Jamie Cureton

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Jamie Cureton
Personal information
Full name	Jamie Cureton
Date of birth	28 August 1975 (1975-08-28) (age 33)
Place of birth	Bristol, England
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Norwich City
Number	10
Youth career
	Norwich City
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993–1996 1995 1996–2000 2000–2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2005–2006 2006–2007 2007– 2008–2009	Norwich City → Bournemouth (loan) Bristol Rovers Reading Busan I'cons Queens Park Rangers Swindon Town → Colchester United (loan) Colchester United Norwich City → Barnsley (loan)	029 0(6) 005 0(0) 176 (72) 108 (50) 021 0(4) 043 0(6) 030 0(7) 008 0(4) 044 (23) 062 (14) 008 0(2)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:00, 21 February 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Jamie Cureton (born 28 August 1975 in Bristol) is a striker who plays for Norwich City in the English Football League Championship.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Early years 1.2 Bristol Rovers 1.3 Reading 1.4 South Korea 1.5 Swindon Town 1.6 Colchester United 1.7 Norwich City 2 Career statistics 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Early years

Cureton began his professional career with Norwich City before moving on to Bristol Rovers. An England youth international, big things were expected of Cureton, but he never quite lived up to the potential. However he became a cult figure among the Norwich faithful by bleaching his hair in yellow and green colours in a derby game against Ipswich in 1996 and subsequently scoring in the same fixture. He was sold by Mike Walker to Bristol Rovers in 1996.

[edit] Bristol Rovers

Cureton enjoyed a prolific spell at his hometown club. This was particularly the case during the 1999-2000 season where he struck up a partnership with Jason Roberts that almost took the club to promotion. After the club dipped out of the play-off places on the final day of the season he decided his future lay with pastures new, and headed to Reading FC.

[edit] Reading

The best spell of football in his career since leaving Norwich came with Reading, whom he joined in 2000. He played at Reading for three years. While at the club, the RFC supporters' trust had a newly discovered star in the "Perseus" constellation named after him.

[edit] South Korea

Cureton then made a mid-2003 switch to Korean league side Busan I'cons (now Busan I'Park). He failed to settle in the Far East however, and after being released from his contract, he returned to England and joined QPR.^[1] After an unsettled season at Loftus Road, he joined Swindon Town in June 2005. He failed to make his mark in his first spell at the club and subsequently joined Colchester United on loan.^[2]

[edit] Swindon Town

He then briefly returned to Swindon Town as they aimed to avoid relegation to League Two. They Didn't.

After Swindon's relegation to League Two, Cureton activated a clause in his contract that allowed him to leave Swindon on a free transfer, and rejoined Colchester on a permanent basis.^[3]

[edit] Colchester United

Cureton had a period of good goal-scoring form following his transfer, with the highlight being a hat-trick against Derby County on 26 August 2006. He also scored a hat-trick in the 3-0 away win against Southend United. His 23 goals in the 2006-07 season gave him the Championship Golden Boot as the league's top scorer, and made him the first Colchester United striker since Tony Adcock to score 20 league goals in a season; the first for 22 years.

On 5 June 2007, Cureton handed in a transfer request to Colchester United, citing Colchester's ambitions differing from his own, underlined when the club failed to re-sign several key players. This inevitably fueled speculation that Cureton may return to Norwich City, the club where he began his career. Cureton himself stated that he would like to return to the club.

Colchester initially rejected the transfer request, saying that Cureton was an important part of the club's future and that they wanted to keep him.^[4], though Norwich City manager Peter Grant confirmed that he would like to sign Cureton.^[5] Cureton moved to Norwich City for £825,000 on 29 June 2007.^[6] He was signed as a replacement for Robert Earnshaw, Norwich's top scorer of the 2006-07 season, who left for Derby County FC in a £3.5m deal the same day.

[edit] Norwich City

He scored his first goals for Norwich since re-signing against King's Lynn at The Walks. This was followed up by another goal on Norwich's pre season tour of Holland against AGOVV Apeldoorn. He then scored two in the League Cup against Barnet and two on his league debut for Norwich against Southampton. One of his more crucial goals came during the Canaries' 1–0 win at Scunthorpe United, a victory that lifted Norwich clear of the relegation places ahead of the Christmas and New Year fixtures. On 22 March 2008, Cureton scored his first ever hat-trick for Norwich against former club Colchester United.^[7]

On 27 November 2008, Cureton joined Barnsley on a 3 month loan deal, but on 14 January 2009 he was recalled to Norwich City after Glenn Roeder's termination as manager. When Norwich played Barnsley on the following weekend, the Canaries were 4–0 victors with Cureton scoring one.^[8]

[edit] Career statistics

^[9]

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
England			League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total
1994-95	Norwich City	Premier League	17	8	0	0	0	0	17	8
1995-96		First Division	12	2	0	0	0	0	12	2
1995-96	Bournemouth (loan)	Second Division	5	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
1996-97	Bristol Rovers	Second Division	38	11	1	0	0	0	39	11
1997-98			43	13	2	0	2	0	47	13
1998-99			46	25	6	2	2	1	54	28
1999-00			46	22	1	0	4	1	51	23
2000-01			1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
2000-01	Reading	Second Division	46	27	3	1	2	1	51	29
2001-02			38	15	2	1	2	0	42	16
2002-03		First Division	29	9	2	0	1	0	32	9
Korea Republic			League		Korean FA Cup		Asia		Total
2003	Busan I'cons	K-League	21	4	0	0	0	0	21	4
England			League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total
2003-04	Queens Park Rangers	Second Division	13	2	0	0	0	0	13	2
2004-05		Championship	30	4	1	0	2	1	33	5
2005-06	Swindon Town	League One	30	7	0	0	1	0	31	7
2005-06	Colchester United (loan)	League One	8	4	2	3	0	0	10	7
2006-07	Colchester United	Championship	44	23	1	1	1	0	46	24
2007-08	Norwich City	Championship	41	12	2	0	2	2	45	14
2008-09			18	1	0	0	1	0	19	1
2008-09	Barnsley (loan)	Championship	8	2	0	0	0	0	8	2
Total	England		513	188	23	8	20	6	556	202
	Korea Republic		21	4	0	0	0	0	21	4
Career Total			534	192	23	8	20	6	577	206

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jamie Cureton profile at canaries.co.uk
• Jamie Cureton career stats at Soccerbase
• Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk
• K-league personal record - 제이미 (Korean)

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Persondata
NAME	Cureton, Jamie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cureton, Jamie
SHORT DESCRIPTION	English footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	28 August 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bristol, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH