Simon Ratcliffe

This article is about the English soccer player; for the musician of the same name from the group Basement Jaxx see there.

Simon Ratcliffe
Personnel
birthday	February 8, 1967
place of birth	Davyhulme ,  England
position	Defense, midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1983-1985	Manchester United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1985-1987	Manchester United	0 0(0)
1987-1989	Norwich City	9 0(0)
1989-1995	Brentford FC	214 (14)
1995-1998	Gillingham FC	105 (10)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1982	England pupil	8 (0)
	England U-19
1 Only league games are given.

Simon Ratcliffe (born February 8, 1967 in Davyhulme , Trafford ) is a retired English football player .

Career

Ratcliffe was the captain of the English national school team in seven of his eight missions and injured himself so much in his last game for the selection against Scotland that his spleen had to be removed. In 1983 he joined the Manchester United youth team and received a professional contract there in February 1985. In August of the same year he took part with the English national youth team in the Junior World Championship in the Soviet Union when the English team failed in the preliminary round. Ratcliffe was not one of the 30 potential tournament participants registered in advance, but numerous cancellations and refusals of approval meant that he, like some other players, moved up into the only 16-strong roster. The midfielder was on the pitch over the full distance in all three preliminary round games.

Although Ratcliffe at Manchester United did not make the breakthrough in the professional team and was only used in friendly matches for the first team, Norwich City was ready in 1987 to commit him for 40,000 pounds transfer fee. At that time, Norwich had a capable team and was placed in the top field of the First Division several times . He made it, also due to a broken leg shortly after his Norwich debut, in two years to only nine appearances in this grown team before Steven Perryman brought him for the club's record transfer fee of 160,000 pounds to third division club Brentford . At Brentford he was part of the permanent staff for the following six seasons. In 1992 he made it to the second division with the club, but was relegated again in the following season. He also reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in 1989 with Brentford , in which they were defeated by the reigning champions Liverpool FC .

In 1995, his contract with Brentford was not renewed and he moved to the fourth division Gillingham FC , which he helped promotion to the third division in his first season. Two years later he ended his career and took a position in the club. Ratcliffe returned to Norwich in 2000 and worked in a prison there.

literature

• Mike Davage: Glorious Canaries - Past and Present 1902-1994 . Norwich City FC Ltd, Norfolk 1994, ISBN 0-9523857-0-8 , pp. 320 f .
• Roger Triggs: The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7524-2243-X , pp. 269 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gavin Willacy / English Schools Football Association: England Schoolboys, International Players records 1907-99 . Redwood Books Ltd., Trowbridge 1999, p. 35 .
2. ↑ FIFA (Ed.): Technical Report - USSR '85 . Zurich 1985, p. 44f
3. ↑ ex-canaries.co.uk: Profiles Simon Ratcliffe