    stanley victor "stan" collymore (born 22 january 1971) is a retired english football player who played as a centre-forward from 1990 to 2001. he held the english transfer record when he moved from nottingham forest to liverpool for Â£8.5 million in 1995 and was capped three times at senior level by the england national football team. he is currently a football pundit. ==club career== ===early career=== collymore was born in stone, staffordshire. as a young boy he supported aston villa. a centre forward, collymore played junior football for cannock peelers and penkridge juniors before starting his career as an apprentice footballer with walsall, and also wolverhampton wanderers, before being released and signing for then conference team, stafford rangers. it was there he caught the eye of several [[the football league|football l
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