Stan Collymore

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Stanley Victor Collymore (born 22 January 1971) is an English footballer who played as a center-forward from 1990 to 2001.

He went from Nottingham Forest to Liverpool for £8.5 million in 1995 and was capped three times by the England national football team at senior level.

He is currently a football pundit.

Personal life

Collymore has opened up about his mental health problems. When playing for Aston Villa in 1999, he began seeking psychotherapy after being diagnosed with clinical depression, exhaustion, and anxiety. He also said in his autobiography that he had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Since retiring, he has continued to suffer with depression, and he has taken to Twitter to raise concerns about the disorder.

He is a promoter of the Republic, a advocacy group that advocates for a British head of state. He praised the Labour Party before leaving them for the Scottish National Party in December 2015 after a significant number of Labour MPs supported airstrikes in Syria.

Collymore was accused of assault by the mother of his child, Michelle Green, in early 1998; she said he punched her in the chest and caused injury after an altercation regarding their son's father's on December 22, 1997. At a court hearing on 28 April 1998, Collymore denied the allegations and was found not guilty and not cleared of any charges. He was in a relationship with television actress Ulrika Jonsson, which culminated in his assaulting her in a Paris bar on September 9, 1998. Later, he apologised for the incident.

Collymore made front page news in February 2000 while playing for Leicester City, Spain, when he started a fire exugation during a night of drinking inside La Manga Club, which resulted in the entire team being suspended and barred from the resort. Collymore was fined £30,000 and ordered to carry out community service by manager Martin O'Neill. Collymore sustained a broken nose while playing for Bradford City in December 2000 after being assaulted by two men in a Birmingham nightclub. Manager Jim Jefferies had later warned him.

Collymore was charged in 2004 with involvement in dogging at Cannock Chase by an undercover News of the World reporter. Because of the incident, he lost his job at BBC Radio 5 Live.

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Club career

Collymore was born in Tittenslow Hospital, Staffordshire, to a Barbadian father and English mother. As a youth, he first became involved in football and grew to support Aston Villa. He began playing for Cannock Peelers and Penkridge Juniors shortly after, and later Wolverhampton Wanderers, before being released and signing for Stafford Rangers, the Tournament team.

Collymore was discovered by a scout from First Division side Crystal Palace and signed with the team on January 4, 1991, when he was 19 years old. On April 23, he made his first team debut for Palace, while his 76th minute replacement in a match against Liverpool. Collymore will be with Palace for nearly two years, but the club's first team struggled to find a home for the first team until Mark Bright and Ian Wright's prolific goalscoring partnership in November 1992.

Collymore joined Southend United in 1992 for £150,000, when the club was firmly entrened in the second tier relegation war with Birmingham, Oxford, and Peterborough. Collymore will score 15 goals in 30 league appearances this season, with his goalscoring skills and leadership assisting Southend in getting out of the bottom three leagues and finishing the season in 15th after being predicted to be relegated at the start of the season. "I count helping Southend stay in the First Division in my first season as one of my finest performances," Collymore said later.

Collymore's work at Southend attracted attention from a variety of organisations, including boyhood club Aston Villa of the Premiership and newly promoted Nottingham Forest. Frank Clark negotiated him on July 5, 1993, then the first charge of £2.25 million was paid to the latter. Collymore's prolific goalscoring form continued with Forest as he scored 19 goals in 28 games and led the attack as Forest became a fixture in the top of the table and bid for automatic promotion back to the Premiership. Forest defeated Peterborough United 3–2, gaining a second place finish and automatic promotion to England football's top flight after a last minute winner from Collymore, ensuring a second place finish and automatic promotion to English football's top flight.

He made his first appearance for Forest in the Premiership on August 22, 1994, scoring a 26th minute equalizer in a 1-1 draw against Manchester United at City Ground. Forest continued to be a consistent threat to a top-three finish in 1994–95, with a 13-game unbeaten run from February–May that culminated in their first appearance in the next season's UEFA Cup. Collymore scored 22 goals. Despite his triumph on the track, Collymore became a feared figure among his teammates, to the point that they refused to celebrate with him after he scored a goal. Manchester United's admiral of his remarkable goalscoring record attracted the attention of an old striker who was aiming to replace ageing striker Mark Hughes with a younger one midway through the season. Collymore's entire late 1994 was spent on a transfer to Old Trafford, with him and Newcastle United's Andy Cole named as Sir Alex Ferguson's most coveted targets. Cole eventually signed by United for a £7 million contract, while Collymore stayed at Forest for the remainder of the season; at the time, however, he had received bids from Liverpool, Everton, and Newcastle, with all three three battling to earn his signature in the summer of 1995.

Roy Evans will join Collymore for £8.5 million on July 3, 1995, destroying Andy Cole's transfer record set earlier this year. Collymore was initially placed in a forward relationship with veteran Ian Rush, but Rush was soon replaced by younger Robbie Fowler early in the season. Collymore and Fowler's up front pairing was fruitful, scoring a total of 55 goals in 1995/96 and establishing Evans' Liverpool side as strong candidates for the Premiership Trophy for that year. Liverpool defeated Newcastle 4-0 in a dramatic 4-3 victory at Anfield on Sunday, with Collymore scoring the winner in the second minute of stoppage time to dramatically weaken Newcastle's hold on first place and later find second place as Manchester United's take the trophy on the final day. In 2003, this was named as the best match of the decade by the Premier League. Collymore, a member of the Liverpool team that reached the 1996 FA Cup Final, against Manchester United on May 11, 1996, along with a solid league finish. Despite starting the game, Collymore struggled to get on the scoresheet and was subbed off in Ian Rush's 74th minute in what was Rush's last game for the club. Collymore watched from the sidelines as Eric Cantona scored the winning goal with five minutes remaining, effectively ending Liverpool's season with no major silverware. It would be the closest Collymore to winning a major trophy in his playing career.

Following the promise of showing in the previous season, hopes for Liverpool and the Collymore/Fowler partnership soared. Roy Evans' dynamic young squad dominated the league for the first half of the season, but they fell behind champion Manchester United in early 1997 and eventually finished 4th. Collymore, a regular fixture in the attack, was a consistent goalcorer and designer, but tabloids accused him and most of his subordinates of being unprofessional, with the squad now being dubbed the "Spice Boys" by newspapers in 1997. He eventually fell out of favour with Evans and was gradually replaced by Michael Owen, the up-and-coming Michael Owen at the end of the season. As his Liverpool debuts became more sporadic, rumors of his departure from Anfield began to circulate prior to the summer.

When Collymore was signed by boyhood club Aston Villa for a club record £7 million, rumors of his removal from Liverpool were confirmed on May 16, 1997. Collymore made his Villans debut on September 9, 1997, a 1–0 loss to Leicester City. In a 3–2 loss to Tottenham, he scored his first club goal on August 27. He was banned from playing fistfight with Bolton Wanderers' Andy Todd on October 4th and later received a three-match suspension by the F.A. Dwight Yorke's rookie season brought about a major slump in form, as well as injury and discipline issues. Collymore accused former teammate Steve Harkness of racist assault during a match against Liverpool on February 28, 1998, but the Professional Footballer's Association (PFA) ruled it out, but the case was not decided and the players disobeyed, and the team went away without a word. Collymore was involved in a San Diego bar assaulting mother Ulrika Jonsson, who later apologized for.

Collymore only scored once in 19 appearances in 1998–99, when his off-field issues came to a halt. Collymore was given a yellow card for a 9th minute foul on defender Steve Harkness that caused him to be carried off the field and suffer ligament damage; Collymore was then given a second yellow and dismissed for another rash challenge against Michael Owen in a match against Liverpool on November 20, 1998. Collymore was accused of holding a grudge and deliberately injuring his former colleague, despite the allegations. He began to struggle with his mental stability in January 1999 and was diagnosed with clinical depression, exhaustion, and anxiety. He then announced that he would seek advice and checked himself into the Priory Group Hospital in Roehampton, where he stayed for several weeks. He returned to the Villa side later in the season, but boss John Gregory dropped him from the first team for the remainder of the season after a 3–0 loss to Chelsea on March 21. This will be his last game for Aston Villa.

Collymore was released on a three-month loan to Fulham at the start of the 1999–2000 season after a summer transfer to Greek side Panathinaikos failed to materialize, with the club having the ability to sign him for £1 million at the end. Although he was unable to make a big difference in his absence and was not signed, he did win a 2–1 League Cup victory over West Bromwich Albion on October 12, 1999.

Collymore and Aston Villa broke apart after he returned from his loan spell at Fulham, and he spent the remainder of 1999 working with the youth team and looking for a new club. Montpellier HSC, a Ligue 1, expressed curiosity in the first place, but the club rescinded their offer after Collymore refused to participate in a practice match before signing. Bradford City was also trying to sign him but were refused by Villa's £3 million asking price. On February 11, 2000, he joined Leicester City for free on a pay-as-play basis. He set off a fire exclamation in a night of drinking inside La Manga Club, damaging the bar and sending the entire team home just days after signing for the club. Collymore was fined £30,000 and ordered to do community service by manager Martin O'Neill, for the incident; O'Neill also warned Collymore that if any more incidents like this occur, he would resign. In a 5–2 loss of Sunderland, in his second appearance and home debut for the club, he scored a hat-trick. In his first appearance for the Foxes, he would score 4 times in six appearances, including a season that saw them advance to the League Cup Final, where they beat Tranmere Rovers 21-01. Collymore was stretchered out of the field during a game against Derby County on April 2nd after only 17 minutes, after audibly screaming and collapsed in the middle of the pitch. Scans later revealed he had suffered a fractured left leg after an awkward landing, but he missed the remainder of the season.

Collymore stayed with Leicester until the summer transfer window, and was expected to be the club's new first choice striker after Emile Heskey left Leicester for Liverpool in the summer, but instead was used as a midfield substitute; rather, he was deployed by new manager Peter Taylor. In a 2–0 victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on September 17, 2000, he scored once more for the Foxes. Collymore was accused of "stamped on" and later elbowed" Paul Gascoigne, during a 1-1 draw against Everton on September 24. Although referee Alan Wiley said he did not witness the incident and Collymore wasn't suspended during the game, he was later ordered to appear at a discipline hearing by the FA on November 28th. Collymore made a transfer request to Leicester two days after the incident with Gascoigne. He would eventually retract this request, but Peter Taylor retained him on the transfer list, citing Collymore's inability, a lack of interest, and attitude issues. After falling out of favour with another boss and demoted to the reserve squad, where he was involved in a half-time break with teammate Trevor Benjamin, Collymore and Leicester, will eventually agree to parting on a free transfer in October 2000.

Bradford City, a long-time fan of Collymore, was immediately signed by the Bradford City crowd on October 26, 2000, a move that BBC Sport pundit Mark Lawrenson described as "desperate" in BBC Sport. On October 29, he made his Bradford debut in a West Yorkshire derby against Leeds United at Valley Parade, scoring a spectacular overhead kick in a 1–1 draw. Nonetheless, his tumultuous celebration in front of the away audience sparked outrage and culminated in two Leeds fans being restrained by stewards. Collymore was also charged by the F.A. with further charges. We're responsible for the shooting. As Bradford lost 4–3 to Newcastle United in the League Cup, he was inserted at halftime in his second game, and he missed Charlton Athletic's next game due to flu and a sore wisdom tooth. City lost 2–0 in Collymore's absence, and boss Chris Hutchings was fired two days later. Jim Jefferies was snapped as the new city manager shortly after, and Collymore was forced to lead the front line in Jefferies' first home game in charge against Coventry City, scoring Bradford's first goal. On November 28, he attended a discipline hearing for the incident with Paul Gascoigne while he was still a student at Leicester, and on video analysis of the incident, he was handed a three-match suspension, meaning he would miss critical games against Liverpool, Sunderland, and Chelsea. Collymore, Collymore, and other highly paid employees Benito Carbone and Dan Petrescu were all transferred to by chairman Geoffrey Richmond in January 2001 in an attempt to minimize the club's high wage bill. Both VFB Stuttgart and Celtic have made bids for Collymore, but after just eight games and ten weeks with Bradford, he will eventually sign with Spanish side Real Oviedo.

On January 31, 2001, Collymore signed an 18-month deal with Primera Liga team Real Oviedo. In a 1-0 loss to Las Palmas on February 4, 2001, he made his Oviedo debut as a second-half replacement. During his home debut in the second half, he was brought on again, but coach Radomir Anti-nothing was ruled out after the game and told to maintain his fitness. He only played one more game for Oviedo against Celta Vigo on March 3rd, just five weeks after he had announced his resignation on March 7th, 2001; he did not inform the club that he had already departed the team about his retirement, but they only found out through the Spanish tabloids. "Stan Collymore has decided to forego playing professional football after talks with his family and close friends," he said. He's just turned 30 and believes that the time is right to explore other career choices that are open to him. He was given a chance to return to Southend United after being approached by Boston United and Wolverhampton Wanderers, but he was denied for the manager's position at Bradford City following Jim Jefferies' dismissal in December 2001. Oviedo had started court action against Collymore for breach of his employment right away, unsuccessfully suing him for £7 million before the year's conclusion.

International career

Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995 after an outstanding debut season in the Premier League. He made his Wembley Stadium debut against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 victory. In a 90th minute substitution against Brazil, he earned his second cap.

Collymore was playing for England as a replacement in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualifying for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Post-playing career

Stan: Resolving my demons with Oliver Holt, Collymore contributed to his biography. In the film Basic Instinct 2 with Sharon Stone in 2005, Kevin Franks played him.

Collymore's financial consultants received more than £1.5 million in fees on the poor investment advice he had received since being barred from professional football in 2001. The judge found that Collymore had been given information that was in breach of Statutory duties.

Collymore served as a football analyst and host on the TalkSport radio station for eight years between 2008 and 2016. He was also a commentator for BT Sport in 2015, after being banned from his service in case of sectarian chanting during a match between Rangers and Raith Rovers. He writes a column for caughtoffside.com.

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