Gerard Lavin

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Gerard Lavin
Personal information
Date of birth (1974-02-05) 5 February 1974 (age 49)
Place of birth Corby, Northamptonshire, England
Position(s) Right-back
Youth career
1988–1992 Watford
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1992–1995 Watford 149 (3)
1995–1999 Millwall 87 (0)
1999–2001 Bristol City 22 (0)
2001 → Wycombe Wanderers (loan) 4 (0)
2001–2003 Northampton Town 5 (0)
2003–2004 Farnborough 1 (0)
Total267(3)
International career
1993–1994 Scotland under-21 7 [1] (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gerard Lavin (born 5 February 1974) is a former footballer who played as a right-back. He played in the English Football League for Watford, Millwall, Bristol City, Wycombe Wanderers and Northampton Town, before finishing his playing career at Southern League side Farnborough. Born in England, he also played for the Scotland U21 national team.

Career

Born in the English town of Corby to Scottish parents, Lavin started his career as a schoolboy at Watford. He became an apprentice at the club upon leaving school, and signed professionally in May 1992. Over the next three years Lavin made 149 first team appearances, most of them at right back in place of injured club captain Nigel Gibbs. [2] Lavin scored three goals during his time at Watford, including one after 13 seconds in a match against future club Millwall. [3]

After Watford finished 7th in the First Division in 1994–95, Lavin was sold to Millwall for £750,000. [4] Watford were relegated the following season. At Millwall Lavin made 97 appearances over four years, scoring once in the Football League Trophy against Brighton, [5] before being leaving on a Bosman free transfer in 1999, and joining Bristol City. He made his début for City on 7 August 1999 against Reading, but was sent off for deliberately kicking the ball at Reading fans. The ball broke a Reading fan's wrist, and Lavin was later convicted of assault. [6]

Lavin made a further 22 appearances for Bristol in 1999–2000, but struggled to make the first team the following season. He was loaned to Wycombe Wanderers, and in May 2001 joined Northampton Town. He played three times in the first team before breaking his leg against QPR. Over the next two seasons he struggled to recover from the leg break and was forced to retire at the age of 30.

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References

  1. ↑ Jones p.279
  2. ↑ Jones p. 143
  3. ↑ "Football: Match facts". The Independent . London. 27 March 1994. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  4. ↑ Gerard Lavin at Soccerbase
  5. ↑ "Millwall 98-99". millwall-history.org.uk. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  6. ↑ Murray, Scott (28 February 2002). "Cups that runneth over with pain". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
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