- Frank Lampard
Frank James Lampard, Jr., (born 20 June 1978) is an English football player currently at Chelsea and previously with West Ham United and Swansea City. He is a central midfielder known for his powerful long-range shots and prolific goalscoring abilities from midfield. Lampard was born in Romford, Havering, England. He is the son of Frank Lampard Sr., the former England full back and two-time FA Cup winner with West Ham United.
- Mike Catt
Michael John Catt MBE (born in 17 September 1971) is an English rugby union footballer who plays for London Irish, having previously played for Bath. Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Catt's mother was English, and as a student he toured England. At the time, South Africa was banned from international competition because of the policy of apartheid.
- Chris Latham
Chris Latham (born 8 September 1975) is an Australian rugby union player, who plays at full back for the Queensland Reds and Australia. He currently stands as the 2nd highest try scorer (behind David Campese) in Wallaby history with 31 international tries (155 points), as of June 2006.
- 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, …
- Micah Richards
Micah Lincoln Richards (born June 24, 1988 in Birmingham) is a football player with Manchester City and England. Richards, a right full back, made his professional debut when he was 17 as a substitute against Arsenal in October 2005.
- Tom Varndell
Tom Varndell is an English rugby union footballer who plays on the wing for Leicester Tigers, England and England Sevens. He measures 1.92 m, 97 kg (6'3½", 214 lb), and has been clocked at 10.8 seconds for the 100 metres in his socks on grass. Tom began playing rugby aged 8 at Chinnor rugby club in Oxfordshire where he stayed until he 15 when he was invited by Dusty Hare, the former England full back, who was Leicester's Chief Scout, to train with them.
- Kevin Morgan
Kevin Andrew Morgan (born 23 February 1977 in Pontypridd) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Newport Gwent Dragons and has won 34 caps for Wales, mainly at full back but also as a winger. Morgan (height 5'10", weight 13st 4lb) initially played club rugby for his home town club, Pontypridd, then joined Swansea in 1998. He joined the Celtic Warriors when regional sides were formed in 2003, then when the Warriors were wound up signed for Newport Gwent Dragons in 2004.
- Girvan Dempsey
Girvan Dempsey (born 2 October 1975 in Dublin) is a rugby union footballer who plays at full back for Leinster and Ireland. His parents, showing remarkable prescience, named him Girvan (frequently shortened to Girve), ensuring that his many ardent supporters could attach the moniker "Swerve" to his name, or more commonly - "Girv the Swerve". He continues to vindicate this worthy title.
- Phil Brown
Philip "Phil" Brown (born May 30, 1959 in South Shields, England) is an English former footballer, and the current manager of Hull City. As a player Brown was a dependable full back for many years - most of which was spent at Bolton Wanderers. He also played for Hartlepool and Halifax Town, playing alongside fellow Geordie Billy Ayre at both clubs and under him at the latter. They would have linked up for a third time at Blackpool, …
- George McCartney
George McCartney (born April 29 1981) is an international footballer for Northern Ireland. He currently plays for West Ham United where he is an attacking left full back.
- Mark van Gisbergen
Mark van Gisbergen is a rugby union footballer who plays at full back for Wasps and England. He is nicknamed 'Giz' or 'Gizzy'. Van Gisbergen’s father is Dutch born whilst his mother is from New Zealand, meaning that the player holds both New Zealand and Dutch passports. Van Gisbergen qualified to play for England on 11 September 2005 on residency grounds, having come to England three years previously to begin his playing career at Wasps.
- Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson (born October 20, 1984) is a full back or ruckman for the Fremantle Dockers. Recruited from Perth Football Club in the WAFL with selection 8 in the 2004 Preseason Draft, he is a graduate of the Clontarf Football Academy<small><sup>;</sup></small>. He made his debut against Richmond in Round 4 of 2005 when Matthew Carr was a late withdrawal from the team due to illness. Due to promising performances at both WAFL and AFL levels and his versatility, …
- Mark Robinson
Mark Robinson is a footballer born in Rochdale, Lancashire. He is a former West Bromwich Albion F.C., Barnsley F.C., Newcastle United, Swindon Town and Chippenham Town F.C. full back. Robinson started his career with Midlands based outfit West Bromwich Albion F.C. where he made only 2 league outings before a move to Barnsley F.C.. Robinson made over 150 games for the Tykes before Kevin Keegan paid £450,000 to take the defender to Newcastle United in February 1993.
- Gavin Duffy
Gavin Duffy (born 18 September 1981) is a rugby union footballer who plays on at full back or at centre for Connacht Rugby having recently resigned for the Irish provincial side from Harlequins. Gavin originally joined Quins from Connacht in the summer of 2003 and made his league debut in the Zurich Premiership game against Rotherham Titans on 20th September that year.He made 92 full appearances and 18 as replacement during that period scoring 21 tries.
- Brett Emerton
Brett Michael Emerton (born February 22, 1979 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a football (soccer) player who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers in England. He is usually a wide midfielder but has been known to play in central positions or at full back. Emerton started his career with the Olympic Sharks (now Sydney Olympic) in Sydney in August 1996, making 93 appearances and scoring 14 goals.
- Matt Perry
Matthew Brendan Perry (born 27 January 1977 in Bath) was an English rugby union footballer who played full back for Bath. He played internationally for England and the British and Irish Lions.
- Luke Fitzgerald
Luke Fitzgerald (born 13 September 1987) is a Rugby Union footballer. He currently plays at full back or centre for Leinster. Having previously studied at Blackrock College he won two Leinster Schools Senior Cups, in 2004 and 2006, but losing to Belvedere College in 2005. He won his first cap for Ireland in November 2006.
- Tom Williams
Tom Williams (born 12 October 1983) is a rugby union footballer who plays on at full back or on the wing for English club Harlequins in the Guinness Premiership.
- Chris Ashton
Chris Ashton is a player for Wigan Warriors of the Super League. From next season (September 2007) he will play rugby union for Northampton Saints. Ashton came through Wigan's scholarship programme and played in Wigan's Academy U18s in 2003. He was selected for the 2004 Academy Origin Series and the 2004 victorious England Academy U-18s tour to Australia. After impressing in the academy, where he scored 27 tries in 23 games, …
- Matthew Scarlett
Matthew "Scarlo" Scarlett (born June 5, 1979) is an Australian rules footballer. He is the son of former player John Scarlett. Renowned as one of the best full-backs in the AFL, with his combination of strength, speed, and size a real asset. Scarlett has won his club's Best and Fairest award, the Carji Greeves Medal in 2003, as well as winning All-Australian honours in 2003 and 2004. Matthew Scarlett is one of the Geelong Football Club key defenders.
- Gregor Townsend
Gregor Peter John Townsend MBE (born 26th April 1973 in Galashiels) is a Scottish rugby union player and coach at The Borders Rugby Club, he has played at fly-half, full back and latterly centre. He has represented both Scotland and the British and Irish Lions winning 82 caps for Scotland and two for the Lions. A world-class player, though not without flaws. Often described as mercurial, his play was touched by genius on a good day and dreadful on a bad one.
- Tim Stimpson
Tim Richard George Stimpson (born 10 September 1973 in Liverpool) is a rugby union international full back who is now semi-retired from the game, and is player-coach for 2nd division team Nuneaton R.F.C. in Warwickshire. During his career he played for Wakefield, West Hartlepool, Newcastle Falcons, Leicester Tigers, Perpignan and Leeds Tykes, England and the British Lions.
- Sylvinho
Sylvinho (full name Sylvio Mendes Campos Junior, sometimes alternatively spelt as Silvinho, born April 12, 1974 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian football player, who currently plays for FC Barcelona of the Spanish La Liga. He usually plays on the left, either as full back or wing back. He started his career at Corinthians from 1994 until 1999. In 1999 he moved to English club Arsenal, where he played for two years, …
- Conor O'Shea
Conor Michael Patrick O'Shea (born 21 October 1970 in Limerick) is a former rugby union footballer who played at full back for Ireland and London Irish. Conor O'Shea went to Terenure College in Dublin which is one of the main rugby nurseries in Ireland and is currently Director of the English RFU Academy. He attended University College Dublin where he began his representative career.
- Carlos Spencer
Carlos James Spencer (born 14 October 1975 in Levin) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer who plays at for the Northampton Saints in England and formerly for the New Zealand All Blacks. Spencer is 1.84m tall and weighs 95kg. He played for the Auckland Blues Super 12 franchise from the inception of the competition in 1996 until 2005, and has played extensively for the Auckland National Provincial Championship (NPC) side.
- Dan Scarbrough
Dan Scarbrough (born 16 February 1978) is a rugby union player who plays on the wing or full back for Saracens. He was National Division One leading try scorer with Wakefield for two seasons before moving to Leeds Tykes where he continued his try scoring exploits, finishing second in the 2001/2002 list of Zurich Premiership scorers. It earned him a place in the final two England A matches of 2002 and he played in all four A games during 2003.
- Kenny Sansom
Kenny Sansom (born Kenneth Graham Sansom, September 26, 1958 in Camberwell, London) is an English former footballer who remains his country's most capped full back.
- Jon Callard
Jonathan Edward Brooks Callard (born 1 January 1966 in Leicester) is a coach at the Rugby Football Union's National Academy. He formerly played rugby union at full back for Bath and England. Callard joined Bath from Newport in 1989. In the autumn of 1993 he made his international debut for England against the All Blacks. In August 1998 Callard was appointed assistant coach to Andy Robinson at Bath, before being made Head Coach in 2000.
- Clemens Fritz
Clemens Fritz (born December 7, 1980 in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany) is a German footballer, who plays as a right-back for Werder Bremen. Probably his best attribute in football is his pace, in which it had sometimes been compared to that of Cristiano Ronaldo, his passing and crossing abilities, and his team effort.
- Joe Kinnear
Joe Kinnear (born December 27, 1946 in Dublin) is a football manager.
- Glenn Metcalfe
Glenn Hayden Metcalfe (born 15 April 1970 in Auckland) is a former rugby union footballer who played at for Glasgow, Castres and Scotland. His best moment in a Scotland shirt was his famous try saving tackle on Rupeni Caucaunibuca in the 2003 world cup against Fiji, which enabled Scotland to go through to the quarterfinals.
- Brendan Laney
Brendan James Laney, (born 16 November 1973 in Invercargill) is a professional rugby union player. Nicknamed "Chainsaw" for the way he cuts through defences, he is a useful goal kicker. He hails from Southland, New Zealand. He began his professional rugby career at full back for the Highlanders in the then Super 12 (now Super 14). He has played for the Scotland national rugby union team and is now playing for Yamaha Jubilo in Japan.
- Ben Hinshelwood
Benjamin Gerald Hinshelwood (born 22 March 1977 in Melbourne). Son of famous Scottish er Sandy Hinshelwood, Ben was the outstanding sportsman in his days at North Sydney Boys High School. Joined the University of Sydney Rugby Union team where as a centre he helped secure the 2001 Premiership before leaving for England where he played rugby union at for Worcester Warriors. He has been capped by Scotland and played in the World Cup in 2003.
- Fraser Gehrig
Fraser Gehrig (born March 3, 1976) a player for the St Kilda Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. Widely regarded as the most powerful and intimidating player currently in the league, Gehrig began his career at the West Coast Eagles playing full back, and became known for his height (195 cm), pace, and strength; he holds the bench press records at West Coast and St Kilda with a personal best of 172.5kg (twice).
- Terry Neill
William John Terence "Terry" Neill (born May 8, 1942) is a Northern Ireland former football player and manager. Born in Belfast, Neill played as a youth for Bangor, before moving in 1959 to Arsenal. He scored on his debut in December 1960 against Sheffield Wednesday, becoming an accomplished centre half (but also playing at full back). He became a regular in the Arsenal side of the 1960s, as well as the Northern Ireland national side, …
- Rob Thirlby
Rob Thirlby (born 2 March 1979) in Penzance, Cornwall is a Cornish rugby union footballer who plays on the wing or full back for Gloucester and England Sevens. He spent 2 years playing for his home club Penzance & Newlyn RFC (Cornish Pirates) in National League 1.
- Don Howe
Donald 'Don' Howe (born October 12, 1935 in Wolverhampton) is an English football player, turned highly-respected coach and manager. Howe spent most of his playing career at West Bromwich Albion, joining the club as a youth in 1952, and making his debut in 1955. A full back, he played nearly 350 games for the Baggies in twelve years, as well as becoming a regular in the England team; he played in the 1958 World Cup, and won 23 caps in total.
- Alastair Hignell
Alastair James Hignell (born Ely 4 September 1955) is a former English rugby union and cricket player. Hignell is the son of a former Hampshire footballer. He won blues at Cambridge at both cricket and rugby union, and by the time he graduated from university in 1977 he had already made several England appearances at full back.
- Didier Agathe
Didier Agathe is a professional footballer who is currently a free agent after leaving Aston Villa. Agathe plays on the right hand side of the pitch, either as a winger or as a full back. He began his career in France with Montpellier HSC and also had a loan spell with Olympique Alès. He moved to Scotland in 1999, playing for a year with Raith Rovers. At this time he was playing as a striker, and his goals alerted Premier League club Hibernian, …
- Chris Melling
Chris Melling (born September 21, 1984 in Wigan) is an English rugby league player. Melling is a former Wigan Senior Academy captain who made several appearance for the Wigan first team. He now plays for Harlequins RL and is the Quins full back.