Mark Bright
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mark Abraham Bright | ||
| Date of birth | 6 June 1962 | ||
| Place of birth | Stoke-on-Trent, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Port Vale | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1980–1981 | Leek Town | ||
| 1981–1984 | Port Vale | 29 | (10) |
| 1984–1986 | Leicester City | 42 | (6) |
| 1986–1992 | Crystal Palace | 227 | (91) |
| 1992–1997 | Sheffield Wednesday | 133 | (48) |
| 1996 | → Millwall (loan) | 3 | (1) |
| 1997 | Sion | 0 | (0) |
| 1997–1999 | Charlton Athletic | 27 | (10) |
| Total | 461 | (166) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Mark Abraham Bright (born 6 June 1962) is an English former footballer who is now a sports pundit on BBC, British Eurosport and Al Jazeera, as well as a coach at Crystal Palace.
He made the move from non-league Leek Town to Port Vale in 1981, where he remained for three years before he signed with Leicester City. In 1986, he transferred to Crystal Palace, where he would score 92 league goals over the next six years. Joining Sheffield Wednesday in 1992, he stayed with the club for five years before moving to Swiss side FC Sion in 1997, following a short loan stay at Millwall. He returned to England later in 1997 to play for Charlton Athletic, before he announced his retirement in 1999. A forward, he scored 166 goals in 461 league games throughout an 18-year career in the Football League. He played in one League Cup and two FA Cup finals, all of which ended in defeat. He helped Crystal Palace and Charlton Athletic to win promotion to the top-flight via the play-offs.
After a spell working in a factory and playing part-time at Cheshire County League outfit Leek Town, Bright moved to John McGrath's Port Vale in October 1981, a club that had previously released him from their youth team at the age of 16. He made his full debut on the last day of the 1981–82 season, in a 2–0 win over Torquay United at Vale Park, two weeks after coming on as a substitute in a goalless home draw with York City on 1 May 1982. He played just once in the 1982–83 Fourth Division promotion campaign, scoring Vale's second goal in a 2–0 home win over Hereford United on 9 October. Bright came to prominence for the "Valiants" under the stewardship of new boss John Rudge towards the end of the 1983–84 season, scoring ten goals in 31 games, though this was not enough to save the club from relegation out of the Third Division.Graham Barnett advised him to reject John Rudge's offer of a two-year contract, and in June 1984 Bright was sold to Leicester City for £33,333. This fee was later doubled due to a top-up clause.
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