Danny Murphy (footballer)

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Danny Murphy
Image:Danny Murphy football.jpg
Full name	Daniel Benjamin Murphy
Date of birth	March 18 1977 (age 32)
Place of birth	Chester, Cheshire, England
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.77 m)
Position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Tottenham Hotspur
Number	13
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1993-97 1997-98 1998-99 1998-04 2004-06 2006-present	Crewe Liverpool Crewe Liverpool Charlton Tottenham Hotspur	134 (27) 16 (0) 16 (1) 152 (18) 56 (7) 16 (1)
National team**
2001-03	England	9 (1)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC). ** National team caps and goals correct as of May 10, 2006.

Daniel Benjamin Murphy (born 18 March 1977 in Chester) is an English football player. He is a midfielder and currently plays for Tottenham Hotspur, having been transferred to Charlton Athletic from Liverpool F.C. for £2.5 million on 10 August 2004, and to Tottenham Hotspur on 31 January 2006 for £2 million.

He was previously a trainee at Crewe Alexandra where he was developed by Dario Gradi into a player of real Premiership quality. After signing for Liverpool, he did not break into the first team squad immediately and returned to Crewe for a successful period on loan. After the loan period ended, he became a first team regular at Anfield.

He has been capped for England nine times and has scored one goal. He was set to play at the 2002 World Cup, but had to withdraw from the squad after he sufferd the dreaded metatarsal injury that had also affected England team mates David Beckham and Gary Neville in the run-up to the tournament. This injury has become somewhat infamous within English football. It was also the same injury that nearly prevented Wayne Rooney from playing in the 2006 World Cup in Germany four years later.

In his first season at Charlton, Murphy struggled to recapture the form that he had shown at Liverpool, however in the first three months of the 2005/06 season he emerged as a viable option for England once more, and also won the September player of the month award, scoring several goals along the way.

On 31 January 2006, Murphy was transferred to Tottenham Hotspur for £2 million. He appeared only fleetingly in the remaining games of the season and is yet to make the team or substitutes bench so far this season. Murphy scored his first Tottenham goal in the 2-1 defeat of Portsmouth on 1 October 2006 after only 39 seconds.

After the departure of Michael Carrick to Manchester United Murphy is increasingly settled and becoming an important player in the new Spurs midfield, which is less dependent on any single player and more focused on the collective.

Murphy is married to actress Joanna Taylor and they celebrated the birth of their first child, Mya Eve Murphy, on August 15 2006.

Murphys favourite squad number is 13, he wore this number at Liverpool, Charlton and now Tottenham.

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Tottenham Hotspur F.C. - Current Squad
1 Robinson \| 2 Chimbonda \| 3 Lee \| 4 Zokora \| 5 Davids \| 6 Tainio \| 7 Stalteri \| 8 Jenas \| 9 Berbatov \| 10 Keane \| 11 Mido \| 12 Černý \| 13 Murphy \| 14 Ghaly \| 15 Malbranque \| 16 Ziegler \| 18 Defoe \| 20 Dawson \| 22 Huddlestone \| 24 O'Hara \| 25 Lennon \| 26 King \| 27 Davenport \| 28 Barnard \| 29 Ifil \| 30 Gardner \| 32 Assou-Ekotto \| 35 Dervite \| 39 Barcham \| Manager: Jol