Plays for Premiership club Tottenham Hotspur, following a transfer from
relegated West Ham United in spring 2004
Announced he will marry girlfriend Charlotte Mears on 5 July 2008 in
Cambridge. The couple became engaged on Valentines Day. (July 22, 2007).
He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the Jermain Defoe Foundation. He is footballer in Hertfordshire, England.