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For the Hollyoaks actor, see Kieron Richardson.
Kieran Richardson
Personal information
Full name Kieran Edward Richardson
Date of birth (1984-10-21) 21 October 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth Greenwich, London, England
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Left winger
Left-back
Team information
Current team Fulham
Number 15
Youth career
000?–2001 West Ham United
2001–2002 Manchester United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2007 Manchester United 41 (2)
2005 → West Bromwich Albion (loan) 12 (3)
2007–2012 Sunderland 134 (14)
2012– Fulham 5 (1)
International career
2002 England U18 1 (0)
2005–2007 England U21 11 (1)
2005–2006 England 8 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:18, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:30, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Kieran Edward Richardson (born 21 October 1984) is an English footballer who plays for Fulham. He is a left winger, but has proven to be versatile, having also played as a left-back, right winger, central midfielder and recently as a support striker.

Club career

Early career

Richardson was schooled at the private and non-selective Riverston Independent Day School in Lee, London. He began playing football at Parkwood Primary School and his talent was very apparent at this young age, he was made captain of his school team and was invited to train with Arsenal.

He then moved to West Ham United where he would begin training professionally. However, before he made his debut for the Londoners, he was signed by Manchester United in 2001.

In 2012 Richardson told several newspapers and gave his testimony to the congregation at his local church on how he had become a born again Christian, while he was at Sunderland.

Manchester United

During his first season at Manchester United, Richardson established his place as a regular on United's reserve team. He was given squad number 42 for the first team, but he failed to make his debut with them.

During summer 2002, Richardson was fully involved with the first team during their pre-season. Subsequently he made his first appearance for Manchester United on 23 October 2002 when coming on as a late substitute in a match against Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League. He then scored his first goal for United in the League Cup on 5 November 2002 against Leicester City, although he had yet to make his Premiership debut for the club at that time. Richardson enjoyed his first breakthrough during the 2002–03 season appearing nine times and scoring a goal for the first team. He also played a role in Manchester United's youth team's win of the 2003 FA Youth Cup.

At the start of 2003–04 season, he was given squad number 23. This suggested that he may be more involved with the first team than during the previous season. However, during this season he failed to stake his claim for the first team. He only appeared three times, all of them in League Cup and FA Cup.

During the 2004–05 season, he started to become more involved with the first team. He had already made nine appearances and scored one goal during the first half of the season. However during the January transfer window, Sir Alex Ferguson decided to loan him out in order for him to gain more first team experience.

Richardson was linked with a loan move to Norwich City, but Ferguson said there was no chance as other players had gone on loan. However, when former Manchester United captain Bryan Robson, manager of West Bromwich Albion, enquired about loaning Richardson, the deal was done straight away. Under Robson, Richardson made an instant impact on West Brom's quest to escape relegation. He was a regular in West Brom's first eleven, playing in central midfield. He scored three goals from 12 appearances as West Bromwich successfully avoided relegation, despite starting the final day of the season on the bottom of the table. Despite this his confrontational demeanor won him no respect with opposing fans, particularly at Norwich, where he was jeered for taunting them.

At the start of 2005–06 season, Richardson declined a further loan spell at West Brom in an attempt to win a regular place at Old Trafford. He made his break in Manchester United's first eleven in September 2005, when he appeared as an emergency left-back, in place of the injured Gabriel Heinze. He soon returned to midfield however, where he made several good performances. In October, Richardson celebrated his 21st birthday by signing a new four-year contract with United. He went on to appear 36 times and score six goals that season.

The following season Richardson's chances to establish himself in the first team were limited, mainly playing in the League Cup and the FA Cup. However, Richardson felt Sir Alex Ferguson's wrath as the youngster shouldered some of the blame for United's below-par performance against Crewe Alexandra in the League Cup. Ferguson publicly declared that Richardson and others would benefit from spending some time in United's reserve team. He scored one of United's goals in the 4–1 FA Cup semi-final win over Watford, that put them in the final at the new Wembley Stadium.

Sunderland

Richardson playing for Sunderland in 2011

On 16 July 2007, Sunderland paid Manchester United an undisclosed fee, reported to be in the region of £5.5 million. Richardson signed a four-year deal with the Black Cats, under the management of his former United captain Roy Keane.

After an indifferent start, it was discovered that he had a stress fracture of the spine. This led to him being out of action for almost four months. He scored his first goal for Sunderland on 29 December 2007 against Bolton Wanderers. Richardson scored two goals in the 2–0 win against Portsmouth at the Stadium of Light on 13 January 2008, also striking the bar to miss out on his hat-trick. Since then he suffered a hamstring injury in training then this injury recurred in Sunderland's 3–0 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield.

On 23 August 2008, Richardson scored against Tottenham Hotspur in the 56th minute, in a 2–1 win at White Hart Lane. Richardson took a free kick that hit the post three times at Fulham on 18 October, and later had another free kick disallowed as Pascal Chimbonda was adjudged to be pushing in the wall. On 25 October 2008, Richardson scored the winning goal in the Tyne–Wear derby, with a free kick. Richardson attracted interest from Bolton Wanderers in the 2009 January transfer window, but manager Ricky Sbragia insisted that he was not for sale.

Richardson scored his first goal of the 2009–10 season with an equaliser against West Ham United, which ended 2–2. Richardson was used in several positions throughout the season, whilst predominantly featuring in central midfield he also played at left-back – his performances there led to many touting him as a surprise World Cup inclusion.

In the build up to the 2010–11 season, Richardson committed his future to the club by signing a new three-year contract at the Stadium of Light. Soon after, he became first-choice left-back at the club citing Brazilian full-back Maicon as inspiration for taking up his new position, saying "I watched the World Cup and saw the way guys like Maicon were bombing forward – and I thought "I can do that". He opened his scoring account for the season on 22 January away to Blackpool scoring two goals in the first half. After deploying him in an attacking role, Sunderland manager Steve Bruce hailed Richardson's versatility saying "I must have asked him to play in five or six positions this season and certainly in that position he enjoys it, it’s something he revels in". He then added "He was the outstanding player on the pitch. In the first half he was brilliant, his pace was superb." Richardson scored directly from a free kick in Sunderland's next game, a 4–2 home defeat to Chelsea. Richardson made his 100th Premier League appearance for Sunderland at home to Tottenham Hotspur on 12 February, assisting Asamoah Gyan's opener in a 2–1 defeat.

Richardson's first goal of the 2011–12 season came in the 2–1 defeat at Norwich. Richardson was on target again in a defeat at Wolves under caretaker manager Eric Black, following Steve Bruce's departure. In this match against Wolves on 4 December 2011, Richardson scored the opening goal, a long range shot from the left, and celebrated by removing his shirt, revealing a T-shirt with the slogan "I belong to Jesus", similar to the T-shirt that Kaká has worn on occasion. He was booked for removing his shirt. Sunderland went on to lose the game 2–1. Under new manager Martin O'Neill, Richardson began to make impressive progress after being shifted into his preferred left wing position, making another contribution in his sides 3–2 victory away to QPR on 21 December 2011 after setting up two goals from corner kicks, having impressed generally all game. On 18 February, he scored his first FA Cup goal for the club against Arsenal at the Stadium of Light in the fifth round in which he scored the first goal in Sunderlands 2–0 win.

Fulham

On 31 August 2012, he signed for Fulham from Sunderland for an undisclosed fee, reported to be approximately £2 million. He scored his first goal for the Club against Southampton in October 2012.

International career

During his stay at West Brom, he won his first cap for the England U21 team on 8 February 2005 in a friendly match against Netherlands U21 team. After a series of convincing performances for West Brom, he won a late call-up for England's trip to the United States at the end of the 2004–05 season. He started the match against the USA and scored twice on his England debut, including one directly from a free kick. He earned praise from England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, who described Richardson's debut as "fantastic". He also appeared as a substitute on England's second match in the United States against Colombia.

After earning senior caps, Richardson also returned to the Under-21 squad, playing in both legs of the England U21s' European Championship qualification play-off against France U21s, which they lost 3–2 on aggregate. The decisive goal came in the 85th minute of the second leg, when Richardson brought down Lassana Diarra in the box and the resulting penalty was converted.

He then made two further substitute appearances during England's World Cup qualification against Wales in Cardiff and Austria in Old Trafford. The latter was his home England debut. However, he was not selected by Sven-Göran Eriksson in England's 2006 World Cup squad.

In 2006–07, he continued to be selected by newly appointed England manager Steve McClaren and made several substitute appearances. He went on to make further appearances for the England U21 squad, for whom he was eligible to play until the end of the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, where he made three appearances. However, he has neither started nor scored for the England senior team since his debut.

International goals

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
1 28 May 2005 Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, United States  United States 0–1 1–2 Friendly
2 28 May 2005 Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, United States  United States 0–2 1–2 Friendly

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Career statistics

Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Manchester United 2002–03 2 0 1 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 9 1
2003–04 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
2004–05 2 0 1 0 3 1 2 0 1 0 9 1
West Bromwich Albion (loan) 2004–05 12 3 0 0 0 0 – 0 0 12 3
Manchester United 2005–06 22 1 4 3 5 1 5 1 0 0 36 6
2006–07 15 1 3 1 2 0 4 1 0 0 24 3
Total 41 2 10 4 13 3 16 2 1 0 81 11
Sunderland 2007–08 17 3 1 0 0 0 – 0 0 18 3
2008–09 32 4 1 0 2 0 – 0 0 35 4
2009–10 29 1 1 0 2 0 – 0 0 32 1
2010–11 26 4 1 0 2 0 – 0 0 29 4
2011–12 29 2 4 1 1 0 – 0 0 34 3
2012–13 1 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 0 1 0
Total 134 14 8 1 7 0 – 0 0 149 15
Total 187 19 18 5 20 3 16 2 1 0 242 29
Statistics accurate as 18 February 2012

Honours

Club

Manchester United

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