christopher curran born 17 september 1971 is an english former professional footballercurran was born in birmingham and began his career as a trainee with torquay united making his debut during the 198990 season whilst still a trainee he turned professional on 13 july 1990 and went on to make 152 appearances for the gulls scoring 4 goals on 22 december 1995 he was surprisingly sold to local rivals plymouth argyle for 40000 but failed to settle at home park moving to exeter city on 31 july 1997 for 20000this move made him one of only a handful of players to have played for all three of the football league sides in devon he made an impressive start to his career at exeter but in september 1997 picked up a serious knee ligament injury which ruled him out for the remainder of the season he returned to the side and a regular place in the team so much so that he was one of only a handful of players not released or transfer listed by manager noel blake in may 2000he was appointed as club captain and in january 2001 was sent off in the game against torquay united after only six minutes of the gamehaving struggled with knee and hamstring problems curran was loaned to tiverton town in december 2002 he played eight times for tiverton before being recalled by exeter as they unsuccessfully struggled to avoid relegation from the football league he suffered a ruptured achilles tendon just before the end of the 200203 season and was released by exeterhe relocated back to the midlands to recuperate and enrolled on a physical education course at the university of wolverhamptonin february 2004 he was reported to be looking to join a nonleague club and agreed terms with weymouth managed by steve claridge the following month however he failed to appear for weymouth and returned to the midlandshe joined willenhall town in august 2004 in january 2005 he joined newport county on trial which resulted in a permanent move he was released by newport in september 2005 and returned to willenhall town