Seth johnson where is he now

Johnson's rise brought tremendous pride to Crewe's serial talent-spotter Dario Gradi, who had discovered the midfielder while on a trip to Devon with Crewe's youth team. A match against Dawlish Generals was cancelled at the last minute and a number of their players — including Johnson — still turned up, to find nothing but a few Crewe players training on an empty pitch.

Gradi asked if they would like to join in. I didn't expect much but Seth proved better than we thought. Johnson broke into the team as a year-old and had made 80 league starts by the time Derby first tried to sign him a few days after his 20th birthday.

It was transfer deadline day, March , and Crewe at the time were 23rd in the division now known as the Championship with nine games to play. It was typical of him as a bloke. Seth hasn't. He's become the man we hoped he would be. Johnson's combative and whole-hearted displays at Derby made him extremely popular with the club's fans but led inevitably to transfer rumours.

Early in his third season in the Midlands, and a little under a year after his international debut, Johnson was on the move again.

He had been frequently linked with Leeds United but on 10 October their chairman, Peter Ridsdale, said the rumours "have certainly got nothing to do with us", adding: "I can assure you there is absolutely nothing happening. The story of Johnson's contract negotiations with Leeds have passed into legend, a chilling damnation of Ridsdale's spendthrift regime.

Ridsdale's opening gambit, however, surprised them both. Around the table jaws dropped in genuine shock. The story is untrue. Ridsdale says it is "a myth" , that he had seen Johnson's contract at Derby and his actual offer was "two grand more than what [he was] getting" there.

Johnson's agent, Leon Angel, said: "We went into that meeting with a figure in mind for what we wanted. We negotiated and I can tell you we didn't get everything we wanted. In other words, it was a perfectly normal negotiation. Johnson says he had just signed a new contract with Derby. But I wasn't going there for the money, that wasn't even an issue for me. Had Johnson and Leeds gone on to great success all would have been forgotten but his time there was little short of disastrous.

When he signed, Leeds were top of the Premier League after winning five and not losing any of their first eight games of the season; when he left four years later they had finished 14th in the Championship.

Johnson was only 28 at the time, and a decade later he is still struggling to fill the gap in his life that football left. I play a bit of golf, I play the odd charity game and golf events, but apart from that not much. Johnson will always have regrets about how his career panned out, but he played at the top level, represented his country and is still loved by supporters of two of the three clubs he represented.

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Liverpool versus Nasty Leeds used to be such a fixture to savour. Then, and not for the last time, Nasty Leeds fell away, spending almost the entire s in the old Second Division.

In February a Liverpool team for whom Harry Kewell scored the first to a hail of boos from his former friends in the Lurpak Stand, drew with a doomed Nasty Leeds team marshalled by Seth Johnson with an year-old James Milner on the wing. But Marcelo Bielsa has led Nasty Leeds back to their promised land and, to keep fans on tenterhooks, the Argentine maestro only signed his new deal — and for one year only — on Friday.

What might greet Nasty Leeds on their return to the big time? And who is most excited of all? What a guy! Their first opponents, Fulham, have reason to rattle their sabres, however. Goals shipped ahoy!