With 10 major trophies won, more than 500 professional appearances and a career that has seen him play for some of the biggest clubs in England, against Europe’s finest and at some of the continent’s grandest arenas, it’s understandable people are questioning why in this cynical age, a 33-year-old Scott Sinclair has decided to return to Bristol Rovers.
To quote the great Barry Davies it really is, "boys' own stuff". Having left the academy to join Chelsea when, arguably, the Blues were the most fashionable club in the country after Jose Mourinho’s first season in charge, he’s now back in blue and white quarters, almost two decades after he made his debut for his boyhood club at the age of 15, older, wiser and very much a man.
It’s fulfilled a prophecy that he would come back one day and, when he eventually does take to the field donning the quarters again, scratch an itch that has lingered since those fleeting two substitute appearances, but Sinclair’s ambitions won’t be necessarily measured in goals, assists, wins or even what success may transpire.
