Peter Thorne (footballer)

Football player infobox
playername = Peter Thorne


fullname = Peter Thorne
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dateofbirth = birth date and age|1973|6|21|df=y
cityofbirth = Urmston, Lancashire
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = Bradford City
clubnumber = 10
position = Striker
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years = 1991–1995
1994
1995–1997
1997–2001
2001–2005
2005–2007
2007–
clubs = Blackburn Rovers
→ Wigan Athletic (loan)
Swindon Town
Stoke City
Cardiff City
Norwich City
Bradford City
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078 (27)
157 (65)
126 (46)
036 0(1)
042 (23)
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Peter Thorne (born 21 June 1973 in Urmston, near Manchester) is an English professional footballer who plays for Bradford City.

Career

Early career

Thorne started his career at Blackburn Rovers and later played for Wigan Athletic (on loan), Swindon Town and Stoke City.

Although he suffered relgation in his first season with Stoke, the 1997–98 season, Thorne became something of a cult hero at the club—thanks largely to his goal-scoring exploits—and gained a reputation as a dangerous box-player.Fact|date=June 2008 He enjoyed a particularly fruitful scoring run in the second half of the 1999–2000 season, most notably including a hat-trick in the 3–3 draw away at Bristol Rovers, five goals in the 5–1 home win over Chesterfield and the winning goal in the Auto Windscreens Shield Final, that saw Stoke beat Bristol City.

Cardiff City

In September 2001, he was signed by Cardiff City for a club-record £1.8 million. His first season at the club was restricted due to injury but he still managed to finish the year with a total of 8 goals. The following season, 2002–03, he enjoyed a full season and linked up with the clubs talisman striker Robert Earnshaw, the pair scoring a total of 52 goals between them, as they helped the club to win promotion via the play-offs. Thorne found the net 16 times during the season, including scoring against Bristol City in the first leg of the play-off semi-final.

Thorne remained a vital part of the team the next year and had scored 13 times when he fractured a bone in his foot meaning he missed the last three months of the season. Injuries would mean he rarely managed an extended run in the side during the rest of his time at the club and at the end of the 2004-05 season he was allowed to join Norwich City on a free transfer, although the Canaries would have had to pay a total of £200,000 had they reached the Premiership within two years of the transfer, in order to reduce the clubs wage bill, with Thorne being the clubs highest paid player at the time, after it was revealed they were in serious financial difficulties. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/4640355.stm "Thorne completes move to Canaries"] BBC Sport Retrieved on 3 September, 2008]

Norwich City

Thorne's career chances were limited at Norwich. He missed the start of the 2005–06 season through injury and then failed to establish himself as a first team regular, scoring just one goal during the season. In the summer of 2006, Norwich manager Nigel Worthington indicated that Thorne would be allowed to leave the club if a suitable offer was received. He remained on Norwich's books for the 2006–07 season, but was released at the end of the season. He considered retiring but subsequently signed for recently relegated League Two side Bradford City on a one-year contract. [cite news
url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2008/09/08/thorne-in-vale-s-side-115875-20728782/
title=Thorne in Vale's side
date=2008-09-08
accessdate=2008-09-16
publisher=The Mirror] [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/6262648.stm
title=Bradford sign veteran strike pair
publisher=BBC Sport
date=2 July 2007
accessdate=2008-01-21]

Bradford City

A hip injury kept the striker out of the start of the campaign but he eventually made his belated league début in a 2–1 defeat of Lincoln City at Sincil Bank on 7 September 2007 where he had a goal disallowed. He scored his first goal for Bradford — his first for more than a year — in a 1–0 FA Cup victory over Chester City on 10 November 2007, [cite news
publisher=BBC Sport
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/7076467.stm
title=Bradford 1-0 Chester
date=10 November 2007
accessdate=2008-01-21] before scoring his first league goal a week later at Dagenham & Redbridge. [cite news
publisher=BBC Sport
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7088507.stm
title=Dag & Red 1-4 Bradford
date=17 November 2007
accessdate=2008-01-21] He scored Bradford's first league hat-trick in two years when he scored all three goals in a 3–0 victory over Notts County on 12 January 2008. [cite news
first=Simon
last=Parker
url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/display.var.1962092.0..php
title=Put your shirt on more Thorne goals
date=13 January 2008
accessdate=2008-01-13
publisher=Telegraph & Argus] With two games in three days, Thorne was rested for City's game with Rotherham United on 22 March 2008, before he scored the 150th league goal of his career two days later, when City beat Chesterfield 1–0. [cite news
url=http://www.telegraphandargus.co.uk/display.var.2142595.0..php
title=Thorne reaches magic milestone
date=24 March 2008
accessdate=2008-03-24
publisher=Telegraph & Argus
first=Simon
last=Parker] When City first signed Thorne, they included the option to extend his deal by a further year, and in March 2008, Thorne extended his contract to the end of the 2008–09 season. [cite news
url=http://www.telegraphandargus.co.uk/display.var.2159463.0..php
title=Thorne signs up but Topp set for op
date=2008-03-31
accessdate=2008-03-31
publisher=Telegraph & Argus
first=Simon
last=Parker]

Thorne started the 2008–09 season by scoring two goals in each of the first two league games as City defeated Notts County and Macclesfield Town. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7541104.stm
title=Bradford 2-1 Notts County
date=2008-08-09
accessdate=2008-08-09
publisher=BBC Sport] [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7551258.stm
title=Macclesfield 0-2 Bradford
date=2008-08-16
accessdate=2008-08-16
publisher=BBC Sport] He added a fifth in the first three games to help City maintain an unbeaten start to the season with a 2–0 win against Rochdale. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7565149.stm
title=Bradford 2-0 Rochdale
date=2008-08-23
accessdate=2008-08-23
publisher=BBC Sport] He missed a penalty in City's fourth game as they lost to Aldershot Town by one goal, [cite news
url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sportbcfc/sportbcfcmatch/3634905.City_stunned_by_bolt_from_the_blue/
title=City stunned by bolt from the blue
date=2008-08-31
accessdate=2008-09-06
publisher=Telegraph & Argus
first=Simon
last=Parker] but his form earned him a League Two player of the month nomination for August and he made amends by scoring another three goals in the next two games, as Bradford secured back-to-back victories. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7588692.stm
title=Port Vale 0-2 Bradford
date=2008-09-06
accessdate=2008-09-06
publisher=BBC Sport] [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7602050.stm
title=Bradford 4-1 Exeter
date=2008-09-13
accessdate=2008-09-14
publisher=BBC Sport] Although he failed to win the player of the month award, in September he was rewarded with the PFA fans' monthly prize. [cite news
url=http://www.givemefootball.com/pfa-awards/stevie-g-is-the-september-star
title=Stevie G is the September star
date=2008-10-03
accessdate=2008-10-03
publisher=PFA
first=Dave
last=Smith]

Honours

With Cardiff City
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References

External links

*soccerbase|7942|Peter Thorne
* [http://www.ex-canaries.co.uk/players/thorne.htm Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk]
* [http://bradford.vitalfootball.co.uk/player.asp?p=299 Peter Thorne Vital Profile]

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DATE OF BIRTH = 21 June 1973
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