Andy Sinton

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Andy Sinton

Full name	Andy Sinton
Date of birth	March 19, 1966 (age 40)
Place of birth	Cramlington, England
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position	Midfielder/Manager
Club information
Current club	Fleet Town
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1983-1985 1985-1989 1989-1993 1993-1996 1996-1999 1999-2002 2002-2004 2004-	Cambridge United Brentford Queen's Park Rangers Sheffield Wednesday Tottenham Hotspur Wolverhampton Wanderers Burton Albion Fleet Town	93 (3) 149 (28) 161 (22) 62 (3) 83 (6) 71 (3) 38 (2) - (-)
National team
1991-1992	England	12 (0)
Teams managed
2004-	Fleet Town
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Andy Sinton (born 19 March 1966 in Cramlington, Northumberland, England) is a former professional footballer.

Andy started with Cambridge United in 1983 and moved to Brentford F.C. in 1985. He was signed by Trevor Francis from Brentford F.C. 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 Queen's 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 Ryman 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 the penalty that wasn't against the Netherlands in England's 2-0 defeat 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.