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'''Stanley Victor "Stan" Collymore''' (born 22 January 1971) is an English [[association football|footballer]] who played from 1990 until 2001.
'''Stanley Victor "Stan" (wife beater & dogging champion) Collymore''' (born 22 January 1971) is an English [[association football|footballer]] who played from 1990 until 2001.


He held the British transfer record when he moved from [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] to [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] for £8.5 million in 1995 and was capped three times at senior level by the [[England national football team]] but never scored.
He held the British transfer record when he moved from [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] to [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] for £8.5 million in 1995 and was capped three times at senior level by the [[England national football team]] but never scored.

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Stan Collymore
Personal information
Full name Stanley Victor Collymore
Date of birth (1971-01-22) 22 January 1971 (age 53)
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1988–1989 Walsall
1989–1990 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990 Stafford Rangers
1990–1992 Crystal Palace 20 (1)
1992–1993 Southend United 30 (15)
1993–1995 Nottingham Forest 65 (41)
1995–1997 Liverpool 61 (26)
1997–2000 Aston Villa 46 (7)
1999 → Fulham (loan) 6 (0)
2000 Leicester City 11 (5)
2000–2001 Bradford City 7 (2)
2001 Real Oviedo 3 (0)
Total 251 (99)
International career
1995–1997 England 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stanley Victor "Stan" (wife beater & dogging champion) Collymore (born 22 January 1971) is an English footballer who played from 1990 until 2001.

He held the British transfer record when he moved from Nottingham Forest to Liverpool for £8.5 million in 1995 and was capped three times at senior level by the England national football team but never scored.

Early life

Collymore's mother Doreen, a swimming pool receptionist in Cannock, Staffordshire, had four daughters from her first husband, who was from nearby Wolverhampton. When she met his father, a former military man and Barbadian national (who was also called Stanley Collymore), they moved to Barbados but returned to Cannock.

Playing career

Early career

Collymore was born in Stone, Staffordshire. As a young boy he supported Aston Villa.[1] A centre forward, Collymore played junior football for Penkridge Juniors before starting his career as an apprentice footballer with Walsall, and also Wolverhampton Wanderers, before being released and signing for then Conference team, Stafford Rangers. It was there he caught the eye of several football league clubs by demonstrating the ability to score spectacular goals before being given his chance as a full-time professional with Crystal Palace at the age of 19, when he signed for them in December 1990.

Crystal Palace and Southend United

After learning his trade as understudy to the prolific Crystal Palace partnership of Mark Bright and Ian Wright, Collymore dropped down a division to Southend United and there scored 18 goals in 31 games to help keep the club in the First Division (Now Championship) when relegation had seemed likely.

Collymore enjoyed his time at Southend saying, "I count helping to keep Southend in the first division in my season there as one of my finest achievements."[2]

Nottingham Forest

In June 1993, Collymore signed for Nottingham Forest in an initial £2 million deal rising to £2.75 million based on certain clauses being met, including an international cap. He was signed by newly-appointed Frank Clark, who had just taken over as manager at the end of Brian Clough's 18-year reign as manager. Forest had just been relegated from the Premier League, but Collymore's good form in the 1993–94 campaign helped take them back to the top flight as Division One runners-up. He scored 22 Premier League goals in 1994–95 as Forest finished third in the league and achieved UEFA Cup qualification to secure their first European campaign of the post-Heysel era.

Halfway through the 1994–95 season, Collymore came close to joining Manchester United. Alex Ferguson was looking for a younger striker to sign as a possible long term successor to the 31-year-old Mark Hughes, and had identified Stan Collymore and Andy Cole as the two players who best fitted the bill. For a while it seemed certain that Collymore was on his way to Old Trafford, but United signed Cole instead and Collymore remained at the City Ground until the end of the season,[3] by which time Liverpool and Everton were in the hunt for his signature.[4]

Liverpool

Collymore signed for Liverpool in June 1995, for a British record fee of £8.5 million. He scored on his Liverpool debut against Sheffield Wednesday and began a two-year spell at Anfield. He scored at a ratio of a goal every 2.5 games and created many goals in a partnership with Robbie Fowler, ousting the veteran Ian Rush. He also scored two goals, including the winner against Newcastle United at Anfield in a game that was regarded as one of the most exciting in the history of the Premier League – a game which helped end Newcastle's title challenge (which they had led by 10 points at Christmas 1995) and hand the title to Manchester United. Indeed, it was voted by viewers of Sky Sports as the greatest sporting moment in the channel's first ten years.[5] Collymore was at the club at a time when the club were widely labelled as Spice Boys and although Collymore claimed he was not one of them and left the club shortly after the labelling began, was often lumped with the likes of Jamie Redknapp, Jason McAteer and David James, though he constantly attempted to distance himself from associations with them, even revealing sordid details about a lack of discipline at the club, hedonistic sexual romps in hotel rooms, and the problems they all faced in his autobiography.

Despite his controversies at the club, Collymore helped Liverpool to third place in the Premier League. After two seasons at Anfield the striker was sold to Aston Villa in 1997, for £7 million, making him Liverpool's most expensive sale and Villa's most expensive signing.

Aston Villa and Leicester City

In the three years that he spent at the club, Collymore scored 15 goals but failed to hold down a regular place. Highs included being only the third Aston Villa player in history to score a hat-trick in European competition (the other two being his boyhood idols Gary Shaw and Peter Withe) and also bagging two goals against former club Liverpool in a 2–1 home victory. Poor form and Clinical Depression saw Collymore receive treatment at the Priory Hospital Roehampton for several weeks, and on his return to professional football he went on a 3 month loan to Fulham, where he scored once in the League Cup against West Bromwich Albion.[6] Ultimately he was allowed by manager John Gregory to leave on a free transfer to Leicester City where under Martin O'Neill he regained some of the early form when he scored a hat trick against Sunderland in a 5–2 victory, in which Martin O'Neill went on record to describe the Leicester City side on that day, as the best side he has managed to date. Shortly after, O'Neill left Leicester City to Manage Celtic and Collymore, Steve Walsh and others were forced to depart following the arrival of new manager Peter Taylor.

Bradford City, Real Oviedo and retirement

He moved to Bradford City in October 2000 on a free transfer.[7] He scored an overhead kick on his debut against Leeds United in a West Yorkshire derby at Valley Parade on 29 October, which ended 1–1.[8] However, Collymore celebrated in front of the visiting Leeds fans and he faced Football Association charges.[9] He was substituted at half-time in his second game as Bradford lost 4–3 to Newcastle United in the League Cup,[10] and missed the following game at Charlton Athletic because of flu and a sore wisdom tooth.[11] In Collymore's absence, City lost 2–0, and manager Chris Hutchings was sacked two days later.[12] Jim Jefferies was appointed as new City manager, and he won his first home game in charge 2–1 against Coventry City when Collymore scored Bradford's first goal.[13] However only a month later, Collymore, and other highly-paid players Benito Carbone and Dan Petrescu were transfer-listed.[14] Collymore was linked with various clubs, but eventually signed for Spanish La Liga side Real Oviedo on 31 January 2001, when he was greeted by 1,500 fans.[15] He had played just eight games for Bradford, scoring two goals.[16]

Collymore's debut for Oviedo was as a second half substitute away to Las Palmas on 4 February 2001, which resulted in a 1–0 defeat.[17] He was again brought on during the second half of his home debut a week later against Villarreal, but was then dropped by coach Radomir Antić and warned to improve his fitness.[18] He played just one more game for Oviedo, before he announced his retirement at the age of 30, on 7 March 2001, just five weeks after he had joined the Spanish club. A statement issued through his spokesman said, "Stan Collymore has decided, after discussions with his family and close friends, to give up playing professional football. He has just turned 30 and believes that the time is right to explore other career opportunities which are available to him."[19] He was offered a chance to return to Southend United[20] and he was also approached by Boston United and Wolverhampton Wanderers,[21] but never made a return to football, and was also turned down for the manager's position at Bradford City, following the dismissal of Jim Jefferies in December 2001.[22] Before the end of 2001, Oviedo began court proceedings against Collymore for breach of his contract.[23]

Post-football career

Collymore contributed to his biography Stan: Tackling my demons with Oliver Holt[24] which was released to critical acclaim for its portrayal of the modern footballer. In 2005 he played the character Kevin Franks in the film Basic Instinct 2 alongside Sharon Stone. It was during this stint in which he became affiliated with rapstar Ice-Cube. The rapstar encouraged Stan to pursue his life long ambition of pursuing a music career which he eventually did. However, the album which he produced was never picked up by any record label and became a free download on "villa-legends" website.[25] Collymore is seen and heard regularly on television and radio in the UK, and owns Maverick Spirit Productions, a UK Television Production Company.

In 2006 he appeared on a Reality TV Special of The Weakest Link but was voted off in the third round for missing too many questions.

In 2007 Collymore went back to full time sports broadcasting. He summarised for Australian television on the FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Chelsea at Wembley and the UEFA Champions League Final between Liverpool and AC Milan in Athens. Collymore was part of the BBC Radio Five Live commentary team in 2007–08 for the Champions League Final between Manchester United and Chelsea in Moscow and for the station's Premier League coverage that season.

He has hosted the weekly football magazine show, Central Soccer Night on ITV Central, and commentated on the 26th Africa Cup of Nations for British Eurosport. He is also a regular commentator and studio analyst for two foreign broadcasters, GTV (Ghana) & SBS Sport (Australia).

Collymore left 5 Live after the 2008 Champions League final to become a presenter and co commentator on talkSport he also hosts the phone in show, Call Collymore which is on after every Premier League game that talkSPORT cover. He also features as an analyst on the station's matchday live programme. When he first joined talkSPORT he co-presented their evening show with Danny Kelly on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening on the football programme and commentated on the Saturday afternoon matches with Nigel Pearson, replacing Alvin Martin as co commentator. For the 2009–10 season Collymore moved to Monday to Wednesday nights with Mark Saggers as well as keeping his commitments on Saturday afternoons. Collymore worked at the 2010 World Cup becoming the main co commentator on talkSPORT and usually commentated with Jim Proudfoot on the biggest matches including the final and all of Englands matches. He claimed on Twitter he was the subject of a move for the BBC to move to 5 Live and also do television work but he turned this down and remained on talkSPORT. He also appears on Kick Off on Monday to Wednesday nights usually with Mark Saggers and commentating on Champions League on these nights.

He writes a Monday Column for the Daily Mirror newspaper. He appears regularly as a studio guest and co-commentator for UK television Channel Five for the channel's UEFA Europa League coverage, and co-commentated on the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup. For the 2009-10 season, Collymore began writing an article in The Villa News & Record called "Stan The Man" that talked about the week's events for Aston Villa F.C. as well as addressing the match taking place in that week's issue, taking over from Ian Taylor's "Tayl End" in the previous season. Collymore returned for the 2010-11 season with "Stan The Man".

He is a high-profile supporter of Republic, a campaign group that campaigns for a democratic alternative to the monarchy.[26]

Financial advice and subsequent court case

On 20 October 2008, in a landmark case that may have set a precedent for cases in the future, Collymore won more than £1.5 million in damages from his financial advisers, for the poor investment advice he had been given since retiring from professional football in 2001. The judge ruled that Collymore had indeed been given advice that was in breach of statutory obligations.[27]

Depression and Separation


During the 1998 World Cup when his partner Ulrika Jonsson was doing a show in the Eiffel Tower about the Scottish National Football Team, he assaulted her.[28] After an abusive phone call on BBC 6–0–6 where he was working with Alan Green for the 2002 World Cup, Collymore went into depression again, and problems with the threat of legal action by Oviedo for breaking his contract drove him to a suicide attempt. He and Estelle separated when he was found engaged in lewd acts at Cannock Chase by an undercover News of the World reporter.[29][30][dead link]

References

  1. ^ "Stan Collymore". LiverpoolFC.TV. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  2. ^ "The world according to Stan Collymore". The Guardian. London. 4 October 2006. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
  3. ^ December 16, 2009 (16 December 2009). "Stan YSB Collymore On Disappointment Over Missing Out On United". Therepublikofmancunia.com. Retrieved 25 April 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v59jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Yx8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4377,244503&dq=stan-collymore&hl=en
  5. ^ "Ten years and counting". ESPN. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  6. ^ Anderson, David (12 October 1999). "Fulham delay final Collymore decision". London: The Independent. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
  7. ^ "Bantams' big gamble". BBC Sport. 26 October 2000. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  8. ^ "Leeds held by Bradford". BBC Sport. 29 October 2000. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  9. ^ "Collymore may face FA charge". BBC Sport. 30 October 2000. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  10. ^ "Newcastle 4–3 Bradford". BBC Sport. 2 November 2000. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  11. ^ "Sick Stan misses Valley defeat". BBC Sport. 4 November 2000. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  12. ^ "Bradford sack Hutchings". BBC Sport. 6 November 2000. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  13. ^ "Bradford late show destroys Coventry". BBC Sport. 2 December 2000. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  14. ^ "Stars for sale at Bradford". BBC Sport. 9 January 2001. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  15. ^ "Collymore signs for Oviedo". BBC Sport. 31 January 2001. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  16. ^ "Stan Collymore". Soccerbase. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  17. ^ "Collymore makes losing debut". BBC Sport. 5 February 2001. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  18. ^ "Oviedo coach drops Collymore". BBC Sport. 17 February 2001. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  19. ^ "Collymore quits football". BBC Sport. 7 March 2001. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  20. ^ "Collymore rules out Roots return". BBC Sport. 15 March 2001. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  21. ^ "Wolves hunt Collymore". BBC Sport. 15 June 2001. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  22. ^ "Bradford reject Collymore". BBC Sport. 26 December 2001. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
  23. ^ "Oviedo to sue Collymore". BBC Sport. 17 December 2001. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  24. ^ Holt, Oliver (2004). Stan : Tackling My Demons. ISBN 0-00-719807-8.
  25. ^ "Basic Instinct 2 (2006)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
  26. ^ "Our Supporters". Republic. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  27. ^ "Collymore wins £1.5m in damages". BBC News Online. BBC. 20 October 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2008.
  28. ^ "Stan Collymore interview". BBC News Online. BBC. Retrieved 4 April 2007.
  29. ^ Tim Adams (14 March 2004). "Stan of many parts". Observer. London: Guardian News. Retrieved 29 March 2007.
  30. ^ [1][dead link]

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