Fitz Hall

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Fitz Hall
Personal information
Full name Fitz Hall
Date of birth 20 December 1980 (1980-12-20) (age 27)
Place of birth    London, England
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Queens Park Rangers
Number 29
Youth clubs
1997–2000 West Ham United
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2000–2001
2001–2002
2002–2003
2003–2004
2004–2006
2006–2008
2008–		 Barnet
Chesham United
Oldham Athletic
Southampton
Crystal Palace
Wigan Athletic
Queens Park Rangers		 00 (0)
0? (?)
41 (4)
11 (0)
75 (3)
25 (0)
14 (0)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 19 April 2008.
* Appearances (Goals)

Fitz Hall (born December 20, 1980, Walthamstow, London) is an English footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers of the Football League Championship. He is a central defender who can also play as a central midfielder.

He is nicknamed "One Size", as a pun on the phrase 'One Size Fits All'. As a seventeen-year-old he acted a minor role in The Fifth Element [1] playing a twelve-year-old.

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[edit] Club career

[edit] Early career

Hall began his career as a West Ham United youth player but was released at the age of 15, on the same day as Paul Konchesky, Bobby Zamora and Jlloyd Samuel.He was also once told that he wasn't good enough to become a professional footballer but found his lucy break through a friend that got him a trial at Barnet F.C.[2] He then joined Barnet as part of a Youth Training Scheme, before moving to non-league Chesham United under the management of Bob Dowie.

[edit] Oldham Athletic

Hall's performances at Chesham came to the attention of Dowie's brother Iain, manager of Oldham Athletic, who bought him for £30,000 in the 2002 close season. Hall was sold to Premiership side Southampton a year later for £250,000 when Oldham faced a bad financial predicament. However, he did not manage to break into Southampton's first team on a regular basis.

[edit] Crystal Palace

Hall re-joined Iain Dowie at Crystal Palace at the beginning of the 2004–05 season for £1.5m,[3] and went straight into the first team for the club's first season back in the Premiership.

In August 2005, Hall was appointed team captain of Palace, replacing Michael Hughes following the club's relegation back to the Championship. Many fans felt that Hall's performance was being hindered by the burden of captaincy,[citation needed] and after several poor performances, and several yellow cards, Hughes was re-appointed team captain in January 2006.

[edit] Wigan

Hall moved from Palace to Premiership side Wigan Athletic for an undisclosed fee on June 26, 2006.[4] New Palace boss Peter Taylor cited a £3m get-out clause in Hall's contract as the reason for the transfer.[citation needed]

[edit] Queens Park Rangers

Hall was one of a number of players brought in by Championship side Queens Park Rangers during the early part of the January 2008 transfer window. He signed a four and a half year contract, after Rangers paid an undisclosed fee.[5]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The Guardian
  2. ^ Sam Pilger (October 2003). "The Boy's A Bit Special". FourFourTwo (110): 31. 
  3. ^ "Hall joins Palace", BBC Sport, 2004-08-12. Retrieved on 2007-08-04. 
  4. ^ "Wigan sign Palace defender Hall", BBC Sport, 2006-06-26. Retrieved on 2007-08-04. 
  5. ^ "QPR capture Hall and target Vine", BBC Sport, 2008-01-04. Retrieved on 2008-01-04. 

[edit] References

  • Sam Pilger (October 2003). "The Boy's A Bit Special". FourFourTwo (110): 31. 

[edit] External links

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