Iain Campbell Ward is an English footballer who played in the Football League

The Football League

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 for Grimsby Town

Grimsby Town F.C.

Grimsby Town Football Club is an English football club based in the seaside town of Cleethorpes, in North East Lincolnshire, England, who compete in the Conference National. They were formed in 1878 as Grimsby Pelham and later became Grimsby Town...

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Career

Ward was born in Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes

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, Lincolnshire

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. He joined the youth system at Grimsby Town

Grimsby Town F.C.

Grimsby Town Football Club is an English football club based in the seaside town of Cleethorpes, in North East Lincolnshire, England, who compete in the Conference National. They were formed in 1878 as Grimsby Pelham and later became Grimsby Town...

 at the age of 12, and worked his way through to the first-team squad by Lennie Lawrence

Lennie Lawrence

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 towards the close of the 2000–01 season. He made his debut a year later, in the last Division One

Football League First Division

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 match of the season, a 3–1 defeat away to Millwall

Millwall F.C.

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 on 21 April 2002.

He was given a 12-month contract in June 2002, and went on to feature 14 times for The Mariners in all competitions before being released at the end of the 2003–04 campaign. When he received no offers from League clubs, he decided to start a degree course in Grimsby, and signed for nearby Brigg Town

Brigg Town F.C.

Brigg Town Football Club, formed in 1864, are a football team from Brigg, North Lincolnshire. They are the oldest football team in the county and one of the oldest in the world...

, newly promoted to the Northern Premier League First Division

Northern Premier League First Division

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, on a semi-professional

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 basis. Ward left Brigg Town after four years with the club at the end of the 2007–08 season.

Ward's younger brother Andrew also played for Grimsby Town's junior teams.

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