Nick Barmby

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Nick Barmby
Personal information
Full name	Nicholas Jonathan Barmby
Date of birth	11 February 1974 (1974-02-11) (age 35)
Place of birth	Hull, England
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position	Midfielder, Forward
Club information
Current club	Hull City
Number	8
Youth career
	Hull City
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991–1995 1995–1996 1996–2000 2000–2002 2002–2004 2004 2004–	Tottenham Hotspur Middlesbrough Everton Liverpool Leeds United → Nottingham Forest (loan) Hull City	089 (21) 042 0(8) 116 (18) 032 0(2) 025 0(4) 006 0(1) 121 (20)
National team2
1994 1994–1998 1995–2001	England U21 England B England	003 0(0) 002 0(0) 023 0(4)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 07:55, 27 May 2009 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 15:31, 21 December 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Nicholas Jonathan "Nick" Barmby (born 11 February 1974 in Hull, England) is an English footballer currently playing for Hull City, who has amassed a total of 23 caps for his country, his first appearance coming in 1995 and his most recent in 2001.

[edit] Career

Growing up on the west side of Hull, he played for local teams Springhead and National Tigers as a boy, showing talent from a very early age. Consequently, he ended his education at the local Kelvin Hall High School (where he started in 1985) early in order to complete his studies at the FA's School Of Excellence, while also honing his skills for the professional game. His father, Jeff Barmby, was also a player in his younger days and became his son's advisor and agent as his skills began to attract the attention of various clubs.

Barmby eventually decided to sign for Tottenham Hotspur, joining them on leaving school in the summer of 1990. His first game for Tottenham was against Hull City at Boothferry Park in a testimonial match for Garreth Roberts, and he scored two goals.^[1] He made his competitive debut four months later against Sheffield Wednesday.^[1] He established himself as a regular player in 1992-93, when still only 18 years old. He played 100 games and scored 27 goals in all competitions for Spurs, playing on the losing side in two FA Cup semi-finals, before becoming Middlesbrough's most expensive signing in a £5.25 million deal in June 1995.

Barmby stayed at Middlesbrough for 17 months, during his time there scoring the first ever competitive goal at the new Riverside Stadium, before heading to Everton, who paid a record £5.75 million for him. He stayed there for three-and-a-half years before doing the unthinkable, and heading across Stanley Park for Liverpool for a fee of £6 million. It was the first time since striker Dave Hickson in 1959 that Everton had sold a player to Liverpool. Manchester United also expressed an interest in signing Barmby to cover for their missing players at the start of the 2000–01 season, but they were eventually outbid by Liverpool.^[2]

He was involved in Liverpool's successful season of 2000–01 at Anfield (in which they won the FA Cup, Football League Cup and UEFA Cup), scoring 10 goals in total (including one against his previous club Everton in the Merseyside derby, and he scored a penalty in the shootout against Birmingham in the League Cup final). Persistent injury and lack of form prompted his sale to Leeds United for £2.75 million, where he linked up with Terry Venables - his first-ever manager. He spent a loan spell at Nottingham Forest during the 2003–04 season,^[3] before moving to his hometown club, Hull City.^[4]

Barmby helped City to promotion from League One in his first season at the club with nine goals, including the fastest goal in City's history, after seven seconds in a match against Walsall on Saturday 6 November 2004. He played for Hull in the 2007-08 Football League Championship campaign, during which they were promoted through the Championship play-offs to the Premier League, when a season earlier they came close to being relegated to League One. 2008-09 is the first season in which Hull City have played top division football. He scored his first goal of Hull's first ever Premier League season against Sunderland on 20 December 2008, making him one of only five players to have scored for 6 different teams in the Premier League.

[edit] International

Barmby's England career stretched to 13 starts and 10 substitute appearances accounting for four goals, including the first goals of Glenn Hoddle's and Sven-Göran Eriksson's reigns as England manager, in a 1996 3–0 World Cup qualifier victory against Moldova and a 2001 3–0 friendly victory over Spain at Villa Park, Birmingham. Barmby played for his country at Euro 96 and Euro 2000, and also played in England's historic 5–1 away victory over rivals Germany on 1 September 2001.

[edit] Career statistics

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[edit] Club Playing Honours

Liverpool F.C.

• FA Charity Shield: 2001
• League Cup: 2001
• UEFA Cup: 2001

Hull City A.F.C.

• The Championship: play-off winner 2007-08
• League One: runner-up 2004-05

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Nick Barmby career stats at Soccerbase
• Profile on Hull City official club website

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v • d • e England squad – UEFA Euro 2000 1 Seaman • 2 G. Neville • 3 P. Neville • 4 Campbell • 5 Adams • 6 Keown • 7 Beckham • 8 Scholes • 9 Shearer • 10 Owen • 11 McManaman • 12 Southgate • 13 Martyn • 14 Ince • 15 Barry • 16 Gerrard • 17 Wise • 18 Barmby • 19 Heskey • 20 Phillips • 21 Fowler • 22 Wright • Coach: Keegan