Stephen Rishworth
association football player (born 1980)
Stephen Peter Rishworth (born 8 June 1980) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder in the Football League for Wrexham.
Career
Rishworth started as a trainee at Manchester City before moving to Wrexham's youth team in 1996. He made four appearances in the Football League Second Division at the start of the 1998–99 season, all as a substitute.
Rishworth then left professional football to study engineering at Balliol College, Oxford.
“Stephen Rishworth” enters the record as association football player (born 1980). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stephen, Rishworth and association can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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