Scott Sinclair

This result put the club through to the last eight for the first time since 1984.

He played in the quarter-final, but Plymouth went down 1–0 to Watford and he was substituted in the second half of the game.

On 17 March, Sinclair ran from his own half past two defenders before hitting the ball in off the crossbar to score the only goal of the home match against Crystal Palace.

Scott Andrew Sinclair (born 25 March 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for EFL League One club Bristol Rovers.

He became the second-youngest (after Ronnie Dix) Bristol Rovers first-team debutant – at the age of 15 years, 277 days – as a late substitute for Junior Agogo in the League Two game against Leyton Orient in December 2004.

Chelsea signed Sinclair in July 2005.

A Football League tribunal set the compensation to be paid to Bristol Rovers at an initial £200,000, with increments up to a potential £750,000 to be paid if and when the player met various appearance milestones at club or international level.

Chelsea would also have to pay Rovers 15% of the profit on any future sale.

Sinclair was called up to Chelsea's squad to play Macclesfield Town in the FA Cup on 6 January 2007 but remained on the bench.

His debut came four days later as a very late substitute in the 2007 League Cup semi-final against Wycombe Wanderers.

He scored his first goal for Chelsea in September 2007, in the 37th minute of the League Cup third-round match against Hull City to help Chelsea win 4–0.

He made his league debut for Chelsea on 6 May 2007, when he came off the bench to replace Shaun Wright-Phillips for the final ten minutes of the game against Arsenal.

During the January transfer window, Sinclair was signed on a month's loan by Plymouth Argyle, whose manager Ian Holloway had noticed him as a ten-year-old prospect at former club Bristol Rovers.

He made his debut as a substitute in the 3–2 victory over Coventry City at Home Park.

In his second game, the FA Cup fourth-round tie against Barnet, he scored a fine individual goal to seal a 2–0 victory, taking the ball half the length of the pitch before beating the goalkeeper.

Sinclair also scored against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux to put Plymouth 1–0 up in the game, which they drew 2–2.

On 17 February 2007, Sinclair scored the second goal, with a looping header from a David Norris cross, as Argyle defeated Derby County 2–0 in their FA Cup fifth-round tie.

On 6 May 2007, Sinclair was named in the Chelsea squad to face Arsenal in one of Chelsea's most crucial matches of the season: anything but a win would have handed Manchester United the Premier League title.

Sinclair came on as a substitute for Shaun Wright-Phillips but was unable to stop Chelsea drawing 1–1.

Sinclair made his first start for Chelsea in the following Premier League game, against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge, and suffered a broken metatarsal after a challenge from Wes Brown.

Sinclair signed a new four-year deal on 15 August 2007.

He was given squad number 17 for the new season, and made his first appearance as a late substitute in the 2007 FA Community Shield against Manchester United.

On 25 September, he scored his first senior goal for the club in a 4–0 win against Hull City in the League Cup.

He was picked in the starting eleven against Leicester City in the fourth round of the League Cup; he was involved in Chelsea's first two goals and his shot was turned onto the post by Leicester's goalkeeper.

Queens Park Rangers reportedly "beat off stiff competition from eight other Championship clubs" to sign Sinclair on loan for a month from 6 November 2007.

Sinclair's last goal for Plymouth had been against Crystal Palace, and he followed this up by scoring his first for QPR against the same club.

He played four times for Chelsea on his return, before going out on loan again in February 2008.

Ian Holloway, who had managed Sinclair at Plymouth Argyle, wanted to take the player to Leicester City, but Chelsea wanted him to join a club nearer the top of the table.

On 28 February, Sinclair joined Charlton Athletic on loan until the end of the season.

Finding his first-team opportunities limited at Charlton, he made just three appearances off the bench and the loan was terminated after a month.

In 2010 he signed for Swansea City and in 2012 for Manchester City, who loaned him to West Bromwich Albion and Aston Villa.

He provided the assist for Frank Lampard's 100th goal for Chelsea, in a 3–1 victory over Huddersfield Town in the FA Cup.

He represented England at youth level, from the under-17s to the under-21s, and also played for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

He started his career with Bristol Rovers, before moving to Chelsea, from where he spent periods on loan at Plymouth Argyle, Queens Park Rangers, Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace, Birmingham City and Wigan Athletic.

He joined Villa on a permanent contract in 2015, and moved on to Celtic in August 2016.

In his first season with Celtic he won both the PFA Scotland Players' Player of the Year and SFWA Footballer of the Year awards, and he stayed with the club for a further two-and-a-half seasons before returning to England with Preston North End.

In October 2022 he signed a short-term deal to return to his boyhood club Bristol Rovers.

Sinclair was born in Bath, Somerset, where he attended Ralph Allen School.

He began his career with Bath Arsenal and grew up supporting Manchester United.

Sinclair joined Bristol Rovers at the age of nine.