At Feyenoord Gullit occupied an increasingly advanced role in midfield, having played predominantly as a sweeper at Haarlem.

Initially played as sweeper by manager Glenn Hoddle with limited success, Gullit was moved to his more familiar role in midfield, where he scored six goals.

As coach of Switzerland in the 1930s and 1940s, Rappan played a defensive sweeper called the verrouilleur, who was highly defensive and was positioned just ahead of the goalkeeper.

Although he prefers to be a sweeper and central defender, he also played as a defensive midfield for some time while being at A. C. Milan.

Desailly then moved to the English club Chelsea in 1998 for £ 4. 6m, where he captained the side and played sweeper and centre-back until the end of the 2003 – 04 season.

During his career, he usually played as a box-to-box midfielder, although later in his career he played as a sweeper.

Early in his career, he played in the midfield, before switching to the sweeper position in his 30s.

At the 1990 World Cup, Pearce had a goal ruled out from a free kick during a group game against the Netherlands, but played well throughout the tournament, setting up a goal for David Platt in the quarter-finals and operating as a more attacking left back than normal as England deployed a sweeper system.

At VB, Thomas Gravesen played both as a sweeper and defensive midfielder, and after he won silver medals in the 1996 – 97 Superliga season, Gravesen moved to German team Hamburger SV in 1997.

After several mediocre seasons in the second half of the 1990s, trainer Werner Fuchs rejuvenated the Alemannia squad by playing 4 – 4 – 2 without a libero ( sweeper ), creating a side that played an attractive, fluid offense.

Luboš Kubík ( born 20 January 1964 in Vysoké Mýto ) is a Czech former professional footballer and former manager of Torquay United, who played sweeper for the Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic national teams, winning 56 caps in total, and a number of notable clubs.

Blanc played professional football for numerous clubs, including Montpellier, Napoli, Barcelona, Marseille, Internazionale and Manchester United, often operating in the sweeper position.

In his only season there, he played sweeper and anchored the defence of the A. S. L.

Burgnich, a sweeper / right-back, played 467 times for the Nerazzurri, scoring 6 goals, and his aggressive, determined style was ideally suited to the catenaccio system operated by Helenio Herrera throughout Inter's glory years.

He brought Luis Suárez from FC Barcelona as his midfield general, he had Tarcisio Burgnich and Giacinto Facchetti as his fullbacks, Brazilian Jair as his wing, Mario Corso as the left midfielder, Armando Picchi as his sweeper, and Mazzola who eventually played the game in the inside-right position.

Manuel ' Manolo ' Sanchís Hontiyuelo ( born 23 May 1965 ) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a sweeper.

During his playing career, he mostly played in defensive roles, as sweeper or centre back, but occasionally also in defensive midfield.

His main difficulty stemmed from being a specialist sweeper in a Spurs team that never played this system, meaning he had to slot in either to defence or midfield positions that challenged him more.

Gibson plays as a sweeper / central defender, but has also played in the midfield.

He played generally in the role of sweeper, as the last man in defence.

That so much of the book ( chapters 25-31, 35-40 ) is spent describing the plans of the Tabernacle demonstrates the importance it played in the perception of Second Temple Judaism at the time of the text's redaction by the Priestly writers: the Tabernacle is the place where God is physically present, where, through the priesthood, Israel could be in direct, literal communion with him.

He is also one of the few players who spent his entire career at one club, AC Milan, for whom he played 719 games, scoring 33 goals.

In club football Hurst played for West Ham United where he spent 13 years scoring 180 goals in the First Division.

Shy in his youth, he spent much of his time at home reading, but from grammar school through college, he played a prominent part in several school newspapers and magazines.

Eleanor spent the next few years conspiring against her husband Henry and neither parent played a part in John's very early life.

They also save time that would otherwise be spent shuffling, allowing several more hands per hour to be played and increasing the profitability of the table.

Williams played just one game in 1986, and spent most of the 1987 season on the bench.

However, the renamed Tennessee Oilers also played before sparse Memphis crowds, and thus spent the 1998 season playing at Nashville's Vanderbilt Stadium.

The original team had been formed in 1891 and played in The Football League from 1921 to 1961 ; it had spent its final four seasons in the Lancashire Combination.

Since the Blackhawks have played their home games at the United Center after having spent 65 years playing at Chicago Stadium.

The club played in pale blue shirts and white shorts, and spent seven seasons in Segunda División in the 2000s.

Bradman declined a tour of New Zealand and spent the winter of 1946 wondering whether he had played his last match.

* Bruce Dostal ( born 1965 ), former professional baseball player who spent four games on active roster of the Baltimore Orioles in June 1994, but never played in a Major League game.

He spent a summer in stock as the Reverend Davidson in Rain and played Captain Hook in a short-lived tour of the John Burrell staging of Peter Pan that was mounted for Jean Arthur and featured a musical score by the young Leonard Bernstein.

His holidays were spent either at Nizhny Novgorod or on the Ulybyshev country estate at Lukino, where he played numerous Beethoven sonatas to help his patron with his book on the composer.

Born in New Orleans, Hamm spent his childhood and youth in Champaign, Illinois, where he studied bass and piano, played in the stage band at Champaign High School, and was selected to the Illinois All-State Band.

In one episode she spent a lot of time with him as she liked both the way he played the piano and his selection songs.

Although he played this way for the rest of his life, he did try to learn how to play correctly, and he spent considerable money hiring the best teachers.

They, however, spent their time listening to him, fascinated by the way he played.

Periodically, the two nonetheless reconciled and spent a great amount of time together, only to have their friendship destroyed, according to the saga by intrigues derived from rumours and slander by men who played the two against each other.

Having spent years as a familiar face who never quite became a household name, his big chance came with the major television series, Edward the Seventh ( 1975 ), in which he played the title role and his real-life sons, Samuel and Joseph, played the sons of King Edward VII as children.

A young man, Charles Taylor, the son of the engineer responsible for modifying Merrick's rooms, spent time with him and played the violin.

After that, he spent 15 years in Europe, mostly in Paris and Copenhagen, where he played regularly with fellow expatriate jazzmen such as Bud Powell, Ben Webster, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Kenny Drew, Horace Parlan and Billy Higgins.