Celebrity Appearance

Frank Stapleton

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:41:06 +0000

Dublin born Frank Stapleton was a centre forward best known for his especially good ability to head the ball. He started his career with Arsenal in 1972 as an apprentice, after being turned down by Manchester United. He made his first team debut in 1975 against Stoke City where he would go on to form a potent striking partnership with Malcolm Macdonald at the Gunners; the two scored 46 goals between them in 1976-77. He was Arsenal’s top scorer for the three following seasons, and helped the Gunners reach a trio of FA Cup finals and scored 108 goals in 300 appearances in total during his time at Highbury. Frank moved to Manchester United in 1981 for £900,000 (a fee set by tribunal after the two clubs could not agree) and would help United win the 1983 and 1985 FA Cups.

Frank left United in 1987, after scoring 78 goals in 365 matches for the Old Trafford club. He went on to play for Ajax Amsterdam, before returning to England with Derby County and later Blackburn Rovers. Frank became player-manager of Bradford City, where he spent three seasons, and later went to the United States to coach Major League Soccer side New England Revolution. Internationally, he won 71 caps for the Republic of Ireland, scoring a then record 20 goals.

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Lee Dixon

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:02:42 +0000

Lee Dixon is one of the greatest defenders in Arsenals history, playing over 600 games in a 14 year spell. The legendary right back won every domestic honour in the English game in the course of his 20-year footballing career.

Lee began his career at Burnley before spells at Chester, Bury and Stoke. His big break was being signed in January 1988 by George Graham, who paid £400,000 to take him to Highbury. Here he was to become part of the legendary Arsenal back four alongside Tony Adams, Steve Bould and Nigel Winterburn who, for over a decade, provided the backbone that led the Gunners to a number of successes. In over 14 years at the club he won two Football League Championship and two Premiership winners’ medals - the latter won as part of the 1998 and 2002 Double years.

International Career

Lee made his England international debut in April 1990 in a World Cup warm-up game against Czechoslovakia. He went on to win another 21 caps for his country.

Current
Lee joined the BBC in 2004 as a pundit on Match of the Day, Football Focus and Match Of The Day 2 and is now one of the most respected former players in the media.

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Keith Duffy

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:04:55 +0000

A member of one of the world’s most successful boy band “Boyzone” and now a major star with huge storylines in the award winning Northern soap Coronation Street. Keith’s alter ego Ciaran McCarthy is currently creating havoc on “the street”. Last year, Keith was one of the chosen celebrity housemates for the Comic Relief Celebrity Big Brother and creates a huge reaction from the crowd every time he appears on stage at nightclubs across the country doing P.A’s. You just try and take the microphone off him!!

A great celebrity and perfect for a wide variety of occasions.
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Dean Saunders

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:13:15 +0000

Dean Saunders is a former professional football player with a wealth of stories about his lengthy and varied career which saw him play for many clubs. During his football career, Dean started out at Swansea City, before joining Cardiff City on loan before a permanent move to Brighton. He later joined Oxford United, Derby County, Liverpool, Galatasary, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, Benfica and Bradford City. He is currently Wrexham Manager as well as assistant manager to Wales’s manager John Toshack and is appearing regularly on TV and radio as a match summariser.
Dean played in over 700 games and scored a total of 254 goals. He was capped by Wales on 75 occasions, scoring 22 goals for his country. After retiring from football in 2001 he became a coach and then moved on to Newcastle United in 2004 initially as strikers coach, and then first team coach under old boss Graeme Souness. He left Newcastle in 2006 and took his coaching badges and was appointed assistant manger of Wales in June 2007.
He was one of the Welsh national side’s most prolific scorers. Made his debut as a 21 year old against Ireland in 1986, no Welsh fan will ever forget his goal which secured a famous 1-0 win over Brazil in Cardiff in 1991. He won the last of his caps against Ukraine in 2001 just a few months short of his 37th birthday.
Dean is building a very good reputation as an after dinner speaker, he comes very highly rated and above all enjoys doing the events.

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Andy Sinton

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:02:16 +0000

Andy Sinton was only 16 when he made his Football League debut for Cambridge.

He was signed by Brentford in 1985 for just £25,000, but they netted £350,000 for him when he moved to QPR four years later.
Andy went on to play 160 league games and score 22 goals at the London club before moving to Sheffield Wednesday for a then-club record £2.75m in August 1993.

He spent two and a half years at Hillsborough but returned to London early in 1996 to link up with former Rangers boss Gerry Francis at Tottenham Hotspur.
He made his last Premiership appearance for Tottenham in 1999 before spending three years with Wolverhampton Wanderers and then signing for non-league Burton Albion in August 2002.

Andy was appointed manager of Hampshire side Fleet Town in 2005, having spent the previous season as the club’s football development officer. In May 2010, Andy was appointed manager of Bluesquare North side, AFC Telford United.

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Clubs
Cambridge United
Brentford
QPR
Sheffield Wednesday
Tottenham Hotspu
Wolverhampton Wanderers

Honours
Worthington Cup Winner with Tottenham
Over 750 career appearances
Over 100 career goals

International Honours
England Schoolboy
England B
Full England International gaining 12 Caps
Member of the 1992 European Championship Squad in Swede

Lee Sharpe

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:49:14 +0000

Lee started his career at Torquay United, and after just 16 first team games he was snapped up by Manchester United for a fee of £2000,00, which was a record at the time for a YTS player.

He played a vital role in his first season at Old Trafford in the 1990- 1991 season, helping United to success in the European Cup Winners Cup, and scored a memorable hat-trick away at Arsenal in the League Cup. During eight year at Old Trafford, he scored nearly 40 goals in 265 matches.

Lee was transferred to Leeds United for a fee of 4.5 million prior to the 1996/97 season, making him their record signing, but unfortunately injury restricted him to very few appearances. He had a loan spell at Sampdoria, then followed a permanent move to Bradford City, where he initially helped them to promotion to the Premier League, and the following season they preserved their status in the top flight. A loan spell then followed to Portsmouth, followed by brief spells at Grimsby Town, Exeter City and Grindavik in Iceland, but he then had to curtail his career due to injury at the early age of just 32.

Since his retirement, Lee has developed a career within television, and has appeared on Score, Football Focus and Match of the Day 2 both as a live studio guest and as a features reporter. He was a celebrity contestant on Dancing on Ice, Celebrity Love Island and Celebrity Wrestling, was a co-host for Junior Gladiators and a reporter on Footballers Wives. He also appeared in Ant & Dec’s Saturday night takeaway as part of Team Dec. In 2008 he appeared on Channel 5’s Superstars as a member of Sir Steven Redgraves winning team

Lee has quickly established a reputation as a very good after dinner speaker. He brings his fun outlook on life to the after dinner circuit with numerous stories from the world of football and television, about the characters and personalities he has worked with.

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Dwight Yorke

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:19:47 +0000

Nicknamed ‘The Smiling Assassin’ Dwight was born on November 3, 1971 in Canaan, Trinidad and Tobago, and went on to become one of the Premier Leagues great characters. He famously won the 1999 Champions League and three successive Premiership titles in a four-year spell at Manchester United.

Dwight was first selected to play for the Trinidad and Tobago national side in 1989, and was captain of the team in the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany, in total he gained around 70 caps scoring over 20 goals.

His professional career began with Aston Villa in 1989 and he was a part of the team that clinched the League Cup in 1994 and 1996. During his 9 year tenure with the Villa, he made 231 appearances and scored 97 goals. He played a crucial role as a striker for Aston Villa and emerged as the club’s top-scorer (1994-95, 1995-96, and 1996-97). He also won the Player of the Year award for the 1996-97 season.

Dwight then signed for Manchester United for a fee of £12.6 million in August 1998. He played a pivotal role and emerged as the top league goal scorer for the 1998-1999 season. During his time at Old Trafford as well as winning the consecutive Premier League titles and Champions League, he also lifted the FA Cup, the Intercontinental Cup and was a UEFA Super Cup runner-up title in 1999.

He moved onto Blackburn Rovers in 2002 for a fee of £2 million and was the top-scorer for the season, before switching to Birmingham City in 2004, where scoring on his debut made him an instant favourite among the club’s fans. He was then signed by Sydney FC in 2005 where he was made captain. He led the team to victory in the inaugural A-League Grand Final match versus Central Coast Mariners in March 2006 with a Man of The Match performance. Dwight’s image and name were used by the Football Federations Australia (FFA) to promote the A-League’s second season.

In August 2006, Dwight signed for Sunderland for £200,000, and was part of the side that lifted the Football League Championship in the 2006-07 season.

Dwight Yorke has many awards and recognitions to his credit including, the Trinidad & Tobago Footballer of the Year (2005, 2006), the Tobago House of Assembly Chief Secretary’s Award (2005), the Trinidad & Tobago Olympic Committee Sports Personality of the Year (1998) and Humming Bird Medal Silver (1993). He also won the English Premier League Golden Boot Award for scoring 18 goals in the 1998-99 season.

The Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago, was named in his honour, and he was made a Sports Ambassador for his country owing to his great display in the 2006 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. Apart from playing football, Dwight has a great passion for cricket.

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Dean Windass

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:57:30 +0000

Dean retired from football in October 2009 at the age of 40, after a prolonged career spanning 20 years, that saw him make over 700 appearances scoring more than 200 goals and playing for 9 clubs.

He is perhaps best remembered for scoring the winning goal for Hull City in the Wembley Play Off Final in 2008, which gained his home town club promotion to the Premier League for the first time in their history. Dean played for Hull City in 3 spells, and has been voted the 4th best player of all time by The Hull City fans.

Dean also enjoyed 2 spells at Bradford City, helping them gain Promotion to the Premier League in 1999, and he is the clubs 3rd highest goal scorer of all time.

Dean is now establishing a new career in the media, and is a regular pundit and summariser on Sky Sports and the BBC.

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Brian Moore

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:47:55 +0000

With 64 England caps from 1987-1995 and five Test appearances for the British Lions, Moore is one of the world’s most capped hookers. On his first our with the British Lions to Australia in 1989 he played in all three Tests and in New Zealand in 1993 he played in the last two Tests after Kenny Milne had been chosen as hooker for the first match of the series.

Known world-wide as “Pitbull” Brian was always an aggressive character and a fierce competitor and was an inspirational leader of the England pack.

He played for Nottingham, where he was at University until 1990 when his work as a lawyer with a financial house took him to London where he joined Harlequins until his retirement from the game.

Since then Brian has remained an outspoken personality with strong views about the modern game. He also commentates regularly on television and radio, and writes articles for newspapers and magazines.

Brian has also been part of the BBC 6 Nations commentary team for the past five years as well as having a regular sports column in the Daily Telegraph.

He is without doubt one of the best rugby speakers on the after dinner speaking circuit. In January 2010 he brought out his admirably frank memoirs “Beware of the Dog”

Playing Career: Nottingham 1981-1990; Harlequins 1990-1998; England and Five Nations Debut v. Scotland in 1987, and Grand Slam Champions in 1991, 1992, and 1995.

Tours: Australia in 1988; Argentina in 1990; Australia / Fiji in 1991; British Lions tours in Australia in 1989, and New Zealand in 1993.

Awards: Whitbread / Rugby World Player of the World in 1991.

Ronnie Irani

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:27:29 +0000

Former Essex and England all rounder, Ronnie Irani, played a total of three Test Matches and 31 One Day Internationals for England in a career spanning 17 years. The Bolton born player finished with better all round stats than Freddie Flintoff, scoring over 20,000 runs and taking over 650 wickets at an average of 41 & 29 respectively.

Ronnie is now best known for being on TalkSport, where he co hosts the Breakfast Show with Alan Brazil. Ronnie has become a favourite with the listeners, and is now affectionately know as ‘Vernon’ after the TV personality Vernon Kay of whom he shares a strong Lancashire accent or Chicken, shortened from the rhyming slang ‘Chicken Biryani’.

Ronnie is also a very funny, popular and accomplished Speaker on the After Dinner Circuit.

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