Martin Cranie
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Martin James Cranie | ||
| Date of birth | 26 September 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Yeovil, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Right back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Huddersfield Town | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2003–2004 | Southampton | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2007 | Southampton | 16 | (0) |
| 2004 | → Bournemouth (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | → Yeovil Town (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Yeovil Town (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2007–2009 | Portsmouth | 2 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Queens Park Rangers (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | → Charlton Athletic (loan) | 19 | (0) |
| 2009–2012 | Coventry City | 114 | (1) |
| 2012–2015 | Barnsley | 110 | (1) |
| 2015– | Huddersfield Town | 51 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2003 | England U17 | 7 | (0) |
| 2004 | England U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | England U19 | 12 | (0) |
| 2003–2005 | England U20 | 2 | (0) |
| 2007–2009 | England U21 | 16 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 05:51, 1 May 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14:53, 23 August 2015 (UTC) |
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Martin James Cranie (born 26 September 1986) is an English footballer who plays for Huddersfield Town. He is a former England U21 international. He began his career with the Southampton youth academy before moving to local rivals Portsmouth and later to Coventry City after several loan spells, then followed by three years at Barnsley.
He is a versatile defender who can play across the back four, though his main position is usually centre back.
Cranie attended Buckler's Mead Community School in Yeovil, Somerset between the years 1998 and 2003 after completing his primary school education at Birchfield Community School.
Following an injury crisis at the club, then Manager Paul Sturrock was forced to use Cranie in the first-team against Chelsea in May 2004. However, his debut was marred when he inadvertently scored an own-goal, in a 4–0 loss against Chelsea. After the match, Cranie's teammate Danny Higginbotham said: "He's a very good player with a bright future who certainly didn't look out of place at all." Cranie, one of the youngest post-war players to make their debut for the club, described it as a "good experience". "I was asked to play left wing-back, which I had never played before, but being out on the pitch with some of those players was unbelievable."
In October 2004, Cranie spent time on loan to Bournemouth and was given the number twenty-two jersey. He made three appearances for the club, and though they were keen to extend his loan spell, their request was rejected. After his loan spell with Bournemouth ended, Cranie made his first appearance of the season, in a 0–0 draw against Charlton Athletic on 26 December 2004. He later made two more appearances in the 2004–05 season, as Southampton were relegated from the Premier League. He was a member of Southampton's youth team that reached the final of the FA Youth Cup in 2005, losing on aggregate to Ipswich Town.
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