Stephen Broad

Stephen Broad (born 10 June 1980) is an English footballer, who played as a defender in the Football League for Southend United. He has also played for non-League clubs, Hayes, Kingstonian, Corinthian-Casuals and Sutton United.

Stephen Broad
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-06-10) 10 June 1980
Place of birth Epsom, England
Playing position(s) Defender
Youth career
1994–1999 Chelsea
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2001 Chelsea 0 (0)
1999–2000 → Hayes (loan) 3 (0)
2001 → Southend United (loan) 10 (0)
2001–2003 Southend United 47 (2)
2003–200? Kingstonian
2006 Corinthian-Casuals
2006 Sutton United
2006–200? Kingstonian
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Football career

As a youth, Broad played for Chelsea for five years rising through the youth ranks before captaining Chelsea's reserve side, which included John Terry.[1] He joined Conference National side, Hayes on loan in 1999. He then joined Southend United on loan in 2001.

He made his debut for Southend United in Third Division, in the 1–1 away draw against Chesterfield on 31 March 2001.[2] He joined Kingstonian in June 2003 alongside Mark Beard.[3][4]

Broad rejoined Kingstonian in October 2006,[4] after making a few appearances at Corinthian-Casuals and Sutton United during the 2006–07 season.[4]

After football

Broad decided to give up full-time football in 2003,[3] and after working as a taxi driver in Essex now works supporting children with autism.[1][5] In 2016, he appeared as a contestant on Countdown.

gollark: I assume that forklift certification requires you to be able to drive a forklift.
gollark: Don't you need to spend some time actually doing training?
gollark: I buy boxes of 50 identical pens periodically to keep them stocked.
gollark: This is obviously a much more important business priority for Samsung's semiconductor people than fixing their 3nm process and the yields on all their other recent ones.
gollark: That's not much of an explanation.

References
  1. Chris Phillips (31 December 2008). "Broad is having a fare old time as a cabbie!". Echo. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
  2. "Fixtures/Results: Chesterfield 1 - 1 Southend". Soccerbase. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
  3. "Two new K's". Non-League Daily. 25 June 2003. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
  4. "K's return for duo". Non-League Daily. 9 October 2006. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
  5. Chris Phillips (14 January 2009). "Chelsea tipped by Broad, but don't rule out the Shrimpers". Echo. Retrieved 9 May 2009.


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