Matt Murray (English footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Matthew William Murray | ||
| Date of birth | 2 May 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Solihull, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1990–1998 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2010 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 87 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Slough Town (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Kingstonian (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Tranmere Rovers (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2008 | → Hereford United (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 95 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 2003–2005 | England U21 | 5 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Matthew William "Matt" Murray (born 2 May 1981) is an English former football goalkeeper for the Wolverhampton Wanderers. His career was plagued by injuries which eventually forced him to retire. Since retiring, Murray has worked as a match reporter and in-studio summariser for Sky Sports News, and he is currently the goalkeeping coach at the Nike Academy.
Born in Solihull, Murray progressed through Wolves academy system to sign professional forms in 1998. The five-year contract he was given, aged 17, is the longest in the club's history for an academy graduate.
However, his career failed to find its stride immediately as he was largely out of contention through injury. He suffered a cruciate knee injury just twenty minutes into a loan spell at non-league Kingstonian in October 2000 where he made his first professional appearance.
He was promoted into Wolves' first team on 31 August 2002 against Wimbledon, deputising for the injured Michael Oakes, and then keeping his place through that season. The season ended with him producing a man-of-the-match performance in the Play-off final in May 2003, where he produced a number of vital saves to help the club win promotion to the Premier League, the pick being a second-half penalty save from Michael Brown.
He followed this up by debuting for England Under-21s, against Slovakia U21, the first of five under-21 caps. However, a back problem then a foot fracture wrecked his second season. In the three years that followed the success of 2002–03, he only played seven games for Wolves due to a variety of injuries.
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