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Marlon Broomes
Personal information
Full name	Marlon Broomes
Date of birth	November 28, 1977 (age 29)
Place of birth	Birmingham, England
Height	6' 0" (1.82 m)
Playing position	Sweeper
Club information
Current club	Stoke City
Number	3
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-01 1997 2000 2001 2001-02 2002-05 2005-present	Blackburn Rovers Swindon Town (loan) Queens Park Rangers (loan) Grimsby Town (loan) Sheffield Wednesday Preston North End Stoke City	32 (2) 12 (1) 5 (0) 15 (0) 19 (0) 69 (0) 41 (1)
National team2
1997?	England Under-21s	2 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 09:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Marlon Broomes (born November 28, 1977 in Birmingham) is an English footballer, currently playing for Stoke City in the English Championship. His position is sweeper.

Contents 1 Blackburn Rovers, loans & England 2 Sheffield Wednesday and Grimsby Town 3 Preston North End 4 Stoke City 5 External links

Broomes started his career as a trainee at Blackburn Rovers. He was signed up by then Rovers manager Kenny Dalglish in 1994, but at first he couldn't break in to a strong first team at Ewood Park, and was consequently loaned out to Swindon Town. Here he made twelve appearances and scored once.

He returned to his parent club Blackburn for the beginning of the 1997-98 season. Now he had first team experience, new manager Roy Hodgson thought Broomes was ready to play some Premiership games and gave the young defender four appearances in the first team that season. Things were looking good as Broomes was called up into the England-under-21 setup, earning two caps and taking part in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship.

The next few seasons were an improvement, but he was still not making enough first team appearances; taking part in just twenty-six games over two years. In the 2000-01 season, he was loaned out again, this time to Q.P.R. where he made five appearances towards the end of the season.

After Blackburn's promotion back to the Premiership in the 2001-02 season, Broomes was surplus to requirements and was released on a free.

Sheffield Wednesday, who at the time were in the Championship, signed Broomes up on December 13, 2001. In order for him to gain confidence and match practice, he was loaned out to Grimsby Town where he played eighteen times and scored in a 2-1 away win over holders Liverpool in the League Cup. He then returned to Sheffield Wednesday and despite playing twenty further games he was released at the end of the season.

He was then offered a trial at another Championship side, Preston North End. Then manager Craig Brown was impressed with Broomes and signed him on a three year contract. He became a regualar at Deepdale, playing sixty-nine games for the club in this three year spell.

Once again, his contract was not extended after he saw out the initial one and Billy Davies decided to release Broomes on a free transfer.

In 2005, he was signed by Stoke City (who also play in the Championship) on a three year contract. Broomes played in forty-one games (mainly at full-back, not his natural position) and scored twice as the club finished in 13th place in the division.

He ruptured his achilles tendon prior to the start of the 2006/07 season and is yet to make an appearance this season.

His current contract at the club runs until June 30, 2008.

• Marlon Broomes' Official Stoke City webiste profile
• Marlon Broomes at the Internet Soccerbase
• Marlon Broomes' profile on 4thegame
• Marlon Broomes' profile on soccernet

Stoke City F.C. - Current Squad
1 Simonsen | 2 Hoefkens | 3 Broomes | 4 Eustace | 5 Fortune | 6 Hill | 8 Parkin | 9 Sidibe | 10 Fuller | 14 Higginbotham | 15 Péricard | 16 Hendrie | 17 Russell | 18 Diao | 19 Matteo | 20 Griffin | 21 Martin | 22 Buxton | 23 Lawrence | 24 Delap | 25 Hoult | 26 A. Pulis | 27 Zakuani | 28 Wilkinson | 30 Paterson | 31 Dickinson | 32 Vass | 34 Rooney | 36 Hazley | 37 Thomas | Manager: T. Pulis