Fresh off cup glory, SJR Worksop Manager, Lee Scott is the first guest in our ‘My Footballing Journey Series’ as he reveals his footballing journey and discusses how he got to where he is today.
First memory of football?
“My Mum always used to say ‘your Dad doesn’t know anything other than football’, so football was definitely in my blood and so that love of football was passed on to me from the age of five or six or so.
My Dad took me to games and from then on I was obsessed. I went onto play for Worksop Boys Club, Worksop Town, Langold Boys. Unfortunately I busted my shoulder at 18 and it just kept falling out the socket, so it was time to call it a day. From then on obviously life took over, got a job, met my wife, had a kid. I only really got back into being active in the sport when I took my boy along to, funnily enough, Worksop Boys Club. I said the age old saying ‘I won’t get involved, I’ll just watch’, and then twenty minutes in I was telling my six year old to fix his position!
“I started coaching at the club [Worksop Boys Club], got my UEFA badges and eventually moved onto Worksop Town. Once I’d started, I got hooked.“
First game you went to?
“Well as I said, my dad took me down to Hillsborough as a kid and I remember my first game was seeing Howard Wilkinson’s Wednesday get torn apart in the old First Division by Liverpool.“
What team do you support? And why?
“Sheffield Wednesday, but also I have to say SJR Worksop now! I have to credit Wednesday for actually helping my coaching journey. Watching Alan Irvine’s team, I told my Dad, I’ve never seen anything so bad in all my life, if I can’t do better on a Saturday afternoon I’m gonna pack it in and I went and got the managerial job at Harworth!“
First footballing hero?
“As a Wednesday fan, growing up I has various heroes, John Sheridan, Chris Waddle etc, but my first hero was Gazza. I absolutely loved him, the way he played and there was actually something else. My dad’s best mate was staying in the same hotel as the Spurs side for the 91’ FA Cup Semi-Final against Arsenal.
“He saw Gazza and asked for an autograph for me, and he gave me one, but he’d not just given me an autograph, he gave me a boot bag, a Spurs Rosette, pens, a whole package. He wasn’t just my footballing hero, he was a really nice guy.“
Last match you went to?
“Last as a coach, the Cup final against Mansfield but last as a fan would’ve been Sheffield Wednesday’s play off final victory over Barnsley at Wembley a couple of years ago!“
SYWF also spoke to Andrew Guest, CEO at SJR Worksop, along with Club Captain, Charlotte Finch, to get their thoughts on the exciting future of the club…
