Alan Smith
“Smudger” began his footballing journey at non-league Alvechurch, he was an instant hit which led to him signing professional forms with Leicester City in the summer of 1982. He scored 13 goals in his first season where he partnered Gary Lineker up front, helping fire the Foxes to promotion to the First Division. In five seasons at Leicester, he scored 84 goals in 206 appearances.
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George Graham’s signed him for Arsenal for £850,000 in 1987, and by the 1988-89, Smith had become an established marskmen, notching 23 goals to make him the First Division’s top scorer, helping the Gunners to their first League title in 18 years. Alan won the League Championship in again with Arsenal in 1990-91 (scoring 22 goals that season) and has by now made his International debut for England. He played 13 times and scored two goals for his country. Alan also played four times for the England B team, scoring four goals.
His success at Arsenal continued; and he was part of the side that won the FA Cup and League Cup “double” in 1993. He most notably scored the only goal of Arsenal’s 1-0 victory in the Cup Winners’ Cup final against Parma in 1994. Alan became the clubs 12th top goalscorer of all time, scoring 115 goals in 345 matches, and only ever received one booking in his entire footballing career, coming in extra-time of the 1993 FA Cup Final replay against Sheffield Wednesday.
Since retiring from the game, Alan has worked as a regular pundit for Sky Sports and as a columnist for The Daily Telegraph.
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Alan Kennedy
Alan is most fondly remembered by the Liverpool faithful for his goals in the European Cup Finals of 1981 and 1984, where he helped their most successful ever team win Two European Cups. To this day, he is still the only Englishman to have scored 2 European Cup winning goals, against Real Madrid in 1981 and AS Roma in 1984.
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Alan’s began his footballing career when he signed as a professional for Newcastle in 1972, making his league debut as an eighteen year old in 1973. In just over 6 years, he played nearly 200 games for the Magpies, including the 1974 Cup Final against Liverpool and the 1976 League Cup Final against Manchester City.
Bob Paisley broke the British transfer fee for a full back in August 1978, paying Newcastle United £300,000 for his services . Alan went on to play over 350 games for The Reds, achieving an amazing haul of 14 major winners medals at Anfield. In 1985 Alan signed for Lawrie McMenemy’s Sunderland, where he stayed for 2 years, followed by spells at Huskvarna i n Sweden, Beerschot in Belgium, Club 1903 of Denmark and finally Wrexham. His career as a professional came to an end in 1990 due to a knee injury, by which time he had clocked up more than 500th career appearances spanning some 17 years.
Alan is now a very popular figure on the after dinner speaking circuit and is a regular host at Anfield on matchdays. He holds a full coaching badge and has been running his successful Soccer Schools for children for many years.
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Nathan Blake
Nathan joined Bolton from Sheffield United in December 1995 in a £1,200,000 deal, but unfortunately could help them avoid relegation from the Premier League. However during the next season he scored 19 league goals to help fire Wanderers back into the Premier League at the first attempt, as they went up as Champions. He then went on to score 12 league goals during the 1997/98 campaign, however this couldn’t prevent relegation after one season. Nathan started the following season on fire scoring 6 goals in the first 12 matches, which prompted a bid from local rivals Blackburn Rovers, for whom he completed a move back to the Premier League for a transfer fee of over 4 million on pounds.
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In an International career spanning 10 years, Nathan represented his country of Wales 29 times, scoring 4 goals.
Clubs:
- Cardiff City
- Sheffield United
- Bolton Wanderers
- Blackburn Rovers
- Wolves
- Leicester City
- Leeds United
- Newport County
International: 29 Senior Caps for Wales, 4 goals
Dave Beasant
Dave famously became the first goalkeeper to both Captain his team and save a penalty in an FA Cup Final which helped Wimbledon secure a famous 1–0 win over Liverpool in 1988.
Dave won two caps for England, and was a member of the 1990 World Cup Squad which reached the Semi Finals in Italy.
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During long and very successful career Dave played for many clubs including, Wimbledon, Newcastle United, Chelsea, Grimbsy Town , Wolverhampton Wanderers, Southampton, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Tottenham Hotspur, Bradford City, Wigan Athletic and Brighton and Hove Albion.
Dave retired from playing at the age of 44 whilst registered for Fulham, where he had been appointed as a goalkeeping coach for the club in addition to serving as goalkeeping coach for Northern Ireland under former Wimbledon teammate Lawrie Sanchez.
Dave is currently working with former England and Tottenham Legend Glenn Hoddle at his football Academy in the south of Spain.
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Alan Birchenall
Alan, more commonly know as ‘The Birch’ is the Club Coordinator at The Walkers Stadium where he has enjoyed an association with Leicester City for over 3 decades. Over this period he has raised in excess of £600,000 for local charities through his end of season run around the pitch, for which he was awarded an MBE in 2003.
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As a player The Birch played over 160 games for Leicester City, and made over 400 career appearances with Sheffield United, Chelsea, Leicester, Notts County, Blackburn, Luton and Hereford. He is most fondly remembered by the Leicester City faithful for his six years as a striker-turned-midfielder as a member of the ‘Bloomfield Boys’. Alan starred alongside England internationals Frank Worthington, Keith Weller, Peter Shilton and Steve Whitworth under the inspired managership of Jimmy Bloomfield.
Born in East London, Alan made Leicestershire his home when he became the club’s public relations officer over 25 years ago. During that time he has established an excellent rapport with the Leicester public and has come to be looked upon as Mr Leicester City.
Clubs:
- Sheffield United
- Chelsea
- Crystal Palace
- Leicester City
- Notts County
- Blackburn Rovers
- Luton Town
- Hereford United
International Honours - England U23 (4 Caps)
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Steve Claridge
Steve’s appearance for Bournemouth in December 2006 at the age of 40 for gave him the distinction of being one of a very select few players who have amassed 1000 career appearances. His career spanned over a period of 22 years, scoring more than 250 goals and he pulled on the shirt of over 20 clubs!
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Honours:
- Cambridge Utd - Division 3 Play Off Winners, Division 2 Champions
- Birmingham City - Auto Glass Trophy Winners, Division 2 Champions
- Leicester City - Coca Cola Cup Winners, First Division Play Off Winners
- Wolves - FA Cup Semi Finalists
- Millwall - Division 2 Champions, Division 1 Play Off Finalists
Steve has proudly been voted ‘fans’ Player Of The Year’ at all the clubs in which he played for the whole season!
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Management
Steve was sacked as Manager of Millwall In July 2006 after l ess than 4 weeks in the job! His appointmnet as Manager of Millwall, a club for who he is regarded as a legend by their fans, came after previous succesful Player Manager roles at Portsmouth and Weymouth.
Steve is now the leading face of Setanta Sports News, hosting a weekly live phone in, and also works within the national media for BBC Sport, The Guardian, Talk Sport, Radio 5 Live, Central Television and Channel 5.
