Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mark Leonard Randall | ||
Date of birth | 28 September 1989 | ||
Place of birth | Milton Keynes, England | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Newport County | ||
Number | 8 | ||
Youth career | |||
1999–2005 | Northampton Town | ||
2001–2007 | Arsenal | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2006–2011 | Arsenal | 2 | (0) |
2008 | → Burnley (loan) | 10 | (0) |
2010 | → Milton Keynes Dons (loan) | 16 | (0) |
2010–2011 | → Rotherham United (loan) | 10 | (1) |
2011–2013 | Chesterfield | 45 | (2) |
2013–2014 | Ascoli | 3 | (0) |
2014–2016 | Milton Keynes Dons | 13 | (0) |
2016 | Barnet | 12 | (2) |
2016– | Newport County | 24 | (1) |
National team | |||
2005–2006 | England U17 | 12 | (2) |
2006–2008 | England U18 | 9 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:29, 30 April 2017 (UTC). |
Mark Leonard Randall (born 28 September 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays for Newport County. Randall spent his formative footballing years at Arsenal where he was touted by manager Arsène Wenger as a key Arsenal player for the future. He was released at the end of his contract in 2011 and subsequently joined Chesterfield, where he won the Football League Trophy.
Randall signed for Arsenal on schoolboy forms and played seven matches in the Premier Reserve League in 2005–06. Randall was also the only player in the team to play all 18 reserve team fixtures in the 2007–08 season. He played in Dennis Bergkamp's testimonial against Ajax Amsterdam in July 2006, and in the club's pre-season tour of Austria and the Netherlands. He made his first-team debut as a substitute for Denílson in Arsenal's League Cup third-round match against West Bromwich Albion on 24 October 2006. He also played in Arsenal's fourth-round match against Everton on 8 November 2006, again coming on for Denílson, and was on the bench for their quarter-final against Liverpool, but did not play in that match.
On 8 February 2007, he signed his first professional contract with Arsenal, and in the summer of 2007 took part in Arsenal's annual first-team pre-season training camp in Austria. However, he was out of the side for the first few months of the 2007–08 season after suffering an injury in Arsenal Reserves' opening Premier Reserve League match of the season, against Fulham in late August, but made his first start for Arsenal in the League Cup quarter-final against Blackburn Rovers on 18 December 2007, and also made his second appearance in the competition as a last-minute substitute in the first leg of the semi-finals against Tottenham Hotspur.