2007-01-02 08:21:06 · 18 answers · asked by driver3260 1 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
QPR & Portsmouth
On July 28, 2000 Tottenham sold Crouch to Queens Park Rangers (QPR) for £60,000.[3] He made an immediate impression with QPR, scoring ten league goals in the 2000–01 season, but it was not enough to prevent the team's relegation to Division 2 (now Football League One).
Relegation meant that QPR had to sell many of their best players to support their diminished finances, and Portsmouth bought Crouch from them for £1.25 million. Crouch scored 18 league goals in only 37 starts for Portsmouth — benefiting from the crossing of Robert Prosinečki — and that in a side that for much of the season looked destined to be in a relegation battle.
Aston Villa
In March 2002, FA Premier League side Aston Villa made a successful £5 million bid for Crouch. He scored on his home debut for Villa, the equalising goal against Newcastle United, and managed to net twice in seven games. However, Crouch failed to hold down a regular place in the Aston Villa side in the following 2002–03 season.
Looking for first team football, he was loaned to Norwich City from September to December 2003. Although he scored only four times in 15 appearances, he was highly impressive and remains to this day popular with Norwich City supporters. So popular, in fact, he had a song made up about him (he's tall, he's lean, he's a freaky goal machine).[citation needed] Crouch was sent off for retaliation during Norwich's 3–1 win at Walsall, but nonetheless his spell at Norwich renewed interest in his abilities from other clubs. At the end of the three-month loan he returned to Aston Villa, and scored a brace against Leicester City, a late winner at Middlesbrough and the opener at Bolton. Norwich City recognised his contribution to the 2003–04 season that saw them win the First Division Championship by awarding him a championship medal. He was presented with the medal on the pitch prior to City's match against his new club Southampton FC at Carrow Road in November 2004. When he came on as substitute for Southampton later that afternoon, he received a very good reception from the home crowd.
Villa sold Crouch in July 2004 to Southampton for a fee of £2 million. Crouch signed a four-year deal with Southampton. He scored just six goals in 37 Premiership games for Aston Villa
Southampton
He made his Southampton debut in a 2–0 defeat at his previous club, Villa, and later scored a controversial winning penalty against another former club, Portsmouth, on January 29, 2005 in the fourth round of the FA Cup.
Despite scoring 16 goals in 33 appearances during the 2004–05 season, his future was cast into doubt when Southampton were relegated from the English Premiership. On July 19, 2005, Southampton agreed to sell Crouch for £7 million to Liverpool, on a four-year contract.
Liverpool
Crouch underwent intense media scrutiny due to a goal drought during his first months at Liverpool. For 19 games, spanning four months, he was unable to score. Crouch was praised for other facets of his game, such as his touch on the ball, but his first goal for the club evaded him. The fact that Crouch possessed "good touch for a big man" in fact became something of a media cliché during this time.[5]
The drought finally ended on 3 December 2005 when he scored against Wigan Athletic. Although this first goal was originally given as an own goal, it was later awarded to Crouch on appeal; he went on to score a second goal in the same game. Prior to these goals, Crouch had played over 24 hours of football for Liverpool without scoring. In addition to this, he also had to deal with unpleasant taunts from crowds at matches, as he had throughout his footballing career, who often chanted "freak" at him due to his unusual height.[6]
He went on to score several more goals that season, including the only goal in the fifth round of the FA Cup (2005–06) against Manchester United, Liverpool's first victory over them in the FA Cup post-World War II. On 13 May he helped Liverpool to win the 2006 FA Cup final against West Ham, providing a crucial assist for Steven Gerrard to score the second Liverpool goal.
Three months later, in the curtain-raiser to the 2006–07 season, he headed the winning goal for Liverpool in the club's 2–1 victory over Chelsea in the FA Community Shield. In their 2006/07 UEFA Champions League campaign he scored his first goals in European club competition.
2007-01-02 08:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by micho 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Peter Crouch has played for Aston Villa & Southampton before Rafael Benitez signed him for GBP 7 million on 19 July 2005.
2007-01-03 01:09:51 · answer #2 · answered by foongwk140804 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2000-2001 Queens Park Rangers
2001-2002 Portsmouth
2002-2004 Aston Villa
2004 Norwich City (Loan)
2004-2005 Southampton
2005-2007 Liverpool
2007-01-02 08:26:54 · answer #3 · answered by aapadres 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spurs
Queens Park Rangers(U R'S!)
Portsmouth
Aston Villa
Southampton
Liverpool
thanks for opening old wounds micho!
2007-01-02 08:32:34 · answer #4 · answered by QPRfan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Southampton
2007-01-02 08:23:56 · answer #5 · answered by deadly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Southampton, Aston Villa.!!!
2007-01-02 10:11:37 · answer #6 · answered by JAM123 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dulwich Hamlet
IFK Hassleholm
QPR
Portsmouth
Villa
Norwich
Southampton
2007-01-02 08:25:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
SOUTHAMPTON the football club that will go places this year, unlike the other southern team Bournemouth.
2007-01-02 08:32:14 · answer #8 · answered by edison 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
southampton, portsmouth, aston villa. Southampton was most recent!
2007-01-02 08:24:04 · answer #9 · answered by Nicola B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He still isn't playing for Liverpool he is having "lucky moments"
2007-01-02 08:29:11 · answer #10 · answered by toon_tigger 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
tottenham
QPR
portsmouth
aston villa
norwich
southampton
2007-01-02 23:40:07 · answer #11 · answered by I-love-taz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋