It is reported that Ellis made £ 4m from this deal, although the flotation also raised funds to pay for the construction of the new Trinity Road Stand and for the £ 7m transfer of Stan Collymore from Liverpool, among others.

Stanley Victor " Stan " Collymore ( born 22 January 1971 ) is an English football player of mixed Afro-Caribbean and English ancestry.

Collymore left 5 Live after the 2008 Champions League final to become a presenter and co commentator on talkSport he also hosts the phone-in show, Call Collymore which is on after every Premier League game that talkSPORT cover.

Corey Dalanelo Collymore ( born 21 December 1977 ) is a Barbadian cricketer whose speciality is seam bowling.

* The Frank Collymore Hall ( most of the content above is taken from Collymore's biography at this site )

It is mostly remembered for the mid-season free transfer signing of English football's bad boy Stan Collymore from Bradford City on 30 January 2001, against the wishes and advice of many watchers.

It soon became apparent that Collymore is not only out of shape physically, but also not focused on the game mentally.

This occurred in March 2004 when the ex-England footballer Stan Collymore was revealed in a News of the World investigation, to have regularly engaged in the activity at a car park near Anson's Bank.

However, he began the season as Liverpool's first choice striker alongside Collymore, only to surrender his place in the first eleven to Robbie Fowler as the season wore on.

Peter Reid, formerly a key player at Liverpool's Merseyside rivals Everton, made an offer to Liverpool to sign Rush on loan in January 1996, but Liverpool manager Roy Evans rejected this offer, despite having not fielded Rush in his first eleven for two months, saying that he needed Rush as cover for Fowler and Collymore.

On Saturday and Sunday, Talksport has full coverage of the weekend's sport starting with The Weekend Sports Breakfast, followed by the latest news and scores from around the grounds on Matchday Live and Sunday Exclusive, including live Premier League commentary, followed by a post-match phone-in hosted by Stan Collymore on Call Collymore.

In June 1993, Collymore signed for Nottingham Forest in an initial £ 2 million deal rising to £ 2. 75 million based on certain clauses being met, including an international cap.

For a while it seemed certain that Collymore was on his way to Old Trafford, but United signed Cole instead and Collymore remained at the City Ground until the end of the season, by which time Newcastle United, Liverpool and Everton were in the hunt for his signature.

Poor form and Clinical Depression saw Collymore receive treatment at the Priory Hospital Roehampton for several weeks, and on his return to professional football he went on a 3 month loan to Fulham, where he scored once in the League Cup against West Bromwich Albion.

Collymore was linked with various clubs, but eventually signed for Spanish La Liga side Real Oviedo on 31 January 2001, when he was greeted by 1, 500 fans.

For the 2009 – 10 season Collymore moved to Monday to Wednesday nights with Mark Saggers as well as keeping his commitments on Saturday afternoons.

Collymore worked at the 2010 World Cup becoming the main co commentator on talkSPORT and usually commentated with Jim Proudfoot on the biggest matches including the final and all of Englands matches.

At Liverpool, Ruddock was also part of the squad of the 1990s under Roy Evans, known infamously as the " Spice Boys ", that included the likes of David James, Robbie Fowler, Jamie Redknapp, Jason McAteer, Steve McManaman and Stan Collymore, but left in 1998 just as new coach Gérard Houllier embarked on a French revolution at Anfield.

* Call Collymore radio Show

John T. Gilmore has written of Collymore: " As a lover of literature, he was also a dedicated and selfless encourager of the work of others, lending books to aspiring writers from their schooldays onwards, publishing their early work in Bim, the literary magazine he edited for more than fifty issues from the 1940s to the 1970s, and helping them to find other markets, especially through the relationship he established with Henry Swanzy, producer of the influential BBC radio programme Caribbean Voices.

Stan Collymore, Fowler's strike partner from 1995 to 1997, said in his autobiography that Fowler was the best player he has ever played alongside.

Fowler and Collymore were among the most prolific goal-scoring strike partnerships in England during the 1995 – 96 season.

The term was subsequently used in a derogatory manner, implying Fowler and colleagues such as Jamie Redknapp, Stan Collymore, David James and Steve McManaman were underachieving playboys.

The 1995 close season saw Liverpool pay a national record fee of £ 8. 4million for Nottingham Forest striker Stan Collymore, putting Rush's future at Anfield under serious doubt.

Kick Off, hosted by Mark Saggers, Danny Kelly, and Stan Collymore then guides listeners through the evening's sporting action with live commentary of selected matches.

Talksport have a selection of regular presenters and commentators, which include: Adrian Durham, Andrew McKenna, Alan Brazil, Andy Goldstein, Andy Gray, Andy Jacobs, Danny Kelly, Georgie Bingham, Graham Beecroft, Ian Danter, Jack Bannister, John Anderson, Jonny Gould, Keith Arthur, Mark Saggers, Mike Bovill, Mike Graham, Nigel Pearson, Paul Hawksbee, Ray Parlour, Richard Keys, Sam Delaney, Sam Matterface, and Stan Collymore.

Commentary was provided by Sam Matterface, John Roder, Nigel Pearson and Ian Danter, with punditry from Stan Collymore, Alvin Martin, Ray Parlour, Matt Holland and Andy Gray with presenting from Adrian Durham, Mark Saggers and Richard Keys.

Byron said he and Curran were " idly messaging about the Stan Collymore dogging scandal, and how this stupid sexual buzzword had ( apparently ) come from nowhere ," when they came up with the concept.

He was one of a number of young players coming through the team, such as Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler, but was criticised together with them and others like Stan Collymore and Jason McAteer as " Spice Boys " – a derogatory term that implied that the team were epitomising the lad culture in the game.

He often captained the side in 1995 – 96 when regular captain Ian Rush lost his place to new signing Stan Collymore, and when Rush departed to Leeds United at the end of the season he became full time captain.

* Ulrika Jonsson won a court order banning footballer Stan Collymore from selling an explicit video of the pair having sex.

However the departure of Stan Collymore to Liverpool saw him feature for the first team.

The Barbados squad had plenty of fast bowlers, with the likes of Best, Pedro Collins, Corey Collymore, Vasbert Drakes, and Ian Bradshaw, who all had international experience by mid 2003.

Over the summer of 1995, Evans made the headlines by paying a British record fee for Nottingham Forest striker Stan Collymore.

With Stan Collymore moving to Aston Villa in the close season, Evans did not want to throw Owen into the first team, so he brought in midfield hardman Paul Ince, and legendary German striker Karlheinz Riedle to partner the prolific Robbie Fowler.

Collymore was born in Stone, Staffordshire.

A centre forward, Collymore played junior football for Cannock Peelers and Penkridge Juniors before starting his career as an apprentice footballer with Walsall, and also Wolverhampton Wanderers, before being released and signing for then Conference team, Stafford Rangers.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

The sequence of movements in a Cunningham dance is unlike any sequence to be seen in life.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.

all is seen and felt and experienced, the observation is sharp and the imagination lively.

It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

How effectively these warnings can be presented is seen in Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, Vonnegut's Player Piano and Wyndham's Re-Birth.

Many of these aspects will be seen as comparable to those of the ideal detective, but where the detective is active and militant, the jazz musician is passive, almost a victim of society.

Definition of the thighs at the uppermost part is quite commonly seen in most championship Olympic lifters which is easily understandable.

As an engineer approaches the plant the position of the home signal is seen in advance when he passes the `` distant '' signal located beyond the limits of the interlocking plant.

Similarly in Illinois there is Lincoln country to be seen -- his tomb and other landmarks.

After it has been seen, have the child start on a mat on hands and knees ( a thin, inexpensive mat is quite sufficient for anything that does not require falling ).

The video signal is amplified and then switched, in synchronism with the three ultraviolet light sources which are sequenced by the rotating mirror so that during one-twentieth of a second only one wavelength, corresponding to red, green, or blue, is seen.