Colin Sinclair (footballer)

{{short description|Scottish footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Colin Sinclair

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| fullname = Colin MacLean Sinclair{{Hugman|18058|accessdate=13 November 2017}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|12|1|df=y}}{{cite web |url=http://www.scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk/Appearance%20Records%20-%20S.doc |format=DOC |title=Appearance records – S |first=Rab |last=Hosie |publisher=Scottish Football Historical Archive |accessdate=13 November 2017}}
{{cite book |first=Frank |last=Tweddle |title=The Definitive Darlington F.C. |publisher=Soccerdata |location=Nottingham |date=2000 |page=107 |isbn=978-1-899468-15-7}}
{{cite news |title=A new-look line-up for Killie |newspaper=Press and Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=9 August 1969 |page=14 |quote=Raith Rovers manager Jimmy Millar is hoping that 21-year-old Colin Sinclair, a product of Linlithgow Rose, who will be making his senior debut against the Light Blues, will inject some zip in attack.}}

| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland

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| position = Forward

| youthyears1 = –

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| years1 = – | clubs1 = Linlithgow Rose | caps1 = | goals1 =

| years2 = 1969–1971 | clubs2 = Raith Rovers | caps2 = 49 | goals2 = 14

| years3 = 1971–1976 | clubs3 = Darlington | caps3 = 203 | goals3 = 59

| years4 = 1976–1977 | clubs4 = Hereford United | caps4 = 22 | goals4 = 2

| years5 = 1977 | clubs5 = → Dunfermline Athletic (loan) | caps5 = 4 | goals5 = 0

| years6 = 1977–1979 | clubs6 = Newport County | caps6 = 30 | goals6 = 5

| years7 = – | clubs7 = Linlithgow Rose | caps7 = | goals7 =

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Colin MacLean Sinclair (born 1 December 1947) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played in the Scottish Football League for Raith Rovers and Dunfermline Athletic, and in the English Football League for Darlington, Hereford United and Newport County. A forward, he made more than 300 League appearances in all, and ended his career where it had begun, with Scottish junior club Linlithgow Rose.{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player1/colinsinclair.html |title=Colin Sinclair |work=UK A–Z Transfers |publisher=Neil Brown |accessdate=18 February 2010}}

Sinclair was a member of the Darlington "Dream Team" selected in 2003 via a competition in the club's match programme, as part of the "Farewell to Feethams" celebrations when the club left its longtime home ground.{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050118040115/http://www.btinternet.com/~duffnort/Feethams4.html |title=Feethams Greatest Game |work=Farewell to Feethams |publisher=Darlington Supporters' Trust |archivedate=18 January 2005|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~duffnort/Feethams4.html }}

After retiring from football he went on to develop a successful career in both the licensed and hotel trades from his base in Linlithgow.{{cite news |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7124838.Backtrack__by_Mike_Amos/ |title=Backtrack |first=Mike |last=Amos |newspaper=The Northern Echo |date=24 November 2000 |accessdate=13 November 2017}}