Gary Blissett

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Gary Blissett
Personal information
Full name	Gary Blissett
Date of birth	June 26, 1964 (1964-06-26) (age 43)
Place of birth	Manchester, England
Height	6' 01"
Playing position	Forward
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1983-1987 1987-1993 1993-1997 1995 1996 1997 1997-2001	Crewe Brentford F.C. Wimbledon Wycombe (loan) Crewe (loan) Sembawang Rangers SpVgg Elversberg	122 (39) 233 (79) 031 0(3) 004 0(2) 010 0(1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 January 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Gary Blissett (born 26 June 1964 in Manchester) is a former English professional footballer.

He played for Crewe, Wycombe, Wimbledon and Brentford in a professional career spanning almost fifteen years.

Whilst at Brentford, Blissett became a strong fan-favourite and fitted well into the teams long ball style at the time, similar to Marcus Gayle who was also at the club during this era.

In 1992, Blissett was acquitted of GBH after challenging for an aerial ball with Torquay United player John Uzzell in an away game at Plainmoor. It was alleged by Uzzell that Blissett had deliberately elbowed him in the face, fracturing his eye socket, although the court did not agree with this. Blissett has always maintained that the incident was an accidental collision and video evidence of the challenge was deemed to show that Blissett maintained eye contact with the ball and furthermore that in jumping to head an aerial ball, a player would typically raise one or both arms to gain height.

He later played in Singapore for Sembawang Rangers, and in Germany for SpVgg Elversberg. He has stayed in Germany post retirement firstly as Assistant Manager, then Reserve team Manager at Elversberg.^[1].

[edit] References

1. ^ Rob Hughes. Rise of the elbow. timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved on 25 January, 2007.

[edit] External links

• Gary Blissett career stats at Soccerbase

Persondata
NAME	Gary Blissett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	English footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	26 June 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manchester, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH