Ryan Crowther

Stockport County and Liverpool

Born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, Crowther spent nine years at his local club Stockport County moving through the youth system, before making his first team debut for the club on 2 January 2006 in a 2–2 draw against Cheltenham Town, where aged just 17, he came on as a substitute and was made captain, making him the youngest captain in the club's history. He went on to make one other senior appearance for Stockport before the club were approached by Liverpool requesting an opportunity to take both Crowther and Greg Tansey on trial with a view to take them to a tournament in Milan, and agreed deals with Stockport for both players subject to satisfactory performances from the players at the tournament. The players both went to the tournament and Crowther joined Liverpool on 9 July 2007, with Tansey deciding to stay at Stockport. Crowther featured for the successful Liverpool reserve team during the 2007–08 season. On 18 August 2009, it was confirmed that he had left Liverpool by mutual consent.

Just one week after leaving Liverpool he went on trial at AFC Bournemouth. He also returned to Stockport where he played in a pre-season friendly but was not offered a contract. In October 2009 he went on trial with Grimsby Town but again was not offered a contract.

Drop into non-League

After several trials, he joined Stalybridge Celtic in August 2010, making his debut for the club on 28 of that month in a Conference North match…

As of 11 February 2014

In an interview with Liverpool Football Club, he stated that if he wasn't a footballer he would have been a physio. On 12 September 2010, he was jailed for four months over a drunken attack on a taxi driver which had taken place on 9 August 2009 in Watford, Hertfordshire. He was tried for racially aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm but a jury acquitted him of that charge, but found him guilty of an alternative charge of assaulting the taxi driver.