Name:	Rickie Lambert
Nationality:	English
Date of Birth:	16/02/1982
Height:	6' 2" (188cm)
Weight:	12st 1lbs (76.73kg)
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Clubs:	Rochdale, Stockport, Blackpool, Macclesfield
Position:	Striker

Rickie moved to the Memorial Stadium, from Rochdale, for a fee of £200,000 late on transfer deadline day, 31st August, 2006.
The striker, brought in to replace Junior Agogo, was with Liverpool as a schoolboy before a move to Blackpool, as a trainee. He was to make just three substitute appearances at Bloomfield Road, and signed for Macclesfield in March 2000 and it was at Moss Rose that his career really took off.
In little more than two years with the Silkmen, he scored eight goals in 44 league appearances and Stockport County paid £300,000 to take him to Edgeley Park in April 2003.
He scored 18 goals in 98 league appearances for Stockport and during his time with the club, finished top scorer, was voted Player of the Season and was made captain of the side.
Rickie signed for Rochdale in February 2005 for a fee believed to be in the region of £25,000 and though he had, up until that point, spent much of his career as a midfielder, he went on to feature as a striker at Spotland.
He finished 2005/06 as the joint top goalscorer in League Two, with 22 to his name and seemed to thrive on the additional responsibility of being the club's main target man and picked up the supporters' and players' Player of the Year awards.
He made a slow start to his Rovers career, after missing much of pre season training at Rochdale through injury. However he worked hard to recapture his goalscoring form and scored his first goal for the club in the 2-0 win against Barnet on 26th November 2006. As the season progressed, he scored some very important goals for the club, including the winner against Bristol City in the Area Final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and the winning goal against Hartlepool that clinched a play off place.
Last season he finished as Rovers' top scorer, netting 13 goals in 46 league games and another six in cup competitions. He also celebrated the birth of his first child, on 9th January, by scoring Rovers' second goal in their 2-0 win against Tranmere, at Prenton Park, two days later.
A player who can strike a ball with deadly accuracy, he also likes to create chances for his colleagues and is sure to be a goal threat again this season.