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Carlton Palmer
Personal information
Full name	Carlton Lloyd Palmer
Date of birth	December 5, 1965 (age 41)
Place of birth	Rowley Regis, England
Height	6 ft 2 in
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1984-1989 1989-1994 1994-1997 1997-1999 1999 1999-2001 2000-2001 2001 2001-2003 2005	West Bromwich Albion Sheffield Wednesday Leeds United Southampton Nottingham Forest Coventry City Watford (loan) Sheffield Wednesday (loan) Stockport County Mansfield Town	121 0(4) 205 (14) 103 0(5) 045 0(3) 016 0(1) 030 0(1) 005 0(0) 022 0(0) 043 0(4) 001 0(0)
National team2
1992-1993	England	018 0(1)
Teams managed
2001-2003 2004-2005	Stockport County (player-manager) Mansfield Town
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 October 2006. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 30 October 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Carlton Lloyd Palmer (born 5 December 1965 in Rowley Regis, West Midlands) is a former English professional football player who played as a midfielder, most notably for Sheffield Wednesday.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Management career 3 Since management 4 External links 5 References

Palmer started his career at West Bromwich Albion, coming through their youth team in time for the 1985-86 season. He earned a move to Sheffield Wednesday in February 1989 for £750,000, where he made his name in the Premiership. This led to him being bought by Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson for £2.6 million in June 1994.

In September 1997 he was signed by Southampton manager Dave Jones for a fee of £1.0 million. In the dressing room he was abrasive, awkward and argumentative but on the pitch he was determined, hard-working and persistent and his long legs made him difficult to play against. In January 1999 he was transferred to Nottingham Forest for a fee of £1.1 million and was replaced in Southampton's midfield by Chris Marsden.

He later played for Coventry City and Dublin City in Ireland, before joining Stockport County in November 2001.

Palmer won 18 caps for the English national team, scoring once against San Marino. He was a member of the England squad that went to the 1992 European Championships in Sweden.

His management career began at Stockport County, where he served as player-manager before being sacked in 2003.

In November 2004, events involving Mansfield Manager Keith Curle resulted in Curle being suspended. With no manager, the Mansfield Chairman rang up Carlton and asked him if he would join The Stags temporarily as Manager of the club, which Carlton accepting, without being paid. Keith Curle was later dismissed and Carlton Palmer signed a contract till 2006 as manager of Mansfield Town,[1]. The fans however, were not happy at this appointment and voiced their opinions in every game, hurling abuse at Palmer. In September 2005, after Mansfield Town were beaten 2-0 by Rochdale FC, Carlton Palmer resigned as Manager saying "I have had a good career and I don't need to take the abuse from the crowd. Keith Haslam, the Mansfield chairman, is a good mate of mine and I want to keep it that way so I will be stepping down as manager".[2].

He now works as a pundit on the BBC show Final Score and represented Sheffield Wednesday in the 2006 Yorkshire Masters. He also owns the Dam House pub, near the Arts Tower in Sheffield.

• Carlton Palmer career stats at Soccerbase
• Carlton Palmer management career stats at Soccerbase

• Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk (2003). In That Number - A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X. 

Preceded by Craig Madden	Stockport County F.C. Manager 2001-2003	Succeeded by John Hollins
Preceded by Keith Curle	Mansfield Town F.C. Manager 2004-2005	Succeeded by Peter Shirtliff