Marcus Gayle

Watford He started off brightly by scoring five goals in first 14 matches until a back injury hampered his season. Gayle was released from his Brentford contract on 17 May 2006.

Aldershot Town He signed for Aldershot Town on 2 July 2006. In February 2007 Gayle damaged his ACL knee ligaments and cartilage, but still made the last few matches of the season he was released by Aldershot at the end of 2006–07 season scoring seven times in 27 appearances. and, after scoring against Maidenhead United in the FA Trophy, becoming the first player to have scored for both incarnations of the South West London club and helping them to promotion to the conference south before retiring from playing that summer.

International career Gayle was born in England to a Jamaican father and Barbadian mother. He was capped by England at U18 level but later decided to switch allegiance and play for Jamaica who he was eligible to represent through his father. When a player at Wimbledon, Gayle signed a contract in June 1997 with a clause that restricted him to only represent England at international level. Horace Reid of the Jamaica Football Federation complained to FIFA about the restriction and the FIFA Player Status Committee refused to recognise the clause and allowed Gayle to change allegiance to Jamaica in January 1998.

Gayle was capped 14 times for Jamaica and played at the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup in United States and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, Jamaica's first ever World Cup finals. He is presently working towards his coaching badges and in September 2008 took the role of AFC Wimbledon reserve team manager. In his first year of taking over he guided his talented squad to two cup finals, winning the suburban league challenge cup and runners up in the suburban challenge shield in 2009. Runners up in the league came in 2010. In 2011, his reserves collected the league trophy for the very first time and also the champions cup, very unlucky not to pick up the treble after losing to South Park in the Suburban Premier Cup. Marcus is a member of the Wimbledon Old Players Association and has played for Wimbledon's Masters side and Old Players XI. the 10th time Staines Town have won the competition. The second season brought an impressive 8th-place finish (Highest in club history) and reaching the 1st round proper of the FA Cup vs Brentford.

December 2014 Marcus was relieved of his duties due to a bad run of games.

Until 2010, Gayle owned a designer clothes shop in Fulham, London called 3 Tribes.

Career statistics

Club

International Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gayle goal.

Honours

As a player Brentford Football League Third Division: 1991–92

As a manager Staines Town Middlesex Senior Cup: 2012–13