Blissett played as a striker, and is best known for his time at Watford, whom he helped win promotion from the Fourth Division to the First Division.

As of 2010, Blissett holds the club's all-time records for appearances and goals, having played 503 games and scored 186 goals.

Following retirement from playing in league football in 1994, Blissett created a huge stir in the Eastern Counties Football League by agreeing to play for Fakenham Town in Norfolk, whose chairman was a lifelong Watford fan, and big crowds turned out wherever he played.

He played the character of Silas Blissett in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from December 2010 until 2012.

He remained among the club's top goalscorers over the next three seasons as Watford consolidated in the Second Division and finally reached the First Division for the first time in their history in 1982, at the end of a season in which Blissett scored 19 league goals.

In Watford's first ever First Division season, Blissett was the division's top goalscorer that season with 27 goals.

Blissett scored 21 goals in his first season back in the First Division, though the Hornets could only manage a mid table finish.

After making four appearances for England under-21s, Blissett became one of the first black footballers to play for the senior team.

The Luther Blissett multiple name project first began in 1994 in Italy, no doubt a consequence of his link with A. C. Milan, and has since then been widely used by artists, underground reviews, poets, performers and squatters ' collectives in cities throughout Europe and South America.

The reasons why the group chose the name remain unclear to mainstream journalists ( e. g. the BBC suggested that Blissett, one of the first black footballers to play in Italy, may have been chosen to make a statement against right-wing extremists in the country ).

* Q ( novel ), historical novel by Luther Blissett first published in Italian in 2000

He and Blissett were among the first black footballers to be full England internationals.

Q is a novel by Luther Blissett first published in Italian in 1999.

Although born in Jamaica, Blissett was capped 14 times by the England national football team, scoring a hat-trick on his debut.

Blissett and his team mates made the headlines in the 1982 – 83 season as they surprised many by proving successful in the First Division.

Undeterred, Blissett continued his fine form for Harry Redknapp's team, scoring 19 goals, though it wasn't enough to earn promotion at the end of the 1990 – 91 campaign.

In 2008, Blissett entered a team into the British Touring Car Championship, aiming to run Alfa Romeos for white Jamaican Matthew Gore and 18-year-old black Briton Darelle Wilson.

With fellow former footballers John Barnes and Luther Blissett, he has founded Team48 Motorsport, a team aiming to promote young racing drivers of African-Caribbean background.

Neoist plays like multiple names, plagiarism and pranks were adopted, frequently mistaken for Neoism proper and by mixing in situationist concepts, in other subcultures such as the Plagiarism and Art Strike 1990-1993 campaigns of the late 1980s ( triggered largely by Stewart Home after he had left the Neoist network ), Plunderphonics music, the refounded London Psychogeographical Association, the Association of Autonomous Astronauts, the Luther Blissett project, the Michael K Project, the German Communication Guerilla, and, since the late 1990s, by some net artists such as 0100101110101101. org.

Blissett was sold back to Watford for £ 550, 000 after one season at the Italian club.

Blissett returned to Watford for a third spell at the start of the 1991 – 92.

Although born in Jamaica, Blissett was eligible to play for England having moved to the country at a young age.

Blissett has worked as a television pundit for Channel 4 and Bravo's coverage of Serie A.

The hoax goes on until " Luther Blissett " claims responsibility for it

Three days after, Luther Blissett claimed responsibility for the hoax in a public email in which he described how easily the media could be manipulated and how this could be used for Psyops purposes.

The multiple identity is named after the footballer Luther Blissett, who used to play for Watford and A. C. Milan in the 1980s, amongst other teams.

It has also been suggested that, when being scouted by A. C. Milan, the Watford player they were impressed with was in fact John Barnes and they mistakenly bid for Blissett being one of the two black strikers at the club.

Though a Jamaican by birth, Barnes opted to represent the country he had lived in since the age of 13 and was given his England debut by Bobby Robson on 28 May 1983, when he came on as a second half replacement for Watford team-mate Luther Blissett as England drew 0 – 0 with Northern Ireland in a British Championship match at Windsor Park, Belfast.

" Luther Blissett " was a nom de plume for four Italian authors, Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca Di Meo, who were part of the " Luther Blissett Project ", which ended in 1999.

After retiring from playing, Blissett turned to coaching, initially under the management of Graham Taylor at Watford, and managed Chesham United from 2006 until 2007.

Away from football, Blissett is involved in motorsport, along with fellow former Watford and England players John Barnes and Les Ferdinand.

Born in Falmouth, Jamaica, Blissett began his career with Watford as an apprentice on leaving school in the summer of 1974.

In the First Division with Taylor as manager, Watford gained its highest-ever victory ( 8 – 0 against Sunderland, with Luther Blissett scoring four ) as well as the " double " over Arsenal, an away win at Tottenham Hotspur, and home victories over Everton and Liverpool ; this resulted in Watford finishing runners-up in the entire Football League.

Blissett was successful at Dean Court, scoring 19 times from 30 league games in 1988 – 89 as the Cherries finished 10th after emerging as surprise promotion contenders in only their second season at that level.

Thus, rather than being understood only as a media prankster and culture jammer, Luther Blissett became a positive mythic figure that was supposed to embody the very process of community and cross-media storytelling.

He also helped them reach the FA Cup semi finals in 1986 – 87, but a year later they were relegated with Blissett scoring just four times in the league.

On 30 June 2004 the real Luther Blissett took part in the British television sports show Fantasy Football League – Euro 2004, broadcast on ITV.

Luther Loide Blissett ( born 1 February 1958 ) is a former professional footballer and manager, who is currently a first-team coach at Hemel Hempstead Town.

However, in April 2007 it was announced that Blissett would leave Chesham at the end of the season to concentrate on his involvement with the Windrush Motorsport project that aims to enter the Le Mans 24 hour race.

In 2011 Blissett took part in a celebrity motor race at the 2011 Silverstone Classic.

But this is not necessary at all, because I am Luther Blissett, the multiple and the multiplex.

Inspired by the Lettrist-Situationist urban drift or dérive -- a seemingly aimless wandering through the city whereby pyschogeographers go in search of heightened emotional experiences — Radio Blissett allowed players to interact at a distance in real time.

A few dozen participating to the Roman Radio Blissett boarded a night tram at different consecutive stops.

* Gabriella Coleman and Finn Brunton, 17 July 2010, " Net Wars Over Free Speech, Freedom, and Secrecy or How to Understand the Hacker and Lulz Battle Against the Church of Scientology " at The Next HOPE conference-includes discussion of Blissett among precursors of Anonymous

On British Eurosport James Richardson previously hosted the coverage of Serie A football on the Channel from 2002 to 2005 and 2004 UEFA European Football Championship with regular guests including Alan Curbishley, DJ Spoony, former Chelsea FC players Paul Elliott, Ed de Goey, Ray Wilkins, Roberto Di Matteo & former Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini now at Tottenham Hotspur, former England International Luther Blissett and European football journalists Gabriele Marcotti & Xavier Rivoire.