Robert Fitzgerald Earle Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Robert Fitzgerald “Robbie” Earle MBE (born 27 January 1965) is a former Jamaican international footballer who played as a midfielder. Earle was born in England but grew up in Jamaica. In his senior club football career, he played 578 league games and scored 136 goals. Earle, a former junior player for Stoke City, made his professional debut with Port Vale in 1982 after being released by the Potters. After nine years with the Burslem-based club, he was named the club’s PFA Fans’ Favourites after leading the Vale to promotions from the Fourth Division in 1982–83 and 1985–86, as well as promotion from the Third Division in 1989. In 1991, he went on to Wimbledon, where he stayed for nine years as a player. His total league appearances for each team were almost 300 games, with 77 and 59 goals scored, respectively. Between 1997 and 2000, he also represented Jamaica on 33 occasions, scoring eight international goals in the process.

 He represented his country in the 1998 World Cup, when he scored the first ever goal scored by his country in the finals. Following his retirement from football in 2000, Earle has made a name for himself in the world of sports writing. He is a frequent contributor to print, radio, and television publications. He was fired from his punditry position with ITV in 2010 when it was discovered that he had given ITV World Cup tickets to a third party. A former television broadcast analyst for the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer, he is currently a pundit for the Premier League on NBC Sports Network, having previously worked for the team in the United States.

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