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=Philip Anderson= Philip Stephen Anderson. Born Rotherham. South Yorkshire. Is a English footballer who currently plays for Nottingham Forest.

Kettering Town FC
Born in Rotherham. South Yorkshire. Philip Stephen Anderson was signed by Kettering Town in the January transfer season on Free agent in the 2011/12 season. During his time at Kettering he started 12 times and coming on as a sub 3 times. The young Rotherham born had shown his abilities by scoring 17 goals making him 4th in the goal scoring table. He had also become a fan favourite, but was dropped out of the team at the end of the season along with 5 other youths.

Anderson was now back to being a free agent and spent 2 months training with Sheffield FC. During the 2 months he visited Hallam FC another football team from Sheffield for training. It was soon to be reported that he had also been travelling to Mansfield to train with there local side Mansfield Town. He was already recognised at Mansfield for scoring 2 goals against them. During his 2 months of training with different team's he was also being watched by a majority of different team's the biggest being Southampton FC who was promoted into the Premier League. It was also rumoured if he made it into the Football League or Premier League before the end of the summer transfers he could be in for a shot at playing international for England U18's.

Nottingham Forest
With the news of Anderson's potential there were a list of team's within the football league who wanted to sign the young midfielder. His home side Rotherham United was said to be the favourites to getting Anderson along with Doncaster Rovers. It was also confirmed that during his time at Mansfield that he was under a training contract which meant that he was no longer a free agent, this news forced 5 team's to drop out as they had no interests in paying for him the biggest being the rumoured scouts Southampton. Anderson denied all rumours of him joing Scottish Premier League side Motherwell as he stated "I have no interest in moving to Scottland". On the 14th of July it was reported that he was in talks with Nottingham Forest 2 days later it was reported on Sky Sports News and Calander that he had signed for Nottingham Forest for £1,000 on wage of £250 and he would wear the number 21.