About Rowan Vine
Rowan Lewis Vine (born 21 September 1982) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. Vine began his career at Portsmouth, spending time on loan at Brentford, Colchester United, and Luton Town, who he joined permanently in 2005 for an undisclosed fee, reported as £250,000. He then moved to Birmingham City, in January 2007 for a fee of £2.5 million, which rose to £3m when Birmingham were promoted to the Premier League that year. He then joined Queens Park Rangers (QPR), initially on loan in October 2007, before making the move permanent in January 2008 for a fee of £1 million. He then had loan spells at Hull City, Milton Keynes Dons, Exeter City, and Gillingham, before being released in 2012. He then moved to Scotland, playing for St Johnstone, Hibernian and Greenock Morton. Vine then played non-league football for Welling United, Havant & Waterlooville, Gosport Borough (three spells), Basingstoke Town, Southall (two spells), Hayes & Yeading United, Hartley Wintney (two spells), Alresford Town, Moneyfields, Tadley Calleva and Hemel Hempstead Town. In his first season after his permanent move to the club, he scored 10 goals in 30 games after missing the start of the season with a back injury. Vine enjoyed a successful campaign at Griffin Park, netting his first ever goal on his debut in a 2–0 win at Huddersfield Town, and going on to score 13 further goals in 44 starts for the Bees. On 15 September, Vine scored his first goal for the club, a curling effort ten minutes from time against reigning SPL champions Celtic that gave St Johnstone their first win of the season. He made his first-team debut at the age of 18, in a goalless draw with Sheffield United in December 2000.
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