Nick Barmby

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Nick Barmby
Personal information
Full name Nicholas Jonathan Barmby
Date of birth February 11, 1974
Place of birth Hull, England
Height 5'7' (170cm)
Position Midfielder/Striker
Club information
Current club Hull City
Number 8
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
1991–1995
1995–1996
1996-2000
2000-2002
2002-2004
2004-2004
2004-		 Tottenham
Middlesbrough
Everton
Liverpool
Leeds
→ Nott'm Forest (loan)
Hull City		 89 (21)
42 (8)
116 (18)
32 (2)
25 (4)
6 (1)
74 (15)
National team**
1995-2001 England 23 (4)

* Professional club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 16:16, 3 December 2006 (UTC).
** National team caps and goals correct
as of 04 Aug 06.

Nicholas Jonathan 'Nick' Barmby (born February 11, 1974 in Hull, England) is an English footballer currently playing for Hull City, who has amassed a total of 23 caps for his country.

Growing up on the west side of Hull, he played for local teams Springhead and National Tigers as a boy, showing huge talent from a very early age. Consequently, he ended his education at the local Kelvin High School 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 clubs began to court him.

Barmby eventually decided to sign for Tottenham Hotspur, where he quickly became a favourite of Terry Venables. After 100 starts and 27 goals he left Spurs for Middlesbrough who paid a record £5.25 million for his services. He stayed at Middlesbrough for just one and a half seasons before heading to Everton, who paid a record £5.75 million for him. He stayed there for four seasons before doing the unthinkable, and heading across Stanley Park for Liverpool for a fee of £6 million. He was the first player since 1959 to do this.

He was involved in Liverpool's successful season of 2000-01 at Anfield, scoring 10 goals in total (including one against his previous employers Everton in the Merseyside derby). Persistent injury and lack of form prompted his sale to Terry Venables' side at Leeds United for £2.75 million. It was there that he finished his top flight career. He spent a loan spell at Nottingham Forest during the 2003-04 season, before moving back to his hometown club, Hull City. He helped City to promotion from League One in his first season at the club with 9 goals, including the fastest goal in City's history, after 7 seconds in a match against Walsall on Saturday 6th November 2004.

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 1st September 2001.

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Hull City A.F.C. - Current Squad

1 Myhill | 3 Dawson | 4 Ashbee | 5 Coles | 6 Turner | 7 Elliott | 8 Barmby | 9 Forster | 10 McPhee | 11 Parkin | 12 Duke | 14 Jarrett | 16 Delaney | 17 Bridges | 18 Yeates | 19 Welsh | 20 Thelwell | 21 Ricketts | 22 Marney | 23 Collins | 24 Livermore | 27 Fagan | 28 Fry | 29 France | 35 Byron | 36 Aspden | 37 Wilkinson | Caretaker Manager: Brown
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