Andy Sinton
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Andrew Sinton | ||
| Date of birth | 19 March 1966 | ||
| Place of birth | Cramlington, England | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Queens Park Rangers (Club Ambassador) |
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| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1982–1985 | Cambridge United | 93 | (3) |
| 1985–1989 | Brentford | 149 | (28) |
| 1989–1993 | Queens Park Rangers | 161 | (22) |
| 1993–1996 | Sheffield Wednesday | 62 | (3) |
| 1996–1999 | Tottenham Hotspur | 83 | (6) |
| 1999–2002 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 71 | (3) |
| 2002–2004 | Burton Albion | 38 | (2) |
| 2004 | Bromsgrove Rovers | 6 | (0) |
| 2004–2007 | Fleet Town | 21 | (1) |
| Total | 684 | (68) | |
| National team | |||
| 1990–1992 | England B | 3 | (0) |
| 1991–1993 | England | 12 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2005–2010 | Fleet Town | ||
| 2010–2013 | AFC Telford United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Andrew "Andy" Sinton (born 19 March 1966 in Cramlington, Northumberland) is an English former professional footballer. During his playing career, he notably played for Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday and Tottenham Hotspur, and also earned 12 caps playing as an international footballer for England. He is currently club ambassador at his former team Queens Park Rangers.
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 on 2 November 1982. He is the youngest player to play a league game for Cambridge, and is one of only two product of the club's youth team to become a full England international: John Ruddy of Norwich City followed Andy to this accolade in 2012. 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 QPR in the first year of the Premiership, where he scored a hat-trick in a 4–2 win against Everton on 28 December 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, in the 1999 Football League Cup Final that Spurs won 1–0 over Leicester City.
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