Nottingham Forest Star, Chris Bart-Williams Is Dead

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Chris Bart-Williams, the former Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest midfielder, has died at the age of just 49.

Bart-Williams, who was born in Sierra Leone, won 16 England Under-21 caps and one England ‘B’ cap, spent eight seasons of his 16-year professional career plying his trade in the Premier League.

After breaking through at Leyton Orient, he joined Wednesday for a then club-record fee of £275k in 1991. He made 156 appearances for the Owls, scoring 24 goals, before joining Forest in a £2.5million move in 1995. He would spend six-and-a-half years at the City Ground, making 245 appearances and scoring 35 times.