Tony Cottee was born in Plaistow, London and is 51 years old now, working as a TV pundit. He played from 1982-2001 at home club West Ham, Everton and Leicester. On his "way down" he was at Birmingham City, Norwich, Millwall and Selangor in Malaysia. He was player-manager at Barnet.
After 212 appearances and 92 goals with the Hammers, in 1988 he was transferred to Everton for at the time, a record fee of £2.2m to a British club. He scored a hat trick on his debut and scored 99 in 205 for the Toffees (1988-95).
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Cottee and Everton lost the FA Cup Final to Liverpool in 1989 3-2, also lost the Full members Cup to Nottingham Forest 4-3 (Cottee scored 2), lost the Football League Cup 1998-9 to Spurs but won the League Cup with Leicester in 2000 beating Tranmere Rovers 2-1. Cottee scored 16 goals during the season, a club record eventually equalled by Jamie Vardy in 2015-16.
In season 2000-1 Cottee played for FOUR different clubs in FOUR different divisions;
Leicester-Premier (Sept 2000), Norwich-Div 1 (Sept 2000), Barnet-Div 3 (Oct/2000) and Millwall-Div 2 (Oct 2000).
This record had stood since Eric Nixon, a goalkeeper in 1986-7 who played for Wolves in Div 4 in August 1986, then Bradford City in Division 2 Nov/86, then Southampton 12/86 Div 1 and Carlisle Div 3 in January 1987. Eric is still at Chesterfield as a goalkeeping coach.
Tony Cottee played 712 games and scored 293 goals. He was capped for England between 1986-9 7 times.
In his retirement he admits to have kept scrapbooks of all his goals. He did not say much about the Worthington Cup Final tickets scam in 1999 when Leicester played Spurs and many Leicester tickets ended up in Spurs' hands. He personally fined £12,500 and banned from having tickets for 3 years.
Several other club members were treated similarly.
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