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Scunthorpe United Football Club is an English association football team based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. Nicknamed "The Iron", they played in the Football League Championship until their relegation in 2011 and were the highest-placed league club located in Lincolnshire. The Club have undergone a major transition over the last 5 years; after nearly being relegated in 2003 � 04, the club have since had three promotions, one relegation, a Johnstones Paint Trophy final appearance in 2009, and numerous broken records including their highest transfer fees paid and received, their highest capacity in their current ground, and their longest period without defeat (19 games). The club have a formidable reputation for producing good quality strikers, with the majority being purchased for a small amount of money and sold on to bigger clubs for a large profit. The most notable of these in recent times was the partnership of Andy Keogh and Billy Sharp who were sold on to Wolverhampton Wanderers and Sheffield United respectively. Other notable strikers to have moved on from Scunthorpe in recent years are Martin Paterson, Jermaine Beckford and Gary Hooper, the latter moving to Scottish giants Celtic for a fee of £2.4 million. They were the bookies' odds on favourite to be relegated in 2009 � 10 along with Blackpool (who achieved promotion that year). After the departures of some of the club's better players (more noticeably the strike partnership of Paul Hayes and Gary Hooper), they made a positive start to the 2010 � 11 season with a 2 � 1 victory away at promotion favourites Reading, but were relegated back down to League One on 30 April 2011 after a 5-1 defeat at Nottingham Forest. |
