Marlon King, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Jamaican association football player
Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1980
Place of Birth: Dulwich, England, United Kingdom
Profession: association football player
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Marlon King
- Marlon Francis King (born 26 April 1980) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born and raised in south London, he started his career in non-League football with Dulwich Hamlet.
- He played for Barnet, Gillingham, Leeds United and Nottingham Forest before moving to Watford in 2005.
- At Watford he was the Football League Championship top scorer, and was voted Watford player of the season as the club earned promotion to the Premier League.
- King joined Wigan Athletic in 2008, and subsequently spent loan spells at Hull City and Middlesbrough.
- He joined Coventry City in September 2010, following his release from prison, and made 29 appearances for the club before controversially switching to Birmingham City in June 2011.
- He made 79 appearances for Birmingham, before suffering a series of injuries during the 2012–13 season that prevented him from playing again, leaving the club in August 2013 by mutual consent.
- King has also played and scored for the Jamaican national team. King has served three jail sentences, and has a number of other criminal convictions including: theft from a person and from a car, criminal damage, and attempting to obtain property by deception; fraudulent use of vehicle licence document, driving without insurance, speeding, drink driving; a wounding incident while playing amateur football, and two cases involving assault of young women rejecting his advances in the Soho area of London.
- King had his playing contract cancelled by Wigan after being convicted of the sexual assault charges and being sentenced to eighteen months in prison.
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