Wayne Routledge

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Personal information
Wayne ROUTLEDGE

Full name	Wayne Routledge
Date of birth	January 7, 1985
Place of birth	Sidcup, London, England
Height	5 ft 7 in / 1.69 m
Position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Fulham (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur)
Number	22
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
2001 - 2005 2005 — Jan-May 2006 Aug 2006 —	Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur → Portsmouth (loan) → Fulham (loan)	110 (11) 3 (0) 13 (0) 10 (0)
National team**
2004 —	England U21	7 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 07:57, 6 December 2006 (UTC). ** National team caps and goals correct as of 2006-10-07.

Wayne Routledge (born January 7, 1985 in Sidcup, London) is an English footballer, who currently plays for Premier League club Fulham on loan from Tottenham Hotspur. He plays as a midfielder predominantly on the right wing but can also play on the left. He has represented England at under-16, under-19 and under-21 level.

Routledge began his career at Crystal Palace, making his starting debut (against Wolves) at the age of 17 in September 2002, and scored after just one minute on the field.

He was ever present as Palace battled for their Premiership place in 2004-05 and, although they just failed to avoid the drop, Routledge proved to be an exciting talent on the wing, chipping in with an impressive 8 assists. He was not to leave the top flight, though. After rejecting a contract with the side that developed him as a youngster in January, Spurs snapped him up on July 1, 2005. The clubs could not come to an agreement over a fee for Routledge so the transfer went to a tribunal. There it was agreed that Palace would receive an initial £1.25m, rising to £2m depending upon appearances in future.

After impressing in the pre-season, His career at White Hart Lane started slowly as he unfortunately suffered a broken foot on his league debut for te club, but on December 12, 2005 he made his return as a substitute in only his second game for Spurs against Portsmouth.

He was loaned to Portsmouth in the January 2006 transfer window and made 13 appearances for them before returning to Spurs at the season's end.

After impressing in the pre-season again, he was once agained loaned out, this time to Fulham, as part of the deal that brought Steed Malbranque to the White Hart Lane Club. This was also partly due to the emergence of Aaron Lennon at both club and International level.