Titus Bramble

Titus Malachi Bramble (born 31 July 1981) is an English footballer who plays for Sunderland as a defender.

Career

Ipswich Town

Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, Bramble started his career at home town club Ipswich Town. After making his debut in the 1998/99 season, Bramble went on to make 48 league appearances for the club, also spending a brief period on loan at Colchester United. He scored four goals for Ipswich, with strikes against Sunderland in the league,

Newcastle United

Bramble joined Newcastle in July 2002 for £6 million, vowing at the time to make himself indispensable to then manager Sir Bobby Robson.At the end of the 2003–04 season, readers of the football e-mail newsletter The Fiver voted Bramble as the worst player of the year in the English Premiership.

Bramble scored a spectacular volleyed goal against Chelsea on May 8, 2006 in a 1–0 victory that secured qualification for the Intertoto Cup.

On 10 August 2006, Titus scored another vital goal for Newcastle in the UEFA Cup second qualifying round with a header against Latvian side FK Ventspils. In the return leg as St James's Park, Bramble gave a solid performance in a 0–0 draw, allowing the Geordies to progress to the UEFA Cup.

In December, Bramble was...
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