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He was signed by Newcastle United in 1997 for a fee of £2.5 million, and there he began competing to be a first-choice Premier League goalkeeper. Given was part of the teams who were runners-up in the 1998 and 1999 FA Cup campaigns, and was named in the Premier League Team of the Season for the 2001–02 and 2005–06 seasons .
The Premier League is an association football competition which forms the top level of the English football league system. It was founded in 1992, [1] and in that time, only six goalkeepers have scored a goal in the competition. [2] [3] In 2001, Peter Schmeichel became the first goalkeeper to score in the Premier League, and the most recent ...
At the age of 41 years and 178 days he became the fourth oldest player in Premier League history. [96] Leeds won 2–1, and Southall was criticised in the media for being too overweight to play professionally. [97] He left Bradford at the end of the 2000–01 season after falling out with new boss Jim Jefferies. [97]
He played five more matches before retiring on 1,005 league games at the age of 47 at the end of the 1996–97 season. By the time of his retirement, he was the fifth oldest player ever to have played in the Football League or Premier League.
English Premier League club Sunderland bought him in 2007 for £9 million (then the British transfer record fee for a goalkeeper). [ 5 ] Gordon suffered serious injuries during his time with Sunderland and was released from his contract in 2012. [ 5 ]
The PA news agency takes a look at the five previous oldest Premier League ‘new boys’.
*Club domestic league appearances and goals Alec Francis Roy Chamberlain (born 20 June 1964) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper . He made 788 league appearances during his 25-year playing career, the final 11 years and 247 appearances of which were with Watford.
The Premier League is an association football league that serves as the top tier of the English football league system. The league was founded in 1992 when the clubs of the First Division decided to break away from the Football League, [1] as a commercially independent entity that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements. [2]