Lewis Buxton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Lewis Buxton | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lewis Buxton | |
| Date of birth | December 10, 1983 | |
| Place of birth | Newport, Isle of Wight, England | |
| Height | 6ft 1in | |
| Playing position | Defender | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Stoke City | |
| Number | 22 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2000-2004 2002 2003 2003-2004 2004- |
Portsmouth → Exeter City (loan) → Bournemouth (loan) → Bournemouth (loan) Stoke City |
30 (0) 4 (0) 17 (0) 26 (0) 51 (1) |
|
1 Senior club appearances and goals |
||
Lewis Buxton (born December 10, 1983) is an English football player. He currently plays for Stoke City. Buxton is a defender; he plays predominantly as a right-back or as a centre-half, however he has also featured as a left-back during his time at Stoke.
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.[1] 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 [2].
He was sidelined for the first 2 months of the season due to a back injury, but he made his first start of the season in Stoke City's 1–0 win at Ipswich Town as a centre-half. However, he required an operation on his back, which kept him out for the remainder of the 2006-07 season. He since recovered and was ready for pre-season training, prior to the start of the 2007-08 season.[3] He made his comeback as a substitute for Stephen Wright in the 33rd minute of Stoke's 2–1 win over Charlton Athletic F.C. on 18 August 2007.[4]
| Preceded by Scott Hiley |
Portsmouth F.C. Fans' Player of the Year 2001-2002 |
Succeeded by Svetoslav Todorov |
[edit] References
- ^ Stoke swoop for young Pompey duo. BBC Sport (2004-12-24). Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
- ^ Stoke 1-3 Wolves. BBC Sport (24 September 2005).
- ^ Buxton back from injury nightmare. BBC Sport (2007-06-18). Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
- ^ Stoke 2-1 Charlton. BBC Sport (2007-08-18). Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
|
|||||
