DUBLIN'S A DUDE AND HE INVENTED THE DUBE.

I was doing my usual twenty minutes on a treadmill at the gym watching "Homes Under the Hammer". I also occasionally get excited about "Frasier" and " Four in a Bed". Dion Dublin fills my screen and whatever the public think about him as a presenter, I don't care, so long as I can write about him on a day when there is not a lot of news. He has produced a Christmas album raising money for the Bobby Moore Foundation.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/dion-dublins-christmas-presents.../id943628482

Dion Dublin is from Leicester and at the height of his career his played four times for England, a fact that he let us know today as he was assessing a house where some punter had wallpapered a bedroom with England International crests and colours. Dion certainly had an emotional monent as the camerman swung round him.

Dion did not score for his country but he was quite an effective forward and he did play with some of the greats. (he also played at centre back) He started at Norwich as a youth in 1983 but did not get a look in. He joined Cambridge United and helped them rise from the old 4th Division to the 2nd with 52 goals in 156 games. He also played an important role in some fruity cup runs.
At some stage he was out on loan at Barnet and then got signed up by Alex Ferguson at Manchester United where the original hope was of getting Alan Shearer but that fell through so Dublin was contracted instead. He only played 12 times in two years.

At one stage, manager Howard Kendall wanted to sign Dublin for Everton but he was thwarted by the "directors" who did not think he was worth the money. As a result Kendall resigned.

Coventry bought Dublin for £2 million and during 1994-8 his form improved and almost got him to the 1998 World Cup with England. Despite his high scoring, he was not selected. 61 goals in 145 matches was a decent return in that period, but not good enough.

After that disappointment, Dion went to Aston Villa and scored 48 goals in 155 matches between 1998-2004, but he suffered a broken neck and had to have a titanium plate inserted in the spine to repair cracked vertebrae. Remarkably this did not stop him from continuing his career and after a loan spell at Millwall, he joined home team, Leicester City for two seasons, making over 50 appearances. He then went to Celtic and back to Norwich where he was voted Player of the Year in 2008, scored 12 times in 70 games and retired.

Overall Dublin played in 613 matches, scoring 183 times.

As an accomplished amateur percussionist he played in bands and invented a instrument called the Dube.

After spells commentating and being a pundit with Sky, Super Sunday and other football programmes, he was signed for "Homes under the Hammer" in 2015, with mixed reviews! He's ok......