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Frank Mohammed Sinclair (born December 3, 1971 in Lambeth, London, England) is a professional English-born Jamaican International footballer, who currently plays for Huddersfield Town in Coca-Cola League One. A central defender who can also play at right back, he is on loan from Burnley until the end of the season with a view to a permanent deal.

Sinclair started his club career with Chelsea in 1990, and also played for West Bromwich Albion and Leicester City. He was part of the pre-1998 FIFA World Cup custom of including English-born players in the Jamaican squad. He then played in the tournament and has appeared 28 times for his adopted country.

During his time with Leicester City, Sinclair developed an unfortunate reputation for scoring own goals. [1] This was caused initially by two own goals in consecutive weekends in 1999. The first a great leap at Highbury to give Arsenal a 2-1 win. He managed to refrain from putting through his own net against Coventry the following Wednesday, but then scored another at home to former club Chelsea, where he beat Tore André Flo to the ball to smash it into his own net and lose Leicester their one goal lead. The importance of these goals was accentuated by the fact that both came in the last minute of the match, and both caused Leicester to drop points. [2]

In 2002, Sinclair scored the most bizarre of his own goals. After 3 minutes into a game at Middlesbrough, he slotted the ball past keeper Ian Walker in a seemingly laid-back situation. [3] This resulted in a 1-0 defeat for Leicester. This own goal against Middlesbrough was not to be his last for the club. [4] In January 2004, Sinclair and his Leicester City teammates, Paul Dickov and Keith Gillespie were arrested in Spain over sexual assault charges, while on a training holiday. The charges were later dropped.

Sinclair has been an astute Bosman ruling transfer signing for Burnley, and has made numerous appearances across the defence, impressing throughout both the 2004/05 and 2005/06 campaigns, culminating in his appointment as club captain, a role he seemed to relish but of which he was relieved for the 2006/07 season in favour of Wayne Thomas. He scored his first Burnley goal in a 2-1 home win against Rotherham United.

On February 8, 2007, he moved to Huddersfield Town on an emergency loan deal. On March 24, he was sent off against Brighton & Hove Albion in a match which finished 0-0.

• Frank Sinclair career stats at Soccerbase

	Jamaica squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Barrett | 2 Malcolm | 3 Dawes | 4 Dixon | 5 Goodison | 6 Simpson | 7 Cargill | 8 Gayle | 9 Williams | 10 Boyd | 11 Whitmore | 12 Sewell | 13 Lawrence | 14 Ricketts | 15 Gardner | 16 Earle | 17 Lowe | 18 Burton | 19 Sinclair | 20 Powell | 21 Brown | 22 Hall | Coach: Simões