Matt Piper
Midfielder, Football player
1981 –
Who is Matt Piper?
Matthew James "Matt" Piper is an English footballer. He most recently played for Oadby Town.
Piper was educated at Rawlins Community College, and came through the youth ranks of hometown club Leicester City. After signing a professional contract in 2000, he made his first team debut in the League Cup on 9 October 2001, playing the whole of a 6–0 home defeat to Leeds United. After another appearance in a 4–1 league defeat to Liverpool, he was loaned to Mansfield Town, for whom he played 8 times. He impressed there, and scored his first senior goal against Swansea City. On his return in January 2002, Piper played 27 games as Leicester fought relegation from the Premier League. Although Leicester were ultimately relegated with a mere five league wins all season, Piper made his mark in the club's history by scoring the last ever competitive goal at Filbert Street against Tottenham Hotspur as Leicester won 2–1.
Sunderland signed Piper from Leicester in August 2002, for a fee of £3,500,000. Despite initially impressing, Piper's time at Sunderland was mostly an unhappy one, suffering a number of serious injuries, resulting in him having 10 operations in 3 years.
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- Born
- Sep 29, 1981
Leicester - Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Lived in
- Leicester
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on July 23, 2013
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