Marcus Ebdon

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Marcus Ebdon

Full name	Marcus Ebdon
Date of birth	October 17, 1970 (age 36)
Place of birth	Pontypool, Wales
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Nickname	Ebbo, Taffy
Playing position	Defender/Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Alfreton Town
Youth clubs
1989-1991	Everton
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991-1997 1997-2003 2003 2003-2005 2006-	Peterborough United Chesterfield Leyton Orient Tamworth Alfreton Town	147 (15) 192 (13) 14 (0) 44 (5) - (-)
Teams managed
2007-	Alfreton Town
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:36, 25 November 2006 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Marcus Ebdon (born October 17, 1970 in Pontypool, Wales) is a professional football currently playing for and managing Conference North side Alfreton Town.

1 Playing career
2 Managerial career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Playing career

Ebdon started his football career as a trainee with Everton. He spent three years there before moving to Peterborough United in July 1991. During his time with The Posh, Marcus made 147 appearances and scored 15 goals for the club.

March 1997 seen Ebdon move from Peterborough United to Chesterfield, where he was subject of a £100,000 price tag. Ebdon made a total of 192 appearances and scored 13 goals between 1997 and 2003 for club, before moving to Leyton Orient in August 2003.

Ebdon was only briefly with The Wyverns before moving to Staffordshire side Tamworth in November 2003^[1]. At the end of the 2005 Conference National, Ebdon decided it was time to hang up his boots.

However, in 2006, he was called out of retirement to play for Alfreton Town where he was reunited with former Tamworth managers Gary Mills and Darron Gee.

[edit] Managerial career

In January 2007, Ebdon was appointed manager of Alfreton Town for the remainder of the season following Darron Gee's decision to join Gary Mills as assistant manager at Tamworth^[2].