-old Irishman signed a two-year contract at the Stadium of Light after completing a £100,000 transfer from Irish side Waterford United in 2005.
- John Eustace
John Eustace (born 3 November 1979) is an English football player, currently playing for Stoke City F.C. as a midfielder.
- Darel Russell
Darel Russell is an English professional footballer, currently playing for Stoke City. Russell began his career as a youth player at Norwich City. Despite a number of appearances in the side's midfield, he could not make the breakthrough to becoming a first team regular and was sold to Stoke in 2003 for £125,000, when he was 23. Darel Russell played under Tony Pulis and Johan Boskamp regularly, missing only a handful of matches during a season.
- Adam Rooney
Adam Rooney (born 21 May 1987 in Dublin) is an Irish football player. Rooney's older brother Mark plays in the Football League of Ireland with St. Patrick's Athletic.
- Boaz Myhill
Glyn Oliver "Boaz" Myhill (born November 9 1982 in Modesto, California, United States), is an English footballer, currently playing for Hull City. The son of an American father and an English mother from Shropshire, Myhill moved to England at the age of one.
- Tommy Miller
Tommy Miller is an English/Scottish footballer who plays for Ipswich Town Miller started his career at Ipswich but was released as a 15 year old and was taken on by Hartlepool United where he made 160 appearances and scored 44 goals. He was signed back to Ipswich in 2001 by manager George Burley for £750,000. He then spent 4 years at Ipswich, scoring 15 goals in 39 appearances in the 2004-05 season and helping them to an unsuccessful Championship play off appearance.
- Brynjar Gunnarsson
Brynjar Björn Gunnarsson is an Icelandic footballer. His position is midfielder or defender, and he plays professionally for Reading.
- Kelvin Davis
Kelvin Geoffrey Davis is a football goalkeeper currently playing for Southampton. Davis has also played for Luton Town, Wimbledon and Ipswich Town, where he enjoyed the acclaim of Championship Goalkeeper of the year, helping steer Ipswich to 3rd in the table. (He has also had loan spells at Torquay and Hartlepool). He joined Sunderland in June 2005 for a fee of £1.25m and played in most of their Premier League games in the 2005-06 season, …
- Peter Coates
Peter Coates is a businessman from Goldenhill, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire who made his money in catering (Stadia and Lindley Catering) and gambling (bet365). He recently sold his Bet 365 street stores to Coral for a figure believed to be around £40 million (73 million USD). He's currently the owner of Stoke City Football Club and has been listed as the 25th richest person in British football
- Chris Greenacre
Chris Greenacre (born December 23, 1977 in Wakefield) is an English footballer who currently plays as a striker for Tranmere Rovers in Football League One. After starting his career at Manchester City, Greenacre went on to play football for the likes of Cardiff City, Mansfield Town and Stoke City, before joining League One club Tranmere Rovers on a free transfer in the summer of 2005.
- Lee Naylor
Lee Martyn Naylor (born 19 March 1980 in Bloxwich, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Celtic. Naylor was born in Bloxwich, and joined Wolverhampton Wanderers on leaving school in 1996. He made his debut against Birmingham City at St Andrews in 1997. He went on to represent England national football team Under-21s.
- Ronnie Whelan
Ronnie Whelan (born 25 September, 1961) is a former Irish football midfielder who was an integral part of the dominant Liverpool side of the 1980s.
- Andy Wilkinson
Andrew Gordon "Andy" Wilkinson (born on August 6 1984 in Stone, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Stoke City. During 2006, he was on loan to Blackpool. Between January and February 2007 andy enjoyed a run in the Stoke first team, impressing fans with his committed style of play.
- 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, …