About Jason

Jason Roberts comes from a very athletic family, his uncles include former footballers Cyrille Regis, David Regis, and Otis Roberts (a former Grenada international who played in Hong Kong and Belgium). He is also related to Olympic gold medallist John Regis.

Jason, like his uncle Cyrille Regis, began his career in England playing for Hayes at the age of 18 years old. Jason was signed by Terry Brown and soon turned from a winger into a centre forward and began attracting the attention of a lot of clubs, the likes of Arsenal, Southampton and Wolverhampton Wanderers to name but a few but Jason plumped for Wolverhampton Wanderers and was immediately loaned out to Torquay United for playing experience, where he scored 6 goals in 13 games. Another loan took him to Bristol City, where he scored one goal in one start and two sub appearances.

He joined Bristol Rovers for £250,000 in August 1998. In the 1998–99 season Jason scored 16 goals in 32 league appearances, and continued his plunder in the next season, scoring 22 goals in 41 appearances. In the summer of 2000 however, following Rovers' failure to gain promotion, he handed in a transfer request to the club.

Jason moved to West Bromwich Albion on 26 July 2000, for a club record £2 million fee. He made his debut in a 1–0 defeat away at Nottingham Forest on 12 August 2000, the opening day of the 2000–01 season. He scored twice against Swansea City in the League Cup on 6 September 2000, his first goals for the club. Jason scored 15 goals in 34 appearances in 2000–01; he formed a successful partnership with Lee Hughes and fired Albion into the 1st Division playoffs. During West Brom's successful promotion campaign of 2001–02 however, Jason’s season was blighted by a persistent foot injury, breaking his fifth metatarsal three times. He managed only 12 league appearances during the season, scoring seven goals.

Despite being fully fit for 2002–03, Albion's first season in the Premiership, Roberts managed only three goals in 31 games. He was loaned out for much of the 2003–04 season to Portsmouth, where he scored one goal in four appearances, but a transfer request during the mid-season saw him move to Wigan Athletic for an approximately £2 million transfer fee.

Roberts started out well at Wigan, scored on his debut against rivals Preston after just 45 seconds and going on to score eight goals in 14 appearances to round out the 2003–04 season. Roberts continued to find the net in the 2004–05 campaign, ending the season with 21 goals in league play (second in The Championship, behind teammate Nathan Ellington). Both players were named in the PFA Championship team of the season. Wigan finished second in the table behind Sunderland, earning automatic promotion to the Premiership. It was his penalty kick goal in the second minute of their August 27, 2005 match against Sunderland that served as the first Premier League goal for the Latics and led them to the first top flight victory in Wigan Athletic's history.

With Wigan Athletic's promotion to the top flight of English football in May 2005, Jason Roberts was able to establish himself as one of the most feared strikers in The English Premiership. His goals enabled Wigan to finish the season comfortably in the top half and challenge for a European place in only their first season in the top division of English football. This success was encapsulated in one moment on Tuesday 24 January 2006 - when Roberts himself scored a last minute goal against Arsenal at Highbury in the Carling Cup semi-final to send Wigan to the first major cup final in their history.

On July 3, 2006 he joined Blackburn Rovers for £3m on a four year deal. He scored his first goal for Blackburn in the 2–1 FA Cup semi-final defeat against Chelsea. Roberts kept this momentum towards the end of the 2006–07 season by netting five goals in as many games shaking off criticism of many fans.

The 2007/08 season at Blackburn saw Jason’s season again dogged by injury twinned with the arrival of the prolific top scorer Roque Santa Cruz, meant limited first team appearances. Towards the back end of the season, Jason worked his way back to full fitness and began making some very impressive substitute appearances and forced his way back into the first team starting line up forming a consistent partnership with Roque Santa Cruz. Jason finished the 07/08 season with 5 goals.

Although Roberts has the potential to be one of the most important players for the Grenada national team, availability issues that come with playing in England have limited his impact with the team. Nevertheless, he was an important force for the team during qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup, in which the Grenada team put up an impressive showing before bowing out to the United States. Roberts made an immediate impact in Grenada's first qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup, scoring the first two goals in a 10-0 route of the U.S. Virgin Islands on 26 March 2008. Since the 26th March Jason has scored 1 goal against Jamaica in a 2-1 victory and also scored 1 goal in a 2-2 draw with Costa Rica.

In spring 2007 whist on the sidelines through a prolonged foot injury Jason founded the Jason Roberts Foundation, which aims "to provide a range of sporting opportunities for children and young people in the UK and Grenada".