As Wayne Rooney heads for his 100th
international cap, an ex-England Youth international, with 3 caps under
his belt, plays his 767th game, assuming he is fit and picked! Jamie
Cureton has played professional football all his working life and he
was 39 in August. He had totalled 258 goals scored in all four
divisions, by the time he reached his 40th year. Playing now for Dagenham and Redbridge, he has recently set his family down in
Essex, but his life has been on the move ever since he began his
remarkable career.
He has
been a classic journeyman footballer, appearing 766 times and scoring
265 goals to date.
Born in Bristol, his first club was
Norwich (for a derby with Ipswich he dyed his hair yellow and green), he has been to Bournemouth, Bristol Rovers (with whom he played most
times out of his many clubs), Reading in 2000 (where the supporters
trust had a star in the Perseus constellation named after him), Busan
IPark in South Korea, Queen's Park Rangers, Swindon, Colchester,
Norwich again, Barnsley, Shrewsbury, Exeter twice, Leyton Orient,
Cheltenham and lastly to Dagenham where he has scored 6 goals in 18
games this season.
Jamie Cureton is a footballer who
enjoys playing-surprisingly not all do- and he is maintaining his
fitness and has not planned for retirement. At 5' 8” he is small in
stature, but big in enthusiasm.
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