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Matthew Blinkhorn 
Personal information Full name Matthew David Blinkhorn Date of birth 2 March 1985 Place of birth Blackpool, England Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Playing position Striker Club information Current club Sligo Rovers Number 9 Youth career Blackpool Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 2001–2007 Blackpool 44 (5) 2004 → Luton Town (loan) 2 (0) 2006–2007 → Bury (loan) 10 (0) 2007 → Morecambe (loan) 12 (8) 2007-2009 Morecambe 41 (10) 2009– Sligo Rovers 72 (22) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Matthew David Blinkhorn (born 2 March 1985 in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Sligo Rovers.
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Career
On November 22, 2006, when he was at Blackpool, he was loaned to Bury, but Blackpool manager Simon Grayson included a 24-hour recall clause in the contract, which began 28 days into the loan period. The loan period was due to end on February 22, 2007, but Blackpool cut it short and he returned on February 9.
He was loaned to Morecambe for a month on March 2, 2007.[1] Blinkhorn made an immediate impact, scoring the first goal in a 2-0 victory over St Albans. By the end of his loan stint he had scored eight goals in twelve games.
Blinkhorn joined Morecambe on a permanent basis on June 28, 2007,[2] for a fee of tribunal-set fee of £15,000, plus 25% of any future transfer fee that Morecambe were to receive for him.[3]
He was released by Morecambe in May 2009, and joined Sligo Rovers two months later. Blinkhorn scored his first goal for Rovers in a 2-0 win over St. Pat's in his third appearance. After the signing of Shamrock Rovers striker, Padraig Amond, in the pre-season of 2010, Blinkhorn had to be 2nd choice for half of the season until Amond signed for F.C. Paços de Ferreira. On 25 September 2010, Blinkhorn scored the winner for Sligo Rovers in a 1-0 win against Monaghan United in the 2010 League of Ireland Cup. He sadly had to sit out Sligo's penalty win over Shamrock Rovers in the 2010 FAI Ford Cup Final on 14 November 2010 through suspension, along with recently confirmed PFAI Player of the Year, Richie Ryan[4]
Honours
- FAI Cup: 2
- Sligo Rovers - 2010, 2011
- League of Ireland Cup: 1
- Sligo Rovers - 2010
References
- ^ Morecambe take Blinkhorn on loan - BBC Sport
- ^ Blinkorn seals Morecambe switch - BBC Sport
- ^ Gillatt, Peter (30 November 2009). Blackpool FC on This Day: History, Facts and Figures from Every Day of the Year. Pitch Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-905411-50-2.
- ^ "Sligo Rovers 1-0 Monaghan Utd". RTE Sport. 2010-09-25. http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2010/0925/sligorovers_monaghanunited.html. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
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Categories:- 1985 births
- Living people
- People from Blackpool
- English footballers
- Blackpool F.C. players
- Luton Town F.C. players
- Bury F.C. players
- Morecambe F.C. players
- Sligo Rovers F.C. players
- League of Ireland players
- The Football League players
- Conference National players
- FAI Cup: 2
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