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| rdfs:comment | - Nathan Ellington is a forward who spent three years at Rovers, from 1999 until 2002. He had impressed on the non-league scene for Walton & Herhsam, and despite interest from a number of other league clubs he signed for Rovers in February 1999 for a transfer fee of £150,000. He was one of a number of successful Rovers players picked up from non-league clubs around this time, along with the likes of Barry Hayles and Steve Foster. He left Rovers in March 2002 to join Wigan for a transfer fee of £1,200,000 – more than a million pounds more than the Pirates had paid to sign him.
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| abstract | - Nathan Ellington is a forward who spent three years at Rovers, from 1999 until 2002. He had impressed on the non-league scene for Walton & Herhsam, and despite interest from a number of other league clubs he signed for Rovers in February 1999 for a transfer fee of £150,000. He was one of a number of successful Rovers players picked up from non-league clubs around this time, along with the likes of Barry Hayles and Steve Foster. After initially being a backup at the club to provide backup to first choice strikers Jamie Cureton and Jason Roberts, he went on to become one of the best players for Rovers during what was a lean spell for the club. He was the club's top scorer for the two seasons following the departures of Roberts and Cureton, with fifteen league goals in both the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons, despite leaving to join Wigan Athletic before the end of the 01-02 campaign. He left Rovers in March 2002 to join Wigan for a transfer fee of £1,200,000 – more than a million pounds more than the Pirates had paid to sign him. Perhaps his most famous performance in a Rovers shirt came on 6 January 2002 in the FA Cup, when the Gas were playing Premiership side Derby County at Pride Park in the third round. Ellington scored a hat-trick in the game, and led Rovers to a 3–1 victory. After leaving Rovers Nathan converted to Islam following the conversion of his brother, Jason, and meeting his now wife Alma, who is a Bosnian Muslim. In 2008 he expressed an interest in playing for the Bosnian national team, but it is unlikely he would fulfill FIFA's eligibility requirements. He also qualifies to play for Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, as well as England.
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