James Beattie (footballer)
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James Scott Beattie is an English footballer who currently plays for Sheffield United
as a striker.
Born in Lancaster
, Lancashire
he came through the ranks at Blackburn Rovers
eventually signing professionally for them in 1995. Beattie then went on to have spells at Southampton
, Everton
, Sheffield United
, Stoke City
, Rangers
and a short spell on loan at Blackpool
before eventually returning to Sheffield United for a second term. When signed by Everton and for his first spell at Sheffield United he commanded the highest fee ever paid for a player by each club at that time.
, an independent school
in Blackburn, Lancashire
. He was a gifted swimmer, rated second in the country at the 100 metres freestyle
, but he dropped swimming in favour of football after damaging the cartilage tissue on his shoulder.
He went on to represent his school, and play for Blackburn Schools, before joining Blackburn Rovers
as a trainee on 7 March 1995.
in October 1996, in a 2–0 home defeat against Arsenal
. He had made only seven first team appearances, and had yet to score a goal, when in the 1998 close season he was transferred to Southampton.
in July 1998 valued at £1 million, as a make-weight part of the deal that took Kevin Davies
to Ewood Park
for £7 million. Beattie's initial impact was curtailed by a series of injuries, but in November 2000 he began a long goalscoring run. After 18 months without a goal, he scored ten in ten games, lifting Southampton into a comfortable position and securing their place in the Premier League
for the next season. His form then deserted him once again, and he scored only two goals during the remainder of the season.
Beattie was awarded a new four-year contract in March 2001. But he failed to score in the remainder of the 2000–01 season
, or in the first five Premier League games of the next – a run that eventually totalled 17 games. He returned to scoring form at the end of September 2001, and he ended the 2001–02 season
with an impressive total of 14 despite a two-month spell on the sidelines, the result of an ankle injury which he sustained in a match against Manchester United
in January 2002.
In the 2002–03 season
Beattie scored 23 league goals, making him the third highest Premiership goalscorer (and the highest English goalscorer) for that season. His fine form helped Southampton reach the FA Cup final
that season, for the first time since their 1976 victory, but this time they lost 1–0 to Arsenal
and Beattie had to settle for a runners-up medal.
He eventually left Southampton in January 2005, joining Everton
for a fee of £6 million.
defender William Gallas
leading to an automatic three-game suspension and this, combined with a series of injuries, severely limited his contribution during what remained of the 2004–05 season
.
2005–06
saw an improvement: Beattie was Everton's top scorer, with ten goals in the Premier League and one in a 2–1 home defeat against Villareal in the qualifying stages of the UEFA Champions League
. (Villareal also won their own home leg 2–1, meaning Everton progressed no further.)
During the 2006–07 season, Beattie found himself peripheral to the plans of Everton boss David Moyes
. He made 33 Premier League appearances, but 18 of them were from the substitutes' bench, and managed only two goals, the second of those coming in October after which he failed to find the net again. Out of favour it was reported that Blackburn Rovers were interested in signing him for a second spell, followed by news that Sheffield United
were interested in securing his services.
in a deal worth £4 million., this being the biggest transfer fee ever paid by Sheffield United. In the first game of the new season he scored on his Championship début for the Blades against Colchester United
and then continued in fine form, scoring regularly and was named Championship player of the month for September.
Beattie scored a total of 22 goals in the Championship
in the 2007–08 season
. This made him the joint second highest scorer in the division, alongside Kevin Phillips
of West Bromwich Albion
and one behind Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
(who scored 11 for Plymouth Argyle
and 12 for Wolverhampton Wanderers
). He was named as the Blades' Player of the Year at the end of the season.
For the 2008–09 season Beattie was allocated the number 9 shirt, which had been vacated by Rob Hulse
on his move to Derby County
and continued his goal-scoring form, netting twelve times before the turn of the year.
on a two-and-a-half-year deal for a fee that could eventually rise to £3.5 million. He made an immediate impact, scoring his first goal for Stoke in a 3–1 defeat at Spurs
on 27 January 2009. He went on to score seven goals in all for the Potters that season, helping them retain their place in the Premier League.
Beattie didn't start the 2009–10 season very well; after a number of injuries hampered his pre-season training he left the field of play against Chelsea
on a stretcher after only 10 minutes with fears of a suspected broken ankle although x-rays revealed it to be no more than a minor tissue damage. Beattie recovered and won his place back in the side, surprisingly at the expense of a resurgent Dave Kitson
and had returned to scoring ways by October. However, a dressing room altercation between Beattie and Pulis in December 2009 resulted in the striker falling out of favour.
champions Rangers
for an undisclosed fee in the summer of 2010.. Taking the number 19 shirt Beattie became the clubs first permanent signing in two years due to financial constraints. Beattie made his début for Rangers immediately after signing for the club, playing in their opening game in the Scottish Premier League
against Kilmarnock
.
Unfortunately Beattie did not featured much for Rangers and was restricted to only five league starts in the first half of the season due to injuries and loss of form. Unable to hold down a place in the side he was allowed to join Blackpool
on loan until the end of the season. He made his full début for the Seasiders on 5 February 2011, in a 5–3 defeat by his old club Everton
and went on to play nine times for the club but failed to find the net as they sunk to relegation from the Premier League. At the end of August 2011, Rangers terminated Beattie's contract.
side Bournemouth
, with manager Lee Bradbury
keen to sign him. However, later that month it was confirmed that Beattie was set to train with old club Sheffield United to allow manager Danny Wilson would assess his fitness. A few days later Beattie re-signed for The Blades
on a short-term deal until mid-January 2012, claiming the number 10 shirt.
cap in a friendly against Australia, on 12 February 2003, during his most successful season with Southampton. It was just 15 days before his 25th birthday. Australia won the game 3–1, and the result was described (by the Australian media) as "one of the biggest upsets in soccer history". Beattie played the whole of the first half of the game, and was replaced at half time by Francis Jeffers
, who scored England's consolation goal.
Beattie's brief international career seemed to have come to a close when was not selected for Euro 2004, the England team coach Sven-Göran Eriksson
preferring Emile Heskey
as the "traditional" centre forward despite his having scored five fewer goals than Beattie in the previous season.
|1996–97
||rowspan="2"|Blackburn Rovers
||rowspan="2"|Premier League||1||0||colspan="2"|–||1||0||colspan="2"|–||2||0
|-
|1997–98
||3||0||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||5||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Total||4||0||1||0||2||0||0||0||7||0
|-
|1998–99
||rowspan="7"|Southampton
||rowspan="7"|Premier League||35||5||2||0||2||1||colspan="2"|–||39||6
|-
|1999–00
||17||0||1||0||3||0||colspan="2"|–||22||0
|-
|2000–01
||37||11||4||1||2||0||colspan="2"|–||43||12
|-
|2001–02
||28||12||colspan="2"|–||3||2||colspan="2"|–||31||14
|-
|2002–03
||38||23||7||1||2||0||colspan="2"|–||47||24
|-
|2003–04
||37||14||1||0||2||3||2||0||42||17
|-
|2004–05
||11||3||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||11||3
|-
!colspan="3"|Total||204||68||15||2||14||6||2||0||235||76
|-
|2004–05
||rowspan="3"|Everton
||rowspan="3"|Premier League||11||1||2||1||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||13||2
|-
|2005–06
||32||10||3||0||1||0||2||1||38||11
|-
|2006–07
||33||2||colspan="2"|–||2||0||colspan="2"|–||35||2
|-
!colspan="3"|Total||76||13||5||1||3||0||2||1||86||15
|-
|2007–08
||rowspan="2"|Sheffield United
||rowspan="2"|Championship
||39||22||2||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||41||22
|-
|2008–09
||23||12||colspan="2"|–||1||0||colspan="2"|–||24||12
|-
!colspan="3"|Total||62||34||2||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||65||34
|-
|2008–09
||rowspan="2"|Stoke City
||rowspan="2"|Premier League||16||7||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||16||7
|-
|2009–10
||22||2||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||24||2
|-
!colspan="3"|Total||38||9||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||40||9
|-
|2010–11||Rangers
||SPL
||7||0|||1||0||0||0||2||0||10||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Total||7||0||1||0||0||0||2||0||10||0
|-
|2010–11||Blackpool
(loan)||Premier League||9||0|||0||0||0||0||0||0||9||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Total||7||0||1||0||0||0||2||0||10||0
|-
|2011–12||Sheffield United
||League One
||0||0|||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Total||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Career total||400||124||24||3||21||6||6||1||452||134
Beattie married his fiancée Sarah Rendle in Manchester on 20th May 2006. They had a baby son, James Samuel, on 6 September 2006. Sarah gave birth to their second child on 23 April 2010, called George James. His wife Sarah gave birth to their 3rd child on the 24th July 2011, called Halle Sarah.
Rangers
Sheffield United F.C.
Sheffield United Football Club is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.They were the first sporting team to use the name 'United' and are nicknamed 'The Blades', thanks to Sheffield's worldwide reputation for steel production...
as a striker.
Born in Lancaster
Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, England. It is situated on the River Lune and has a population of 45,952. Lancaster is a constituent settlement of the wider City of Lancaster, local government district which has a population of 133,914 and encompasses several outlying towns, including...
, Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
he came through the ranks at Blackburn Rovers
Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....
eventually signing professionally for them in 1995. Beattie then went on to have spells at Southampton
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
, Everton
Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
, Sheffield United
Sheffield United F.C.
Sheffield United Football Club is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.They were the first sporting team to use the name 'United' and are nicknamed 'The Blades', thanks to Sheffield's worldwide reputation for steel production...
, Stoke City
Stoke City F.C.
Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...
, Rangers
Rangers F.C.
Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...
and a short spell on loan at Blackpool
Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
before eventually returning to Sheffield United for a second term. When signed by Everton and for his first spell at Sheffield United he commanded the highest fee ever paid for a player by each club at that time.
Early life
Beattie attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolQueen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Blackburn, Lancashire, founded in 1509 as a boys' school. The term "school" is usually used to collectively refer to the following:...
, an independent school
Independent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
in Blackburn, Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
. He was a gifted swimmer, rated second in the country at the 100 metres freestyle
Freestyle swimming
Freestyle is an unregulated swimming style used in swimming competitions according to the rules of FINA. The front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle race, as this style is generally the fastest...
, but he dropped swimming in favour of football after damaging the cartilage tissue on his shoulder.
He went on to represent his school, and play for Blackburn Schools, before joining Blackburn Rovers
Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....
as a trainee on 7 March 1995.
Blackburn Rovers
He made his professional début for Blackburn RoversBlackburn Rovers F.C.
Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....
in October 1996, in a 2–0 home defeat against Arsenal
Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
. He had made only seven first team appearances, and had yet to score a goal, when in the 1998 close season he was transferred to Southampton.
Southampton
He joined SouthamptonSouthampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
in July 1998 valued at £1 million, as a make-weight part of the deal that took Kevin Davies
Kevin Davies
Kevin Cyril Davies is an English footballer who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers and the England national football team as a striker. He was made Bolton team captain in January 2009....
to Ewood Park
Ewood Park
Ewood Park is a football stadium in the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is the home of Blackburn Rovers Football Club — one of the founder members of the Football League and Premier League. Rovers have played there since they moved from Leamington Street in the summer of 1890. The...
for £7 million. Beattie's initial impact was curtailed by a series of injuries, but in November 2000 he began a long goalscoring run. After 18 months without a goal, he scored ten in ten games, lifting Southampton into a comfortable position and securing their place in the Premier League
FA Premier League
The Premier League is an English professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with The Football League. The Premier...
for the next season. His form then deserted him once again, and he scored only two goals during the remainder of the season.
Beattie was awarded a new four-year contract in March 2001. But he failed to score in the remainder of the 2000–01 season
FA Premier League 2000-01
The FA Premier League 2000-01 season was the third season running which ended with Manchester United as champions and Arsenal as runners-up. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager to win three successive English league titles, although three teams had achieved that feat in the past - but with...
, or in the first five Premier League games of the next – a run that eventually totalled 17 games. He returned to scoring form at the end of September 2001, and he ended the 2001–02 season
FA Premier League 2001-02
The 2001–02 FA Premier League season was the tenth season of the competition. It began with a new sponsor, Barclaycard, and was titled the FA Barclaycard Premiership, replacing the previous sponsor, Carling...
with an impressive total of 14 despite a two-month spell on the sidelines, the result of an ankle injury which he sustained in a match against Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
in January 2002.
In the 2002–03 season
2002-03 in English football
The 2002-03 season was the 123rd season of competitive football in England.-Most Memorable rise:*Wigan Athletic marked their 25th season of Football League membership by winning the Division Two championship and reaching the league's second tier for the very first time.-Most Memorable...
Beattie scored 23 league goals, making him the third highest Premiership goalscorer (and the highest English goalscorer) for that season. His fine form helped Southampton reach the FA Cup final
FA Cup Final
The FA Cup Final, commonly referred to in England as just the Cup Final, is the last match in the Football Association Challenge Cup. With an official attendance of 89,826 at the 2007 FA Cup Final, it is the fourth best attended domestic club championship event in the world and the second most...
that season, for the first time since their 1976 victory, but this time they lost 1–0 to Arsenal
Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
and Beattie had to settle for a runners-up medal.
He eventually left Southampton in January 2005, joining Everton
Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
for a fee of £6 million.
Everton
Beattie found it difficult to settle at Everton and in only his fifth Premier League appearance for the club, he was sent off for a head butt on ChelseaChelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
defender William Gallas
William Gallas
William Eric Gallas is a French footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur.Gallas began his career in France, before being signed by English club Chelsea in 2001. He transferred to rivals Arsenal as part of an exchange deal in 2006...
leading to an automatic three-game suspension and this, combined with a series of injuries, severely limited his contribution during what remained of the 2004–05 season
2004-05 in English football
The 2004–05 season was the 125th season of competitive football in England.-Overview:*2004–05 was the first season to feature the rebranded Football League. The First Division, Second Division and Third Division were renamed the Football League Championship, Football League One and Football League...
.
2005–06
2005-06 in English football
The 2005–06 season was the 126th season of competitive football in England.-Overview:*The rebuilt Wembley Stadium was due to open in time for the FA Cup final in May. However, in August 2005, The Football Association reserved the Millennium Stadium as a backup, as there was some doubt whether...
saw an improvement: Beattie was Everton's top scorer, with ten goals in the Premier League and one in a 2–1 home defeat against Villareal in the qualifying stages of the UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
. (Villareal also won their own home leg 2–1, meaning Everton progressed no further.)
During the 2006–07 season, Beattie found himself peripheral to the plans of Everton boss David Moyes
David Moyes
David William Moyes is an association football manager and former player, currently managing English Premier League club Everton. He was the 2003, 2005 and 2009 League Managers Association Manager of the Year...
. He made 33 Premier League appearances, but 18 of them were from the substitutes' bench, and managed only two goals, the second of those coming in October after which he failed to find the net again. Out of favour it was reported that Blackburn Rovers were interested in signing him for a second spell, followed by news that Sheffield United
Sheffield United F.C.
Sheffield United Football Club is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.They were the first sporting team to use the name 'United' and are nicknamed 'The Blades', thanks to Sheffield's worldwide reputation for steel production...
were interested in securing his services.
Sheffield United
At the start of August 2007 Beattie signed for Sheffield UnitedSheffield United F.C.
Sheffield United Football Club is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.They were the first sporting team to use the name 'United' and are nicknamed 'The Blades', thanks to Sheffield's worldwide reputation for steel production...
in a deal worth £4 million., this being the biggest transfer fee ever paid by Sheffield United. In the first game of the new season he scored on his Championship début for the Blades against Colchester United
Colchester United F.C.
Colchester United Football Club is an English football club based in Colchester. The club was formed in 1937, and briefly shared their old Layer Road home with now defunct side Colchester Town who had previously used the ground from 1910....
and then continued in fine form, scoring regularly and was named Championship player of the month for September.
Beattie scored a total of 22 goals in the Championship
Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
in the 2007–08 season
2007-08 in English football
The 2007–08 season was the 128th season of competitive football in England.-European competitions:In October 2007 Arsenal equalled the UEFA Champions League record victory with a 7–0 win over Slavia Prague at the Emirates Stadium. The record was broken the following month when Liverpool...
. This made him the joint second highest scorer in the division, alongside Kevin Phillips
Kevin Phillips (footballer)
Kevin Mark Phillips is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Blackpool.Phillips was the Premier League top scorer in the 1999–2000 season with 30 goals for Sunderland, a tally which won him the European Golden Shoe. He remains the only Englishman to win the trophy...
of West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion F.C.
West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or WBA, are an English Premier League association football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands...
and one behind Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Sylvan Agustus Ebanks-Blake is an English footballer of Jamaican descent who plays as a striker for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers....
(who scored 11 for Plymouth Argyle
Plymouth Argyle F.C.
Plymouth Argyle Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Plymouth, Devon, that plays in Football League Two.Since becoming professional in 1903, the club has won five Football League titles, five Southern League titles and one Western League title. The 2009–10 season was the...
and 12 for Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at...
). He was named as the Blades' Player of the Year at the end of the season.
For the 2008–09 season Beattie was allocated the number 9 shirt, which had been vacated by Rob Hulse
Rob Hulse
Robert William "Rob" Hulse is an English footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers as a striker.He had primarily spent his career at second tier level, playing there with Crewe Alexandra. West Bromwich Albion, Leeds United, Sheffield United and Derby County...
on his move to Derby County
Derby County F.C.
Derby County Football Club is an English football based in Derby. the club play in the Football League Championship and is notable as being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888 and is, therefore, one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English...
and continued his goal-scoring form, netting twelve times before the turn of the year.
Stoke City
With the Blades trying to reduce costs Beattie returned to the Premier League in January 2009, after signing for Stoke CityStoke City F.C.
Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...
on a two-and-a-half-year deal for a fee that could eventually rise to £3.5 million. He made an immediate impact, scoring his first goal for Stoke in a 3–1 defeat at Spurs
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
on 27 January 2009. He went on to score seven goals in all for the Potters that season, helping them retain their place in the Premier League.
Beattie didn't start the 2009–10 season very well; after a number of injuries hampered his pre-season training he left the field of play against Chelsea
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
on a stretcher after only 10 minutes with fears of a suspected broken ankle although x-rays revealed it to be no more than a minor tissue damage. Beattie recovered and won his place back in the side, surprisingly at the expense of a resurgent Dave Kitson
Dave Kitson
David Barry "Dave" Kitson is an English footballer who plays for Football League Championship side Portsmouth as a striker.-Early life:...
and had returned to scoring ways by October. However, a dressing room altercation between Beattie and Pulis in December 2009 resulted in the striker falling out of favour.
Rangers
Out of favour at Stoke Beattie signed a two-year contract, with the option of a further year, with the Scottish Premier LeagueScottish Premier League
The Scottish Premier League , also known as the SPL , is a professional league competition for association football clubs in Scotland...
champions Rangers
Rangers F.C.
Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...
for an undisclosed fee in the summer of 2010.. Taking the number 19 shirt Beattie became the clubs first permanent signing in two years due to financial constraints. Beattie made his début for Rangers immediately after signing for the club, playing in their opening game in the Scottish Premier League
Scottish Premier League
The Scottish Premier League , also known as the SPL , is a professional league competition for association football clubs in Scotland...
against Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock F.C.
Kilmarnock Football Club is a Scottish football team based in the town of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Founded in 1869, "Killie" is the oldest club currently in the Scottish Premier League. Home matches are played at Rugby Park...
.
Unfortunately Beattie did not featured much for Rangers and was restricted to only five league starts in the first half of the season due to injuries and loss of form. Unable to hold down a place in the side he was allowed to join Blackpool
Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
on loan until the end of the season. He made his full début for the Seasiders on 5 February 2011, in a 5–3 defeat by his old club Everton
Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
and went on to play nine times for the club but failed to find the net as they sunk to relegation from the Premier League. At the end of August 2011, Rangers terminated Beattie's contract.
Return to Sheffield United
In November 2011, it was reported that Beattie was training with League OneFootball League One
Football League One is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system....
side Bournemouth
A.F.C. Bournemouth
A.F.C. Bournemouth is an English football club currently playing in Football League One. The club plays at Dean Court in Kings Park, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset and have been in existence since 1899....
, with manager Lee Bradbury
Lee Bradbury
Lee Michael Bradbury is an English football manager and former footballer who made more than 500 appearances in the Football League. Since January 2011, he has been manager of Bournemouth.-Playing career:...
keen to sign him. However, later that month it was confirmed that Beattie was set to train with old club Sheffield United to allow manager Danny Wilson would assess his fitness. A few days later Beattie re-signed for The Blades
Sheffield United F.C.
Sheffield United Football Club is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.They were the first sporting team to use the name 'United' and are nicknamed 'The Blades', thanks to Sheffield's worldwide reputation for steel production...
on a short-term deal until mid-January 2012, claiming the number 10 shirt.
International career
Beattie earned his first senior EnglandEngland national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
cap in a friendly against Australia, on 12 February 2003, during his most successful season with Southampton. It was just 15 days before his 25th birthday. Australia won the game 3–1, and the result was described (by the Australian media) as "one of the biggest upsets in soccer history". Beattie played the whole of the first half of the game, and was replaced at half time by Francis Jeffers
Francis Jeffers
Francis Jeffers is an English football striker who currently plays for Newcastle United Jets in the A-League. In his career Jeffers has played for Barclays Premier League teams Everton and Arsenal...
, who scored England's consolation goal.
Beattie's brief international career seemed to have come to a close when was not selected for Euro 2004, the England team coach Sven-Göran Eriksson
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Sven-Göran Eriksson , in Sweden commonly referred to just by his nickname Svennis, is a Swedish ex-football manager. From October 2010 to October 2011 he managed Football League Championship side Leicester City....
preferring Emile Heskey
Emile Heskey
Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey is an English footballer who plays for Aston Villa as a striker.Born in Leicester, Heskey started his career with hometown club Leicester City after progressing through their youth system, making his first team debut in 1995...
as the "traditional" centre forward despite his having scored five fewer goals than Beattie in the previous season.
Career statistics
|-|1996–97
FA Premier League 1996-97
The 1996–97 FA Premier League season was the fifth season of the competition, since its formation in 1992. The majority of the season was contested by the reigning champions, Manchester United, along with Newcastle United, Arsenal and Liverpool...
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Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....
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|1997–98
FA Premier League 1997-98
The FA Premier League 1997-98 season saw Arsenal lift their first league title since 1991, and also become only the second team to win the 'double' of the FA Cup and league title twice...
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|1998–99
FA Premier League 1998-99
The 1998–99 FA Premier League season was the seventh season of the Premier League, the top division of English football, since its establishment in 1992. The season will always be remembered as the one in which Manchester United won a unique treble of the league title, the FA Cup and the European Cup...
||rowspan="7"|Southampton
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
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|1999–00
FA Premier League 1999-00
The FA Premier League 1999–2000 season was the eighth season of the FA Premier League, and Manchester United secured their sixth Premiership title. Like the previous season, they lost only three league games all season...
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|2000–01
FA Premier League 2000-01
The FA Premier League 2000-01 season was the third season running which ended with Manchester United as champions and Arsenal as runners-up. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager to win three successive English league titles, although three teams had achieved that feat in the past - but with...
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|2001–02
FA Premier League 2001-02
The 2001–02 FA Premier League season was the tenth season of the competition. It began with a new sponsor, Barclaycard, and was titled the FA Barclaycard Premiership, replacing the previous sponsor, Carling...
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|2002–03
FA Premier League 2002-03
The 2002–03 FA Premier League was the eleventh season of the Premier League, the top division in English football. The first matches were played on 17 August 2002 and the last were played on 11 May 2003...
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|2003–04
FA Premier League 2003-04
The 2003–04 FA Premier League season was the twelfth season of the Premier League. In the end, Arsenal went through the season without a single defeat – only the second ever team to do so and were crowned champions once more, at the expense of Chelsea, who had spent heavily throughout the...
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|2004–05
FA Premier League 2004-05
The 2004–05 season of the FA Premier League began on 14 August 2004 and ended on 15 May 2005. Arsenal were the defending champions after going unbeaten the previous season....
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|2004–05
FA Premier League 2004-05
The 2004–05 season of the FA Premier League began on 14 August 2004 and ended on 15 May 2005. Arsenal were the defending champions after going unbeaten the previous season....
||rowspan="3"|Everton
Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
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|2005–06
FA Premier League 2005-06
The 2005–06 season of the FA Premier League began on 13 August 2005, and concluded on 7 May 2006. The season saw Chelsea F.C retain their title after defeating Manchester United 3–0 at Stamford Bridge towards the end of April...
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|2006–07
FA Premier League 2006-07
The 2006–07 FA Premier League was the fifteenth season of the FA Premier League since its establishment in 1992. The season started on 19 August 2006 and concluded on 13 May 2007....
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|2007–08
The Football League 2007-08
The Football League is contested through three divisions in England and Wales. The divisions are the League Championship, League One and League Two. The winner and the runner up of the League Championship will be automatically promoted to the Premier League and they will be joined by the winner of...
||rowspan="2"|Sheffield United
Sheffield United F.C.
Sheffield United Football Club is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.They were the first sporting team to use the name 'United' and are nicknamed 'The Blades', thanks to Sheffield's worldwide reputation for steel production...
||rowspan="2"|Championship
Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
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|2008–09
The Football League 2008-09
The Football League 2008–09, titled the Coca-Cola Football League, was the 109th completed season of the Football League. It began in August 2008 and concluded in May 2009, with the promotion play-off finals....
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|2008–09
Premier League 2008–09
The 2008–09 Premier League season was the seventeenth since its establishment in 1992. Manchester United became champions for the eleventh time on the penultimate weekend of the season, defending their crown after winning their tenth Premier League title on the final day of the previous season...
||rowspan="2"|Stoke City
Stoke City F.C.
Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...
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|2009–10
Premier League 2009–10
The 2009–10 Premier League was the 18th season of the Premier League since its establishment in 1992. A total of 20 teams competed in the league, with Chelsea unseating the three-time defending champions Manchester United, scoring a Premier League record 103 goals in the process...
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|2010–11||Rangers
Rangers F.C.
Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...
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Scottish Premier League
The Scottish Premier League , also known as the SPL , is a professional league competition for association football clubs in Scotland...
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|2010–11||Blackpool
Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
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|2011–12||Sheffield United
Sheffield United F.C.
Sheffield United Football Club is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.They were the first sporting team to use the name 'United' and are nicknamed 'The Blades', thanks to Sheffield's worldwide reputation for steel production...
||League One
Football League One
Football League One is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system....
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Personal life
His time at Southampton was marred by a conviction for drink-driving in 2002, which led to a driving ban.Beattie married his fiancée Sarah Rendle in Manchester on 20th May 2006. They had a baby son, James Samuel, on 6 September 2006. Sarah gave birth to their second child on 23 April 2010, called George James. His wife Sarah gave birth to their 3rd child on the 24th July 2011, called Halle Sarah.
Honours
SouthamptonSouthampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
- FA CupFA CupThe Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
finalist 2003
Rangers
Rangers F.C.
Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...
- Scottish Premier LeagueScottish Premier LeagueThe Scottish Premier League , also known as the SPL , is a professional league competition for association football clubs in Scotland...
2010–11 Champions
External links
- James Beattie player profile Stoke City FC
- Player stats - James Beattie Everton FC
- Premier League profile
- BBC Sport profile