Jake Cyril Livermore (born 14 November 1989) is an English professional
footballer
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who plays as a
central midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for club
West Bromwich Albion
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.
Livermore began his career at
Tottenham Hotspur
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, spending most of his tenure out on loan at clubs in all three divisions of the
English Football League
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. In 2013, he moved to
Hull City
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, initially on a temporary basis, becoming permanent at the end of the season. After amassing 144 appearances for the ''Tigers'' in all competitions, he joined West Bromwich Albion in January 2017.
Livermore earned his first cap for the England national team in August 2012 in a friendly win against
Italy
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.
Early life
Livermore was born in
Enfield
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...
, Greater London, and attended
Enfield Grammar School
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Histo ...
.
Club career
Tottenham Hotspur
Livermore's career started in
Arsenal F.C's Academy after leaving and joining
Tottenham Hotspur's academy in 2006, making 39 appearances for the under-18 team and scoring nine goals.
He made another 13 appearances for the reserves.
[ On 29 February 2008, he joined Milton Keynes Dons on a month-long loan deal. He made his professional debut the following day in a 1–0 win over Chester City at Stadium MK, playing the last 14 minutes in place of ]Jordan Hadfield
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Career
Hadfield started his football career with Stockport County but was never offered a contract for first team status and was released.
After being released he joined Ma ...
. Livermore played five matches for the League Two
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club, all as a substitute.[
On 11 July 2008, he was loaned for six months to ]League One
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club Crewe Alexandra
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. However, in a friendly with Conference Premier
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team Wrexham
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, he fractured his fibula
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and subsequently returned to Tottenham to receive treatment which kept him sidelined for a protracted spell. Livermore signed a new two-year deal with Tottenham on 24 July 2009.
He joined Championship
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Title match system
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club Derby County
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Founded in 1884 ...
on an initial one-month loan on 10 August 2009. He scored his first league goal against Nottingham Forest
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in a 3–2 away defeat on 29 August. In January 2010, he joined another club in the division, Peterborough United
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, until the end of the 2009–10 season. He scored his first goal for Peterborough in a 2–1 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday
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on 23 January. On 2 March, he was recalled from his loan due to a spate of injuries to the Tottenham squad. Livermore made his competitive debut for Tottenham in a 2–1 win against Stoke City
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at the Britannia Stadium
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on 20 March, coming on in added time for Niko Kranjčar
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.
On 23 September 2010, he was loaned out to Championship club Ipswich Town
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until January. On 24 March 2011, he was loaned out to Leeds United
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of the same division ahead of their final eight league matches and battle for promotion to the Premier League. On 2 April, Livermore made his debut for Leeds as a second-half substitute against Nottingham Forest where he had a hand in Leeds' fourth goal scored by Max Gradel
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. He was given a start against Reading, however he was substituted at half time after picking up a yellow card and lucky not to receive another for a tackle in the first half.
Livermore stayed with Tottenham for the 2011–12 season, scoring his first senior goal for Spurs on 18 August 2011 in the 5–0 UEFA Europa League
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qualifying win away against Heart of Midlothian, and ultimately made 38 appearances across all competitions.[
]
Hull City
Livermore moved to Hull City
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at the beginning of 2013–14 on a season-long loan, along with teammate Tom Huddlestone
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Having progressed th ...
. He made his debut on the first day of the season when he came off the bench for Danny Graham Daniel Graham (born 1978) is an American football player.
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in the 59th minute of a 2–0 loss away at Chelsea
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. On 1 December, he scored his first Premier League and Hull goal, opening a 3–1 home win over Liverpool
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with a shot deflecting off Martin Škrtel
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, Hull's first ever victory over the Merseyside opponents.
Hull reached the 2014 FA Cup Final
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, and Livermore started the match against Arsenal
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, which resulted in a 3–2 defeat at Wembley Stadium
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after extra time. In the close season, he joined Hull permanently for an undisclosed fee, one which was reported to have broken the club transfer record.
Following a 2–0 win against Crystal Palace
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in April 2015, Livermore was selected for a random drugs test. He tested positive for cocaine
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and, on 15 May 2015, was suspended by both the FA
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and Hull City for the remainder of the season. In August, Hull manager Steve Bruce
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revealed that Livermore had taken the substance to cope with the grief caused by the death of his newborn child shortly after the FA Cup final. In September 2015, a disciplinary hearing decided that the Football Association provisional ban would not be extended, as a result, his suspension by Hull City was also lifted.
At the start of the 2016–17 season, newly promoted Hull had only one fully fit recognised centre-back in Curtis Davies
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Davies began his career at Luton Town, for whom he made his professional debut in 2003. Davies moved to Premier ...
, so Livermore was selected to play as a centre-back alongside Davies.
West Bromwich Albion
Livermore joined Hull's fellow Premier League club West Bromwich Albion
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on a four-and-a-half-year deal on 20 January 2017 for a fee reported to be £10 million. He made his debut the following day in a 2–0 win against Sunderland
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at The Hawthorns
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, coming off the bench in place of James Morrison for the last 20 minutes of the match.
On 2 January 2018, Livermore had an altercation with a West Ham United
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fan at the London Stadium
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; he reported that the fan had taunted him about his son who died in infancy in 2014. The FA did not punish Livermore for the incident but warned him that such reactions could endanger himself and other fans. The West Ham fan was given an indefinite ban from the stadium.
In his 50th game for the Baggies on 21 April 2018, Livermore scored his first goal for the club as they came from behind to draw 2–2 with Liverpool. Two weeks later, he scored the only goal of a home win over his former team Tottenham, saving his team from immediate relegation.
International career
Livermore made his first senior appearance for England
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in a 2–1 friendly win against Italy
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on 15 August 2012 at the Stade de Suisse in Bern
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, neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen
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, coming on as a substitute in the 69th minute for Frank Lampard
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.
After nearly five years away from international football, Livermore was recalled to the England squad in March 2017 by manager Gareth Southgate
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Southgate won the League Cup ...
for a friendly match against Germany
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and a 2018 World Cup qualifier against Lithuania
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. He subsequently made his first start for England in a 1–0 away defeat to Germany on 22 March. Livermore was again called up by Southgate in May 2017 for a World Cup qualifier against Scotland, and a friendly against France.
On 16 May 2018, he was one of 5 players named on standby for the 23-man England national team squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup
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.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Hull City
*Football League Championship play-offs
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: 2016
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References
External links
Profile
at the West Bromwich Albion F.C. website
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1989 births
Living people
Footballers from Enfield, London
English footballers
England international footballers
Association football midfielders
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
Milton Keynes Dons F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
Derby County F.C. players
Peterborough United F.C. players
Ipswich Town F.C. players
Leeds United F.C. players
Hull City A.F.C. players
West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
English Football League players
Premier League players
FA Cup Final players
Black British sportsmen
Doping cases in association football
English sportspeople in doping cases
People educated at Enfield Grammar School