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Fulname: Wayne Biggins
aka: Bertie
Height: 5.10
Weight: 13st
Born: 20 Nov 1961
Birthplace: Sheffield
Position: Striker
Signed: Nov 1993
Internationals: none

Biog

A name synomonous with one of the bleakest periods in Celtic's history Wayne Biggins arrived at Parkhead from Barnsley in November 1993 in a part-exchange deal which saw the South Yorkshire club pick up Andy Payton and £100,000.

Whatever manager Lou Macari saw in Biggins was not shared by the Celtic support who were left wondering why the limited but hard working Payton was swapped for an unknown 33 year-old English journeyman. A prolific striker in lower division English football, but just not Celtic class though..

Biggins made just 4 starts for Celtic but as far as the Hoops support - by now deeply depressed by the dominance of Rangers - were concerned that was 4 starts too many. In a Celtic career which lasted a mercifully short four months Biggins failed to hit the net and headed back down south in March 1994 with former club Stoke kindly paying £125,000.

Additional

User - Wellgreen

As a first-hand witness of his debut (he came on as a sub in a midweek game) I can say that one of the less wonderful things the Celtic support has done happened that day. A section of the crowd booed him on for his debut and sang "Who the f*ckin hell are you?".

The frustration was utterly understandable given the sitation that Celtic were in at the time. He wasn't up to it, we knew it and probably he knew it as well. In fact I rank him as the worst player I have ever seen in a Celtic strip.

Harsh but fair - his nickname was 'Bertie' but nobody really knew why. The fanzine Not The View suggested that it was because he had the same amount of football ability as the large liquorice allsorts creature.

Nevertheless, it was unfair to boo the man on for his debut.

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Career Stats

Club	From	To	Fee	League		Scottish Cup		League cup		Other
Leek	01/08/1997		Free	8 (0)	8	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0
Wigan	17/11/1995	31/05/1997	Free	31 (16)	5	1 (0)	0	1 (1)	0	0 (0)	0
Oxford	06/07/1995	16/11/1995	Free	8 (2)	1	0 (0)	0	3 (1)	1	0 (1)	0
Luton	20/01/1995		Loan	6 (1)	1	2 (0)	1	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0
Stoke	24/03/1994	06/07/1995	£125,000	18 (9)	6	0 (0)	0	1 (1)	0	3 (1)	2
Celtic	25/11/1993	24/03/1994	Swap & £100,000	4 (5)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0
Barnsley	02/10/1992	25/11/1993	£200,000	44 (3)	16	3 (1)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0
Stoke	10/08/1989	02/10/1992	£250,000	120 (2)	46	6 (0)	0	10 (0)	2	10 (0)	5
Man City	15/07/1988	10/08/1989	£150,000	29 (3)	9	2 (0)	0	4 (0)	1	0 (0)	0
Norwich	17/10/1985	15/07/1988	£40,000	66 (13)	16	4 (0)	0	6 (0)	2	6 (2)	3
Burnley	04/02/1984	17/10/1985	£7500	78 (0)	29	3 (0)	1	6 (0)	1	7 (0)	5
Matlock	01/01/1982	04/02/1984		No appearance data available
King's Lynn	31/05/1981		Free	No appearance data available
Lincoln	22/11/1979	31/05/1981	Apprentice	8 (0)	1	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0
Totals			£772,500	420 (54)	138	21 (2)	2	31 (3)	7	26 (4)	15
			goals / game	0.29		0.08		0.2		0.5
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals