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Simon Wormull
Personal information
Date of birth 1 December 1976 (1976-12-01) (age 31)
Place of birth    Crawley, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club Eastbourne Borough
Number 18
Youth clubs
Brighton & Hove Albion
Tottenham Hotspur
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
0000–1997
1997–1998
1998
1998–2000
2000–2001
2001–2004
2004
2004–2006
2006–2008
2008–		 Tottenham Hotspur
Brentford
Brighton & Hove Albion
Dover Athletic
Rushden & Diamonds
Stevenage Borough
Hornchurch
Crawley Town
Lewes
Eastbourne Borough		 00 0(0)
05 0(0)
00 0(0)
24 0(3)
24 0(1)
73 0(9)
09 0(0)
43 0(4)
73 0(8)
08 0(2)   
National team2
1999–2002 England National Game XI 07 0(0)
Teams managed
2005 Crawley Town (caretaker)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 19:16, 12 October 2008 (UTC).
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 14:34, 12 August 2008 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Simon Wormull (born 1 December 1976) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Eastbourne Borough in the Conference National. As a junior, he played for Tottenham Hotspur in the final of the 1995 FA Youth Cup and in the Intertoto Cup. Although he made a few appearances in the lower divisions of the Football League for Brentford and Rushden & Diamonds, the majority of his career has been spent in non-league football, with clubs including Dover Athletic, Stevenage Borough, Hornchurch, Crawley Town and Lewes. He has been capped seven times for the National Game XI, the team that represents England at semi-professional level.

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Playing career

Early career

Wormull was born in Crawley, West Sussex, and began his football career as a schoolboy with Brighton & Hove Albion.1 He joined Tottenham Hotspur while still a junior, and at the age of 15 became one of the youngest players ever to appear for their reserve team.2 In 1995, he played in the final of the FA Youth Cup against Manchester United youth team, scoring the opening goal in the first leg, which Tottenham won 2–1.3 By the time the second leg went to a losing penalty shootout, Wormull had been substituted by Stephen Clemence.4 The closest he came to first-team football in six years at the club was in the Intertoto Cup,25 a competition in which Tottenham fielded extremely weak sides, including that which lost 8–0 to FC Cologne.6

Released by Tottenham at the end of the 1996–97 season, Wormull joined Second Division club Brentford on a free transfer, marking his debut in the Football League by missing the best chance of the match.7 He fell out of favour, and following a trial in Brighton & Hove Albion's reserves, was given a month's contract by manager Brian Horton, who described the player as someone who "uses the ball well, ... gets forward and is quite aggressive".1 Injury prevented him playing for the first team during that period, or during another month at the start of the 1998–99 season; much to Horton's displeasure, Wormull rejected the offer of a further month,8 preferring to drop down to the Conference with Dover Athletic.

Dover Athletic

His performance with Dover earned him international selection, chosen for England's National Game XI for the first time in March 1999.910 He maintained the standard the following season; Dover's best player against rivals Rushden & Diamonds, he was eventually stretchered off with a damaged Achilles tendon after three opponents were booked for fouling him.1112 Sidelined for a month due to injuries sustained in that match, Wormull returned to play 20 minutes as a substitute13 before joining Rushden for a fee of £50,000 later that same week.14 BBC Sport's 2000–01 Conference preview said that Dover would miss him,15 a view later echoed by then assistant manager Clive Walker, who described the 1999–2000 season as "a year when we had players like Simon Wormull, Joe Dunne and Dave Clarke in the team. In all honesty, we weren't far away from having a side good enough to win the division. We needed perhaps two more players to compete at the top - but sadly we ended up selling Dunne and Wormull halfway through the season."16

Rushden & Diamonds

He helped Rushden to runners-up spot in the Conference in 2000,17 and retained his place in England's semi-professional side.18 In the 2000–01 season, his appearances were infrequent, and in December 2000, Dover made an unsuccessful attempt to buy him back.14 He played his part in Rushden's Conference title, and consequent promotion to the Football League.19 After five games for the club in Division Three, manager Brian Talbot sold Wormull together with striker Jean-Michel Sigere to Conference club Stevenage Borough for "a five-figure sum".20

Stevenage Borough

Wormull helped Stevenage to reach the final of the FA Trophy in 2002, where they lost 2–0 to full-time professional club Yeovil Town.2122 While with the club he won his seventh international cap, and maintained his reputation as a good crosser of the ball2324 who was willing to shoot; in his first two seasons with the club he contributed more shots than any of his team-mates,2526 and in his second and third seasons he made most assists.2627 Stevenage began to move towards full-time status before the 2002–03 season.28 At the end of that season, Wormull submitted a transfer request, because he was struggling to balance work and football commitments. Manager Graham Westley rejected the request,29 but in April 2004 his contract was cancelled by mutual consent, citing the player's injury record and his difficulties adjusting to the demands of full-time football.30

Hornchurch and Crawley Town

Home-town club Crawley Town's manager Francis Vines hoped to sign Wormull, describing him as a good all-round player who "can play in the middle or wide right and passes the ball well, as well as being useful with set-pieces. He is also good in the tackle", capable of strengthening an already strong midfield.31 They were unable to match the offer – believed to be £800 a week32 – from Conference South club Hornchurch,33 dubbed the "Chelsea of the Conference" because they had a well-paid full-time professional squad despite playing in the sixth tier of English football.34 A back injury restricted his Hornchurch appearances, and he had not played for several weeks when, in November 2004, the owner's business collapsed, the players' pay cheques were stopped, and most of the squad left.3334

Wormull returned home to join Crawley, on much reduced wages, but he failed his medical examination; the club initially offered him a short-term deal while he proved his fitness.32 At the end of the 2004–05 season he agreed a two-year contract.35 He turned down offers of full-time football, preferring to stay near home and combine his playing role with running the club's new youth coaching scheme in local schools.36 A succession of managerial changes following the club's takeover resulted in Wormull acting as caretaker manager for four matches in November 2005,3738 a role in which he made a positive start.39 During this period he agreed a new contract, but the offer was later withdrawn, and he was given permission to speak to other clubs.40 Unwilling to leave the Sussex area, he decided to stay with Crawley,41 but when the club halved the players' wages, thereby breaching their contracts and allowing them to leave on free transfers, Wormull chose to join Conference South club Lewes.4243

Lewes

In his first full season with Lewes, Wormull was used in a number of different positions, but in 2007–08, he usually played in central midfield, and felt that the continuity helped his performance.44 He scored the winning goal against Sutton United in the third qualifying round of the FA Cup,45 and made an assist for one goal and was involved in the second in the fourth qualifying round, to take the club through to the first round proper for the second year running.46 Wormull contributed five goals from midfield towards his club winning the Conference South title, though an injured ankle meant he missed the last few weeks of the season.4748

Following the departure of manager Steven King, the vast majority of the title-winning side left the club.49 Despite new Lewes manager Kevin Keehan's view that "if I could have had only one player I could keep from last season, it would be Simon"50 being reflected in the club offering him better terms than did Eastbourne Borough,51 Wormull, together with team-mate Jean-Michel Sigere, joined their local rivals in June 2008.52

Eastbourne Borough

Wormull and Sigere made their debuts in the opening-day defeat to former club Rushden & Diamonds,53 making Eastbourne the fifth club – following Rushden,54 Stevenage,20 Hornchurch55 and Lewes56 – where they played alongside each other.

Honours

References

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  2. ^ a b "FA Cup: Wormull rallies Rooks", The Argus, Newsquest (2007-11-09). Retrieved on 7 July 2008. 
  3. ^ Brendan O'Keeffe (1995-05-12). "Spurs youngsters have the edge", The Independent. Retrieved on 7 July 2008. 
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  5. ^ Phil Shaw (1995-06-26). "No picnic for English clubs by the sea", The Independent. Retrieved on 7 July 2008. 
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NAME Wormull, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH 1977-01-26
PLACE OF BIRTH Crawley, West Sussex, England
DATE OF DEATH
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