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'''Stanley Victor Collymore''' (born [[January 22]] [[1971]] in [[Stone, Staffordshire|Stone]], [[Staffordshire]]) was a talented but controversial [[England|English]] [[1990]]s footballer, who has become as well known for his off-field activities.

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'''Gaza''' ({{lang-ar|غزة}} {{ArTranslit|Ġazzah}}; {{lang-he|עזה}} Azzah) is the largest city within the [[Gaza Strip]], part of the [[Palestinian territories]]. The city, which has a population of approximately 400,000, is frequently termed "Gaza City" in order to distinguish it from the larger [[Gaza Strip]].

==Early careerHistory==

A talented [[striker|centre forward]], Collymore started his career as an apprentice footballer with {{fc|Walsall}}, and also {{fc|Wolverhampton Wanderers}}, before being released and signing for then [[GM Vauxhall Conference]] team, {{fc|Stafford Rangers}}, where again he caught the eye of several football league clubs by demonstrating the ability for spectacular goals before being given his chance as a full-time [[professional]] with {{fc|Crystal Palace}} at the age of 19, in late 1990.

Strategically located on the Mediterranean coastal route, ancient Gaza was a prosperous trade center and a stop on the caravan route between Egypt and Syria. The city was occupied by Egypt around the 15th century BCE. [[Philistines]] settled the area several hundred years later, and Gaza became one of their [[Pentapolis|chief cities]].

==Professional career==

After learning his trade as understudy to the prolific {{fc|Crystal Palace}} partnership of [[Mark Bright]] and [[Ian Wright]], Collymore dropped down a division to {{fc|Southend United}} and there scored 18 goals in 31 games to help keep the club in the then First Division when the odds of relegation seemed certain.

In 145 BCE Gaza was conquered by [[Jonathan Maccabaeus|Jonathan]] the [[Hasmonean]] (Brother of [[Judas Maccabeus|Judah]] the [[Maccabees|Maccabee]]). There was a prospering Jewish presence in Gaza until the Roman ruler Gavinius expelled them in 61 CE as part of the [[First Jewish-Roman War]]. In the times of the [[Mishnah]] and the [[Talmud]] there was a large Jewish community in Gaza, and on one of the pillars of the [[Great Mosque of Gaza|Great Mosque]] of Gaza there was a Greek inscription which read "Hananiah bar Yaakov" (a Hebrew name) with a [[menorah]] carved above it. This column was originally part of a Byzantine-era synagogue, destroyed at an unknown date and reused (recycled) as part of a grand Church of St. John Baptist, built by Crusaders. When the Crusaders were driven out, the church was commandeered for use as a mosque. At an undetermined date between between 1987 and 1993, during the [[Al-Aqsa Intifada|intifada]] a very tall ladder or scaffolding were erected and the carving was chisled off.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://members.bib-arch.org/nph-proxy.pl/000000A/http/www.basarchive.org/bswbSearch.asp=3fPubID=3dBSBA&Volume=3d20&Issue=3d2&ArticleID=3d4&UserID=3d0& |title=Peace, Politics and Archaeology |last=Shanks |first=Hershel |work=Biblical Archaeology Society}}</ref> The remains of the ancient Gaza [[synagogue]], built around 500 CE, were found near the city wharf.

Collymore enjoyed his time at Southend saying, "I still rate helping keep Southend in the old first division as one of my finest achievements."{{fact}}

Gaza was occupied by [[Arabs]] in the 630s after a siege during which the Jewish population of the city defended it alongside the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] garrison.<ref>{{cite book | first=Norman | last=Stillman | title=The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book | publisher=Jewish Publication Society of America | ___location=Philadelphia | year=1979 | id=ISBN 1590454936 |pages=p. 24}} </ref> Believed to be the site where [[Muhammad]]'s great grandfather was buried, the city became an important Islamic center. In the 12th century, Gaza was taken by Christian Crusaders; it returned to Muslim control in 1187. The city fell to the [[Ottomans]] in the 16th century and was taken by the British in the [[Third Battle of Gaza]] on [[7 November]] [[1917]] during the [[First World War]].{{Fact|date=April 2007}}

It came down to the last game of the [[1992-93 in English football|1992-93]] season and Southend beat Luton Town 2-1. Forget the England [[cap (sport)|caps]] and fetching almost £20 million in transfer fees, memories of that game are as vivid as any Collymore possesses. "I’d scored two or three on the bounce, it was a real bone-hard pitch and the weather was nice" he said. "When the final whistle went there must have been 1,000 fans on the pitch. I got stripped of everything but my underpants — nobody wanted those. It was an incredible day. A lot of people will go through their careers without knowing what it feels like to experience that happiness at lower-league level."{{fact}}

Following [[World War I]], Gaza became part of the [[Palestine (mandate)|British mandate for Palestine]]. After the first Arab Israel war in [[1948]], [[Egypt]] occupied Gaza and its surrounding area. The Egyptians never accepted the inhabitants as citizens of Egypt and prohibited them from leaving Gaza Strip. [[Israel]] captured the city and the Gaza Strip during the 1967 Six Day War, and Gaza remained occupied by Israel for the next 27 years. With the onset of the Palestinian uprising known as [[First Intifada|the intifada]] in [[1987]], Gaza became a center of political unrest and confrontation between [[Israelis]] and [[Palestinians]], and economic conditions in the city worsened.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}

He nearly went to Nottingham Forest on deadline day in March 1993, but Brian Clough had not seen him play, so reversed a decision made the previous day.

In September 1993, leaders of Israel and the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) signed the [[Oslo Accords]] calling for Palestinian administration of the Gaza Strip and the [[West Bank]] town of [[Jericho]], which was implemented in May 1994. The Israeli forces left Gaza, leaving a new [[Palestinian National Authority|Palestinian Authority]] to administer and police the city, along with the most of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority, led by [[Yasser Arafat]], chose Gaza as its first provincial headquarters. In September 1995, Israel and the PLO [[Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip|signed a second peace agreement]] extending the Palestinian Authority to most West Bank towns. The agreement also established an elected 88-member Palestinian Council, which held its inaugural session in Gaza in March 1996.{{Fact|date=April 2007}} The process of gradual Palestinian control did not lead to anticipated [[Palestinian]] statehood or assuage Israeli security concerns. In the summer of 2006, in desire to reduce Israeli military commitments after the [[Second Intifada]] and under the sudden dovish leadership of Israeli Premier [[Ariel Sharon]], [[Israel]] approved the hotly debated [[Disengagement Plan]] and unilaterally withdrew all Jewish communities from Gaza. Israel still maintain and insists on Israeli oversight of Gaza's borders and transport, even with international staffing.

The current mayor of Gaza is Majid Abu Ramadan.<ref name="australian"/>

However such were the quality of his goals, usually spectacular solo efforts, {{fc|Nottingham Forest}} changed their minds and bought the striker for a club-record fee that reached ₤3 million in the summer of 1993, having only been bought by Southend also for a club record fee of ₤150,000 six months earlier. Collymore's goalscoring record with Forest (50 goals in 71 games) was highly regarded, and after being the main catalyst for helping Forest to immediate promotion back to the Premiership in 1993, cemented his reputation as one of the brightest young talents in British football by finishing his first season in the top flight with 25 goals and helping a team that had been relegated only two years earlier to finish third in the Premiership. That prompted {{fc|Liverpool}} to come in for him with a then British transfer record bid of ₤8.5 million at the end of the [[1994-95 in English football|1994-95 season]].

===Jewish communities in Gaza===

Collymore scored a spectacular goal on his Liverpool debut and began a fruitful, enigmatic, and controversial two-year spell at Anfield. Highs included scoring at a ratio of a goal every other game and creating many goals in a superb partnership with [[Robbie Fowler]], who were regarded as one of the best strike partnerships in Europe, to winning caps for [[England national football team|England]]. He also scored two goals, including the winner against Newcastle United at Anfield in a game that was regarded as one of the most exciting in the history of the English Premiership. Indeed, it was voted by viewers of [[Sky Sports]] as the greatest sporting moment in the channel's first ten years. Lows saw Collymore fined after refusing to play for the reserves, refusing to move closer to [[Merseyside]] from his home town of [[Cannock]], publicly criticising manager [[Roy Evans]] and his tactics, and playing badly in the [[1996]] [[FA Cup]] final against {{fc|Manchester United}}, during which he was substituted. Liverpool lost 1-0.

The Jewish community in Gaza was destroyed during the [[Crusade]]s, but returned and was rebuilt with the return of the [[Mamluk]] occupation. In February 1799, when the French forces led by Napoleon entered the city, it was struck by a terrible plague which caused the Jews to move to other areas in Palestine. By the year 1886, thirty Jewish families had returned to Gaza, but they were deported by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]]s during World War I. Jews returned to Gaza after the war ended but they were forced to leave once again after the [[1929 Palestine riots]] and the subsequent massacre of Jews in Safed and Hebron by Arabs. Following these riots, in which over 130 Jews were killed, the British prohibited Jews from living in Gaza to quell tension. Jews didn't return to Gaza, though in 1946 they established kibbutz [[Kfar Darom]] nearby in the central Gaza Strip.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/gaza_settlements |title=A Brief History of the Gaza Settlements |work=Jewish Virtual Library}}</ref>

Collymore was also labelled along with his colleagues at the time like [[Jamie Redknapp]], [[David James (footballer)|David James]] and [[Steve McManaman]] for being 'Spice Boys' - a derogatory term used to signify the players as underachieving [[lad culture]] playboys in the game. He also helped Liverpool to third place in the Premiership, the club's highest position since winning the old First Division title in 1990. Undoubtedly a great footballer on his day, Collymore set himself up for a head-on collision with his club that made a transfer inevitable and was compounded with the emergence of [[Michael Owen]] through Liverpool's ranks. The striker was sold to {{fc|Aston Villa}} in [[1997]] for ₤7 million, again a club record.

Famous Gazan Jews have included the medieval liturgical poet [[Israel Najara]], who is buried in Gaza's local cemetery, and the [[Sabbatai Zevi|Sabbatean]] prophet [[Nathan of Gaza]]. Rabbi [[Abraham Azulai]] lived in Gaza in 1619, and it was there that he wrote the book for which he is remembered, his cabalistic work "Ḥesed le-Abraham".{{Fact|date=April 2007}}

Collymore's time at Villa was eventful off the pitch, with his long-term treatment for [[clinical depression|depression]] earning him harsh criticism in the British [[tabloid|tabloid press]] and the ridicule of manager [[John Gregory]], yet widespread public support for confronting an illness that affects so many people. In the three years that he spent at the club, Collymore scored only 15 goals, having been frozen out of the squad for over a year of Gregory's reign as manager, and received regular treatment for clinical depression. Highs included being only the third Aston Villa player in history to score a [[hat-trick]] in European competition (the other two being his boyhood idols [[Gary Shaw]] and [[Peter Withe]]).

==People and Culture==

*{{flagicon|England}}[[Walsall F.C.]]

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*{{flagicon|England}}[[Wolverhampton Wanderers]]

[[Image:Gold Market, Gaza City.jpg|right|thumb|Gold Market, Gaza City]]

*{{flagicon|England}}[[Stafford Rangers]]

Gaza's population is composed almost entirely of Muslims, though it also has a small Christian community. A massive influx of [[Palestinian refugee]]s swelled Gaza's population after the [[1948 Arab-Israeli war]]. By 1967, the population had grown to about six times its 1948 size. The city's population has continued to increase since that time, and poverty, unemployment, and poor living conditions are widespread. Gaza has serious deficiencies in housing, educational facilities, health facilities, infrastructure, and an inadequate sewage system, all of which have contributed to serious hygiene and public health problems. As in the rest of the Palestinian territories, the birth rate is extremely high. The vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza live in poverty (less than 2$ per day), and rely on [[United Nations]] food aid to survive.

*{{flagicon|England}}[[Crystal Palace F.C.]] (1990-1991)

*{{flagicon|England}}[[Southend United]] (1991-1993)

*{{flagicon|England}}[[Nottingham Forest]] (1993-1995)

*{{flagicon|England}}[[Liverpool F.C.]] (1995-1997)

*{{flagicon|England}}[[Aston Villa]] (1997-2000)

*{{flagicon|England}}[[Leicester City]]

*{{flagicon|England}}[[Bradford City]]

*{{flagicon|Spain}}[[Real Oviedo]]

==Economy==

[[Image:The_sun_collymore.jpg|thumb|left|[[The Sun (newspaper)|Sun]] cover featuring the "I Lied" Collymore story]]

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[[Image:GazaTextiles.jpg|thumb|left|Backyard Industry]]

Gaza is the economic center for a region in which citrus fruits and other crops are grown. Many Gazans work in Israeli service and industry when the border is open. The city contains some small industry, including textiles and food processing. A variety of wares are sold in Gaza's street bazaars, including carpets, pottery, wicker furniture, and cotton clothing; commercial development in the city is minimal. Gaza serves as a transportation hub for the [[Gaza Strip]], and contains a small port that serves a local fishing fleet. Overall economic development has been slow and hampered by frequent political unrest.

==Attractions==

==Collymore in the news==

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Collymore admitted to punching his girlfriend, television presenter [[Ulrika Jonsson]], during an argument in [[Paris]] in [[1998]]. However, Collymore suggests in his biography ''Tackling My Demons'' that the bruises that occurred on Jonsson's face were in fact a reflection of rain drops from a photographer's lens.

Places of interest to the visitor are the [[Great Mosque of Gaza|Great Omari Mosque]], the [[The Mosque of Al Sayed Hashem|Mosque of Al Sayed Hashem]], [[the Mosque of Ibn Othman]], the [[Mosque of Ibn Marwan]], The [[Sheikh Abul Azm sanctuary]], the [[Sheikh Ajlin sanctuary]], Tell al Mintar, [[Napoleon's fort]] (Al Radwan Castle), and the [[Church of St. Porphyrius]]. The city also has many new resorts where tourists and local people can swim and relax by the beach or swimming pools.

*'''The Great Mosque (Al-Omari Mosque)'''

Located in downtown Gaza, Al-Omari Mosque with its splendid minaret, reputedly occupying the site of the first ancient temple of Marnas and then a Greek Orthodox Church. The mosque was also the site of a Norman church built by the Crusaders in the 12th century.

*'''Napoleon's Fort (Qasr El-Basha)'''

Also located in downtown Gaza, this imposing stone building dates back to the Mamluk period. It is known as Qasr El-Basha because Napoleon spent a few nights here on his way through the town in 1799.

*'''St. Porphyrus Church'''

This 4th century church is where [[St. Porphyrus]] died and was buried (420 CE) It is located in the Gaza's old city and still in use today by the Greek Orthodox Community.

*'''Al-Sayed Hashem Mosque'''

Located in Al-Daraj Quarter, the mosque is one of the largest and most beautiful ancient mosques in Gaza. The tomb of Hashem bin Abd-Manaf, Mohammad's grandfather who died in Gaza during a trading voyage, is believed to be under the dome of the mosque.

==Transport==

After this incident, and Gregory's refusal to play him, Collymore moved from the [[West Midlands (county)|West]] to the [[East Midlands]], with {{fc|Leicester City}}, in [[2000]]. He was initially successful, having scored a hat-trick on his home debut, but within days he was embroiled in an incident involving a [[fire extinguisher]] during some hi-jinks on a club break abroad. After a widely-regarded successful but short spell at the club, misfortune struck when he broke his leg in a Premiership game at local rivals {{fc|Derby County}} which ended his season. After [[Martin O'Neill]] left the club for [[Glasgow Celtic]], Collymore was unsettled and agreed a short-term move to {{fc|Bradford City}}. Again, he showed on his debut the talent he possesses, scoring an overhead kick against local rivals {{fc|Leeds United}}. Collymore then moved to [[La Liga]] club [[Real Oviedo]], where a lack of form combined with difficulties adapting to life abroad saw his retirement from football at the young footballing age of 30 shortly after signing for them. This incurred the wrath of the club who then began legal action against him.

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Gaza shared [[Yasser Arafat International Airport]] with the rest of the Gaza Strip. It was opened in 1998, but is currently inoperational, its runways and support facilities having been largely destroyed by Israeli armed forces during the [[Al-Aqsa Intifada]]. Following the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in autumn 2005, discussions took place between the Palestinian and Israeli sides on its reopening. So far, Israeli negotiators have not agreed to allow the airport be reopened.

In [[2004]], Collymore was duped by ''The Sun'' newspaper into signing a confession declaring that he was "a lying scumbag" and that he "threw the first punch" in a fracas with six Bath [[rugby union]] players at a nightclub in Dublin the previous weekend. He also apologised to readers for "wasting all that football talent throughout my unfulfilled career". Collymore later complained to the [[Press Complaints Commission]] in a case which he subsequently won. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1344014,00.html]

'''Arriving to Gaza''':

==Post-football career==

*'''By air''':

After he finished playing, Collymore took up a role as a summariser for [[BBC Radio Five Live]] and showed insight and much promise, in keeping with his long-time assertion that he was far more articulate than the majority of footballers. During the 2002 World Cup a caller recommended that Sven select him for the upcoming game against Sweden. When Stan asked why the caller said it, it was because he was good at beating Swedes. However, he was then relieved of his duties after publicly admitting that he took part in open-air sexual activity known as ''[[Dogging (sexual slang)|dogging]]''. He argued that there was more to life than tea with digestive biscuits, insisting dogging was the future of British relationships. Collymore made the point after being relieved of his BBC duties that he was the subject of double standards at the BBC as the Corporation have employed and continue to employ people that have serious criminal convictions, which were far more serious than a consensual sexual activity.{{fact}}

[[Gaza International Airport]], 40 km south of Gaza.

[[Ben Gurion International Airport]], Tel Aviv, 75 km north of Gaza.

*'''By car''':

Northern access: [[Erez Crossing]] point (border with [[Israel]]).

Southern access: [[Rafah Border Crossing|Rafah crossing]] point (border with [[Egypt]]).<ref>{{cite news |title=Palestinians take over key border |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4468818.stm |work=BBC News |date=[[November 25]], [[2005]]}}</ref>

==Mayors of Gaza==

Collymore contributed to his [[biography]] {{cite book | title= Stan : tackling my demons | author=with Oliver Holt | id=<small>ISBN 0007198078 | year = 2004}} which was released to critical acclaim for its portrayal of the modern footballer. In 2005 he acted the character of Kevin Franks in the film ''[[Basic Instinct 2]]'' alongside [[Sharon Stone]]. In the opening scenes, he and Catherine Tramell (Stone), have sex in a car. Collymore is seen and heard regularly on television and radio in the UK, and owns Maverick Spirit Productions, a UK Television Production Company.

* Maged Awni Abu Ramadan (current)

* Sa’ed Kharma{{Fact|date=April 2007}}

* Aown S. Shawa (1994-2001)

==[[Town twinning]]==

== Possible football return ==

*{{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Cascais]], [[Portugal]]

*{{flagicon|Spain}} [[Barcelona]], [[Spain]]

==See also==

Despite retiring from football in 2001, he was recently in advanced discussions with Australian [[Hyundai A-League]] club Newcastle United Jets,[http://www.theworldgame.com.au/a-league/index.php?pid=st&cid=75114] after employing the services of a Sydney agent to secure a contract in [[Australia]]. He was set to join a league with a ever growing amount of ex-Premiership stars, however this move was later turned down by the Australian [[Football_Federation_Australia|FFA]] citing "concerns over his image". [http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=12309]

{{commonscat|Gaza}}

* [[West Bank]]

* [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]

* [[Sinai Peninsula]]

* [[Porphyry of Gaza]]

* [[Al-Azhar University - Gaza]]

* [[First Battle of Gaza]]

* [[Second Battle of Gaza]]

* [[Little Gaza]]

==References==

In 2003 his name was linked with the manager's job at his old club Southend United. Southend were looking for a new manager after the departure of [[Steve Wignall]], and after a brief spell by [[David Webb]] as caretaker-manager, and then [[Steve Tilson]], they were looking for a perminent manager. Collymore's happiest times were with the seaside club, who were now in League Two with relegation looming, and many felt that his 'hero' status at the club could be the morale boost they needed. But it was not to be, Collymore's lack of managerial experience and Southend's subsequent improvement under [[Steve Tilson]] meant the job went to Tilson.

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==External links==

On October 4th 2006, Former England striker Stan Collymore is planning a comeback - and insists he can make the grade in the Premiership again. Collymore told the Daily Mirror.

{{wikinews}}

*[http://www.mogaza.org/ Municipality of Gaza]

*[http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.513289,34.463425&spn=0.133744,0.240704&t=k Gaza at Google Maps]

*[http://www.alazhar-gaza.edu Al-Azhar University-Gaza]

*[http://www.iugaza.edu.ps The Islamic University - Gaza]

*[http://jihadwatch.org/archives/009533.php Creation of Disputed Gaza Buffer Zone December 2005]

*[http://www.mogaza.org/latemayor.htm]

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{{cquote|I've had physical tests and I'm confident I will come back faster, stronger and fitter than I ever was}}

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The former Liverpool and Aston Villa forward flew to [[Tenerife]] earlier this week to embark on a three-week fitness programme. He said: 'A month from today I guarantee I will be able to stand side by side with any striker in the country and my physique will be up there with any of them. This time I'm not going to self-destruct. You are not going to see headlines about me being kicked out of a bar somewhere in the early hours rolling drunk.

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The 35-year-old added: 'I know I can still be among the best.'[http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=383346&cc=4716]

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Upon hearing the news, those fans of {{fc|Southend United}} who could still remember his individual talent during the [[1992-93 in English football|1992-93]] season which helps turn the clubs fortune when the odds of relegation seemed certain. Hopes Stan Collymore would return back to Roots Hall Football Ground as the club itself is once again facing the repeat of same relegation battle which they fought on [[1992-93 in English football|1992-93]] season.

==External links==

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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2004/10/28/features_people_2004_10_stan_collymore_interview_feature.shtml BBC Nottingham : Interview]

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