He also occasionally provides co-commentary on live televised FA Cup games. In August 2021 it was announced that Dublin would be a competitor on BBC's Celebrity MasterChef. [41] He reached the final. [42] Personal life[edit] Away from football, during his spell with Norwich, [43] he invented a percussion instrument called The Dube, [44] a form of cajón. In 2011, he accompanied Ocean Colour Scene during a gig at the University of East Anglia. [43][45] In July 2021, Dublin was appointed as a club director at former club Cambridge United. [46][47] Honours[edit] Football League Third Division: 1990–91[8] Premier League: 1992–93[48] FA Charity Shield: 1994 UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2001[49] Scottish Premier League: 2005–06[50] Scottish League Cup: 2005–06[51] Individual Premier League Golden Boot: 1997–98[48] Premier League Player of the Month: January 1998, November 1998[48] Coventry City Hall of Fame[52] References[edit] ^ "Dion Dublin".
[15] He managed five league appearances that season, scoring once in a 3–2 home win over Oldham Athletic in early April, his goal helping secure a vital victory in the title run-in during a spell when United started to drop points and Blackburn Rovers were closing in on them. [16] He also managed a further goal in the Football League Cup second round first leg, as United were beaten 2–1 by Stoke City at the Victoria Ground. The goal against Oldham was the only competitive goal that Dublin scored for United at Old Trafford. He was left out of the FA Cup winning team, and failed to make enough appearances to merit another Premier League title winners medal, and in September 1994, he was sold to Coventry City for £2 million – a record signing for Coventry City at the time – and also one of the largest fees received by Manchester United. [17][18] Coventry City[edit] In four-and-a-half years with Coventry, Dublin established himself as one of the Premier League's top strikers and during the 1997–98 season won the first of his four full England caps.
He remained at Highfield Road and contributed to Coventry's best finish to date in the Premiership (11th). Aston Villa[edit] Dublin was controversially excluded from the England 1998 FIFA World Cup squad, despite being the Premier League's joint top-scorer in the 1997–98 season, alongside Michael Owen and Chris Sutton. However, his exploits at club level were still attracting significant attention and in the autumn of 1998, he chose to move to Aston Villa for £5.
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Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 7 March 2017. ^ Dion Dublin at Soccerbase ^ Dykes, Garth (1994). The United Alphabet: A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United F. C. Leicester: ACL & Polar Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 0-9514862-6-8. ^ "Dublin urges football hopefuls to listen and learn". 11 June 2011. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015. ^ Gardner, John (28 October 1998). "I'm not Dublin your money; Roy won't give Dion any special wage deal". Daily Record. The Free Library.
In 2015, he joined the presenting team on the BBC One daytime show Homes Under the Hammer and has appeared as a regular pundit for BBC Sport namely on Football Focus, Match of the Day or Final Score. He also occasionally provides co-commentary on live televised FA Cup games. Club career[edit] Norwich City[edit] Born in Leicester, while at school Dublin played for several Leicestershire youth teams including Wigston Fields and Thurmaston Magpies. [4] Dublin then went on to begin his professional footballing career with Norwich City after leaving school in 1985, but he never made a first-team appearance and was released from the club in 1988.
United won the league that season for the first time since 1967, but Dublin failed to make the 10 Premier League appearances required to automatically gain a title winner's medal. However, he was given a medal as a result of special dispensation from the Premier League. In the 1993–94 season, Dublin regained his fitness, but his first team chances were restricted by the successful partnership of Cantona and Hughes. In December 1993, Ferguson agreed a deal with Everton manager Howard Kendall, that would have seen Dublin moving to Goodison Park, but a member of Everton's board of directors, apparently feeling that Dublin was not worth the money Kendall had offered United, intervened to prevent the transfer going through – this dispute sparked Kendall's resignation as manager. Dublin would remain a United player for another nine months, but never managed to claim a regular place in the first team.
[6][7] The 1989–90 season saw Cambridge promoted from the Fourth Division via the play-offs, when Dublin became the first ever scorer in a Wembley play-off final. In the 1990–91 season, the club were champions of the Third Division, and the club also reached the quarter-final of the FA Cup in both seasons, with Dublin scoring at Arsenal in 1991. [8] In the 1991–92 season, he played a big part in helping Cambridge to their highest ever finishing position in the football league, by finishing in fifth place in the last season of the old Second Division, but when Cambridge failed to win promotion to the top flight via the play-offs Dublin was put up for sale.
Dublin played his final game on 4 May 2008, featuring in Norwich's 4–1 loss to Sheffield Wednesday in front of 36, 208 fans at Hillsborough – the highest Championship attendance that season. [33] When he was taken off in the 66th minute, Dublin received a standing ovation from both sets of supporters and players, and referee Mark Clattenburg. International career[edit] Dublin earned his first cap for England on 11 February 1998, playing the whole 90 minutes in the 2–0 friendly defeat to Chile at Wembley Stadium.
As a player he was a centre-forward, notably playing in the Premier League for Manchester United, Coventry City and Aston Villa. He also had spells in the Scottish Premiership with Celtic, in the Conference with Wycombe Wanderers, and in The Football League with Cambridge United, Barnet, Millwall, Leicester City and Norwich City. He was capped four times for England. Following on from his retirement, Dublin moved into the entertainment business. He is also an amateur percussionist, and invented a percussion instrument called "The Dube". In 2011, he accompanied Ocean Colour Scene in a gig at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
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However, the injury did not end Dublin's career and he was back in action three months later. [22] In April 2000, a week after returning to the team, he helped Aston Villa reach their first FA Cup final in 43 years, which they lost 1–0 against Chelsea, [23] scoring a penalty in the semi-final shoot-out against Bolton Wanderers. [24] Having regained his fitness, Dublin remained on the Villa Park payroll until 2002. Faced with competition for a first team place by Juan Pablo Ángel and Peter Crouch, Dublin spent several weeks on loan at First Division Millwall. In his time there, he scored two goals, against Stockport County, [25] and Grimsby Town[26] in five league matches to help them into the play-offs where despite Dublin's goal in the first leg of the semi final, [27] Millwall lost to Birmingham City 2–1 on aggregate.
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