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Michael Ingham
File:Michael Ingham York City v. Barrow 3.png
Personal information
Full name Michael Gerard Ingham
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 York City
Number 24
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:32, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Michael Gerard Ingham (born 9 July 1980 in Preston, England) is an English-born Northern Irish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for York City.

Ingham started his career with Northern Irish side Cliftonville before moving to England with Sunderland in the FA Premier League in 1999. He was loaned out by the club on eight occasions before eventually joining former loan club Wrexham on a permament deal in 2005. After leaving the club in 2007 he joined Hereford United, where he was unable to make any league appearances, and subsequently dropped into non-league football with York City. He gained his first cap for Northern Ireland against Germany in 2005, with whom he was been capped on three occasions.

Career

Sunderland

Ingham was born on 9 July 1980 in Preston, Lancashire to a Northern Irish family.[1] Despite being born in England, he was educated in Northern Ireland and studied A-levels at St. Malachy's College.[2] As a teenager, he lived near the ground of Irish Football League side Cliftonville,[3] and played for amateur side Malachians before starting his footballing career with Cliftonville in 1998, winning the Irish FA Charity Shield and making 18 appearances during the 1998–99 season.[4][5][6] He joined newly-promoted FA Premier League club Sunderland for a fee of £30,000 in July 1999 and was loaned out to Carlisle United in October,[7][8] making his Football League debut in a 1–1 draw against Southend United.[9] He finished the spell with seven appearances for Carlisle.[10] He returned to Northern Ireland by rejoining former club Cliftonville on loan for the first three months of the 2000–01 season to gain more first team experience, saying "That's why I jumped at the chance of three months back in my old jersey. There was an option to join Lincoln City instead but they were only offering reserve games."[11] He finished this spell with 18 appearances, with the last coming in January 2001.[12] He made his Sunderland debut by starting in a 4–2 defeat to Sheffield Wednesday in the League Cup on 12 September 2001,[13] which proved to be his only appearance of the 2001–02 season,[14] despite having a period on loan at Stoke City,[15] where he failed to make any appearances after joining as cover for Neil Cutler.[8][16]

Ingham was forced further down the Sunderland pecking order after their signing of Thomas Myhre in July 2002.[8] He was called into the Northern Ireland squad in August after Roy Carroll was released.[17] He joined Stockport County on loan later that month,[7] where he made one appearance in the League Cup before being recalled by Sunderland in October due to an injury crisis.[18][19] Despite this, he was forced further down Sunderland's pecking order after they signed Mart Poom on loan from Derby County and joined Darlington on a month's loan in November.[20] He made three appearances before returning to Sunderland in December.[21][22] He featured for Sunderland in a friendly against Hull City for the opening of their new ground, the KC Stadium, which made him the first away goalkeeper at the ground, as well as being the last to play at Hull's former ground, Boothferry Park.[23] He joined York City on a month's loan in January 2003 after their goalkeeper, Alan Fettis, left to join Hull,[24] who Ingham made his debut against in a 0–0 draw.[25] His loan at York was extended for further months in February and March and he finished the spell with 17 appearances for York.[26][27][28]

He was called into the Northern Ireland B squad in May,[29] but was forced to withdraw because of injury.[30] His second Sunderland appearance came in a 4–2 defeat against Huddersfield Town in September and was loaned out to Wrexham in March 2004,[31][32] which was extended until the end of the season.[33] He finished this spell with 11 appearances for Wrexham,[34] as well as featuring in the 4–1 victory over Rhyl in the FAW Premier Cup final.[35] Ingham's form during this loan spell saw him called placed on stand-by for Northern Ireland's match with Serbia and Montenegro.[33] He threatened to leave Sunderland in May if he would not be guaranteed first-team football the next season.[36] He was named in the Northern Ireland squad for their tour of the Caribbean in May 2004,[37] but he dislocated a finger in training in June,[38] which meant he missed out on making his debut for the team.[39] He joined Doncaster Rovers on a month's loan in November,[40] where he played in two games.[41] His league debut for Sunderland came in a 2–1 defeat against Reading on 9 April 2005 and he made a further appearance in a 2–2 draw with Ipswich Town later that month.[42][43]

Wrexham

He agreed a move to Wrexham on a two-year deal in May,[44] which went through on July when he signed the contract.[45] He eventually won his first cap for Northern Ireland in a 4–1 defeat against Germany in a friendly at Windsor Park on 4 June 2005, the Irish Football Association's 125th anniversary game, after coming on as a substitute for Maik Taylor with 14 minutes of the match remaining and conceded one goal to Lukas Podolski.[46][47] On reflection of this match, Ingham said "The reaction of the crowd when I came on was amazing. To be honest I was holding back the tears as I never thought I would get such a reception. I was the proudest man in the ground."[47] For this match, he was offered insurance by the IFA, due to him not yet being under contract at Wrexham.[48] This appearance would result in a £30,000 payment for former club Cliftonville, which came as apart of the deal for Sunderland to sign him,[49] but by August this had still to be received by the club.[50] The FA Premier League was eventually called into the situation by Cliftonville, as they had only received one part of the payment.[51] Ingham featured on the bench for Northern Ireland as they beat England 1–0 in a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier in September.[52]

He picked up a calf injury after returning to Wrexham,[53] which saw him miss their game against Leyton Orient.[54] He suffered from another injury on his return against Macclesfield Town on 24 September, which on this occassion was a groin problem.[55] He eventually made his return to the team for their match against Torquay United in October,[56] which finished as a 4–2 victory.[57] He finished the 2005–06 season with 43 appearances for Wrexham.[58] He was named by Northern Ireland in their end-of-season tour of the United States in May and played in the 1–0 defeat against Uruguay.[59][60] He was to undergo an operation on a hernia that month.[61] Ingham came on as a substitute for the second half of Northern Ireland's 0–0 draw against Wales in February 2007, giving him his third and most recent international cap.[62] Wrexham's 2–1 defeat to Milton Keynes Dons on 17 March 2007 saw him make his final appearance of the 2006–07 season,[63] during which he picked up a hamstring injury.[64] He later suffered from a virus in April.[65] He finished the season with 37 appearances,[66] after which he was released by the club,[67] due to his place in the first team being taken by Tony Williams.[68]

Hereford United and York City

File:Michael Ingham York City v. Barrow 13.png
Ingham preparing to take a goal kick during his first match of the 2008–09 season for York City

In July 2007, Ingham had a trial with Scottish Premier League club Gretna, playing in a pre-season friendly against Welsh Premier League club The New Saints.[69] However, he suffered a finger injury and the move to Gretna did not take place.[70] On 17 August 2007 he joined League Two side Hereford United on a month's contract as goalkeeping cover to Wayne Brown,[71] which was later extended until the end of the 2007–08 season.[72] His debut came in the Football League Trophy against Yeovil Town, which Hereford lost on penalties after a 0–0 draw, although Ingham did manage to save one of Yeovil's spot kicks.[73] He made two further appearances in the Herefordshire Senior Cup, and picked up a hand injury in March, meaning he finished the season with three appearances.[74][75][76][77] He was releasd by Hereford at the end of the season,[78] after which he move down to the Conference National by rejoining former club York City in May 2008.[79] He suffered a thigh injury during a pre-season friendly against Harrogate Railway Athletic,[80] which resulted in his condition being assessed on a day-by-day basis, and missed the matches against Hartlepool United and Sheffield.[81][82] It was confirmed that he would miss York's opening game against Crawley Town on 9 August 2008, which led to the loan signing of Artur Krysiak from Birmingham City.[83] He recovered from his thigh injury ready for York's fourth game of the season against Northwich Victoria.[84] Despite this, Josh Mimms played in goal and Ingham eventually made his first appearance of the 2008–09 season in a 1–1 draw against Barrow on 25 August 2008.[85][86]

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