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Michael Cheetham
English association football player
Michael Cheetham is an English retired footballer most notable for his time at Cambridge United in the early 1990s.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1967-06-30) 30 June 1967 (age 56) | ||
| Place of birth | Nijmegen, Netherlands | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1988 | Basingstoke Town | ||
| 1988–1989 | Ipswich Town | 4 | (0) |
| 1989–1994 | Cambridge United | 132 | (22) |
| 1994–1995 | Chesterfield | 5 | (0) |
| 1995–1996 | Colchester United | 37 | (3) |
| 1996–1997 | Sudbury Town | ||
| 1997–1999 | Cambridge City | ||
| 1999–2007 | AFC Sudbury | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Ipswich Town manager Bobby Robson paid to buy him out of the army to enable him to start his football career at Portman Road where he went on to make 4 appearances.
After a loan spell at Cambridge United in 1989, he signed permanently at The Abbey Stadium for a fee of £50,000 in 1990 and went on to be a permanent fixture in the side that gained successive promotions to the old Division Two under controversial manager John Beck. Winger Cheetham played a total of 132 games for the club, scoring 22 goals before joining Chesterfield on a free transfer in 1994.
After just 5 appearances at Saltergate, Cheetham moved back to East Anglia with Colchester United where he ended his league career by playing a further 37 games, scoring 3 goals.
After dropping out of professional football he had spells at Cambridge City, Sudbury Town and AFC Sudbury where he had a spell as coach.[1]
Club
- Football League Third Division Winner (1): 1990–91
- Football League Fourth Division Playoff Winner (1): 1989–90
- A To Z The Men Of AFC Sudbury Archived 2 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine AFC Sudbury
- "Tier Three (League One) Honours". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
- "Division Three (League Two) Play-Off Finalists". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
- Michael Cheetham at Soccerbase
- Profile AFC Sudbury
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