It's Frank Sinclair Day on Open Goal, or should that be 'Own Goal'?!

Every now and again a player comes along to define a state of mind at a football club. Leicester City had climbed to join the Premiership elite, but funded on Barings Bank shares and a fruity MBNA-esque credit agreement, the reality was that the Filbert Street outfit were thumbing a lift on the highway of hopelessness.

Sinclair epitomised the troubles ahead with a disastrous run of form at the start of the 2000/01 season that saw him singlehandedly deny the Foxes three points by scoring own goals in injury-time against Arsenal and Chelsea in consecutive weeks.

He then went on to embarrass himself again the following season at Middlesbrough with a 35-yard howler that gifted the Riverside club all three points.

So on the day that Sinclair signs for Lincoln City, we salute the 36-year-old. (And it would only be fair to state, that in his 18-year professional career, Frank has scored 19 times at the right end.)

So this page and our subsequent Video of the Day is just a small dothing of the proverbial cap to the great man. A prolific Premiership player, a silverware winner, an all-round nice guy, yes. But ultimately, an own-goal specialist.

Check out our Video of the Day, for Frank at his deadliest.

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