| Born: 3rd
December 1971 in Lambeth. Position: centre-half
Lincoln City
career: 22+(2) appearances between July 2008 -
May 2009.
Clubs: Chelsea,
West Bromwich Albion, Leicester City, Burnley,
Huddersfield Town, Lincoln City, Wycombe
Wanderers and Wrexham.
International
career: 28 caps for Jamaica.
Frank Sinclair started his career as a
trainee at Chelsea in 1988 before turning
professional in May 1990. He spent a short time
on loan at West Bromwich Albion during the
1991/92 season where he scored once in six
appearances. Upon his return to Chelsea he
managed to establish himself in the first team
and went on to make 217 appearances and scorer of
11 goals. While playing for Chelsea he was part
of the 1997 FA Cup winning team and the 1998
League Cup winning team. He also made several
appearances for Jamaica during the 1998 World
Cup; in total, he would play 28 times for
Jamaica.
Soon after the 1998 League
Cup triumph, Sinclair was transferred to
Leicester City for £2 million. While at
Leicester he managed to score 4 goals but it was
own goals that made him more famous, with a
couple of spectacular own goals in the closing
minutes of the match that cost Leicester points.
It was not all bad at Leicester, as he collected
another League Cup winners' medal, this time in
the Final of 2000.
Unfortunately, his time at
Leicester City was over shadowed by off-the-field
incidents and after making 194 appearances for
Leicester, he was released in June 2004. A few
weeks later he signed for Burnley where he made
102 appearances and scored one goal during a
three year stay.
His Burnley career was
coming to an end by February 2007, so he was
allowed to join Huddersfield Town on loan. It was
here that he briefly teamed up with his future
Lincoln City FC boss Peter Jackson, as Jackson
was the Huddersfield manager at the time. Jackson
was soon replaced by Andy Ritche but a change of
manager did not deter Sinclair from making his
loan signing a permanent transfer in May 2007.
Yet another change of manager at Huddersfield saw
Sinclair released in May 2008 after making 35
appearances for the West Yorkshire club.
Sinclair joined Lincoln on
a one-year contract in July 2008 with the option
of a further year should he make 25 appearances.
However, despite being hailed by Jackson as a
star signing, Sinclair failed to show anything
out of the ordinary and indeed, was poor during
many games. This led to him losing his first team
place before regaining it in 2009. In March 2009,
Sinclair was looking like a former Premiership
footballer and it was this form that earnt him a
loan move to Wycombe Wanderers, helping his new
club to promotion from League Two.
Despite this feat, Sinclair
was correctly released by Lincoln City in May
2009.
Wycombe Wanderers thought
about signing Sinclair but opted against it;
instead, he joined Conference National club
Wrexham in August 2009.
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