Lee Trundle

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Lee Trundle
Personal information
Full name Lee Trundle
Date of birth 10 October 1976
Place of birth Liverpool, United Kingdom
Height 6'0" (183 cm)
Nickname Magic Daps
Trunds
LT10
Position Striker
Club information
Current club Swansea City
Number 10
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
1997 - 1998
1998 - 2000
2000 - 2001
2001 - 2003
2003 - present		 Stalybridge Celtic
Southport
Rhyl
Wrexham
Swansea City		 5 (6)
26 (4)
22 (18)
94 (27)
122 (66)

* Professional club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 12 December 2006[1].
** National team caps and goals correct
as of 12 December 2006.

Lee Trundle (born 10 October 1976 in Liverpool) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Swansea City in League One. He is eligible to play for England, the Republic of Ireland or Holland but has not yet made an international appearance.

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[edit] Football career

Lee used to go to St Edmund Of Canterbury Catholic High School in Huyton, Merseyside. Lee Trundle was a late entrant into league football. He played a handful of games for non-league teams Stalybridge Celtic, Southport, Bamber Bridge and Chorley before joining Welsh Premier League club Rhyl in 2000.

Within six months, he had been snapped up by Brian Flynn to play for Wrexham where he played 78 games (plus a further 24 as substitute) in all competitions and scored 30 goals in a little over two years.

In summer 2003, Trundle received a free transfer and moved south to link up with Flynn who had now become manager of Swansea City. He instantly became a fan favourite with his gold boots and extraordinary tricks. In all competitions, to the end of the 2005/06 season, he had played 121 times for Swansea City (with a further 12 substitute appearances), scoring 66 goals.

In his time at Swansea, Trundle has become a minor celebrity in the game, with his extrovert displays of skill (or "showboating") bringing him to national attention via the Soccer AM television show on Sky Sports.

In October 2005, he was the subject of a £750,000 transfer bid by Sheffield Wednesday which Swansea rejected. Days later, he signed an image rights contract with his club, offering a portion of revenues from merchandise featuring his image[2]. He was believed to be the first player outside the Premier League to do so.

In the past, Trundle was considered overweight for a professional footballer. Despite his now obviously slimmer figure, he is still taunted by opposing fans about his weight.

[edit] Off the pitch

In April 2003, having missed Wrexham's match against Cambridge United, Trundle was named by a Sunday newspaper in association with allegations of rape, harassment, false imprisonment and threats to kill. Within two weeks, all allegations were withdrawn. The player's solicitor alleged that the complainant had, in fact, been stalking him and that the police had received details of her unwanted attentions. No charges were brought[3].

Trundle was in the Swansea City team which won the Football League Trophy final against Carlisle United on 2 April 2006. After the final whistle, he and fellow player Alan Tate were photographed holding Welsh flag bearing the words "Fuck Off Cardiff" which was apparently thrown onto the pitch. The pair claimed not to know that it bore insulting words.

Trundle was also pictured in a T-shirt depicting a Swansea player urinating on a Cardiff City shirt. On 24 June 2006, both players were fined a week's wages and warned as to their future conduct by the Football Association of Wales, having already received police cautions for public order offences[4].

There was some criticism that the punishments were unduly harsh, as a virtually identical incident at the same cup final in 1995 involving Birmingham City player Paul Tait was punished with only a small fine.

[edit] Trivia


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Soccerbase: Lee Trundle. Soccerbase. Retrieved on 12 December 2006.
  2. ^ Trundle secures image-rights deal. BBC News. Retrieved on July 1, 2006.
  3. ^ Footballer - rape claims withdrawn. BBC News. Retrieved on July 1, 2006.
  4. ^ Swans pair handed one-match bans. BBC News. Retrieved on July 1, 2006.
  5. ^ Everton join Trundle hunt. Sky Sports. Retrieved on July 1, 2006.


Swansea City A.F.C. - Current Squad

1 Guéret | 2 Amankwaah | 3 Austin | 4 O'Leary | 5 Tate | 6 Iriekpen | 7 Britton | 8 Pratley | 9 Akinfenwa | 10 Trundle | 11 Fallon | 12 Watt | 14 Painter | 15 Williams | 16 Monk | 17 Tudur-Jones | 18 Robinson | 19 Way | 20 MacDonald | 21 Jones | 22 Lawrence | 24 Knight | 26 Oakes | 28 Butler | new Craney | Manager: Jackett
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