Lee Clark
Lee Clark, the United Kingdom midfielder, made 85 appearances for Sunderland. He found the net 16 times, averaging 0.19 goals per game. His most prolific season in our data was 1997-98, with 13 goals.
Lee Robert Clark (born 27 October 1972) is an English football manager and former professional player who is currently the head coach of National League club Hartlepool United . As a player, he was a midfielder and played in the Premier League for Newcastle United , Sunderland and Fulham , with whom he won promotion to the top flight, winning the Football League First Division title in 1993, 1999 and 2001. He was also part of the Magpies squad under Kevin Keegan that finished runners-up in the top flight in consecutive seasons. He was capped 11 times by the England under-21 team and was called up to the full England squad for the World Cup warm up tournament the 1997 Tournoi de France , but he was only named a substitute and never went on to earn a full international cap. Following his retirement from playing in 2006, he later returned to Newcastle as reserve team manager, before becoming a first team coach at Norwich City . He later became first team manager at Huddersfield Town and had similar spells in charge of Birmingham City , Blackpool , Kilmarnock , Bury and Blyth Spartans . In 2020 he joined non-League side Newcastle Blue Star as director of football, before moving to Sudan to manage Al-Merrikh . In 2026 he briefly joined Rotherham United before moving to Hartlepool United . — Wikipedia
- Position
- MF
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Birthplace
- Wallsend
- Born
- 27 Oct 1972
- Height
- 175 cm
Clark moved to Newcastle's local rivals , First Division club Sunderland , in 1997, and was part of the side promoted to the Premier League in 1999 as champions with a (then) professional league record of 105 points. A year earlier, he had been a key player in the side that reached the First Division play-off final , only to suffer a penalty shoot-out defeat to Charlton Athletic after a 4–4 draw at Wembley. However, at the 1999 FA Cup final he was spotted with the Newcastle fans wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Sad Mackem Bastards". He was immediately dropped from the team, and never played for Sunderland again. [ 3 ] — Wikipedia
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