Taylor-Fletcher scored Blackpool's last goal in the Premier League in a 4-2 loss at Manchester United in May 2011Former Blackpool and Leicester striker Gary Taylor-Fletcher has announced his retirement at the age of 38. In a 20-year career he played 575 times in the top five divisions of English football, scoring 120 goals. He scored six Premier League goals for Blackpool the following season. In total, he played for 15 clubs in England and Wales, helping Leicester City win promotion to the Premier League in 2014 after doing the same with Blackpool four years earlier. "I've had some fantastic memories along the journey from being a 17-year-old kid at Northwich Victoria in the Conference to playing in the Premier League at 29 for Blackpool," he said in a statement on social media.

Source: BBC June 04, 2019 07:52 UTC