Stan Collymore

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Stan Collymore
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Collymore (middle, white t-shirt) played for Fulham in 1999
Personnel
Surname Stanley Victor Collymore
birthday 22nd January 1971
place of birth Stone , Staffordshire ,  England
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1988-1989 Walsall FC
1989-1990 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990 Stafford Rangers
1990-1992 Crystal Palace 20 0(1)
1992-1993 Southend United 30 (15)
1993-1995 Nottingham Forest 62 (41)
1995-1997 Liverpool FC 63 (28)
1997-2000 Aston Villa 46 0(7)
1999 →  Fulham FC  (loan) 6 0(0)
2000 Leicester City 11 0(5)
2000-2001 Bradford City 7 0(2)
2001 Real Oviedo 3 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-1997 England 3 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Stanley "Stan" Victor Collymore (born January 22, 1971 in Stone , Staffordshire ) is a former English football player .

Early career

Collymore started his career in the youth teams of Walsall FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers . When his contract was not renewed, he moved to the GM Vauxhall Conference to the Stafford Rangers . There he drew attention to himself with some spectacular goals.

Career as a professional

In late 1990, at the age of 19, he was given the opportunity to sign a professional contract with Crystal Palace , but moved a league lower to Southend United , where he helped out with 18 goals in 31 games for a club record of £ 150,000 Keep club in the First Division .

Nottingham Forest bought the striker in the summer of 1993 for a club record £ 3,000,000. Collymore scored 50 goals in 71 games and became a key player in direct promotion to the Premier League. He scored 25 goals in his first season in the top division and led the club, which had only been relegated 24 months earlier, to third place in the table. At the end of the 1994/95 season he was signed to Liverpool for a record £ 8,500,000.

Collymore scored a spectacular goal in his debut for the Reds and signed a controversial two-year deal with the club. He and Robbie Fowler were considered one of the best attacking couples in Europe, both in the club and in the national team . Most famous are Collymore's two goals against Newcastle United in Anfield , which formed the winning goal in one of the highest quality games in the history of the Premier League. Sky Sports viewers chose the game as the sport's greatest moment in the channel's first decade.

After this game, however, the relegation of Collymore began. He refused both to play for the reserves and to give up his hometown of Cannock and move closer to Merseyside . He publicly criticized manager Roy Evans and played so badly in the 1996 FA Cup final that he lost 1-0 that he was substituted on. Collymore, like his then colleagues Jamie Redknapp , David James and Steve McManaman, was derided as "Spice Boys" - a derogatory term to brand them as spoiled players. Although considered an excellent footballer at the time, Collymore was sold to Aston Villa for £ 7,000,000 in 1997.

Collymore made headlines mostly off-field during his time at Villa. Above all, his long resignation due to depression was harshly criticized by the British tabloid press and drew the ridicule of the villa manager John Gregory . But Collymore also met with great popular support, as he faced the disease from which large parts of the population suffered. In the three years that Collymore was under contract at Aston Villa, he only scored 15 goals after being struck off the squad for over a year in Gregory's tenure and on sick leave due to clinical depression. A highlight was Collymore becoming the third player in Aston Villa history to score a hat trick in a European Cup competition .

Collymore in the press

Collymore admitted to beating his girlfriend, TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson , during an argument in Paris in 1998 . After this incident and his disregard by Gregory, he moved from the West Midlands to the East Midlands to Leicester City in 2000 . He scored a hat trick on his home debut. After a successful but short contract with the club, his season ended prematurely when he broke his leg in a friendly match with local rivals Derby County . When Martin O'Neill moved to Celtic Glasgow , Bradford City found a quick replacement in Collymore. Again he showed a spectacular first game with an overhead kick against local rivals Leeds United . Then Collymore moved to the Primera División to Real Oviedo . Shortly after signing the contract with Oviedo, he ended his active career at the age of only 30 due to poor form combined with integration difficulties. In doing so, he drew the wrath of the club, which sued Collymore.

In 2004 the Sun claimed that Collymore had signed a confession describing himself as a "lying bastard" and admitting that he struck first in a brawl in a Dublin nightclub last weekend with rugby players from Bath and apologized to readers I have "wasted all the footballing talent in my unfulfilled career." Collymore then complained to the Press Complaints Commission and won the case.

In 2014, the editors of France Football published a list of the “50 world's most problematic football players since the late 1960s”, in which they ranked Collymore sixth and underpinned this in particular with his quotes about his sexual escapades (“le sex-addict”) .

Career after football

After the end of his football career, Collymore worked as a newscaster on BBC Radio Five Live . He was released from his duties after it became publicly known that he had engaged in outdoor sexual activity called dogging . Collymore defended that there was more to life than tea and digestive biscuits, and insisted that dogging was the future of living together in Britain. After leaving the BBC, Collymore declared that they measured two standards. People are employed there who are involved in crimes that are far worse than his sexual activities.

His autobiography " Tackling My Demons " was published in 2004 and received critical reactions.

In 2005 he played in Basic Instinct 2 alongside Sharon Stone a roll of film, again brought the Collymore in the headlines as his movie character Kevin Franks, together with Catherine Tramell (Stone) in the opening scene of the movie sex in a car. Collymore can be seen and heard regularly on television and radio across the UK. He owns Maverick Spirit Productions, a British television production company.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report in the Guardian
  2. ↑ Article “Les fous du stade” in France Football of February 18, 2014, pp. 16-25; Quotations on p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Collymore, Stan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collymore, Stanley Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd January 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Stone , Staffordshire