Peter Ramage
Personal information
Full name	Peter Iain Ramage
Date of birth	22 November 1983 (1983-11-22) (age 26)
Place of birth	Ashington, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Queens Park Rangers
Number	2
Youth career
1996–2002	Newcastle United
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004–2008 2008–	Newcastle United Queens Park Rangers	51 (0) 41 (1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:45, 30 November 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Peter Iain Ramage (born 22 November 1983 in Ashington, Northumberland) is a professional football player.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Club career 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Early life

Ramage is the son of Iain Ramage, a former semi-professional rugby union player and international RFU referee, who was Scotland's representative at the 2003 World Cup. Ramage grew up in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, but moved to the Newcastle area at the age of twelve and attended Valley Gardens Middle School before going to Whitley Bay High School.^{[citation needed]} It was then when he began playing for local youth team Cramlington Juniors and began to take a more serious interest in football.^{[citation needed]} He joined the Newcastle United school of Excellence aged just 13 years old.^{[citation needed]} Originally playing as a striker, he changed to defender due to there already being too many forwards in the squad.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Club career

Ramage played in the same youth team as Michael Chopra, Adam Rundle and Steven Taylor under Alan Irvine, before later being coached by former Newcastle players Kenny Wharton and Peter Beardsley. He would later partner Taylor in central defence when they broke into the first team. In the reserve team he was coached by another former United player, Tommy Craig. In March 2003, Ramage won the Jackie Milburn Trophy, given each year to the rising star of north-east football. He worked his way through Newcastle's youth system and captained the Newcastle reserve side before making his breakthrough to the first team squad. Ramage made his first team debut as a substitute in Newcastle's UEFA Cup round-of-16 match second leg against Olympiakos Piraeus on 16 March 2005.

His first league start at Old Trafford in the 2–1 defeat to Manchester United on 24 April 2005. He followed this up with several first team starts due to injuries to other defenders in the Newcastle squad.

Ramage was a first team regular in the 2005–06 season, appearing in twenty-nine games. The injury to team-mate Stephen Carr allowed him to play a larger amount of games for the Magpies, as he made a good impression on both Graeme Souness and Glenn Roeder, who replaced Souness as manager in early 2006. As a result of these performances he allegedly caught the eye of former Scotland coach Walter Smith.^[1] Ramage is eligible to play for Scotland or England.

Ramage only made two appearances in the 2007–08 season, when he was hampered by injury, but also losing out to the new defensive recruits made by the then new manager Sam Allardyce. He was also not to be a first choice of the next manager Kevin Keegan, who replaced Allardyce in the middle of the season.

Ramage's Newcastle contract expired at the end of the season, and despite Keegan's stated desire to retain Ramage, he was unable to guarantee first team football, therefore Ramage made the decision to move on.^[2] He subsequently signed for Championship side Queens Park Rangers on a three year contract.^[3] On the opening day of the 2009/2010 season Ramage scored his first professional goal against Blackpool,^[4] he also won the Man Of The Match Award.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Peter Ramage player profile at qpr.co.uk
• Peter Ramage player profile at nufc.co.uk
• Peter Ramage career stats at Soccerbase
• Peter Ramage BBC profile
• BBC Tyne Peter Ramage Interview

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Persondata
NAME	Peter Ramage
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	22 November 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ashington, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH