Stephen Darby
English footballer (born 1988)
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Stephen Mark Darby is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Darby represented England at under-19 level. He began his career playing on the winning side of the Liverpool FA Youth Cup in 2006 and played competitively for Liverpool from 2008 to 2012. Darby then joined the Bradford team that reached the 2013 Football League Cup final, making over 200 appearances for the club and captaining the side for two seasons. Although he afterwards signed a two-year contract with Bolton Wanderers in 2017, Darby retired from his career just over a year later at the age of 29 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease.
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'I was on £9,000 a year' - ex-England captain Houghton Former England captain Steph Houghton talks about fighting for better pay in the women's game and discusses her husband Stephen Darby living with motor neurone disease.BBC Sport - Published | |
Darby and Houghton on MND, retirement and 'not wasting time' Former footballer Stephen Darby and ex-England captain Steph Houghton talk about how Darby's MND has affected their lives in the second series of award-winning podcast "Rob Burrow Seven, Meets..."BBC Sport - Published | |
'Football prepares you' - Darby & Stewart on dealing with MNDEx-Liverpool defender Stephen Darby and former Ipswich striker Marcus Stewart discuss how a career in football has prepared them to deal with the unpredictable nature of motor neurone disease.BBC Sport - Published | |
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