Matthew Halliday

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Personal information
Matthew Halliday
Full name	Matthew Halliday
Date of birth	January 23, 1987 (1987-01-23) (age 21)
Place of birth	Norwich, England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Norwich City
Number	29
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2006– 2006 2007	Norwich City → Hereford United (loan) → Torquay United (loan)	0 (0) 0 (0) 3 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:49, 4 May 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Matthew Halliday (born 23 January 1987) is an English footballer who is currently unattached after being released by Norwich City.

Halliday was born in Norwich and joined Norwich City as a trainee. In February 2006 he joined Hereford United on loan, although due to him still being a trainee this was technically classed as work experience ^[1]. He made the bench at Hereford, but did not make a first team appearance for the Bulls.

Along with fellow trainees Andrew Cave-Brown, Robert Eagle and Andrew Fisk, Halliday was offered a professional contract in April 2006 ^[2]. All four, plus a further trainee Michael Spillane signed their professional contracts on July 1, 2006 ^[3].

Halliday made his debut for the first team as a late substitute in a League Cup match against Torquay United on August 23, 2006, when he replaced injured captain Adam Drury.

He was unable to break into the first team regularly in the 2006/07 season however and joined Torquay on loan on January 25, 2007 ^[4]. He made his league debut, for Torquay, on February 10, 2007, playing in the 1-0 defeat away to Lincoln City. He played three times for Torquay before returning to Norwich at the end of his one-month loan.

At the end of the 2006-07 season, Halliday signed a new one year contract, however his contract was not renewed beyond the end of the 2007-08 season and he was one of nine players released by manager Glenn Roeder.^[5]