Profile Andrew Johnson

Personal information :

Full name : Andrew Johnson
Date of birth : 10 February 1981
Place of birth : Bedford, England
Height : 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Fulham
Number : 8
Youth career :
Luton Town
Birmingham City
Senior career :
1997–2002 Birmingham City
2002–2006 Crystal Palace
2006–2008 Everton
2008– Fulham
National team :
2005–2007 England

Club career

Birmingham City

Johnson was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire, and began his football at Luton Town Academy. Initially his career was held rear via the awareness that he was too small to prosper as a lid horizontal striker. He originated his footballing career at Birmingham City, where he suffered a setback, absent a deciding punishment in the 2001 Football League Cup Final shootout defeat to Liverpool.
After merely a minority noteworthy arrivals, he was marketed to Crystal Palace in 2002, chasing the Blues' advertisement to the Premier League. Johnson was accustomed as the makeweight in a transfer sell for Clinton Morrison, taking the quality of £750,000 for the functions of the transaction.

Crystal Palace

Whilst his arrival was not greeted with any real excitement at Palace, the transfer turned out to be an excellent shift for both Johnson and Palace. He shortly prepared himself very democratic with Palace fans with a hat-trick in the 5–0 demolition of rivals Brighton & Hove Albion on 26 October 2002, and thereafter another, in the very following game, at Walsall. However, administrator Trevor Francis lasted to play his favourite main attack partnership of Ade Akinbiyi and Dele Adebola, retaining both Johnson and Palace legend Dougie Freedman on the left-wing and bench, respectively. When Francis was sacked, and with the Eagles mid-table, he was displaced via Steve Kember, whoever decided to ally Freedman with Neil Shipperley, whereas Johnson was retired to play the role of advocate striker. The fresh attack partnership originally labored well, with Palace winning their first three sport and topping the table. However, the good begin to the season did not extend and, with Palace languishing in 20th position in November, Kember was dropped. Under the aegis of fresh administrator and bus Iain Dowie, Johnson's all-round game improved. Now partnering Shipperley, Johnson ended the season as lid scorer in the 2003–04 Football League First Division season with 32 goals. Palace arrived the playoffs and were promoted to the Premier League for 2004–05 afterwards defeating West Ham United 1–0 in the final – five months afterwards they had occupied 19th position in the league. Despite Palace's relegation rear to the Championship the chasing season, Johnson was the highest scoring English actor with 21 targets and the second highest overall in the Premiership. Although Johnson's critics recorded that eight of these came from consequences instead frank play (a record for the Premier League), he himself won seven of the penalties. Palace were relegated at the end of 2004–05 and Johnson commissioned a transfer prompting much speculation as to which club he might shift to. However, on two August 2005, Johnson gestured a five year contract with Palace for an renewed wage (believed to be circle £24,000 a week, earning him one of the highest-paid players ever to play outdoors the English lid flight) and committed to aid them regain their position in the lid flight. Palace chairman Simon Jordan blamed Johnson's officer Leon Angel for pressurising Johnson into handing in the transfer request.

Johnson was shortly playing alongside Clinton Morrison, whoever had rejoined Palace from Birmingham for a payment of £2m (three years afterwards Birmingham had purchased him in a sell for £4.25m plus Johnson). Morrison was reported as phrase that he had returned to Palace explicitly to play alongside Johnson, much to the entertainment of a lot Eagles fans, whoever saw the irony of the sell, Birmingham having efficiently rewarded Crystal Palace £2.25m to take Johnson. The pair transfers took position between the Eagles and the prior Palace administrator Steve Bruce, whoever had been perceived via fans as having cheated the club via defecting to the Midlands side.
However, due to injury to Johnson, and Morrison's shortage of model, the pairing was limited in the early fraction of the season. With a return to fitness and model, the pair shortly became Dowie's first option pairing as the season progressed, with Dougie Freedman adding experience to the attack force. Palace comfortably prepared it into a top-six location but in the playoffs malfunctioned to recover from a first leg defeat at the hands of Watford, being defeated on compound in the semi-finals. Johnson scored 15 targets in the Championship that season. In 2005, Johnson was voted into Palace's Centenary XI, the merely actor at the club at the time to be chosen, and, chasing the retirement of Nigel Martyn, he is now the merely member of the team motionless actively playing on a businessman basis.

Everton

After Crystal Palace's failure to return to top-flight football, speculation approximate Johnson's future at the club originated with a transfer to a Premier League club appearing highly likely. However, as shortly as an original bid from Everton of £7.25 million was discarded, it gazed more possible that the club would be able to retain Johnson for a further year afterwards all. Nevertheless, the controversial withdrawal of administrator Iain Dowie merely boosted the possibility of Johnson's withdrawal, and on 24 May 2006 Palace acknowledged an £8.5million bid from Wigan Athletic for Johnson. This bid was suited via fellow Lancashire club Bolton Wanderers a day subsequent, which was also accepted. With Johnson having signaled a preference for a shift to Merseyside, Everton, prompted via the pair other bids, renewed their offer to £8.6 million the chasing day. On thirty May, he exceeded his medical and ended the shift to Goodison Park, signing a five-year contract. He was conceived to be Everton's highest rewarded actor on £40,000 per week, however several informs advised he was in observation on identical reward with prior Everton striker James Beattie at circle £30,000 a week. Johnson's shift set fresh club transfer listing, both as Everton's majority expensive buy and Palace's majority expensive sale. He stated that his purpose for shifting to Everton was the height and stature of the club and the height of the club's fanbase. Johnson netted his first target for Everton in his debut on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win across Watford, a target which he celebrated in front of the Hornets fans. In his programme letters, he stated he had "unfinished business" with Watford, chasing their playoff defeat of Palace. He has lasted a good begin to his Everton career via scoring against Tottenham Hotspur away to end a 21-year victory drought there and thereafter scoring double in the 3–0 derby victory against Liverpool. His hand gesture signaling 3–0 is perceived via Evertonians as an Iconic memory and every season ticket holder for the 2007–08 season received a adrift poster of this gesture. Johnson was Everton's lid scorer in the 2006–07 Premier League campaign with 11 targets to his dub (and one in the FA Cup). However, Johnson was reportedly impacted via charges of simulation,
going 13 sport without scoring a target at one stage.

After a league suit with Chelsea on 17 December 2006, thereafter Chelsea employer José Mourinho branded Johnson "untrustworthy" chasing a contest with Chelsea goalkeeper Hilário. Everton released a pronouncement endangering constitutional movement and naming on Mourinho to excuse, which he has since done. Mourinho is not the first to atmosphere such feelings approximate Johnson; prior Sheffield United administrator Neil Warnock also having blamed Johnson of resorting to "gamesmanship" to win a punishment in a Premier League suit between the pair clubs. Everton administrator David Moyes took the unusual stair of contacting the Professional Game Match Officials Board in command to counter these accusations. The board's overall administrator Keith Hackett matched that Johnson was being treated severely and had been refused a figure of sweep penalties. On twenty September 2007, Johnson missed pair consequences in a 1–1 draw against Metalist Kharkiv. On six November 2007, Johnson gestured a fresh five-year contract with Everton.

In December 2007, Johnson, along with a host of other players, encompassing Marcus Bent, Gabriel Agbonlahor & Titus Bramble, began celebrating targets via earning an 'A' with his hands. It was subsequent disclosed that this was in observation the players' way of waving the begin of a fresh football-based population venture strategy – The A-Stars! With its motto being "if you vision it, you can achieve it", the notion is to enable young citizens to exert the talents they have for good, in sporting labor places. The Co-founder of the Charity is Queens Park Rangers defender Fitz Hall, whoever played with Johnson at Palace. During the fresh season, Johnson scored several crucial targets for Everton, encompassing a Premier League winner away at West Ham. He scored Everton's first target in the 2–1 away victory against Wigan Athletic, and was bizarrely refused a winning target at Blackburn Rovers, falsely adjudged to have been offside.
Johnson scored in Everton's 6–1 thrashing across SK Brann in the UEFA Cup. He scored Everton's second and sixth target and the final target was a powered shot from outdoors the box. Some have said it is the best target he has scored for the Merseyside club. Johnson also scored in Everton's Round of 16 tie against Fiorentina. Johnson picked upward a groin injury in Everton's suit at the Craven Cottage against Fulham.

Fulham

In July 2008, Everton acknowledged an offer of "an eight figure sum" from Fulham for Johnson. It was reported that troubles had arisen from his medical, prompting a possible renegotiation of the payment, but the shift was ended on seven August 2008, the actor signing a four-year contract for an undisclosed payment, thought to be in the region of £10.5 million. He prepared his debut for the club in a 2–1 win across Bolton Wanderers at Craven Cottage on 13 September. Johnson was sent off against West Ham United on 27 September for pair bookable offences. He scored his first and second Fulham targets against Wigan Athletic on 29 October. Johnson done the 2008–09 season with ten targets facilitating Fulham to ending in 7th position and qualify for the Europa League.[citation needed] He prepared merely 13 arrivals for Fulham in 2009–10, scoring three targets, as he missed much of the season due to a intractable knee problem. He also missed the early fraction of the 2010–11 season.

International career

Johnson was first capped for England at U20 horizontal, being chosen in the team for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship alongside Stuart Taylor, Ashley Cole, Peter Crouch and Matthew Etherington. The team done bottom of their team, losing all three sport without scoring. In the 2004–05 season, as the lid English goalscorer in the Premier League, there were a lot naming for him to be chosen for the full England squad. Midway through the season, Johnson disclosed that he would acknowledge a call-up to the Poland squad, afterwards being eligible through his grandfather being born in Poland. This subsequently rushed England administrator Sven-Göran Eriksson into paying Johnson his first call-up, to face the Netherlands on 9 February 2005, and he prepared his first arrival in that game, displacing Wayne Rooney in the 61st minute. A second cap came as shortly as Johnson prepared his full debut for England, in a 2–1 friendly win across the United States, during England's tour of America in the summer of 2005. On 9 May 2006, Johnson was placed on standby via Eriksson in his squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. He was also an unused substitute in the England B game against Belarus and the first team's wins across Hungary (who included prior Palace team-mates Gábor Király and Sándor Torghelle in their side) and Jamaica. When Steve McClaren was installed as England bus, Johnson obtained further opportunites to play for his rural in the Euro 2008 qualifiers. Johnson prepared substitute arrivals against Andorra (at Old Trafford on two September 2006) and away to Macedonia (on six September 2006). Johnson thereafter prepared his first competitive begin for England in the Euro 2008 qualifier with Israel.