Michael Duff (footballer)
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| Mike Duff | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Michael James Duff | |
| Date of birth | January 11, 1978 (age 29) | |
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |
| Playing position | Defender | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Burnley | |
| Number | 6 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1997–2004 2004– |
Cheltenham Town Burnley |
201 (12) 119 (1) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2002– | Northern Ireland | 17 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Michael Duff, born January 11, 1978 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a Northern Irish international footballer who plays in the centre of defence or at right-back.
Despite being Northern Irish he grew up in Bedale in the Yorkshire Dales, and as a school boy represented North Yorkshire and joined the Darlington Football Club School of Excellence before moving to Cheltenham in 1994.
He started his professional football career at Cheltenham Town in 1997, where he played 240 games and scored 12 times.
On July 5, 2004, he made a £30,000 switch to his current club, Burnley where he became a regular, if not always automatic, first-team choice. His first Burnley goal was credited in a Carling Cup game against Carlisle United, even though it might equally have been credited as an own goal. He finally got incontrovertibly on the score-sheet on October 14, 2006 against Hull City.
Duff was part of two of Northern Ireland's finest international moments of recent years; as a late substitute in their 1 – 0 victory over England on 7th September, 2005 and then in a 3 – 2 victory over Spain on 6th September, 2006.
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This biographical article related to Northern Ireland football is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.| Burnley F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Coyne | 2 Thomas | 3 Harley | 4 McGreal | 5 Coughlan | 6 Duff | 7 J. O'Connor | 8 Mahon | 9 Jones | 10 Gray | 11 Elliott | 12 Jensen | 14 G. O'Connor | 15 Branch | 16 McCann | 17 Lafferty | 18 Djemba-Djemba | 19 Spicer | 20 Akinbiyi | 21 McVeigh | 22 Foster | 24 Caldwell | 25 Guðjónsson | Manager: Cotterill |
