Matthew James Upson (born 18 April 1979) is an English footballer who plays for West Ham United. He is a central defender and the current captain having taken over after the departure of Lucas Neill.
Upson was born in Hartismere, Eye, Suffolk. He joined Luton Town as a trainee in 1994. He signed professional forms in April 1996, making his sole appearance for the senior team against Rotherham United in August 1996.
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Matthew James Upson (born 18 April 1979) is an English footballer who plays for West Ham United. He is a central defender and the current captain having taken over after the departure of Lucas Neill.
Upson was born in Hartismere, Eye, Suffolk. He joined Luton Town as a trainee in 1994. He signed professional forms in April 1996, making his sole appearance for the senior team against Rotherham United in August 1996.
He joined Arsenal in May 1997 in a £2 million deal. However, faced with the longevity of Arsenal's existing centre backs, Tony Adams, Steve Bould and Martin Keown, and struck by injury problems of his own, Upson rarely had a chance to break into the first team. After spending a year out of the game recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament injury sustained in 1999, Upson only made a handful of first team appearance for Arsenal, in between loan spells at Nottingham Forest in 2000 and Crystal Palace in 2001.
In 2001–02, his final full season at Arsenal however, Upson did...
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