Rob Lee
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Robert Martin Lee (born 1 February 1966 in West Ham, London) is an English retired footballer who played the majority of his career for Charlton Athletic and Newcastle United.
Early and personal life
Lee was born in West Ham, Greater London. His sons, Olly and Elliot, also became footballers.
Club career
Lee began his playing for Hornchurch's youth team and then played for the first team at the age of 15 in a pre-season friendly under manager Brian Kelly. Hornchurch wanted Lee to sign a contract with them, but he was given a Charlton Athletic academy and established himself in the first team by the 1984-85 season, scoring 10 goals in the Second Division. He came to fame as a winger and assisting Charlton in the promotion of the First Division at the end of the 1985–86 season and gained international recognition at the Under-21 level. During the 1989-1990 season, he was a regular in the top flight for the next four years until Charlton were relegated to the Second Division.
Lee remained with Charlton for more than two years after relegation, but he was sold shortly after the 1992-93 season as the club needed funds to fund the club's return to The Valley. Charlton were second in the table at the time, and Lee moved to Newcastle United, the league's leaders, for £700,000. He moved to Newcastle after their boss, Kevin Keegan, told him that Newcastle upon Tyne was closer to London than Middlesbrough, the other club interested in signing Lee and who were already in the Premier League.
Lee, who has ancestry links to the North East, marched in the Jarrow March and then returned to Newcastle in 1992. Despite his North East roots, Lee said it was his childhood footballer Kevin Keegan who influenced him to move to Newcastle United. Keegan also told Lee that if he moved to Newcastle United, he would play for England. Gavin Peacock, a Newcastle player, was first alerted of Lee's abilities. Peacock said to Keegan that there is a player from Charlton who could play at the highest level.
In a 1–0 victory over Peterborough United, Lee made his Newcastle debut as a replacement. Newcastle were promoted to the Premier League at the end of the season, with Lee scoring 10 goals in 36 matches. Newcastle's first season in the top division for four years ended well, as the club finished third and qualified for the UEFA Cup, rather than Lee, who made the most news during the season. Newcastle defeated 5–0 in Belgium in their first European game in 17 years after a hat-trick.
Newcastle finished sixth in the table after winning their first six games. Lee finished the 1994–95 season with nine goals from 35 games.
Kevin Keegan redesigned the team over the summer of 1995, shelling out nearly £9 million on David Ginola and Les Ferdinand, as well as giving Lee a more attacking role. Newcastle built up a large lead at the top of the league in November 1995 and looked poised to win their first top division title since 1927. He won the Premier League Player of the Month award for November 1995. Newcastle finished the season in second place after being ten points ahead of Christmas and remained top until March, but Lee was named in the PFA Team of the Year for the 1995–96 season.
Kenny Dalglish was appointed boss after Keegan's surprise resignation in January 1997, and he named Lee captain as Newcastle finished runners-up to Manchester United in the Premier League. Ruud Gullit was appointed Newcastle manager after Dalglish's dismissal early in the 1998-1999 season. After a good start, Gullit tried to quickly dismiss Lee, Stuart Pearce, and John Barnes, requiring them to train with the reserves.
Newcastle's midfielder Gary Speed (who joined in February 1998) was back in the heart of Newcastle's midfield. Lee scored in the FA Cup semi-finals against Chelsea, but Newcastle lost 2–1. In 2001, Lee was given a testimonial nine years after joining the club, but a crowd of 18,189 turned out when Athletic Bilbao defeated 1–0 at St James' Park. In a 4–3 victory over Manchester United in 2001, Lee's last goal for Newcastle came in a 4–3 victory.
Lee called time on almost ten years on Tyneside to join struggling Derby County for a transfer fee of £250,000, only eight days after John Gregory was announced as manager.
Lee was sold to West Ham United in 2003 after scoring twice in games against Reading and Ipswich Town, despite a short, disappointing spell with Derby, which saw them relegated from the Premier League. However, he appeared in only a handful of games for the Hammers during the 2003–04 season. After this, he was released on a free transfer and was signed by former Arsenal and England captain Tony Adams to help Wycombe Wanderers advance out of the newly named League Two. He spent two seasons with the Chairboys in League Two before he resigned in June 2006, following John Gorman's demotion as the club's manager. This was his 40th birthday, and he was one of England's oldest players playing professional football by the time of his last game.
International career
Lee played for England between 1994 and 1998, scoring twice in 21 appearances. In September 1994, he was called up for the first time in a friendly against the United States, and the following month, he scored against Romania for the first time. He was in the squad for the 1998 World Cup under Glenn Hoddle, and he was deployed as a replacement against Colombia twice. Despite being in perhaps better shape in 1996 than two years ago, Terry Venables had surprisingly been dropped from the England squad for Euro 96.
Post-playing career
Lee was interviewed for the AFC Bournemouth manager role in October 2006, but the job was handed over to Kevin Bond. Lee was arrested in July 2007 along with former teammate Warren Barton for riding a limousine, but no one was charged. In September 2007, he appeared for Newcastle on the charity television show Premier League All Stars.
He captained Legal & General to triumph in a charity five-a-side tournament in St Albans in May 2008, raising £15,000 for the Anthony Nolan Trust, a leukaemia charity.
He appeared on Singapore's Football Channel in 2008 as a regular pundit. In 2010, he was also backup commentator alongside John Burridge for TEN Sports' UEFA Champions League fixtures.
Lee was inducted into the Newcastle United Hall of Fame on November 5, 2019.