Gary Pallister
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gary Andrew Pallister | ||
| Date of birth | 30 June 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Ramsgate, Kent, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||
| Playing position | Centre-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Billingham Town | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1984–1989 | Middlesbrough | 156 | (5) |
| 1985 | → Darlington (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 1989–1998 | Manchester United | 317 | (12) |
| 1998–2001 | Middlesbrough | 55 | (1) |
| Total | 535 | (18) | |
| National team | |||
| 1988–1996 | England | 22 | (0) |
| 1989–1992 | England B | 9 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Gary Andrew Pallister (born 30 June 1965) is an English former professional footballer and sports television pundit.
As a player, he was a defender from 1984 to 2001 and is most noted for his nine-year spell at Manchester United from 1989 until 1998. He also played for Middlesbrough and Darlington and was capped 22 times by England between 1988 and 1996.
His footballing career started at non-league Billingham Town. At the age of 19 he joined his boyhood heroes Middlesbrough as a defender; making 156 League appearances over nearly five seasons, and helping them win promotion to the Football League Second Division in 1987, and First Division in 1988. He moved to Manchester United on 29 August 1989 for £2.3 million.
Pallister's transfer broke the national record for a fee paid for a defender, as well as being the highest fee between British clubs, and the second highest fee to be paid by a British club (second only to Ian Rush's return to Liverpool from Juventus a year earlier).
Pallister had the rare achievement of representing the English national side before appearing in the top flight; in 1988 when playing in the Second Division for Middlesbrough. Later that year he helped 'Boro win their second successive promotion and reach the First Division, just two years after they almost went out of business, but was unable to keep them there and they were relegated on the final day of the 1988–89 season. As one of the highest regarded defenders in England, his days at Ayresome Park were looking numbered as soon as Boro were relegated but he did begin the 1989–90 season still at the club in the Second Division before his move to United was completed.
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