36 Facts About Jack Butland

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Jack Butland was born on 10 March 1993 and is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester United, on loan from Crystal Palace.

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Jack Butland then spent time out on loan at Barnsley before making his Premier League debut in January 2014.

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Jack Butland spent seven seasons at Stoke, winning their player of the year award twice.

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Jack Butland was part of the England squad at UEFA Euro 2012, and later that year was the first-choice goalkeeper for the Great Britain team at the Summer Olympics.

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Jack Butland became the youngest goalkeeper to play for the senior England team when he made his debut in August 2012.

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Jack Butland was born in Southmead, Bristol, and raised in nearby Clevedon where he attended Yeo Moor Primary School and Clevedon Community School.

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Jack Butland went straight into the starting eleven to make his Football League debut at home to Macclesfield Town on 10 September 2011, displacing Scott Brown who had until then made 107 consecutive starts for the club.

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In February 2012, Jack Butland rejoined Cheltenham on a youth loan until the end of the season.

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Jack Butland went straight into the starting eleven, and kept a clean sheet against AFC Wimbledon to help maintain Cheltenham in the automatic promotion positions.

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Jack Butland told the club that he was not prepared to leave for a club where he would not be playing regular first-team football, and was reported to have rejected the chance to speak to European champions Chelsea about a possible transfer.

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Jack Butland signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with Premier League club Stoke City on 31 January 2013.

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Jack Butland made 13 appearances for Barnsley before being recalled by Stoke on 26 December 2013 after Asmir Begovic suffered an injury.

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Jack Butland had a tough time with Leeds: he conceded 28 goals in 16 appearances as the team finished in 15th position.

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On 20 October 2014 Jack Butland joined Derby County on a one-month loan.

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Jack Butland played six times for the Rams before returning to Stoke.

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Jack Butland played in three matches in May 2015, keeping clean sheets against Tottenham Hotspur and Burnley.

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Jack Butland was eventually given the green light to return to training by a specialist in March 2017.

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Jack Butland played 45 times, missing a league match only once, after the birth of his son, and kept 18 clean sheets, the third best in the Championship behind Dean Henderson and Darren Randolph.

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Jack Butland was named as player of the season by supporters.

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Jack Butland made another mistake against Nottingham Forest on 27 September 2019 and didn't play again under Nathan Jones.

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Jack Butland was reinstated by new manager Michael O'Neill and he worked with a new goalkeeping coach, David Rouse which helped him regain some of his form.

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Jack Butland has made 10 appearances for Crystal Palace, keeping one clean sheet.

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Jack Butland was given the number 31 shirt, recently vacated by fellow goalkeeper Martin Dubravka.

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Jack Butland moved up to the under-17s in 2009, and the following year took over as first-choice goalkeeper during the final stages of the European under-17 championships, playing in the final as England defeated Spain under-17s to win the title for the first time.

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Jack Butland's performances earned him selection as one of two goalkeepers in the 22-man team of the tournament.

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Jack Butland conceded only st the Nigerians in the last 16, but that was enough to defeat an England side that failed to score in any of their four matches.

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Jack Butland made his debut for the England under-21 team on 1 September 2011 in the starting eleven for the 2013 European qualifier against Azerbaijan under-21.

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Jack Butland kept his place for the next two qualification matches, wins against Iceland and Norway under-21.

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Jack Butland said afterwards that the players were embarrassed at failing to do themselves justice.

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Jack Butland was named in Stuart Pearce's 18-man Great Britain squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Jack Butland was only included after receiving special dispensation from the FA, who had decided that no players in England's Euro 2012 squad would be eligible for selection.

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Originally named as one of five standby players for England's UEFA Euro 2012 squad, Jack Butland was called into the squad on 25 May after John Ruddy broke a finger in training.

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Jack Butland conceded once, to a Daniele De Rossi header from a corner, and was replaced at half time by Ruddy.

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Jack Butland was named in England's 23-man squad for the 2018 World Cup.

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In January 2014, Jack Butland had his car, an Audi RS5, stolen from his house in Walsall.

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Jack Butland is married to Annabel Peyton; their first child, a son, was born in 2019.