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He was one of the first black footballers to play for England, and scored a hat-trick on his first full international match - a 9-0 win over Luxembourg). He never scored in any other international however, which led tabloid newspapers to dub him "Luther Missitt". This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... In sports, a hat-trick (more often rendered in North America as hat trick, without the hyphen) is associated with achieving something in a group of three. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ...

Playing career

Blissett made 246 appearances for Watford, his first club, between 1975 and 1983, scoring 95 goals (including 27 goals in the 1982-3 season). Blissett moved to Milan for £1m in summer 1983, but he was not as successful as he had been in England, as he scored only 5 goals in 30 appearances (it has been suggested that scouts confused him with another black player at Watford at the time, John Barnes). Blissett was sold, at a loss, back to Watford for £550,000 after only one season at the Italian club. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Charles Bryan Barnes (born November 7, 1963 in Kingston, Jamaica) was a hugely successful and well known Jamaican-born English football player of the 1980s and 1990s, and was formerly also a one time manager of Scottish side, Glasgow Celtic. ...

Blissett played for Watford for a second time until 1988 (scoring another 44 goals in 127 appearances), then moved to Bournemouth for three years, back to Watford (for a third time), before finishing his career with short spells at West Bromwich Albion, Bury and Mansfield. AFC Bournemouth is an English football team currently playing in Football League One. ... West Bromwich Albion Football Club is an English football club formed by workers from Salters Spring Works in West Bromwich, West Midlands in 1878. ... Bury Football Club are an English association football team based in Bury, Greater Manchester. ... Mansfield Town Football Club are an English football club who will play the 2005-06 season in League Two of the Football League. ...

Coaching career

Following retirement from playing in 1994, Blissett rejoined Watford as a coach in February 1996, coming in with returning manager Graham Taylor. He left the club in June 2001, following the appointment of Gianluca Vialli as manager. Vialli wanted to appoint his own back-room staff, and thus Blissett was deemed surplus to requirements, to the anger of many fans. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Graham Taylor (born September 15, 1944, Worksop, Nottinghamshire) is a football manager and a former player. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Gianluca Vialli (born July 9, 1964 in Cremona) is an Italian football striker and manager. ...

In April 2002, he moved to York City to carry out a coaching role. He has since left this post and on February 15th 2006 was appointed manager of Southern League team Chesham United. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... York City Football Club are an English football team based in York and currently playing in the Conference National. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Southern League Premier Division is a football league covering central and south western England. ... Chesham United is a football club currently playing in the Southern League. ...

Blissett and Situationism

Blissett's name has been adopted by many people in situationist circles as a nom de plume or alias when engaged in situationist activities. The Luther Blissett multiple name project first began in 1994 in Italy, no doubt a consequence of his link with A.C. Milan, and has since then been widely used by artists, underground reviews, poets, performers and squatters' collectives in cities throughout Europe. The name of Luther Blissett has appeared in reports of situationist events in Norway and Finland. In Hungary, a press campaign was organized by a neoist for the release of a US political prisoner named, unsurprisingly, Luther Blissett. His name has been used in France in a collection of love letters to an unknown lady. In Slovenia, "Luther Blissett" wrote a manifesto entitled "10 Items of the Covenant." In the Maldives, "Luther Blissett" is a well known local pimp who is reknowned for 'branding' his staff. In Italy, people purporting to be Luther Blissett organized dozens of situationist assaults against the establishment (as well as, inevitably, situationist assaults against the establishment of situationism). See Luther Blissett (nom de plume). The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ... Associazione Calcio Milan is an Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, they play in red-and-black stripes, giving them the nickname rossoneri (red-blacks). One of the most successful clubs in the world, they have won the prestigious European Cup 6 times (second only to Real Madrid), Intercontinental... This article is about occupying land without permission. ... Street action at the 6th Neoist Apartment Festival in Montreal, 1983 Neoism refers both to a specific subcultural network of artistic performance and media experimentalists and more generally to a practical underground philosophy. ... Likeness of Luther Blissett produced by Wu Ming Luther Blissett is a multiple identity, a nom de plume that anyone is welcome to use for activist and artistic endeavour. ...

Trivia

• Blissett holds the records for the most appearances (415) and scoring the most goals (158) for Watford.
• He has worked as a television pundit, for Channel 4 and Bravo's coverage of Serie A.
• Part of the set on Sky TV show Soccer AM is called "The Luther Blissett Stand"
• Blissett ran the 2005 and 2006 London Marathons in aid of the Peace Hospice. In 2005 he completed the course in five hours and 46 minutes ([1],[2]).

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References

• BBC Sport article
• FA website profile
• ThisIsYork profile
• Blog on myspace.com/lutherblissett featuring an interview with the actual man himself urlcutter.com/blissett_interview.