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English-born Northern Irish footballer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ian Robert Nolan (born 9 July 1970) is a former professional footballer who played as a full back.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ian Robert Nolan | ||
Date of birth | 9 July 1970 | ||
Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
Position(s) | Full back | ||
Youth career | |||
1986–1988 | Preston North End | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1988–1990 | Northwich Victoria | 49 | (2) |
1990–1991 | Marine | ||
1991–1994 | Tranmere Rovers | 88 | (1) |
1994–2000 | Sheffield Wednesday | 167 | (4) |
2000–2001 | Bradford City | 21 | (0) |
2001–2002 | Wigan Athletic | 8 | (0) |
2002–2003 | Southport | 9 | (1) |
Total | 342 | (8) | |
International career | |||
1996–2002 | Northern Ireland | 17 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
He notably played in the Premier League for Sheffield Wednesday and Bradford City, as well as in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers and Wigan Athletic as well as non-league sides Marine and Southport.
Born in England, he won 17 caps for Northern Ireland.
Born in Liverpool, Nolan began his career as a trainee with Preston North End, but left in 1988 without making a first team appearance. He played non-league football with Northwich Victoria and Marine, before beginning his Football League career in 1991 with Tranmere Rovers. He helped Tranmere to the semi-finals of the 1993–94 League Cup, where they faced Aston Villa. Nolan scored in the first leg to give them a 3–1 lead at the halfway point in the tie.[1] However Villa won the second leg 3–1 and sent the game to a penalty shootout. In sudden death, Mark Bosnich saved Nolan's penalty to send the Premier League side to Wembley.[2][3] Nolan moved to Sheffield Wednesday in 1994, and it was while playing for Wednesday in February 1998 that he suffered a broken leg in a challenge with Tottenham Hotspur's Justin Edinburgh; in 2001 (by which time he had joined Bradford City), he attempted to sue both Edinburgh and Hotspur in a legal case similar to that of another ex-Bradford City player, Gordon Watson.[4](also an ex-Sheffield Wednesday player). After his season at Bradford (in which he scored once against Newcastle United in the League Cup)[5] he then spent one season with Wigan Athletic, before dropping out of the league system to join Southport in October 2002. After a failed trial with Halifax Town in July 2003,[6] Nolan retired from professional football that same year.
Nolan was capped 17 times by Northern Ireland between 1996 and 2002.
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