Name: Philip Richard Stant
Seasons Played: 1990/91, 1996/97-1999/2000
Position: Striker
Date of Birth: 13.10.1962
Birthplace: Bolton
League Debut: 24.11.1990, Darlington (h), Div 4
League Games: 46+22
League Goals: 21
Career: Army, Camberley, Reading, Didcot Town, Army, Hereford United, Notts County, Blackpool (loan), LCFC (loan), Huddersfield Town (loan), Fulham, Mansfield Town, Cardiff City, Mansfield Town (loan), Bury, Northampton Town (loan), LCFC, Brighton & Hove Albion, Worcester City, Dover Athletic, Hayes, Hinckley United.

An avid fan of home town team Bolton Wanderers, Phil Stant's route into professional football came after a career in the military, which saw him serve in the Falklands War whilst in the Army in the early 1980s.

He progressed into the SAS so it probably came as no surprise when his first real taste of Football League experience came with Hereford United, although he did net twice in four games for Reading in the 1982/83 season.

Bought out of the Army by Hereford for £600, Stant went on to score 38 times in 89 League appearances for the Bulls, including 28 in 1988/89, before he secured a £175,000 move to Notts County.

He played just 22 times (six goals) for the Magpies though and after loan spells with Blackpool, the Imps - he failed to hit the target in his four games during the latter part of 1990 - and Huddersfield Town he joined Fulham for £60,000 in February 1991.

Six months later he was on the move again, banging in 26 goals for Mansfield as the Stags won promotion from the Fourth Division, and in December 1992, Wales came calling and a £100,00 move to Cardiff City followed.

Stant averaged a goal every other game during his three seasons at Ninian Park before it was Bury's turn to experience his goalscoring talents and it was from the Shakers where City purchased him for £30,000 in December 1996.

He marked his second arrival at Sincil Bank by banging in 16 goals in 22 matches during the second half of the 1996/97 season and whilst the goals dried up the following campaign, he still played his part as the Club gained promotion on the final day of the season, assisting caretaker-manager Shane Westley in the latter half of the season.

In the Second Division campaign the following year, Stant made just five substitute appearances in all competitions as he concentrated on assisting Westley and chairman John Reames, who took over as manager in November 1998. In May 2000, Reames handed the managerial reins over to Stant, who came off the bench a further 19 times in the 1999/2000 season.

Stant lasted just 30 matches as Imps' boss though and, four days after the Lincoln City Membership Scheme's Community Ownership Package for the shareholding of the Club was successful, the new Board of Directors terminated the contracts of Stant and his assistant George Foster, with former Grimsby Town boss Alan Buckley coming in as his successor.

A short-term playing contract at Brighton & Hove Albion followed and on leaving the Seagulls, having scored once from seven substitute appearances, a tour of the non-Leagues saw him run out for the likes of Worcester, Dover, Hayes and Hinckley whilst in his early 40s before he returned to management with Gainsborough Trinity and then Ilkeston Town.

Stant resigned from his post at Ilkeston in September 2005 and now concentrates his energies by running the Newark & Sherwood College Football Academy whilst he's also a youth development monitor for the Football League.