Carl Heggs
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| Carl Heggs | ||
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Carl Heggs | |
| Date of birth | October 11, 1970 | |
| Place of birth |  Leicester, England |
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| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
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| Current club | Redditch United | |
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| Leicester United | ||
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1991-1995 1995 1995-1997 1997-1998 1998-2000 2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007 2007 2007 |
West Bromwich Albion →Bristol Rovers (loan) Swansea City Northampton Town Rushden & Diamonds →Chester City (loan) Carlisle United Forest Green Rovers Ilkeston Town Tamworth Hinckley United Redditch United Tamworth Redditch United |
40 (3) 5 (1) 43 (7) 49 (6) 34 (4) 10 (2) 30 (5) 39 (11) 25 (4) 29 (7) 6 (0) 0 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Carl Heggs (born October 11, 1970 in Leicester, England) is a professional footballer, currently without a club, since being released by Conference North side Tamworth, where he played as a striker.
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[edit] Playing career
[edit] West Bromwich Albion
Heggs started his professional career back in 1991 with Midlands side, West Bromwich Albion following a £25,000 move from his local side Leicester United. After progressing through the reserve team, Heggs managed to force his way in the first team setup, in which he would go on to spend four seasons with the club. Heggs made 40 appearances and found the net on three occasions for the Baggies.
[edit] Bristol Rovers
After losing his place in the first team, Heggs was seeking a return to regular first team football and joined Bristol Rovers for the later part of the 1995 season. Heggs made five appearances and scoring one goal.
[edit] Swansea City
Carl moved away from West Bromwich Albion on July 27, 1995 and joined Swansea City for a fee of £60,000. Heggs spent two seasons with the club making 43 appearances and scoring seven goals.
[edit] Northampton Town
August 1, 1997 saw Heggs make the return north to join Northampton Town for £25,000, having been on the losing side against the Cobblers in the Division Three play-off final three months earlier. Heggs spent just over one season with the Cobblers, making 49 appearances and scoring six goals, but he would team up with manager Ian Atkins again elsewhere.
[edit] Rushden & Diamonds
[edit] Chester City
Heggs was unusually loaned from a non-league club to a Football League club when he joined Chester City in March 2000, as he teamed up again with Ian Atkins. However, the Blues were in grave danger of losing their league status when Heggs arrived. He quickly struck up an effective partnership with Luke Beckett, which proved particularly successful in a 5-0 win over Mansfield Town, but it was not enough to avert relegation and Heggs moved on.
[edit] Carlisle United
On July 28, 2000 Carl joined Third Division side Carlisle United on a two-year contract.[1] However Heggs only spent one season with the club, making 30 appearances and scoring five goals in the process as the side narrowly avoided relegation from the Football League under Ian Atkins.
[edit] Forest Green Rovers
[edit] Ilkeston Town
[edit] Tamworth
On June 1, 2005, Heggs joined Staffordshire side Tamworth of the Conference National. During his season with The Lambs, Carl became a firm favourite with the fans, and was often referred to as "Heggsie" or "Heggo".
He will be remember by the Tamworth faithful for two moments of brilliance. A superb 25-yard screamer against Halifax Town,[2] a goal worthy of winning any game, but was only a consolation in a 2-1 defeat and a powerful and determined run through the heart of the Stoke City defence, laying off a perfect pass for Nathan Jackson to slot into the empty net for the opening goal of the replay, unfortunately Tamworth lost the game on penalties after drawing 1-1 in normal time.[3]
Carl was even subject of a move during his time with Tamworth, but opted to turn down a move to Hucknall Town on March 1, 2006 to help Tamworth's fight against relegation.[4] During his time with the club Heggs made 25 appearances and scored four goals.
[edit] Hinckley United
Carl joined Hinckley United on July 10, 2006, with the chance of regular first team football being the major factor in his decision.[5] Heggs however found that his first team promise wasn't quite as true as he was led to believe and after spending more time on the bench and out of the team than he had wished for he left after just less than six months with the club.
[edit] Redditch United
[edit] Tamworth
Many fans were disappointed to see the back of Heggs, so many will have been overwhelmed on May 22, 2007 when Carl re-joined Tamworth, with Heggs himself being described as delighted to be back at club.[6]
After just 6 appearances on his return to the club, Heggs was released after the management could not guarantee first team football.[7]
[edit] Redditch United
Heggs re-joined Redditch United for his second spell on October 17, 2007 and was appointed as the club's player-coach.
[edit] References
- ^ Heggs joins Carlisle United
- ^ Tamworth 1-2 Halifax Town
- ^ Tamworth 1-1 Stoke City (aet)
- ^ Tamworth striker Heggs will stay
- ^ Hinckley sign Heggs from Tamworth
- ^ Thorpe & Heggs in
- ^ Clayton, Dave. "Heggs released by Lambs", TheLambs.co.uk, 2007-10-04. Retrieved on 2007-10-05.
