Lee Marshall (footballer)
Lee Keith Marshall ( born January 21, 1979 in Islington ) is a former English footballer. Marshall played 54 Premier League appearances for Leicester City and West Bromwich Albion, before he had to end his career due to injury early on.
Career
Marshall played in the reserve of the Isthmian League clubs FC Enfield, when he was discovered by Dave Stringer, coach of the reserve team of Norwich City at a meeting between the teams. After he won in a training with the reserve team of Norwich, the two clubs agreed in March 1997 on a transfer fee of £ 15,000. 1 November 1997, Marshall was the first time for the professional team of Norwich in the Football League First Division for use, however, broke four days later at his second ankle and fell out for months. His breakthrough came the multi-way defensive player in the following 1998/ 99, when he established himself not only as a regular player, but in February 1999, also came to a use for the English U- 21 team against France. Marshall acted mainly in the following years as a defensive midfielder and leaned in November 2000, an extension of his end of the season expiring contract from. He was then put on the transfer list and finally on 21 March 2001, the last transfer in English football before the summer break, from his former U-21 coach Peter Taylor for £ 600,000 brought to the first division club Leicester City.
His debut for Leicester in the Premier League he was only a few days later in a 0-2 defeat against Charlton Athletic until season's end, he came to a total of nine starts, with a 4-2 win against Tottenham Hotspur faced eight defeats. In the season 2001/ 02 Marshall came after a serious injury by Gary Rowett mostly as a right-back or as part of a three - man defense to use. Sporty was the extremely disappointing season for Leicester: every 38 game days was the club to relegation zone and finished at the end of the season last place in the standings. Marshall played yet in the following season, first class, for £ 700,000 after he moved to West Bromwich Albion Erstligaaufsteiger shortly after the season starts. There he achieved while in a 1-3 defeat against Leeds United as a substitute the first Premier League goal of the club's history was in the episode but hardly taken into account and came after recovering from a groin problem since December 2002 only for the reserve team to use.
Despite the decline of the club Marshall also found in the second division 2003/04 season under manager Gary Megson not be considered. In January 2004, he eventually moved on loan to the fourth division Hull City, where he again played under coach Peter Taylor. Marshall came to eleven appearances for Hull before he broke in a game against Kidderminster tibia and fibula in his right foot on April 11, 2004. He managed not to completely recover it in the next 12 months, which is why he ended his career in April 2005 at the age of 26 years.