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Lee Cartwright
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| Lee Cartwright | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lee Cartwright | |
| Date of birth | September 19, 1972 (age 34) | |
| Place of birth | Rawtenstall, England | |
| Height | 5'10" | |
| Nickname | Carts | |
| Playing position | Midfield | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Scarborough | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1988-1990 | Preston North End | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1990-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 |
Preston North End Stockport County Rochdale Scarborough Total |
403 (26) 34 (1) 27 (1) ? (?) 464 (28) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Lee Cartwright (b.19 September 1972 ) is a footballer in the Football League who made his mark as a midfielder with Preston North End.
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Born in Rawtenstall, Rossendale,Lancashire Lee was signed from school as a trainee in 1989 by North End boss John McGrath. It was however under McGrath's successor Les Chapman that Lee made his first team debut at the age of 18 in a 1-0 home win against Shrewsbury Town in March 1991. Having broken into the first team Lee remained there for the rest of the season.
The following season (1991-92) Lee missed only a handful of matches as he picked up the club's player of the year award as reward for a string of consistently good displays. The 1992-93 season though was something of a disaster with Preston being relegated to the third division (now Football League Two) of the Football League. Lee's displays though were again impressive and interest from both Oldham Athletic and Blackpool nearly led to Lee moving on. He was however persuaded to stay by new manager John Beck and he remained at Deepdale for the next eleven years.
In his thirteen years at the club Lee became a North End legend making a total of 472 appearances for the club scoring 30 goals.He was an important member of the Preston teams that won both the third division title in 1995-96 and the second division (now Football League One) title in 1999-2000. Lee also played in the play-off final defeats of 1993-94 and 2000-01 the latter when North End narrowly missed out on a place in the FA Premier League losing 3-0 to Bolton Wanderers at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
In January 2004 however Lee moved to Stockport County on a free transfer. His time at Edgeley Park though was disrupted by injury and after 18 months in which he played 38 games scoring just once he moved on to Rochdale for the start of the 2005-06 season. Again though injury ruined his season and after just 29 games and 1 goal he was released.
Without a club for the first time in his career Lee was contemplating retirement until Mark Patterson the new manager of Conference North side Scarborough offered him a contract for the 2006-07 season.