Iwan Wyn Roberts was born on 26 June 1968 and is a Welsh former professional footballer, who played as a striker from 1986 to 2005 for a number of clubs and the Welsh national team.
47 Facts About Iwan Roberts
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Iwan Roberts moved to Huddersfield Town in 1990 where he remained for three seasons before transferring to Leicester City.
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Iwan Roberts played international football for Wales and amassed fifteen caps between 1989 and 2001, without scoring.
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Iwan Roberts made 647 league appearances during his career, almost half of which were for Norwich, where he overcame a weak start to become a fan favourite.
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Iwan Roberts was elected to the Norwich City FC Hall of Fame in 2002, while still at the club.
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Since retiring as a player, Iwan Roberts, who speaks fluent Welsh, has worked as a commentator for Sky Sports, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Cymru Wales.
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Iwan Wyn Roberts was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, on 26 June 1968, and grew up in Barmouth, on the west coast of Wales as a Liverpool fan.
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Iwan Roberts says that most football fans would know him as "that gap-toothed ginger lunk".
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Iwan Roberts started losing his front tooth when he was just 10: his best friend's heel chipping half of his tooth off, the result of an incident playing football.
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Iwan Roberts lost his second front tooth as the result of an elbow to the mouth from Darran Rowbotham when he was 18, playing for Watford in a pre-season friendly.
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Iwan Roberts was influenced by Graham Taylor's record of giving youth players opportunities.
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Iwan Roberts joined Watford as a trainee, signing his first professional contract in July 1986, shortly after his 18th birthday.
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Iwan Roberts broke through in the following season, making 31 appearances in all competitions and scoring three goals, but Watford finished 19th in the table and were relegated to the Second Division.
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Iwan Roberts' chances were restricted the following season, when he made just nine league appearances, scoring twice.
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Iwan Roberts helped me a great deal with his experience and any problems that the young lads had they knew he would help them with.
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Iwan Roberts's efforts helped the club to finish third and qualify for the play-offs.
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Iwan Roberts made his debut for Leicester in a Midlands derby against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Iwan Roberts scored another 19 goals the following season, as Leicester reached the play-offs again.
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Iwan Roberts managed to escape, but some of his team-mates, including Neil Lennon and Muzzy Izzet were less fortunate, and had to be protected by police.
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Iwan Roberts spent only one season at Molineux in which he scored 12 goals in 33 games, including one hat-trick for the club in a match against their local rivals West Bromwich Albion in the Black Country derby.
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Iwan Roberts did not want to leave the club, but accepted that if the manager did not want him there, he needed to go.
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Iwan Roberts just said, "Tom Walley would be proud of you".
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Iwan Roberts threw himself into weight training and soon reached a target weight of 13 stone 10 pounds.
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Iwan Roberts was partnered by what the Eastern Daily Press described as the "flourishing talent" of Craig Bellamy who scored 19 goals.
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Iwan Roberts had an agent, former team-mate and close friend David Speedie, who advised him to turn down Norwich's offer and sign for Nottingham Forest or Huddersfield Town.
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Iwan Roberts missed much of the second half of the season because of injury, but came off the substitute's bench in the final to give Norwich the lead in the first minute of extra-time with a header.
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That season, in a match against Sheffield Wednesday at Carrow Road, Iwan Roberts scored twice to move into third place on the list of Norwich City's all-time leading goalscorers, overtaking Robert Fleck in the process.
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Iwan Roberts scored some important goals, including the winning strike in a top-of-the-table match against Sheffield United.
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Worthington felt that, following promotion to the Premiership, the club had to look to the future and that Iwan Roberts was now surplus to requirements.
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Iwan Roberts's debut was against Ipswich, Norwich's local rivals, and was booked after less than five seconds.
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In December 2004 Iwan Roberts had himself served as joint caretaker manager, along with Darren Hare and Paul Smith, after the sudden departure of both Hessenthaler and initial caretaker John Gorman.
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Iwan Roberts scored his 200th league goal on his debut, but Cambridge were relegated from League Two.
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Iwan Roberts had to wait more than two years for his next international appearance, when his domestic form for Huddersfield saw him leading scorer in Division Two.
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Iwan Roberts made three appearances for the senior Wales team in 1994, including two qualification matches for UEFA Euro 1996 against Albania and Moldova.
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Iwan Roberts was not selected for Wales again until 2000 when he made three appearances in friendlies, all losses against Finland, Brazil and Portugal.
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Iwan Roberts made four more appearances for his country in the qualification stages for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in 2000 and 2001.
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Iwan Roberts won a total of 15 caps for his country over a 12-year period, including a single appearance and one goal for the Wales B team, but failed to score for the senior team.
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Iwan Roberts had a strong partnership with Craig Bellamy, beginning when Bellamy broke into the Norwich first team in 1997, aged 18.
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Iwan Roberts was in agony, but the ref didn't see it so I got away with it.
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Iwan Roberts stated in the book that the stamp was a payback for a serious injury that Muscat had inflicted on Craig Bellamy while Bellamy and Iwan Roberts were playing together for Norwich, and that Muscat held no grudges over it.
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Iwan Roberts has the UEFA A Licence for football coaching and, speaking in 2007, had not ruled out getting into management.
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Iwan Roberts is bilingual, speaking fluent Welsh, and provides Welsh-language commentary for Sky Sports and BBC Radio Cymru.
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Iwan Roberts writes regularly for the local press in Norfolk, commenting on Norwich City and contributes to the weekly podcast 'Elis James Feast of Football' with comedian Elis James and fellow Welsh former international player Danny Gabbidon.
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In January 2020, it was reported that Iwan Roberts had volunteered for dementia research.
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Iwan Roberts has "taken a series of simple memory, attention and spatial-awareness tests and he will repeat them every six months", and will ask former Norwich City colleagues to do the same.
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In 2002, Iwan Roberts was made an inaugural member of the Norwich City FC Hall of Fame.
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In 2007, Iwan Roberts came third in a vote run by the Norwich Evening News to determine which Norwich legend would be inaugurated into the Professional Footballers' Association Centenary Hall of Fame.