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Michael Cheetham

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Michael Cheetham
Personal information
Date of birth (1967-06-30) 30 June 1967 (age 57)
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

Michael Cheetham (born 30 June 1967) is an English retired footballer most notable for his time at Cambridge United in the early 1990s.

Career

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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]

Honours

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Club

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Cambridge United[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ A To Z The Men Of AFC Sudbury Archived 2 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine AFC Sudbury
  2. ^ "Tier Three (League One) Honours". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
  3. ^ "Division Three (League Two) Play-Off Finalists". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
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