Andy Morrell
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| Andy Morrell | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andrew Morrell | |
| Date of birth | September 28, 1974 (age 32) | |
| Place of birth | Preston, England | |
| Height | 5'11" | |
| Position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Blackpool | |
| Professional clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (goals) |
| 1997-1998 1998-2003 2003-2006 2006 |
Newcastle Blue Star Wrexham Coventry City Blackpool |
N/A 76 (40) 53 (17) |
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* Professional club appearances and goals |
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Andy Morrell (born 28 September 1974 in Doncaster, England) is an English professional footballer currently playing for Blackpool.
Brought up in Market Bosworth, he played for the Leicestershire County Cricket Club from under 15 to under 19 level. He then decided to make the move north to University of Newcastle to study Sports science. It was then that he started playing for Newcastle Blue Star.
Morrell's first big break came when he started talking to Sky Sports presenter Rob McCaffrey, and it turned out that Rob was helping to write the Wrexham first team coach's (Joey Jones) autobiography and so Rob arranged for him to have a trial at the club.
After a week's trial he was kept on at Wrexham and was coached by their striking coach Ian Rush, from whom he learnt a great deal. With his new strike partner Lee Trundle he scored 34 league goals in only 45 games in the 2002-03 season, having only scored two goals the entire previous season. This caught the eye of Coventry City manager Gary McAllister who signed him on a free transfer that summer.
With his dream in full swing he enjoyed a good first season at Coventry scoring 9 goals in 19 starts, this however decreased again to 6 goals the following season following a transition to a wide midfield position. Morrell signed for Blackpool on a free transfer on August 15, 2006 after failing to make an appearance for Coventry during the first three games of the 2006-07 season.
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| Blackpool F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Jones | 2 Coid | 3 Tierney | 4 Southern | 5 Jackson | 6 Wilkinson | 7 Parker | 8 Forbes | 10 Vernon | 11 Prendergast | 12 Joseph | 13 Clancy | 18 Morrell | 19 Doughty | 20 Fox | 21 Evans | 22 Bean | 23 Edge | 25 Barker | 26 Jørgensen | 27 Hoolahan | 28 Burgess | 29 Evatt | 31 Dickinson | 32 Kay | 33 Fernandez | 34 Farrelly | Manager: Grayson |
