Lewis Buxton
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| Lewis Buxton | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lewis Buxton | |
| Date of birth | December 10, 1983 (age 23) | |
| Place of birth | Newport IOW, England | |
| Height | 6ft 1in | |
| Nickname | Bucko | |
| Playing position | Defender | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Stoke City | |
| Number | 22 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2000-04 2002 2003 2003-04 2004- |
Portsmouth Exeter City (loan) AFC Bournemouth (loan) AFC Bournemouth (loan) Stoke City |
29 (0) 4 (0) 17 (0) 26 (0) 48 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Lewis Buxton (born December 10, 1983) is an English football player. He currently plays for Stoke City.
A promising young defender, after working his way up through the Portsmouth youth ranks, Buxton made his first team debut at the beginning of the 2001/02 season, aged 17, in a 1-0 win at Stockport County. He was soon a regular in Graham Rix's squad.
However, following Harry Redknapp's appointment as manager at the club, and the subsequent influx of new players, Buxton found games harder to come by.
He was loaned out to Exeter City for October 2002, but upon his return to Fratton Park still found the competition too great. In January he was loaned to A.F.C. Bournemouth for the remainder of the season. He played 18 games whilst at Bournemouth, and helped them achieve promotion.
He returned to Portsmouth for the 2003/04 season, but by October he was again not in the first team picture, and so returned to Bournemouth for the season, this time playing 28 games for the Cherries.
It was a similar story during the 2004/05 season when Buxton failed to break into the team on a regular basis. After turning down several loan offers he decided to call time on his Portsmouth career and transferred to Football League Championship club Stoke City in January 2005.
Buxton has made over 50 appearances for the the Potters to date, during his two seasons at the Championship side. He scored his first senior goal in Stoke's 3-1 defeat to Wolves in September 2005 [1].
He was injured sidelined for the first 2 months of the season due to a back injury, however he made his first start of the season in Stoke City's 1-0 win at Ipswich.
| Preceded by Scott Hiley |
Portsmouth F.C. Fans' Player of the Year 2001-2002 |
Succeeded by Svetoslav Todorov |
[edit] References
| Stoke City F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Simonsen | 2 Hoefkens | 3 Broomes | 4 Eustace | 5 Fortune | 6 Hill | 8 Parkin | 9 Sidibe | 10 Fuller | 14 Higginbotham | 15 Péricard | 16 Hendrie | 17 Russell | 18 Diao | 19 Matteo | 20 Griffin | 21 Martin | 22 Buxton | 23 Lawrence | 24 Delap | 25 Hoult | 26 A. Pulis | 27 Zakuani | 28 Wilkinson | 30 Paterson | 31 Dickinson | 32 Vass | 34 Rooney | 36 Hazley | 37 Thomas | Manager: T. Pulis |
