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Walsall player 346. Stuart Scott Hendrie

Stuart Scott Hendrie (born 1 November 1989) is an English professional footballer who most recently played for Conference National side Tamworth, where he played as a striker.
He previously played for a number of non-League clubs in the Midlands area, and made seven appearances in the Football League for Morecambe. As a youngster, he played in midfield, later developing into a striker. Hendrie joined Aston Villa’s academy at the age of eleven, moving on to Tamworth before joining the youth team at Walsall. According to his brother Lee, he was thin (had no meat on him) as a youngster and was released because he was considered not strong enough. He finished the 2007–08 season with Studley, playing in the Midland Alliance.

Photo Tamworth FC
After a trial with Tamworth during the 2008 close season, Hendrie spent short spells with Coleshill Town and Stratford Town before returning to Coleshill in October. He joined Alvechurch, his third Midland Alliance team of the season, in April 2009.
Hendrie moved up to the Southern League Midlands Division with Atherstone Town for the 2009–10 season. He was played in a defensive role during the early part of the season, but manager Dale Belford moved him to attack where he flourished. Belford suggested he had the ability to play at Football League level.
After a two-week trial, Hendrie signed a one-year contract with Football League Two club Morecambe on 4 August 2010, on a free transfer. He made his professional debut on 31 August, as a second-half substitute in a Football League Trophy defeat to Macclesfield Town, and his first appearance in the Football League was on 13 November, in a 2–1 home defeat against Lincoln City, after coming on as an 87th-minute substitute for Paul Mullin.
In March 2011, Hendrie moved on an emergency one-month loan to Tamworth. His time at Tamworth was disrupted by illness, and after returning to Morecambe he made no more first-team appearances and was released at the end of his contract. Hendrie signed for Conference North side Hinckley United in July 2011, He soon joined Mark Kinsella’s Daventry Town on a short-term loan deal, where he teamed up with his brother Lee. He made a goalscoring debut in a 4–3 FA Trophy win over Kidsgrove Athletic, and scored in the game, but made no appearances in the Southern League.[]Hendrie ended the 2011–12 season on loan at Redditch United, again playing alongside his brother. He was released by Hinckley having played eight matches in the Conference North without scoring.
In August 2012, he joined Stourbridge, but returned to Redditch in October. On 18 January 2013, Stuart was confirmed as a Tamworth player, teaming up with his brother Lee Hendrie. Hendrie was born in Solihull, and is the son of Scottish former professional footballer Paul Hendrie, who had moved to England in 1972 to join Birmingham City. He attended Colebourne Primary School in Hodge Hill, Birmingham. He is the younger brother of England international Lee Hendrie and cousin of another Scottish former footballer, John Hendrie.

Youth career
2001–200?	Aston Villa
200?–200?	Tamworth
200?–2008	Walsall
Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2008	Studley
2008	Coleshill Town
2008	Stratford Town
2008–2009	Coleshill Town
2009	Alvechurch
2009–2010	Atherstone Town
2010–2011	Morecambe	7	(0)
2011	Tamworth (loan)	4	(0)
2011	Hinckley United	8	(0)
2011–2012	Daventry Town (loan)
2012	Redditch United (loan)
2012	Stourbridge
2012–2013	Redditch United
2013–2014	Tamworth	7	(0)
2013	Corby Town (loan)

Walsall player. 345. Sidney ‘Sid’ Helliwell

Sidney ‘Sid’ Helliwell (30 January 1904 – 1939) was a professional footballer who played for Wycliffe, Sheffield Wednesday,Reading, Tottenham Hotspur, Walsall, Hednesford Town, Halifax Town.
After spells at Wycliffe F.C., Sheffield Wednesday and Reading the centre half joined Tottenham Hotspur. He made his debut for the club against Manchester United on 24 September 1927 featured in nine matches for the Lilywhites in all competitions between 1927–28. Helliwell went on to play for Walsall where he played in 101 matches and scoring on eight occasions, Hednesford Town and finally Halifax Town.

Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
?–?	Wycliffe	?	(?)
1923	Sheffield Wednesday	0	(0)
1926	Reading	5	(2)
1927–1928	Tottenham Hotspur	9	(0)
1929–1931	Walsall	101	(8)
?–?	Hednesford Town	?	(?)
1933	Halifax Town	1	(0)

Walsall player 344. Philip Nigel “Phil” Hawker

Philip Nigel “Phil” Hawker (born 7 December 1962) is an English former footballer who played as a defender. He scored 11 goals in 213 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham City, Walsall and West Bromwich Albion.
Hawker was born in Solihull. He began his football career as an apprentice with Birmingham City where he turned professional in 1980. He deputised at left-back for Mark Dennis in the latter’s absence, but was allowed to join Walsall in the 1982–83 season. Hawker spent eight seasons with the club, helping them to promotion to the Second Division in 1988. He played one league game on loan for West Bromwich Albion before moving into non-league football with Kidderminster Harriers and then Solihull Borough. He went on to run a car dealership.

Youth career
1978–1980	Birmingham City
Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1983	Birmingham City	35	(1)
1982–1990	Walsall	177	(10)
1990	West Bromwich Albion (loan)	1	(0)
1990–1991	Kidderminster Harriers	?	(?)
1991–1993	Solihull Borough	?	(?)

Walsall player 343. Peter Osborne Hart

Peter Osborne Hart (born 14 August 1957 in Mexborough) is an English former footballer who played mainly as a defender. He made 600 appearances in the Football League playing for Huddersfield Town and Walsall.
Hart holds the record for the youngest debutant for Huddersfield Town, having made his debut aged 16 years and 229 days against Southend United in 1974. He played for Huddersfield in the final of the 1974 FA Youth Cup, and captained the club to the Fourth Division title in 1980. He then moved to Walsall, helped them reach the semi-final of the 1983–84 Football League Cup, and captained the side to promotion to the Second Division via the play-offs in 1988. The final game at Walsall’s Fellows Park ground was Hart’s testimonial match against West Bromwich Albion. After retiring from football he was ordained as a minister of the Church of England and became vicar of St Luke’s church in Cannock.

Youth career
–	Huddersfield Town
Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1974-1980	Huddersfield Town	210	(7)
1980-1990	Walsall	401	(12)
Total		600	(19)

Walsall player 342. Wallace Norman “Wally” Harris

Another of those early days- short blogs.

Wallace Norman “Wally” Harris (22 February 1900 – 7 September 1933) was an English professional footballer. Born in Birmingham, he played as an outside right for Birmingham and Walsall in the Football League during the 1920s. Released by Birmingham due to health problems, he retired not long afterwards and died in a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, aged 33.

Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
–	Burton All Saints
1922–1929	Birmingham	89	(12)
1929–1930	Walsall	6	(1)

Walsall player. 341. Gerald William Harris

Gerald William Harris (born 8 October 1935) is an English former professional footballer. He spent the majority of his league career with Wolverhampton Wanderers, winning two league championships and the FA Cup.Harris was signed up by Wolves as an amateur, after an unsuccessful trial at West Bromwich Albion in 1953. He turned pro in January 1954 but spent a few seasons in the reserves before finally making his senior debut on 29 August 1956 in a 5–4 win over Luton Town.
He initially only found himself in the team to cover for the then-injured Bill Shorthouse, but made the position his own. He was a virtual ever-present over the period 1956–1961, which saw the club win two successive league championships – missing out on a third by a single point – and the 1960 FA Cup. He also appeared in every European Cup game in the club’s history.
The emergence of Bobby Thomson in 1962 though, pushed Harris out of the first team and he was again consigned to reserve team football over the next few seasons. He returned to contention in the 1964–65 campaign which ended in relegation. He played just twice more for the club after the drop, before moving to neighbours Walsall in 1966, after a total of 270 appearances for Wolves. However, injury curtailed his career with the Saddlers after just 12 months.

Youth career
	Bobbington
Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1953–1966	Wolverhampton Wanderers	270	(2)
1966–1968	Walsall	15	(1)
National team
1957–1958	England Under 23	4	(0)

Walsall player 340. Lee Charles Philip Harper

Lee Charles Philip Harper (born 30 October 1971) is an English former footballer, and manager who played as a goalkeeper from 1993 until 2010. He notably played in the Premier League for Arsenal.
After beginning his career with Sittingbourne he went on to play in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers,Walsall, Northampton Town and Milton Keynes Dons. He finished his career in Non-league where he was briefly player-manager of Kettering Town.
Born in Chelsea, London, Harper started his career at non-League Sittingbourne, before being signed by Arsenal in June 1994. He cost Arsenal £150,000 – one of the biggest fees paid for a non-league player at the time.

photo unknown.
He was third-choice goalkeeper at the club, behind Vince Bartram and David Seaman, and only made one first team appearance for the Highbury side, in a 2–0 FA Premier League win over Southampton on 15 March 1997. In the summer of 1997 he moved to Queens Park Rangers, and in four seasons made 118 league appearances. He moved to Walsall in 2001 after QPR were relegated to the Second Division, but made only three appearances in his single season there. He moved to Northampton Town in 2002 and became first-choice goalkeeper there, recording over 150 league appearances.
He moved to League Two team Milton Keynes Dons on loan in October 2006, where he helped to repair the team’s poor defending record, with a significant reduction in goals conceded. This successful loan spell resulted in Harper signing a permanent deal in January 2007. He was released at the end of the 2006–07 season in May. He signed for Conference North team Kettering Town in August 2007. He made 40 appearances in all competitions in the 2007–08 season as Kettering won the Conference North title.] He made 54 appearances in all competitions in the 2008–09 season and he signed a new contract with the club in July 2009. He now runs a goalkeeping course at a local pitch in Reading, England.
He was appointed as player-manager of Kettering Town on 16 November 2009 on a contract until the end of the 2009–10 season following the departure of Mark Cooper. On 8 December 2009 Harper was given the Man of the Match award by ITV commentator Andy Townsend for his performance in Kettering Town’s 5–1 defeat to Leeds United at Elland Road in the second round of the FA Cup. His assistant John Deehan was sacked after the final whistle and Harper said in the press conference after the game he was considering his own future due to Deehan’s sacking. Due to a long-term back problem he was ruled out of action until he had treatment, which resulted in him signing goalkeeper Nathan Abbey in January 2010. He said he was unsure over his future at the club in April 2010 before being appointed full-time manager at on 17 May, with Tommy Jaszczun returning to the club as his assistant manager. However, he left the club by mutual consent on 20 September after Kettering had won one game in nine up to that point in the 2010–11 season.

Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
?–1994	Sittingbourne	?	(?)
1994–1997	Arsenal	1	(0)
1997–2001	Queens Park Rangers	119	(0)
2001–2002	Walsall	3	(0)
2002–2007	Northampton Town	156	(0)
2006–2007	Milton Keynes Dons (loan)	11	(0)
2007	Milton Keynes Dons	11	(0)
2007–2010	Kettering Town	112	(0)
Teams managed
2009–2010	Kettering Town

Walsall player 339. Kevin Patrick Harper

Kevin Patrick Harper (born 15 January 1976) is a Scottish former footballer who played for Hibernian, Derby County, Walsall, Portsmouth, Norwich City, Leicester City, Stoke City, Carlisle United and Dunfermline Athletic.

                 photo THE SCOTSMAN.
Harper was born in Oldham and raised in Glasgow’s Possil park area, attending St. Theresa’s Primary and St. Augustine’s Secondary School. Harper played for youth club Hutchison Vale in Edinburgh before he was signed by Hibernian and made his professional debut aged just 17. As someone of black skin colour, Harper was in a small minority within Scottish football. He was unhappy that having claimed Gary Mackay had racially abused him during an Edinburgh derby game in November 1996, the SFA did not take action in response to his complaint. Derby County manager Jim Smith signed Harper for £300,000 in September 1998. Despite clear potential, Harper failed to impress at Derby, scoring just two goals against Liverpool in the league and Swansea City in the FA Cup. He was loaned out to Walsall in December 1999 for the remainder of the season.
His spell at Walsall was cut short when Portsmouth made an offer of £300,000 for his services in March 2000. Harper moved to Fratton Park having started only seven games for Derby. The Scottish under-21 international soon settled into the team at Portsmouth, but missed much of the 2000–01 season with a shin splints problem. In 2001–02 he faced the brunt of fan frustration after a disappointing season, finishing the campaign with the dubious honour of having been sent off (twice) more times than he scored (once). However, he was a crucial member of the side that won the First Division title in 2002–03, and his excellent performances down either wing for Portsmouth earned him two monthly ‘Swan d’Or’ awards from the Norwegian Press Club and a place in the full Scotland squad.
Despite his impressive part in Portsmouth’s promotion, Harper was loaned out to Norwich in September 2003. His loan spell at Carrow Road was initially for one month but was extended to three months. He played well at Norwich, but was also sent off for a two-footed tackle on an opposing player in a match against Derby County. On his return to Fratton Park he made only nine appearances for Portsmouth in the 2003–04 season. After failing to regain his place at the start of the 2004–05 season he was loaned toLeicester City.
In January 2005 was sold to Stoke City. Despite starting his Stoke career impressively, Harper was dogged by injuries that prevented him challenging for a first team place. He scored once for Stoke, in a 3–1 win over Norwich City. Harper was loaned to Carlisle United in October 2006 and then Walsall, whom he had played for on loan earlier in his career. He was released by Stoke manager Tony Pulis in May 2007.
On 7 July 2007, Harper opted to join Dunfermline Athletic, of the Scottish First Division. He scored the winning goal against Stirling Albion on 25 August 2007 and played in Dunfermline’s UEFA Cup matches at home 16 August and away 30 August against BK Hacken FC of Sweden. Harper’s season was rather inconsistent, though on 25 March 2008, he scored a hat-trick in the re-arranged fixture against First Division strugglers Stirling Albion, whom he had scored his only other goal of the season against a few months earlier.

Kevin Harper on his past and building a football academy.

(an interview by Aidan Smith 26th October 2013 in The Scotsman)

The former Hibs striker recalls a career forged from the toughest of beginnings

Kevin Harper is describing a typical day in his young life that will resonate with any parent wondering why people keep talking about football losing its grip on the nation. “I’d rush to school early so I could play,” he says, “then play at morning break, lunchtime, back at home after a jam piece – then after my dinner which would be wolfed down in three minutes flat I’d be back out there for one more game. Football was everything to me.”

You kind of understand why when the ex-Hibs striker and veteran of some lusty Edinburgh derbies reveals the in-home leisure options capable of distracting him from football. “We had a Betamax video-player, given to us by Aunt Roseanne when she got VHS. But the Betamax shelf down the local shop had only two movies: ET and The Ten Commandments. When Aunt Roseanne upgraded to a better VHS we got her old machine.”

He’s telling his story over a skinny latte. It’s a sign of progress, I suppose, that Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire where he now lives has a Costa Coffee. Back in the 1980s, Glasgow’s Possilpark couldn’t quite provide a safe place to play. “It was the toughest estate in Scotland, lots of drugs, junkies staggering about, needles on the ground. There was a piece of grass we called the Bowling Green which must have been ironic because it was all these wee mounds but that wasn’t close. The Pitch was nearer but that was just a square of concrete. So mostly we played in the road.”

Now 37, Harper looks fit enough to still be playing and wouldn’t say no if asked, but his main concern right now is the football academy he’s trying to build, hence the reminiscing about his own highly unpromising beginnings in the game. The hope is that the Kevin Harper Football School of Excellence will benefit disadvantaged kids. He wants, he says, to “give something back”. This sounds a bit strange because, at first, football gave him nothing. The facilities locally were obviously shocking. And there was the fact he was black which even more shockingly was an issue for some. Racist abuse happened in almost every boys’ club game and, sadly, continued sporadically at professional level.

But he did encounter good people in football who tried to help him. He had opportunities, took some, but knows he could have achieved greater things in his career. He got angry, sometimes of course with very good cause. But there was a marriage which ended badly and a business venture which went wrong. Looking back – and Harper has been doing a lot of soul-searching recently – he’s grateful to football. Very possibly there’s some guilt involved in his desire to make a positive contribution. “I’m Kevin Harper, warts and all,” he says more than once.

“You had to watch out for the man, for cars and for wee wi

fies – and for funny bounces.” This was Stonyhurst Street where he lived, since pulled down. Street-football is sometimes over-romanticised, but he admits the hazards improved his skills. There was only one other black kid on the estate: “Scott Rose, my friend to this day, he became a joiner.” Others weren’t so friendly. “I got called a ‘wee black bastard’ a lot. There were fisticuffs right through my younger days.” But, despite all of this he defends Possilpark. “It had a really bad rep. Folk would say: ‘No way would I drive my car there. If I had to stop I’d get my wheels taken off.’ But it could still show itself to be a close-knit place and it made me streetwise and taught me about life. No, I wouldn’t change where I grew up.”

Racism has hit football again with Yaya Toure warning of a black-player boycott of the 2018 Russia World Cup following Manchester City’s match in Moscow this week where he alleges he was subjected to monkey chants. Harper, when he graduated to red-ash pitches and juvenile matches, says the taunts he suffered were “constant; they beat me down”. His coach at the West Park club in Bishopbriggs, Bert Rowan, was one of those who helped him. “He changed me from being an angry wee boy, got me to stop reacting with my fists, beat the bullies with football.”

Playing for Hibs in a 1996 derby when he was Scotland’s leading black footballer, Harper claimed he was racially abused by Gary Mackay. Then the Jambos’ captain, Mackay has always denied the allegation; Harper says that even now he could find YouTube footage on his phone to support it.

The pair have never discussed the incident, he says, but whatever happened that afternoon, there was no official investigation, which only added to his sense of grievance. He accepts that racism is treated more seriously now, that efforts are being made to combat it, but two decades on from his breakthrough is surprised and not a little dismayed that the greater ethnic mix on Scotland’s streets isn’t matched by more homegrown black and Asian players featuring with our top clubs.

Harper’s talent – explosive pace and shooting, and not bad in the air for one who only ever grew to “5ft 6ins … and a bit” – was spotted at 12 by Alex Miller while the Hibs manager’s sons were playing on a neighbouring Paisley pitch. “Bert Rowan told me; I was thrilled. I know that Alex wasn’t to everyone’s liking but I’ll never forget that he gave me my chance. And Bert was great for me too. He knew money was tight for my family but he made sure I didn’t miss any tournaments and gave me a lift to every game.”

Back when he was playing, Harper’s mother Kathleen and his Catholic faith were invariably mentioned; he’d been an altar boy at St Theresa’s church. What of his father? You can find stories about the dad being an alcoholic, and how when Harper turned professional at 16, the lad and his mum had to ask him to leave the house. Actually, it was a bit more dramatic than that. “His drinking just brought misery. He wasn’t an angry drunk but my mother couldn’t cope anymore. My big brother and sister had left so it fell to me. Most boys I guess will have had to do this at some stage: I asked my dad out the back. We had a scrap and I ended up breaking his ribs. I told him he had to go and to be fair to him he did.”

How did Harper feel; after all, this was his father? “Well, he wasn’t my biological father. No one really knows this. His name was Gerry and he gave me the name Harper but he came into my mother’s life after my brother and sister who’re called Fisher and after I was born in Oldham. It’s a complicated story. Gerry didn’t really take much interest in my football but I was sad when he died. I was playing for Portsmouth when I found out he’d got cancer and I came back up the road to see him. He passed away a few months later.”

And then the tale gets even more fraught. As far as he knows, Harper’s real father was Frank Coleman who died before he was born. But this is all he knows. “I’ve tried asking my mother about him but she won’t tell me. We’ve fallen out and are no longer speaking. It’s sad but I want to know the truth, even if it’s not got a happy ending. This’ll sound daft but my life is like a doughnut; there’s this hole in the middle. We all reach this stage, don’t we? We want to know where we’re from. I also want to know for the sake of my kids. They’re starting to ask questions. ‘Dad, why are you this colour? Why are we?’”

Kathleen still lives in Possilpark. She used to clean St Theresa’s to keep Harper in football boots. But now he’s fallen out with the church as well. “At times my faith has helped me. At Portsmouth, for instance, when I was having a bad time with my ex, I’d just become a father and my best friend, Andrew Dolan, had died of a heart attack at 34. I wasn’t strong enough back then; in fact I was pretty weak. But I also think the church brainwashed me. The questions I’m asking now are different ones, and I’m trying to answer them myself.”

Harper needs another coffee. He says it’s easy for him to talk about football, less so “real stuff”, but he’s doing an okay job. Back to football, though, and Hibs. The 90s were a manic era down Easter Road way, featuring a near-death experience, a cup triumph, Chic Charnley, managers arriving by helicopter and leaving with the tailfin between their legs –and relegation. Harper missed Wallace Mercer’s failed takeover bid and the Skol Cup triumph. With Hibs and Hearts about to clash in the League Cup, though, he does have fond memories of playing on the right wing in derbies and of that harum scarum period in the Hibees’ history.

“I think Hibs back then were underrated but it’s also true we should have achieved more. I played with Darren Jackson, Keith Wright, Mickey Weir, Michael O’Neill and Kevin McAllister – and yet some folk reckon we were dour and defensive! My first derby was a famous one – the 1-0 win at Tynecastle [’94] which ended Hearts’ incredible [22-game] unbeaten sequence. In the lead-up, all you heard was ‘Robbo this, Robbo that’ [John Robertson, Hibee Nemesis]. It was a nervous dressing-room but diehards like Gordon Hunter were hammering it into the rest of the team how the run simply had to end. And of course Geebsie scored the winner.”

Harper netted in two Easter Road victories in successive seasons, the second of them when the portents had been grim indeed. “It was the New Year’s Day game [’96] two days after we’d lost 7-0 at Ibrox. Neil Pointon scored for Hearts in the eighth minute, they missed a great chance for a second and Jim Leighton made a great save. I think we all wondered: ‘Uh-oh, what’s the score going to be here?’ But Michael O’Neill got a great equaliser and then crossed for me to volley home. I can still see the ball zipping into the net.”

In the New Year fixture two seasons later Harper was credited with helping save the job of manager Jim Duffy (the copter guy) when he created both goals in a 2-2 fightback after a drubbing seemed possible. Four months later, what was maybe his best strike in green-and-white after a run from halfway, beat Hearts but couldn’t save Hibs, then managed by Alex McLeish, from the drop. Big Eck wasn’t Harper’s boss for very long but there was still time for “many clashes” between the pair before Derby County paid £300,000 for him.

So began an English sojourn with eight stopovers including being loaned out twice to Walsall and spells with the topical managers Tony Pulis (newly taken over at Crystal Palace) and Harry Redknapp (football’s most controversial memoir until you-know-who this week). Harper wasn’t always happy down there; indeed Derby was downright miserable. Four months in a hotel, watching Ferraris swish into the club car park, he thought he wasn’t worthy. He helped the Rams beat Liverpool but was unaware of the significance of the Kop, the end where he’d scored. But he did eventually get himself a Lotus.

At Portsmouth he played a whole season with a double hernia. “Every time my name was announced the crowd would boo, but Harry Redknapp kept picking me. We won promotion and our goalie Alan Knight wrote in his book that no one had ever managed to win the Pompey fans round before.” He also collected league medals with Walsall and Norwich but these were all outwith the top flight and back home Harper became something of a forgotten man. Although he once scored a perfect hat-trick for our Under-21s, there was no full cap and with it the honour of being the first black player of the modern era to represent Scotland. He wondered if the row with Gary Mackay had harmed his chances. He wondered if manager Craig Brown even knew where Portsmouth was, or whether it was too far to come and watch. And, being Kevin, he wondered these thoughts out loud and sometimes angrily.

Then a lively career featuring the odd blazing goal but not enough of them, high promise largely unfulfilled, ended in the most mundane way. “I was in Spain. I was looking in a shop window. I tried to turn to the right and that was it, the cartilage in my knee had snapped.” For four years, Harper forgot about football. “I couldn’t deal with the fact I was finished. I stopped caring about it.” But, in this re-evaluation of his life, during which he’s fallen in love with an old friend, beauty therapist Helaine, he’s rediscovered something of the boy who would only ever stop kicking a ball for a slice of bread and jam and never for The Ten Commandments. “Football’s a fantastic game,” he says. “That’s why I’m trying to set up this school, which I hope will help kids who probably don’t think they stand a chance, because that was me once. I know I could have achieved more. I know that out on the pitch it probably didn’t look like I was enjoying myself. But I realise now I was incredibly lucky to be a footballer and I’m very grateful.”

Youth career
1992	Hutchison Vale
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1992–1998	Hibernian	94	(15)
1998–2000	Derby County	32	(1)
1999–2000	Walsall (loan)	9	(1)
2000–2005	Portsmouth	119	(9)
2003	Norwich City (loan)	9	(0)
2004	Leicester City (loan)	2	(0)
2005–2007	Stoke City	26	(1)
2006–2007	Carlisle United (loan)	7	(0)
2007	Walsall (loan)	10	(4)
2007–2009	Dunfermline Athletic	29	(5)
Total		337	(36)
National team
1995–1997	Scotland U21	7	(4)

Walsall player 338. Ken Harper

Ken Harper (15 April 1917 – February 1994)[ was an English professional footballer who played as a full back, making 50 appearances in the Football League between 1946 and 1949 for Bradford City.Ken started his career at Walsall as a young man (date not known!) but it seems as though he never appeared for the club! But I am not able to confirm this!

Youth career
19xx–1946	Walsall
Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1946–1949	Bradford City	50	(0)