Born in Leicester on 13th September 1968, Carl joined his home City Club as an apprentice and he became a pro as understudy to Ian Andrews and Paul Cooper. However the young keeper's first taste of League football came the day before his 19th birthday right here at Saltergate against Port Vale.

Kevin Randall was Chesterfield manager at the time and seven days before Carl's on loan debut he'd witnessed Jim Brown get injured but stay on the field of play (there were no keeper subs then), the match? Gillingham 10 Chesterfield 0! Vale won 3-1 with Carl's first concession being from Robbie Earle followed by Andy Jones, just before he joined Charlton, and Richard O'Kelly. Chesterfield scorer was Dave Waller and our team also included Jamie Hewitt, Lee Rogers and Bob Bloomer. That loan spell lasted for 17 consecutive League games before he returned to Filbert Street when Cooper got injured. Carl played the last six games on that 1987-88 season out on loan at Blackpool including Blackpool 1 Chesterfield 0.

The following season saw him make his Foxes debut in a Division Two (old) game at West Bromwich Albion. Gary Robson scored  for the Baggies, Paul Reid for City in a 1-1 draw. His parent Club bow came after yet another spell on loan, Hartlepool (8 games) being the next Club in his peripatetic existence.  

No League games for City in 89-90, Martin Hodge was the first choice that season, but three games for Stockport County in loan spell number four, Chris Beaumont was amongst his Edgeley Park team-mates, continued his experience gathering.

He made his Leicester breakthrough in 1990-91 as a 22 year old, starting for City in the opening four matches of the season, Hodge was injured, David Pleat was Manager, but after just 4 games, Pleat brought in Liverpool's Mike Hooper on loan and Carl went in a similar capacity to Anfield to cover for Bruce Grobbelaar. He returned to City in December 1990 for his longest run in the first team, 18 consecutive games in a struggling side, Leicester finished third from bottom of the old second, but a restructuring of the numbers in each Division the following season meant only two went down, so City escaped relegation.

Two seasons followed when Carl made no loan journeys and 21 appearances in the League for Leicester, Kevin Poole was first choice in 91-92, Carl had four games, but they made the play offs in 92-93, Poole, Russell Hoult and Carl (17 games) shared duties in that campaign, they lost 4-3 to Swindon in a memorable final, Poole though was the incumbent that day. The same season also saw City participate in the Anglo-Italian Cup, Carl played a real glamour tie against Grimsby Town!

1993-94 saw Carl associated with Stoke City for the first time, a six game loan spell including Stoke 5 Barnsley 4 and he also went to Sheffield United as cover for Alan Kelly when Simon Tracey was injured.  However it was in the early part of 1994 that Carl was catapulted into the big time, a £150,000 fee took him North of the Border to Celtic.  Lou Macari was manager of the Green & Whites, he'd been at Stoke for Carl's loan spell, but they were not enjoying their best ever spell, they finished fourth in that season. Carl played in 12 League games, plus a Scottish Cup defeat at Motherwell, coming in for the injured Pat Bonner. His team-mates included Charlie Nicholas, Tommy Boyd, Paul McStay, John Collins and Gary Gillespie. No games though against Glasgow rivals Rangers.   

Macari left Celtic, Tommy Burns took over and Carl returned to England just seven months after his journey to Glasgow, £150,000 took him to Joe Jordan's Stoke and he'd stay there for seven years, though there were the inevitable loan spells, five in all!

Carl started 94-95 in City's first eleven, with the likes of ex Matlock player Wayne Biggins plus Paul Peschisolido, Ray Wallace and Toddy Orlygsson in the side. Struggling in 22nd after just 5 games, Jordan went, Macari returned and City moved quickly into the top ten before Carl was injured in a 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough on New Years' eve. He didn't play again that season. The following season saw Mark Prudhoe first choice at Stoke and our current No.1 was farmed out to Rotherham, a spell which included Wrexham 7 Millers 0, Ian Breckin was dropped as a result of that performance. Came on as a sub for Sheffield United after Simon Tracey was sent off at Reading towards the end of that season in his ninth spell as a loan keeper.

The next three seasons saw Muggleton as the Stoke regular, 33, 34 and 40 League games played during that spell, and no loans out, though City were relegated to Division 2 in 1998. Carl played in both games against Chesterfield in 98-99, 0-0 at The Britannia and 1-1 at Saltergate, Steve Blatherwick got our goal.

Gavin Ward became Stoke's first choice keeper for 1999-2000, no Potters games for Carl, loans at Mansfield Town (9 games), his last was Macclesfield 5 Mansfield 2, and then five more games for The Spireites, on loan Mark Gayle had played in 14 League games for us, no wins, so in came Carl who presided over 3 draws, one loss and a win at home to Brentford. His debut was also against the Bees, the 1-1 Sky TV match at Griffin Park.

A dozen games in the League (including one as sub for Ward) were played before Christmas for Stoke, his last game for them a 3-1 home loss against Luton, but just four days earlier he'd suffered a nightmare as Ziege, Smicer, Babbel, Fowler (3, 1 pen), Hyypia and Murphy had meant a Worthington Cup tie, at the Britannia, had seen Liverpool win 8-0.

Cardiff City on loan at the end of the season, he helped the promotion bound Welsh side to clinch the step up from Division Three, he did of course play in the classic 3-3 Ninian Park game against Chesterfield, conceding to Blathers (again), David Reeves and Luke Beckett.

Last summer he joined Cheltenham Town on a free, the excellent Steve Book was their first choice, Carl played 7 League games for the Gloucestershire side and he had a spell on loan at Bradford City, starting a few days before Nicky Law became their Manager, he was The Bantam's keeper for Nicky's first match in charge, a Cup tie v Walsall, before he returned to Whaddon Road.

His arrival at Chesterfield for the third time, permanently this time, was welcomed by all supporters, we hope his stay this time is a long and happy one.

After playing in England, Wales and Scotland for 5 Clubs on a permanent basis and having had a total of 13 loans at various other Clubs, one thing's for sure, the Coach driver will always have someone who knows the way to the away grounds!