Andy Sinton

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Andy Sinton
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Personnel
Surname Andrew Sinton
birthday March 19, 1966
place of birth Cramlington ,  England
size 1.73 m
position left mid-field
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1985 Cambridge United 93 0(3)
1985-1989 Brentford FC 149 (28)
1989-1993 Queens Park Rangers 161 (22)
1993-1996 Sheffield Wednesday 62 0(3)
1996-1999 Tottenham Hotspur 83 0(6)
1999-2002 Wolverhampton Wanderers 71 0(3)
2002-2004 Burton Albion 38 0(2)
2004 Bromsgrove Rovers 6 0(0)
2004-2007 Fleet Town 21 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990-1992 England B 3 0(0)
1991-1993 England 12 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2005-2010 Fleet Town
2010-2013 AFC Telford United
1 Only league games are given.

Andrew "Andy" Sinton (born March 19, 1966 in Cramlington ) is a former English football player and current coach . Between 1991 and 1993 he played twelve international matches for England.

Player career

Queens Park Rangers (1989-1993)

After his first positions at the lower class clubs Cambridge United and Brentford FC , Andy Sinton moved on March 23, 1989 for £ 350,000 for the English first division side Queens Park Rangers . In the last games of the Football League First Division in 1988/89 he scored three goals in ten league games. With his team from London he spent the next three years in midfield in the first division and established himself as a regular. The Rangers around top scorer Les Ferdinand (20 goals) and Andy Sinton (36 games / 7 goals) were more successful in the first season of the Premier League in 1992/93 with fifth place in the table.

Sheffield Wednesday (1993-1996)

On August 19, 1993, Sinton signed a contract with Sheffield Wednesday and left London after just under four and a half years. The left midfielder, who was signed for £ 2,750,000 transfer fee, played twenty-five league games in the 1993/94 Premier League , scoring three goals. After another year and a half unsuccessful, he moved to Tottenham Hotspur on January 23, 1996 for £ 1,500,000 , returning to London.

Tottenham Hotspur (1996-1999)

In the 1996/97 Premier League , the 30-year-old Andy Sinton (33 games / 6 goals) earned himself a regular place again, but only achieved tenth place with Tottenham. After two more seasons with reduced stakes, Sinton joined a new club again at the beginning of the 1999/2000 season. The 33-year-old had previously reached the final of the English League Cup with Spurs and won this game 1-0 against Leicester City . Andy Sinton was substituted on by coach George Graham in the 90th minute for David Ginola .

Wolverhampton Wanderers (1999-2002)

His new club Wolverhampton Wanderers started in the second division and just missed the play-off places in seventh. 2001/02 the team managed to move into the play-offs, but the Wanderers failed in the first round at Norwich City .

After further stints at lower-class clubs, he ended his playing career in 2007, which he had continued as a player-coach for the last three years.

English national team (1991-1993)

On November 13, 1991, the 25-year-old Andy Sinton made his debut in the English national team at 1-1 in Poland. In the summer of 1992 he played three more preparation games for the 1992 European Football Championship in Sweden and was appointed to the English European Championship squad by national coach Graham Taylor instead of Chris Waddle . Sinton played the last two group matches with England against France (0-0) and hosts Sweden (1-2) before his team had to travel home. After five more appearances in the national team, he played on November 17, 1993 in the World Cup qualification in the 7-1 victory in San Marino, his twelfth and last international game, as he was not considered under Taylor's successor Terry Venables .

Coaching career

In 2005 Andy Sinton took over the post of player- coach at the lower class club Fleet Town and continued the coaching activity even after the end of his playing career. On May 26, 2010 he took over the coaching position at the English sixth division AFC Telford United and led his team in the 2010/11 season via the play-offs for promotion to the fifth-rate Conference National . After a season that ended with relegation, the coach and club parted in January 2013 "by mutual agreement", in the previous 16 league games his team had remained without a win.

titles and achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poland - England 1: 1
  2. Jump up ↑ San Marino - England 1: 7
  3. ↑ bbc.com: AFC Telford United manager Andy Sinton leaves the club (January 31, 2013) , accessed March 9, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Sinton, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sinton, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Cramlington , England