Top facts about Stan Collymore, the talkSPORT pundit

Stanley Victor Collymore is an English football pundit, sports strategist, and former striker who played for

and then Liverpool from 1990 to 2001, most famously for the former for an English transfer record of £8.5 million in 1995. Currently, he works as a senior football strategist with Southend United.

Collymore signed for non-league Stafford Rangers after being released from Wolves' academy, where he grabbed the attention of Crystal Palace, who signed him in January 1991.

After failing to break into the first team, he moved to Southend United in the Second Division (which was renamed the First Division in 1992), where his goalscoring record helped save the club from relegation and drew interest from Nottingham Forest, who he joined for £2.25 million in the summer of 1993.

Collymore had two successful seasons with Forest, achieving promotion to the Premier League in his first season and scoring 22 goals in the 1994-1995 season when Forest finished third. In 1995, he was signed by perennial title contenders Liverpool, where he formed a successful partnership with

.

One of the most interesting top facts about Stan Collymore is that he was eventually replaced by younger striker Michael Owen, and he was sold to boyhood club Aston Villa in 1997, where his form dipped and he struggled to break into the first team.

After two unsuccessful years with Villa, he joined Leicester City in 2000, where he enjoyed a brief career resurgence under Martin O'Neill, but struggled under Peter Taylor's successor and was sold to Bradford City in October 2000 but would leave the club after only ten weeks due to his high wage bill.

He later joined Real Oviedo of the Primera Liga, where he lasted only five weeks before retiring in March 2001.

A brief ride through top facts about Stan Collymore, the talkSPORT pundit

In this article of

top facts about Stan Collymore

, we will talk about his personal life as well as parts of his career.

This article does not contain the full description of his career due to the space and time limitations. However, it does contain ever top facts found in the personal life of this athlete. Now, without any further introduction let us hop into the article of top facts about Stan Collymore.

Stan Collymore information

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Personal information

• Full name:

  Stanley Victor Collymore

• Date of birth:

  22 January 1971

• Age:

  51

• Nationality:

  English

• Place of birth:

  Stone, Staffordshire, England

• Marital status:

  Divorced

• Religion:

  Christianity

Football information

• Position:

  Striker

• Last team:

  Real Oviedo

• Total appearances:

  290

• Club appearances:

  287

National appearances:

3

Physical stats and appearance

• Height:

  1.88 m

• Hair color:

  Black

• Skin color:

  Black

• Facial hair:

  Short

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top facts about Stan Collymore

article, which will provide more details and explanations on the topics discussed thus far.

Stan Collymore prime years

Let us start from the beginning and try to dig right for the root of top facts about Stan Collymore.

Collymore was born to a Barbadian father and an English mother in Stone, Staffordshire. As a youth, he became interested in football and grew up supporting

.

Soon after, he began playing as a central striker for Cannock Peelers and Penkridge Juniors before beginning his professional career as an apprentice with Walsall and later Wolverhampton Wanderers, before being released and signed with Stafford Rangers of the Conference.

Collymore was seen by a scout from

while playing for Stafford Rangers and signed with the club on January 4, 1991, when he was 19 years old. On the 23rd of April, he made his first-team debut for Palace, coming on as a 76th-minute substitute in a game against Liverpool.

Collymore was with Palace for over two years, but he struggled to get into the first squad ahead of Mark Bright and Ian Wright's successful goalscoring tandem, and he left in November 1992.

Stan Collymore club hopping

On November 20, 1992, Collymore signed for First Division strugglers Southend United for £150,000, with the team firmly entrenched in a relegation battle with the likes of

, Oxford, and Peterborough.

Collymore's work at Southend drew interest from a variety of clubs, including his boyhood club Aston Villa of the Premier League and newly relegated Nottingham Forest. On July 5, 1993, Frank Clark signed him to the latter for an initial price of £2.25 million.

On August 22, 1994, he made his Premiership debut for Forest, scoring a 26th-minute equalizer in a 1-1 draw at City Ground against Manchester United.

On July 3, 1995, Roy Evans signed an £8.5 million deal to bring Collymore to

, surpassing the English transfer record established earlier that year by Andy Cole's move to Manchester United. Collymore was initially paired with veteran Ian Rush in the forward line, but Rush was quickly replaced by the youngster Robbie Fowler early in the season.

Collymore's departure from Liverpool was completed on May 16, 1997, when he was signed for a club-record £7 million by his boyhood club Aston Villa. Collymore made his Villans debut in a 1-0 loss to Leicester City on August 9, 1997. Collymore scored just once in 19 appearances during the 1998–99 season, as his off-the-field problems reached a climax.

After returning from his loan spell at Fulham, Collymore and Aston Villa mutually agreed to part ways, and he spent the rest of 1999 training with the youth squad and seeking a new club.

On January 31, 2001, Collymore signed an 18-month contract with his last club, Real Oviedo. This was the most acrimonious club since Oviedo had started court proceedings against Collymore for breach of contract before the conclusion of the year, unsuccessfully suing him for £7 million.

Stan Collymore career after football

Stan has worked for a couple of stations as a pundit and has continued his career in this way. Let us talk about it in a much more detailed manner in this section of

top facts about Stan Collymore

.

Collymore contributed to Oliver Holt's biography Stan: Tackling My Demons. In 2005, he co-starred with Sharon Stone in the film Basic Instinct 2 as Kevin Franks.

Basic Instinct 2 (also known as Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction) is a 2006 erotic thriller film that is the sequel to Basic Instinct, which was released in 1992. Michael Caton-Jones directed the movie, which was produced by Mario Kassar, Joel B. Michaels, and Andrew G. Vajna.

Collymore received more than £1.5 million in damages from his financial advisers on October 20, 2008, for the poor investment advice he had received since retiring from professional football in 2001. Collymore had been offered counsel that was in violation of statutory responsibilities, according to the judge.

Between 2008 and 2016, Collymore worked as a football analyst and presenter on the TalkSport radio program.

Live coverage of athletic events, interviews with the biggest figures in sport and entertainment, phone-ins, and discussion are all part of Talksport's programming. It has also been producing sports bulletins for Times Radio since June 2020.

He also served as a BT Sport commentator but was fired in 2015 after criticizing the broadcaster's lack of action in the face of sectarian shouting during a game between Rangers and Raith Rovers.

Stan Collymore personal life

Let us talk about his personal life and we do promise that there will be a lot of action in this section of top facts about Stan Collymore.

Collymore has been honest about his struggles with mental illness. He sought help after being diagnosed with clinical depression, stress, and anxiety while playing for Aston Villa in 1999.

In his book, he also revealed that he was diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder. Emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) is a personality disorder marked by a long-term pattern of unstable interpersonal connections, a skewed sense of self, and powerful emotional reactivity.

Self-harm and other harmful actions are common among those affected, typically as a result of their inability to return to a healthy or normal emotional baseline. No wonder he often gets engaged in controversies.

He has struggled with depression since retiring, and he uses his Twitter account to raise awareness of the issue.

He is a supporter of Republic, a political group that advocates for a UK president who is elected by the people. He was a supporter of Labour before defecting to the Scottish National Party in December 2015, after a significant minority of Labour MPs voted in favor of airstrikes in Syria.

Stan Collymore family

It is believed that Stan has 2 children, but due to the lack of proper information, this only remains as an assumption. But there are some recent rumors concerning his marriage with Estelle Williams, and about this, we are going to talk in this section of top facts about Stan Collymore.

Stan was married to Estelle Williams and now the rumors say that their marriage has ended in a bitter way.

It was revealed that former Aston Villa footballer Stan Collymore's marriage had terminated.

Estelle, his long-suffering wife, who shared his house in Cannock, Staffordshire, was granted a speedy divorce and is expected to get a six-figure settlement.

Stafford County Court gave the couple a decree nisi. The reasons for the three-year marriage's breakup were not revealed.

Collymore's 'dogging' antics in car parks across the region were revealed in newspapers in May, prompting Estelle to leave their £1 million house.

She now lives with their three-year-old daughter Mia.

The former Premiership player traveled to Dublin earlier this month to speak to authorities about an alleged assault on him by Bath rugby players.

Collymore was in Dublin for an interview on an Irish chat show when the event allegedly occurred.

He claimed he got into a confrontation with members of the rugby team outside a fast-food restaurant on Grafton Street when one team member racially attacked him. In 1998, Collymore made headlines after he attacked his then-girlfriend Ulrika Jonsson in a Paris bar.

Stan Collymore controversies

Collymore had mental issues which resulted in a not-so-successful romantic life, and worse than that pushed him deep into controversies.

Michelle Green, Collymore's child's mother, accused him of assault in early 1998, alleging that he hit her in the face and injured her following an altercation about their son on December 22, 1997.

Collymore rejected the allegations, and at a court hearing on April 28, 1998, he was found not guilty and exonerated of all counts. He was dating television actress Ulrika Jonsson at the time, but their relationship ended after he assaulted her in a Paris club on June 9, 1998. He then expressed regret over the incident.

Collymore made headlines in February 2000 when playing for Leicester City after he set off a fire extinguisher during a night of partying within La Manga Club, resulting in the entire team being sent home and banned from the resort. Martin O'Neill, Collymore's manager, fined him £30,000 and forced him to do community service as a result of the event.

Collymore later suffered a broken nose when playing for Bradford City in December 2000 after being assaulted by two guys in a Birmingham nightclub. Manager Jim Jefferies then issued a warning to him.

An undercover News of the World reporter accused Collymore of participating in dogging in Cannock Chase in 2004. He was fired from BBC Radio 5 Live as a result of the event.

Stan Collymore social media

For this last section of top facts about Stan Collymore, we want to talk about his social media activities.

Stan is active on Twitter, and his ID on this platform is @StanCollymore. He currently has nearly 900k followers and usually posts tweets about his life or past experiences. Unlike many other players, Stan posts multiple quotes in a day and tries to keep up the activity hours on this platform.

 He tries to stay off controversies unlike his younger days and promotes charities and humanitarian events on this page. Maybe after all he has changed for good.

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