Danny Graham (footballer)

Danny Graham (born August 12, 1985 in Wallsend) is an English football player who currently plays for Blackpool on loan from Middlesbrough. He was brought up in Leam Lane in Gateshead and went to Heworth Grange Comprehensive School.

He was initially at Chester-le-Street Town, in the Northern Premier League, before joining the Premiership club in 2003.

Toward the end of the season he scored 21 goals in 20 games for the Under-19s side, and got his first action in March 2003. Darlington, then his team, were told they could only take him on loan from October 2004 onwards, so instead he moved to Middlesbrough, where, though during the 2004/05 season he started zero games, he was substituted on in eleven.

He played for Derby County on loan between November 2005 and February 2006, he failed to score a single goal in his time at Pride Park.

He is a former England Under-20 international with an eye for goal.