Stan Collymore
Overview
Stanley Victor "Stan" Collymore (born 22 January 1971) is an English football pundit and former footballer, who played from 1990 until 2001. He held the British transfer record when he moved from Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest F.C.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...

 to Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...

 for £8.5 million in 1995 and was capped three times at senior level by the England national football team
England national football team
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 but never scored.
Collymore's mother Doreen, a swimming pool receptionist in Cannock
Cannock
Cannock is the most populous of three towns in the district of Cannock Chase in the central southern part of the county of Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England....

, Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...

, had four daughters from her first husband, who was from nearby Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...

.
Quotations

I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.

A month from today I guarantee I will be able to stand side by side with any striker in the country. I went to the World Cup as a punter. I didn't see any players that made me think 'I can't do that'

On a possible Premiership return

One day, I thought God had smiled on me because Ray keeled over and had a heart attack on the training pitch. It felt like divine retribution. I had never been so happy in my entire fucking life. He didn't die. Little fuckers like him never do.

On his former Walsall youth team coach Ray Train, as recalled in his autobiography 'Stan Collymore: Tackling my Demons'.

One day, Geoff Thomas was moaning about something after training, so I got up and chinned him.

About an incident with a Crystal Palace team-mate

Everybody thinks I underachieved as a footballer. I didn't underachieve. I overachieved. I had a great career.

On being washed up at 26

I count helping to keep Southend in the first division in my season there as one of my finest achievements. That's success to me.

There was a time when I was sleeping with four or five women a day. Terrified of loneliness, I had them coming to my house in Cannock on something approximating a rota system. One would arrive, we would have sex and she would go. Another one would arrive, we would have sex and then she would go.

On living the dream in the mid-90s.

Those guys should just have been watching me at work. They should have been standing there with their mouths open in awe. They should have been learning. They were so rude. Morrison even stuck his tongue in his mouth.

On how he reacted badly to on-pitch abuse from Andy Todd, Darren Purse and Andy Morrison

There were two female physios at the club. I was like a dog with two dicks. I spent a lot of time on the treatment table.

On several incidents he had during a loan spell at Fulham

 
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