Darren Anderton

What strikes me about Darren Anderton is the loyalty. Twelve years and nearly 300 league appearances for Tottenham Hotspur is the kind of one-club devotion that has all but vanished from the modern game, and I respect it. He had the talent to be a fixture for England, yet injuries dogged so much of his prime that it's tempting to wonder what might have been. The 1999 League Cup win feels like the deserved reward for sticking around through the lean years. To me he reads as a craftsman's footballer rather than a headline-grabber, and there's something quietly admirable in that.

Darren Robert Anderton (born 3 March 1972) is an English former professional footballer and pundit. As a player, he was a midfielder who notably played in the Premier League for Tottenham Hotspur and Birmingham City. His twelve-year spell with Spurs yielded 299 league appearances, scoring 35 goals. He won the League Cup with Spurs in 1999, and was then runners-up in the same tournament again in 2002.

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Name (English)

Darren Anderton

Name (Japanese)

ダレン・アンダートン

Reading

だれん・あんだーとん

Born

March 3, 1972 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

Origin

Southampton, United Kingdom

Blood type

Private

Height

185 cm

Agency

Private

Occupation

association football player

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Private

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.