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Lee Barnard
Personal information
Full name	Lee James Barnard
Date of birth	18 July 1984 (1984-07-18) (age 25)
Place of birth	Romford, England
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Southend United
Number	9
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002–2008 2002 2004 2004–2005 2005 2007–2008 2008–	Tottenham Hotspur → Exeter City (loan) → Stevenage Borough (loan) → Leyton Orient (loan) → Northampton Town (loan) → Crewe Alexandra (loan) Southend United	03 0(0) 02 0(1) 03 0(0) 10 0(0) 03 0(0) 05 0(2) 73 (35)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:45, 26 December 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Lee James Barnard (born 18 July 1984) is an English footballer currently playing for Southend United.

Born in Romford, London Borough of Havering in 1984, he attended Billericay's Mayflower County High School.

Playing career

Barnard has played for Leyton Orient, Northampton Town, Exeter City, and Stevenage Borough, all on loan from Tottenham Hotspur.

Thanks to his prodigious goalscoring rate at reserve level he was expected to make his first team debut in the 2005–06 season. He was due to make his debut in the match against Charlton Athletic on 5 February 2006. Tottenham were leading 3–0 until a Charlton goal in the 69th minute meant Martin Jol did not want to bring on another striker so Barnard had to wait. Following the match he suffered a foot sprain which kept him out of action for 5 weeks, only returning for the reserve match against Leicester City on 18 March.

On 17 April he finally got to make his Premier League debut in the 2–1 defeat to Manchester United at White Hart Lane, coming on after 77 minutes as a substitute. He also came on the following week against Bolton Wanderers.

Barnard was one of ten Spurs squad members to be struck down by food poisoning on the evening of 6 May before their crucial final game of the season against West Ham United. Unable to postpone, they went on to lose and therefore slipped to 5th. This allowed rivals Arsenal to take the fourth Champions League place for that season.

On 30 August 2007, Barnard was loaned out to League One team Crewe Alexandra for five months, after a delay due to an injury in training.^[1] Barnard made a scoring début in the Railwaymen's 2-0 home win over Huddersfield Town on September 8, 2007. However, he damaged ankle ligaments in late October and returned to Spurs for two months for treatment.^[2][3]

Southend United announced on 25 January 2008, that Barnard had signed a permanent contract that will keep him at Roots Hall until 2010.^[4] Barnard had impressed since signing for Southend, with a number of crucial goals, including a late winner at Carlisle United, who had the best home record in the league. Barnard scored his 10th goal of the season on 13 April 2009 in a 3–2 win against Northampton Town, the first Southend United player of that season to reach double figures. Southend have an impressive stat of only losing once when Barnard has scored. Barnard has scored a total of 24 goals in a total of 59 appearances for the club. Barnard scored his first hat-trick for the club in the 3–0, League One victory over Leyton Orient on 4 September 2009.^{[5 ]}

References

External links

Lee Barnard career stats at Soccerbase

• Official Spurs Website Profile