Stuart Lovell

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Stuart Lovell
Personal information
Date of birth	9 January 1972 (1972-01-09) (age 36)
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Striker
Youth clubs
	Reading
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1990–1998 1998–2001 2001–2005 2005–2006	Reading Hibernian Livingston Queen of the South	227 (58) 088 (17) 087 0(6) 038 0(1)
National team
2000	Australia	002 0(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Stuart "Archie" Lovell (born 9 January 1972 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian-born English professional footballer, who played predominately as a striker.

Born in Australia, Lovell moved to England at an early age, and was brought up in Reading. He joined Reading Football Club, his local team, as an apprentice on their Youth Training Scheme. While there, he was part of the team that narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League in the 1994–95 season. Lovell was the player that famously had a penalty saved in the first half of the playoff final against Bolton Wanderers when Reading were 2–0 up. Bolton eventually won 4–3 after extra time. The following season, he damaged a cruciate ligament.

He later played for Scottish teams Hibernian, Livingston, and Dumfries club Queen of the South (with whom he had a spell as caretaker boss), and has also played for the Australia national team.

Lovell lives in Edinburgh with his wife Nicola and his two children, and now works for Setanta Sports in the United Kingdom on its Scottish Premier League coverage.

[edit] External links

• Stuart Lovell career stats at Soccerbase

Persondata
NAME	Lovell, Stuart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	9 January 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sydney, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH