Fitz Hall
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| Fitz Hall | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Fitzroy Hall | |
| Date of birth | December 20, 1980 (age 26) | |
| Place of birth | Walthamstow, London, UK | |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | |
| Nickname | One Size | |
| Playing position | Defender | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Wigan Athletic | |
| Number | 5 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1997-2000 | West Ham United | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2006 2006- |
Barnet Chesham United Oldham Athletic Southampton Crystal Palace Wigan Athletic |
0 (0) ? (?) 41 (4) 11 (0) 75 (3) 21 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Fitz Hall (born December 20, 1980, Walthamstow, UK) is an English footballer who plays for Wigan Athletic of the Premiership. Hall is a central defender who can also play as a central midfielder. He is nicknamed "One Size", as a pun on the phrase 'One Size Fits All'.
Hall originally began as a West Ham United youth but was released at the age of 15, on the same day as Paul Konchesky, Bobby Zamora (who have both returned to the East London club) and Jlloyd Samuel, now of Aston Villa. He then joined Barnet as part of a Youth Training Scheme, before moving to non-league Chesham United under the management of Bob Dowie. Hall's performances as Chesham came to the attention of Dowie's brother Iain, manager of Oldham Athletic, who bought him for £30,000 in the 2002 close season. Hall was sold to Premiership side Southampton a year later for £250,000, but did not manage to break into the first team. He re-joined Iain Dowie at Crystal Palace at the beginning of the 2004-05 season for £1.5m, and went straight into the first team. He quickly became a firm favourite, and was a stand-out player in Palace's failed attempt to avoid relegation.
In August 2005, Hall was appointed team captain of Palace, replacing the popular Michael Hughes. Many fans felt that Hall's performance was being somewhat hindered by the burden of captaincy, and after several poor performances, and too many yellow cards, Hughes was re-appointed team captain, in January 2006.
On June 26, 2006, Hall moved from Palace to Wigan for an undisclosed fee (reportedly £3m, twice the figure he joined the Eagles for). New Palace boss Peter Taylor cited a £3m get-out clause in Hall's contract as the reason for the transfer.
[edit] References
- Sam Pilger (October 2003). "The Boy's A Bit Special". FourFourTwo (110): 31.
[edit] External links
| Wigan Athletic F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Filan | 2 Granqvist | 4 Jackson | 5 Hall | 6 de Zeeuw | 7 Camara | 8 Kilbane | 9 Heskey | 10 McCulloch | 11 Johansson | 12 Pollitt | 13 Kirkland | 14 Landzaat | 15 Aghahowa | 16 Valencia | 17 Boyce | 18 Scharner | 19 Taylor | 20 Folan | 21 Cywka | 22 Cotterill | 24 Skoko | 25 Unsworth | 26 Baines | 28 Nash | 31 Montrose | 32 Owens | 36 Waterhouse | Manager: Jewell |
