25 Facts About Trevor Sinclair

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Trevor Lloyd Sinclair was born on 2 March 1973 and is an English football coach, former professional footballer and pundit.

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Trevor Sinclair played in the Football League for Blackpool and Cardiff City where he retired in 2008.

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Trevor Sinclair has since come out of retirement on two occasions and has featured for non-league sides Lancaster City in 2014 and Squires Gate in 2018.

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Trevor Sinclair was capped twelve times by England, four of which came in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

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Trevor Sinclair won the 1997 Match of the Day Goal of the Season after scoring a bicycle kick in an FA Cup tie against Barnsley.

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Trevor Sinclair was born in Dulwich, London, but grew up in Manchester.

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Trevor Sinclair began his career at Blackpool where he played from 1989 to 1993.

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Trevor Sinclair's record was in turn broken by Matty Kay in November 2005.

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Trevor Sinclair was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Bloomfield Road when it was officially opened by former Blackpool player Jimmy Armfield in April 2006.

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Five players from each decade are inducted; Trevor Sinclair is in the 1990s.

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Trevor Sinclair made 112 league appearances for the Seasiders, scoring 15 goals.

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Trevor Sinclair won the October 1995 Premier League Player of the Month award, although he was unable to prevent QPR from being relegated from the Premier League that season.

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Trevor Sinclair scored seven goals in the remaining 14 games to help West Ham achieve an eighth-place finish in the Premier League.

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Trevor Sinclair's absence coincided with a loss of form for the team, and by the end of the season manager Harry Redknapp had been sacked.

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In total Trevor Sinclair spent five years at Upton Park, playing in a variety of positions including wingback, left and right wing and as a striker when called upon.

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On 12 April 2008, Trevor Sinclair faced his first club, Blackpool, for the first time since leaving them fifteen years earlier.

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Trevor Sinclair was called up to Terry Venables' get-together England squad in April 1995, but was not capped for the senior side until 2001.

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Trevor Sinclair earned 12 caps for England, four of which came in the 2002 World Cup, in which he was a last-minute replacement for the injured Danny Murphy.

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Trevor Sinclair has worked as a sports commentator, notably on TalkSPORT.

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Trevor Sinclair is of partial Irish and Scottish descent through his mother, who was born in Sligo and his stepfather was from Glasgow.

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Trevor Sinclair lives on the Fylde coast and is a supporter of his previous clubs West Ham, Manchester City, Blackpool and QPR, as well as Scottish club Celtic.

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Trevor Sinclair signed a professional contract at the end of the previous campaign.

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In January 1999, Trevor Sinclair was convicted of causing criminal damage to a car, following a night of drinking with other West Ham players at the club's Christmas party in Romford.

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On 2 January 2018, Trevor Sinclair was convicted of drink driving, urinating in a police car and racially abusing a police officer by calling him a 'white cunt'.

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Trevor Sinclair's comments were met with widespread condemnation, including that of his fellow TalkSPORT colleague Simon Jordan.