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Rob Lee
Rob came through the academy at Charlton where he established himself as a first team player and soon become one of their star names. In season 92/93 Lee moved to Newcastle for a fee of 700,000. Lee helped Newcastle gain promotion to the Premier League for the 1993/94 season. The following few years, Lee was a key component of Keegan’s team which challenged for several Premier League titles, achieving runners-up position in the 1996/97 season. In 2002 Lee signed for Derby County and moved to West Ham in 2003. Lee played for England between 1994 and 1998, scoring twice in twenty one appearances. He was in the squad for the 1998 World Cup under Glenn Hoddle, and came on once as a substitute.
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Steve Potts
Potts started his career at West Ham United as an apprentice in 1983, making his first appearance against QPR on 1 January 1985. Known as Pottsy, he played for West Ham United for the next seventeen years. Primarily a fullback, Potts developed into a ‘utility’ player, he spent large portions of his career playing at centre-half despite being undersized for such a position. He also on occasion featured in midfield.
Potts was West Ham United Club captain for a 3 years between 1993 and 1996, and was voted Hammer of The Year in 1993 and 1995, and runner up in both 1992 and 1994. During his career he amassed a total of 506 appearances for the club (good enough for ninth place in the club’s all-time appearance charts), scoring only one goal, in a 7–1 win against Hull City in 1990. His last competitive appearance for the club was on 7 March 2001 against Chelsea, although he stayed on until 2002.
Potts transferred to Dagenham & Redridge on 13 September 2002 and played there for a full season before retiring from football.
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Jon Willis
Willis spent time at Pro Clubs including Leyton Orient and Colchester Utd before moving into Non-League football. He has played a high level of semi-pro football for local clubs, and can also boast scoring a 15 minute hat trick at White Hart Lane home of Tottenham Hotspur. Willis is also an experienced coach who has management experience at both youth and senior level in both the men and women’s game.
Jon currently runs Football Careers Centre Football Academy where he oversees a coaching programme for players aged just 3 upwards. The Academy aims to produce high quality players for the future and has already had several players go onto train with Pro Clubs. Whilst with FCC Jon has helped several players go on to sign contracts at Pro and non-League Clubs |
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Steve Sedgley
Sedgley made more than 180 first-team appearances for Tottenham as a player after a £750,000 move from Coventry City in July 1989 before switching to Ipswich Town for £1 million in June 1994. More than 100 appearances followed for Ipswich before the final move of his playing career, a £500,000 transfer to Wolves in July 1997, where he again made more than 100 League appearances before retiring from the game in December 2000. Steve has two FA Cup winners’ medals |
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Marvyn Williams
Marvyn Williams is an English born presenter / Dj and Columnist for News of the Worlds Fabulous Magazine, who is best known for decorating our screens on channel 4′s hit TV show Shipwrecked. He has most recently presented at the Clothes Show Live 2009 and co-presented the News of the Worlds, Fabulous Magazine Road Show 2009. Marvyn also played for Brentford FC as a youth
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DJ Spoony
Spoony’s career started on London Underground (a leading pirate radio station in the mid-nineties). He then joined Kiss 100, where he became a member of the Dreem Teem. The Dreem Teem then via a groundbreaking show on Galaxy brought UK Garage to Radio 1 in January 2000. His weekend breakfast show (October 2003 – Sept 2006) allowed listeners to join the Early Doors Club, play Judge Fudge, and become a Local Legend. He left Radio One after 6 years and can currently be heard on Radio 5 Live with ‘Spoony meets….’. A series of shows that will see him one-on-one with various players from the British football leagues. In 2006 Spoony took part in the fourth series of Strictly come dancing competing with Ola Jordan, he also appeared on The Weakest Link, A Question of Sport and was winning contestant on the celebrity version of the popular and long running quiz Mastermind.
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Paul Allen
Allen played as a midfielder for West Ham, Tottenham, Southampton , Luton, Stoke City, Swindon Town, Bristol City and Millwall in the 1980s and 1990s. He won 3 Caps for England at under 21 level. At 17 years and 256 days old, Allen’s appearance for West Ham United against Arsenal in the 1980 FA Cup Final made him the youngest player to appear in an FA Cup final at Wembley. He made 152 league appearances for the Hammers, scoring six goals, before a £400,000 fee took him to their London rivals Tottenham Hotspur on 19 June 1985. Allen went on to play in two FA Cup finals for Tottenham, on the losing side in 1987 but victorious in 1991. In eight years with Tottenham, he played 392 league games and scored 21 goals. He remained at White Hart Lane until 16 September 1993, when a £550,000 deal took him to Southampton. He played 33 Premier League games In 1993/94, scoring once, but played just 10 league games without scoring in 1994/95and was loaned out for 17 games to Stoke City, scoring once. He then signed for Swindon Town on a free transfer and helped them win the Division Two title (and promotion to Division One) In 1995/96
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Stuart Nethercott
Nethercott grew up through the ranks at Tottenham and made his debut on 20 March 1993 in a 1-1 draw at Chelsea. He was sent on loan to Maidstone and Barnet for experience during the early 1990s and ultimately played 54 games for Spurs, playing in the side which reached the FA Cup semi-finals in 1995. In 1998 Stuart transferred to Millwall. He helped them win the Division Two title in 2001 and reach their first-ever FA Cup Final in 2004, but he was loaned out to Wycombe Wanderers for the latter part of the cup final season meaning he missed out on the final itself. After the FA Cup final defeat, he signed for Wycombe Wanderers. Currently player/manager for Maldon Town FC
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Ralf Little
Ralf Little is an actor, writer and semi-professional footballer, working mainly on television. He is perhaps best known for playing Antony Royle, the son in the series The Royal Family, Jonny Keogh in the first six series of sitcom Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps and Danny in Massive. He also participated in the 2010 Soccer Aid game for England on the left wing
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Danny Granville
Granville began his career with Cambridge United playing 99 games and attracting a number of top clubs. Granville moved to Chelsea who signed him for £300,000 in 1997. Arguably the highlight of his career occurred during his time at Chelsea, playing in the winning side in the 1998 UEFA Cup Winners Cup triumph over VFB Stuttgart. He was signed by Leeds Utd in the following summer for £1,600,000. Following a successful loan spell at Man City in November 1999 he moved again, joining Manchester City permanently for £1,000,000. Danny helped city gain promotion to the Premier League, another highlight of his career. In December 2001 Danny signed for Crystal Palace where he played in the first team regularly. Danny was an integral part of the promotion team of 2004/05, Granville went on to make 138 appearances for Crystal Palace.
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Paul McVeigh
McVeigh started his career at Tottenham Hotspur where he made 3 appearances scoring 1 goal against Coventry City. He joined Norwich City in March 2000 on a free transfer. The following season he scored 9 goals as Norwich reached the final of the Division One play-offs. In the 2002–03 campaign he was the club’s top scorer with 15 goals. The following season he helped Norwich win promotion to the Premier League. Paul was also capped 20 times by Northern Ireland and is now a motivational speaker
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Paul Watson
After leaving school Paul joined Crystal Palace in 1996 when Dave Bassett was the manager, he got released in 1999 when Coppell was in charge and went to Ipswich Town for 6 months. Watson then moved to America to play for 2 years before returning and playing semi-pro for various clubs.
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