Ian Nolan

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Ian Nolan
Personal information
Full name Ian Robert Nolan
Date of birth (1970-07-09) 9 July 1970 (age 52)
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*
YearsTeamApps(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)
Total342(8)
International career
1996–2002 Northern Ireland 17 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ian Robert Nolan (born 9 July 1970) is a former professional footballer who played as a full back.

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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.

Club career

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.

International career

Nolan was capped 17 times by Northern Ireland between 1996 and 2002.

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References

  1. ↑ "Football / Coca-Cola Cup: Nolan opens Tranmere's path to final". The Independent . 17 February 1994. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "Villa ride Bosnich's luck to Wembley". The Independent . 28 February 1994. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Simon Parker (21 January 2013). "Former Bantams player Ian Nolan shares his horrible history of League Cup semi-final at Villa Park". Telegraph & Argus.
  4. ↑ "Nolan sues over Edinburgh tackle". BBC Sport. 23 February 2001. Retrieved 30 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "Newcastle 4–3 Bradford". BBC. 2 November 2000. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  6. ↑ "Nolan trains with Halifax". BBC Sport. 16 July 2003. Retrieved 30 September 2009.
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