Scott Sinclair turned 35 on Monday with Twitter throwing up a brilliant clip of his first ever senior goal. It was a taster of what Celtic fans would enjoy a decade later.
Back in January 2007 the young winger was sent on loan to Plymouth from Chelsea, in his second appearance he found his side leading 1-0 away to Barnet when he picked up the ball deep in his own half.
It was wondeful, magical as he ran the best part of 80 yards shrugging aside defender before stabbing a right foot shot across Ross Flitney to put his side 2-0 up with seven minutes left to play.
The teenager on loan from Chelsea had delivered the win bonus.
It’s Scott Sinclair’s birthday today. You remember him.
Got the ball at Underhill in 2007… and morphed into Maradona.
— A Funny Old Game (@sid_lambert) March 25, 2024
Plymouth was one of six loan spells that Sinclair went on before moving to Swansea where former Chelsea youth coach Brendan Rodgers was in charge.
There was another move to the big time at Manchester City after two years in Wales but in August 2016 Rodgers and Sinclair teamed up to devastating effect at Celtic.
Signed for £2.5m from Aston Villa he scored in his first six SPFL games while Moussa Dembele was in the limelight, at the end of the season he was Celtic’s top scorer in the SPFL with 21 goals from 30 starts and five appearances off the bench.
Now onto his 14th club Sinclair has scored a more modest three goals this season in League One for Bristol Rovers.
Loved every inch of this guy.
Game changer, bums off seats sparkling football player intertwined with modesty and an appreciation of what Celtic did for him.
Superb signing and all round sound bloke
His first goal at Tynecastle etched into my mind
Same classy style as his first goal for us at Tynecastle.
Got everybody right off of their seats, so it did!