Luther Loide Blissett was born on 1 February 1958 and is a former professional footballer and manager who played for the England national team during the 1980s.
22 Facts About Luther Blissett
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Luther Blissett was capped 14 times by England, scoring a hat-trick on his debut.
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Since the mid-1990s, Luther Blissett has frequently been used as a pseudonym, most notably by members of the Luther Blissett Project.
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Luther Blissett remained among the club's top goalscorers over the next three seasons as Watford consolidated in the Second Division and finally reached the First Division for the first time in their history in 1982, at the end of a season in which Blissett scored 19 league goals.
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In Watford's first ever First Division season, Luther Blissett was the division's top goalscorer that season with 27 goals.
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Luther Blissett scored 21 goals in his first season back in the First Division, though the Hornets could only manage a mid table finish.
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Luther Blissett remained with the club until November 1988, when he signed for AFC Bournemouth.
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Luther Blissett ended his English league career in late 1993 with a five-match spell with Division Three club Mansfield Town that had followed 10 games club Bury.
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Luther Blissett never scored in any other international despite playing for England a further 13 times.
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Luther Blissett rejoined Watford as a coach in February 1996, coming in with returning manager Graham Taylor.
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Luther Blissett left the club in June 2001, following the appointment of Gianluca Vialli as manager.
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Vialli wanted to appoint his own backroom staff, and Luther Blissett was among those deemed surplus to requirements.
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Luther Blissett later left that post and on 15 February 2006 was appointed manager of Southern League team Chesham United, which he even made two appearances for as a substitute.
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However, in April 2007, it was announced that Luther Blissett would leave Chesham at the end of the season to concentrate on his involvement with the Windrush Motorsport project, which aimed to enter the Le Mans 24-hour race.
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On 27 March 2010, it was confirmed that Luther Blissett had signed to Hemel Hempstead Town as a coach.
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In 2008, Luther Blissett entered a team into the British Touring Car Championship, aiming to run Alfa Romeos for white Jamaican Matthew Gore and 18-year-old black Briton Darelle Wilson.
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In 2011, Luther Blissett took part in a celebrity motor race at the 2011 Silverstone Classic.
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Luther Blissett had a large crash on the opening lap, rolling the car several times.
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From 2014, Luther Blissett was racing an Alfa 156 in the BRSCC Alfashop Alfa Romeo Championship.
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Luther Blissett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to association football and charity.
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Luther Blissett's name has been adopted by many people in radical activist circles as a nom de plume or collective alias when engaged in unusual performances, situationist pranks, media hoaxes, and the production of radical theory.
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In 1999 "Luther Blissett" authored a historical novel called Q, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies in over ten languages.