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Football player for West Ham, Everton, Leicester and England now a television pundit.
Played in over 700 competitive career games and totalled career transfer fees of £4,300,000.
Date of birth: 11th July 1965 (West Ham, London).
League appearances: West Ham (146 goals over two signings); Everton (99 goals); Leicester City (34 goals); Birmingham City - on loan (1 goal); Norwich City (2 goals); Barnet (10 goals).
England internationals: 7 Full Caps; 10 Under-21 Caps; 4 Youth Caps.
Other honours: PFA Young Player of the Year (1986);
Fiat Uno Young Player of the Year (1986); Hammer of the Year (1986);
Leicester Player of the Year (1999); Worthington Cup winner (2000);
FA Cup runner-up (1989); Worthington Cup runner-up (1999); Simod Cup runner-up (1989); Zenith Data Systems Cup runner-up (1991).

Tony Cottee began his footballing career in his stomping ground of West Ham, signing apprentice forms with the Hammers in May 1981. Just over a year later, those forms were professional and on 1 st January 1983 he made his first team debut against Tottenham Hotspurs in the old division one, at the age of 17 years and 5 months and he scored the first goal in the 3-0 win.

His 1985-86 season with West Ham saw him score 26 goals alongside his strike partner Frank McAvennie, who scored 28, giving West Ham third place - a best ever finish in the top flight. That season also saw Tony presented with a raft of awards, including PFA Young Player of the Year, Hammer of the Year and the Fiat Uno Young Player of the Year. And to top it all, he then went on to get the very first of seven caps for his country at the age of just 21.

Tony added to his list of career highlights nearly two years later when he broke the British transfer fee in his move to Everton in July 1988 for a record £2,050,000. One month later he scored a hat-trick in his debut against Newcastle United in a 4-0 win.

In September 1994 he re-visited West Ham in a deal valuing him at £1,000,000 and two years later left English football behind, transferring to Malaysian Club: Selangor for £750,000, thereby setting a record for that country's transfer fee as well. After a relatively unproductive spell abroad, in the Tony Cottee scheme of things, he returned to England joining Leicester City for £500,000 in August 1997.

In February 2000 Tony won the first domestic medal of his career against Tranmere Rovers in a 2-1 Worthington Cup Final win and that September signed for Norwich City on a free transfer but only for a very brief stay. Two months later and Tony moved to third division Barnet, where he was the player-manager but just half a year on resigned the position.

Four months prior to his retirement from the game, Tony signed for Millwall on a free transfer and in doing so became the only player to play for a premiership, first, second and third division club all in the same season.

Tony now works for Sky TV and BBC Radio 5 Live as a football pundit and also for West Ham doing hospitality work on a match day.


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