Ross Turnbull, Biography

Name:	Ross Turnbull
Nationality:	English
Date of Birth:	04/01/1985
Height:	6' 4" (193cm)
Weight:	13st 5lbs (85.0kg)
Previous
Clubs:	Crewe (loan), Cardiff City (loan), Barnsley (loan), Bradford City (loan), Middlesbrough, Darlington (loan)
Position:	Goalkeeper

Ross Turnbull joined from Middlesbrough in the summer of 2010, signing a four-year contract.
Turnbull was available on a free after his contract expired at the Riverside Stadium, opting to head south to Stamford Bridge rather than sign a new deal in the north east following Boro's relegation.


An England youth international, Ross was born in Bishop Auckland and came through the ranks at Middlesbrough, making his league debut in May 2006 in a 1-1 draw against Bolton. Prior to that there had been temporary spells with Darlington, Barnsley, Bradford and Crewe, sides that would have noticed his impressive FA Youth Cup form as Boro reached the Final in 2002/03, beaten by Manchester United.
Another loan spell at Cardiff City was cut short due to injuries in late 2007 as the youngster stepped in for Mark Schwarzer, playing in Boro's 2-1 win over Arsenal. At the end of that campaign, the Australian announced he was leaving for Fulham, meaning Turnbull and Brad Jones would fight it out for the number one spot for the 2008/09 campaign.
Initially it was Jones given the nod by Gareth Southgate, but when he injured himself in the warm-up before the second league game of the season, Turnbull stepped in, keeping his place until the turn of the year.
His last Middlesbrough appearance came against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge back at the end of January when he was beaten by two Salomon Kalou goals. The 6 ft 4in stopper had earlier been in the line-up when we ran out 5-0 winners at the Riverside in October.
In total, Ross made 29 appearances for Middlesbrough, in addition to 67 for his various loan clubs.
With no shortage of ambition, the Englishman described the 'fantastic opportunity' he had ahead of him when moving to Chelsea and expressed a desire to push Petr Cech for a starting place.
A solid debut was made in Los Angeles as Inter were beaten 2-0 in pre-season, but it was not until October that Turnbull tasted competitive football in a Chelsea jersey when he replaced Hilario 23 minutes in against Bolton in the Carling Cup, the senior citizen of the goalkeeping department struck down with a bout of concussion.
A first start for Turnbull followed against APOEL in a Champions League dead rubber. He made a sharp save from a close-range effort inside the opening five minutes, but was eventually beaten twice, at fault for neither, as we drew 2-2.
Injury struck Hilario before a Champions League second leg against Inter. So Ross stepped in for the biggest night of his career.
We conceded a late goal to condemn us to defeat, meaning a late, instinctive save from Samuel Eto'o was forgotten and not the tie-deciding stop it could have been.
Five days later Turnbull was beaten by an El-Hadji Diouf header from six yards as Blackburn held us 1-1 in Lancashire, and that was his last involvement of the campaign as Cech returned for the run in.

 

Season 2010 - 11

Competition	Apps (as sub)	Goals	Yellow Cards	Red Cards
League Cup	1  (0)	0	0	0
Euro Cups	1  (0)	0	0	0

Career History:
Club	Season	Comp.	Apps (as sub)	Goals
Chelsea	2009 - 10	League	2  (0)	0
		League Cup	0  (1)	0
		Euro Cups	2  (0)	0
Middlesbrough	2008 - 09	League	22  (0)	0
		League Cup	1  (0)	0
Cardiff City	2007 - 08	League	6  (0)	0
		League Cup	2  (0)	0
Middlesbrough	2007 - 08	League	3  (0)	0
Middlesbrough	2006 - 07	League Cup	1  (0)	0
Crewe	2005 - 06	League	29  (0)	0
Middlesbrough	2005 - 06	League	2  (0)	0
Bradford City	2004 - 05	League	2  (0)	0
Barnsley	2004 - 05	League	23  (0)	0
		FA Cup	1  (0)	0
Barnsley	2003 - 04	League	3  (0)	0
Darlington	2003 - 04	League	1  (0)	0

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