User:Chris "hitman" hatton

Christopher Ian Hatton (born 20 July 1983 in Paignton,Torbay,Devon) is a former English footballer who Played for English Blue square Premier League club Weymouth.

BIOGRAPHY Hatton is the first child of three. He was raised in Paignton with his younger brother and attended Curledge Street Pre-school. Chris grew up supporting local club Torquay Untied F.C and his childhood hero was Eric Cantona. Chris later moved on to New ollerton, Nottinghamshire where he grew up to like Manchester United. He attended Forest View School, Sherwood Forest. At the age of 11, Chris moved to Yeovil,Somerset, Where he quickly picked up how to play some good football.

CLUB CAREER

After excelling for his local park team, Westlands signed chris,Scoring his first goal on his debut.(Westland apperences 145 - Goals 120) After Two excelent seasons playing along side current football leauge players Chris Weale(Bristol City) Martin Craine (Portsmouth) Andy Lindegarrd (Cheltnemham Town),He moved on to play for globetrotters. Chris Was at GlobeTortters for Four seasons, His last game for GlobeTrotters was a game to remember for all the wrong reasons. He scored an injury time own goal to relegate his team, Later confessing "I did it on purpose to teach the big heads in the team a lesson". This led to Hatton leaving the club.(GlobeTrotters apperences 203 - Goals 139) Chris Then spent the next three seasons out of football, whist only playing for his school team westfield. After college Hatton played for Yeovil College for two seasons. This is where he picked up the Nickname "Hitman" .One former team mate once said "Chris is that good, he can even score in a 0-0 draw". Whilst Playing for Yeovil College Chris played against Yeovil Town YTS, Which included at least 8 current football league players. he scored one of the best goals of his carrer (A 40 Yard lob against Former West Ham trainey goalkeeper Chris Weale) Then followed up with a volley from fully 25 Yards. This imediatly alearted Yeovil Town FC who offered Hitman a trial with the club ,Which he quickly turned down the chance to impress the Glovers.(Yeovil College Apperences 25 -Goals 12). After turning down Yeovil Town, Chris joined Rivals Weymouth Youth, After just one youth game at Weymouth , Hatton made his reserve debut against Swansea Reserves Scoring one goal and creating another.(Weymouth apperences 3 - Goals 1) His time was cut short at Weymouth just after 2 Games when he broke his shin playing for a local sunday leauge club against bitter rivals Keinton Manderville. Whist scoring his third goal of the game, Hatton collided with the goalkeeper. This put him out of action for 18 Months. Hatton has never played a full season since, Only playing the odd game now and again. During this time he has turned down the chance to train at Barcelona and Exeter City. He impressed in Odd apperence matches against Barcelona Youth (Which included Messi and Fabregas) Hatton also has scored against Skonta Riga (Which included no fewer than 9 internationals from Latvia and Ukraine)

Altogeter Hatton has played 500 games and scoring 310 goals.

INTERNATIONAL CAREER

Chris has a number of International caps, Playing against France, Germany, Spain, USA, Japan, His game against USA was one of the best games of his carrer, scoring an incredable 9 goals in a 23-0 win. His Last goal of his carrer came against Japan, When he rounded the goalkeeper to finish of a nice move. England Caps 7 - Goals 11

SINCE RETIREMENT

Since Hatton has left his playing career behind he took up a coaching role with Preston Rangers FC for one season. In the Second season he took over has Manager / Coach and quickly moved into the transfer window to sign no fewer than 12 new player. This ended up being a wise move as this led to the double. His Second Season in charge was record wins against Martock (16-0) And a cup final win. Once the season was over, Chris left the Club and football all together.

Since then Hatton has played One more match in Southampton against Eastleigh on 20th September 2007.