36 Facts About Grant Holt

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Grant Holt was born on 12 April 1981 and is an English former professional footballer who is currently a scout at West Ham United.

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Grant Holt began his career as a youth player at his hometown club Carlisle United, but joined Workington after being released aged 18.

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Grant Holt scored one goal for Halifax in the Football League Cup against Tranmere Rovers, and went on loan to Australian club Sorrento for one month in 2001 and then to Barrow.

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Grant Holt left in 2001 to play for the summer in Singapore with Sengkang Marine, under the understanding that he would be signed by Carlisle United on his return.

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Grant Holt moved back to Barrow, taking a part-time job in a factory in the town.

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Grant Holt spent two seasons at Barrow in the Northern Premier League.

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Grant Holt had trials with full-time teams but did not get signed until 2003, when Sheffield Wednesday signed him in March 2003.

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Grant Holt made 30 appearances, half of them as a substitute, but only managed four goals.

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Grant Holt dropped down to League Two, signing for Rochdale, for whom he made 83 appearances and scored 42 goals.

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However, Grant Holt failed to impress by only scoring three times all season, although he played out of position as a winger for the majority of the season.

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In March 2008, Grant Holt signed on loan with Championship club, Blackpool, making his debut as a late substitute against Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium on 22 March.

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Grant Holt made four substitute appearances before returning to Forest in the summer of 2008, saying he would like to stay and fight for his place in Forest's team next season, despite interest being shown from his home town club Carlisle United.

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Grant Holt signed a three-year contract with the option of a further year at Carrow Road.

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Grant Holt won the League One Player of the Month award for October 2009, for "excellent performances throughout October", a month in which he scored "an impressive five goals in as many league fixtures".

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Grant Holt reached the landmark of 20 goals for the season in the home game against Millwall on 26 December 2009.

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Grant Holt received his first red card for Norwich City against Brentford on 23 January 2010.

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Grant Holt finished the season winning the Norwich City Player of the Year award, having scored 30 goals in 44 appearances in total, as the club finished as champions of League One and earned promotion to the Championship.

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Grant Holt scored his first league hat-trick against local rivals Ipswich Town on 28 November 2010.

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Grant Holt was then nominated for the Championship Player of the Year in 2011, but was beaten by Adel Taarabt.

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Grant Holt was the winner of Norwich's player of the season for a second consecutive year as the club were automatically promoted to the Premier League.

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Grant Holt scored his first Premier League goal in the third game of the season, scoring against Chelsea following an error by the goalkeeper Henrique Hilario.

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Grant Holt was inducted into the Norwich City Hall of Fame on 20 March 2012.

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On 18 May 2012, Grant Holt handed in a transfer request six days after being voted Norwich's Player of the Season for the third year running; the request was immediately rejected by Norwich City.

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Grant Holt went to make ten appearances and scoring once before returning to Wigan at the end of the season.

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On 27 September 2014, Grant Holt joined Huddersfield Town on an initial emergency loan until 8 November 2014.

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On 28 December 2014, Grant Holt returned to his parent club Wigan.

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On 18 February 2016, Grant Holt joined Rochdale until the end of the season.

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Grant Holt then signed a one-year contract with Scottish club Hibernian in June 2016.

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Grant Holt was released by Hibs in May 2017, at the end of his contract.

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On 9 October 2017, Grant Holt signed for Southern League Premier Division club King's Lynn Town, linking up with manager Ian Culverhouse, who had been assistant manager at Norwich City throughout Grant Holt's time with the Canaries.

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Less than a month later, his former club Barrow made an approach for him to join as a player-coach, with Grant Holt moving to the club in the higher level National League.

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On 16 July 2018, it was announced that Grant Holt would be leaving Barrow.

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Grant Holt made three more appearances for Wroxham in January 2022, playing in defence.

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In December 2021, Grant Holt left Norwich to take up a role as a scout with West Ham United.

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In May 2018, Grant Holt signed a professional wrestling contract with WAW.

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Grant Holt won his first fight when he was the last man standing in a 40-man Royal Rumble earning him the Crusher Mason Memorial Trophy.