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| Mark Abraham Bright (born 6 June 1962) is an English sports correspondent and former footballer.
Born to a Gambian father and English mother, he was adopted into a foster family in Stoke-on-Trent at an early age. He played non-League football for local side Leek Town before joining nearby Football League side Port Vale in 1981. He turned professional at the club the following year, though he would only enjoy an extended run in the first team during the 1983–84 season. He signed with First Division club Leicester City in June 1984. However, he failed to succeed with Leicester and was sold to Crystal Palace in November 1986. He helped Palace to win promotion out of the Second Division via the play-offs in 1989. He went on to play on the losing side of the 1990 FA Cup final before winning the Full Members' Cup in 1991. Building an effective strike partnership with Ian Wright, he scored 114 goals in 286 league and cup games for Crystal Palace and was also named on the PFA Second Division Team of the Year in 1987–88 and as the club's Player of The Year in 1990.
He was sold to Premier League rivals Sheffield Wednesday for a fee of £1,375,000 in September 1992, where he would stay for the next five years, scoring a further 70 goals in 170 games in all competitions. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article |
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