Andy Sinton

Football player infobox


playername = Andy Sinton
fullname = Andrew Sinton
nickname =
height = 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1966|3|19|df=y
cityofbirth = Cramlington
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = Fleet Town
clubnumber =
position = Midfielder (retired)
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1983-1985
1985-1989
1989-1993
1993-1996
1996-1999
1999-2002
2002-2004
2004-
clubs = Cambridge United
Brentford
Queens Park Rangers
Sheffield Wednesday
Tottenham Hotspur
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Burton Albion
Fleet Town
caps(goals) = 093 0(3)
149 (28)
161 (22)
062 0(3)
083 0(6)
071 0(3)
038 0(2)
00? 0(?)
nationalyears = 1990-1992
1991-1993
nationalteam = England B
England
nationalcaps(goals) = 003 0(0)
012 0(0)
manageryears = 2004-
managerclubs = Fleet Town
pcupdate =
ntupdate =

Andrew "Andy" Sinton (born 19 March, 1966 in Cramlington, Northumberland) is an English former professional footballer.

Sinton was a schoolboy footballer, playing for the England Under 15 team. He signed for Cambridge United on leaving school, and made his debut aged 16 years 228 days in November 1982. He is the youngest player to play a league game for Cambridge, and only product of the club's youth team to become a full England international. Andy was the outstanding player in a poor Cambridge side, which suffered successive relegations in 1983-84 and 1984-85.

He was signed by Brentford F.C. in 1985 for just £25,000. He was signed for QPR by Trevor Francis in 1989 for £350,000 and went on to play 160 league games scoring 22 goals including the first goal in the notable 4-1 QPR victory at Old Trafford in 1992. Sinton played for Queens Park Rangers in the first year of the Premiership (1992) before moving to Sheffield Wednesday for a then club record £2.75million in August 1993.

He spent two and a half years at Hillsborough but returned to London early in 1996 to link up with former Rangers boss Gerry Francis at Tottenham Hotspur. He came on as an 89th-minute substitute for David Ginola as Spurs clinched the 1999 League Cup at Wembley with a last-gasp 1-0 win over Leicester City.

Made his last Premiership appearance for Tottenham Hotspur in 1999 before spending three years with Wolverhampton Wanderers and then signing for non-league Burton Albion in August 2002.Sinton was appointed manager of Isthmian League Division One outfit Fleet Town in summer 2005, having spent the previous season as the club's Football Development Officer.

On the international front, Sinton made his England debut in a 1-1 draw in Poland in November 1991, and went on to acquire 12 caps - including two in Sweden during a disappointing European Championships campaign. He played David Platt through on goal for England's penalty claim that was turned down in their 2-0 defeat against the Netherlands in Rotterdam in October 1993, towards the end of Graham Taylor's reign at the helm. His last appearance for his country came the following month, in the 7-1 rout of San Marino in Bologna.

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